Good morning. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on u. S. Strategy in the middle east, and i want to thank our distinguished witnesses for appearing this morning and for their service to our nation. Before i proceed, id like to remind our witnesses this committees rules require written testimony be submitted 24 hours in advance of a hearing, and id like to try from now on for our witnesses to adhere to that. The tragic loss last week of Master Sergeant joshua walker, a veteran of 14 combat deployments reminds us of the high stakes of our mission in the middle east and how grateful we are to americans serving there. We need a strategy worthy of those who carry it out and, unfortunately, we dont have that. Whats worse it appears the administration has not even defined the problem correctly. A policy of isil first fails to understand that eye significant for all of the threat it poses is actually a symptom of another power thats now raging across the middle east. The epicenter
There is no military solution to this problem. That is misleading. The real problem is will achieve nothing. Changing those conditions is what the administration is consistently failed to do. Instead it is assumed our nation could withdraw from the middle east and avoid the conflict. On those occasions where the administration has felt compelled to respond after the use of chemical weapons or with the rise of isil, and now amid the ii, the administration has address the symptoms of the problem rather than the problem itself and made that problem worse. There no clearer example than this than the syrian train and equip program. The fighters can only fight isil, not assaults forces which have slaughtered more syrians then isil has. The Administration Made no commitment until only recently to provide these forces with any meaningful military support was they returned to syria. After millions of dollars and months of effort the Program Failed to come to the department original expectations
Us. Lets talk about some of that lightning that was active in the overnight hours. I want to give you a look at what is going on out there this morning. Starting out with storm tracker. This is actually a 12hour time lapse for you here. Notice when the activity rolls through in the overnight hours and moved through the east bay and continued in this direction. Some areas like napa reported. 2 of an inch of rain. The areas around concord, clayton, and fairfield. Getting rain here as well and just this band that rolled through. It was between midnight and 2 in the morning when that lightning fired off. I will remove the radar. You can see a fairly active move through the overnight hours and this system now, moving south over Southern California and backing it up to show you a threehour time lapse. And you can see how its shifted to the south. The center of the system is into the areas around monterey and this is moving out of the way. I again, i think that activity is pretty much done an
It is the top of the hour. Thats a live look at the flag up on top of federal hill this morning. Sharon is watching the roadways for you. Martys over at first warning weather. We got a breeze as the frontal boundary moves through the area. Its still 49 degrees on tv hill, which is still the exact same temperature it was this time yesterday but with a whole different feel to the morning. Believe it. Got some light shower activity g ing across the area. Such going to be the flavor of the day. We will clear it out about dinner time though. 54 at lunch on its way to a high of 56. Don, take it away. Thank you. Any complications on the coe is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. Good morning, everyone. We have a couple out there. Just one actually in fact. A water main break. Thats going to be left over from yesterday. East joppa road still closed between seven courts and bel air road. Take Silver Spring road instead. Speeds great on the beltway. 55 on the top and west side. 56 and 55 on 95
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