Destroyed. Los Angeles County Fire Department captain was recently at the cathedral. You know maybe from your vantage point, tony, you can give me an idea having visited it, i remember from multiple visits all the wooden pews and Everything Else. But what happened . Well it is hard to know at this point exactly what happened. Obviously these things are, you know, are under investigation in the early stages. Were still 24 hours out. But i can tell you the firefighters there in paris did an incredible job because they had such an enormous building they were dealing with. Large open ceiling, kind of analogous to a common attic we see in commercial building here in the United States in los angeles for instance. They had you know, very high spire there. It was approximately 300 meters i hear in the air. That really exceeds the distance of any modern aerial master stream they could have directed to that fire. So being able to put big water on a big fire like that, that high up in the air is
App. The Senate Armed Services Committee Held a hearing on the talibans takeover of afghanistan and the u. S. Evacuation of the country. They heard from the undersecretary of defense for policy and a Lieutenant General mr. Reed i will now call the meeting to order. This is the sixth in a series of engagements that seeks to assess the United States 20year mission in afghanistan, understand factors that led to the taliban takeover of afghanistan, and the collapse of the country and and broad irer National Security priorities. Joining us today is undersecretary of defense for policy and Lieutenant General james, director for operations j3 joint staff. I thank you both for being here. I know there may be a tendency during this hearing to focus on our final months in afghanistan. Our withdrawal this summer and the events did not happen in a vacuum. The path that led to this outcome was paved with years of mistakes from our catastrophic pivot to iraq, flawed doha agreement. This is not a dem
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Promotions. And then they have the audacity the audacity to say they are promilitary and proveteran. Oh my gosh. Host i will leave it there. Tyler koteskey . Guest i think a couple of things i agree with, and certainly on the afghanistan withdrawal i think that both President Biden and president trump, you know, jointly [applause] good morning. My name is erica smith, and at 17 i became a soldier. In my career as a blackhawk crew chief i worked with many phenomenal people and was deployed to iraq in 2019. On the flights overseas we were constantly watching for threats, we did not know about the silent threats we saw on a regular basis. Oil lead on fire, waste being burned, and the fuel and chemicals used on the aircraft. In 2022 during a scan for a separate injury and mass was discovered on my right kidney. I was just 23, with no Family History of cancer. I8 right, i worked out, and never smoked. Nevertheless, it was cancer. And it was growing fast. Shortly after a friend from deployme