What weve learned, adjusted tsa security measures, and are continually evaluating whether more is necessary. Also within the last 48 hours, in response to a very different type of hazard, fema has delivered 95 generators to the state of pennsylvania, where several hundred thousand people are without power due to the snow and cold weather. In the Homeland Security world, no news is good news, and no news is often the result of the hard work, vigilance, and dedication of people within our government who prevent bad things you never hear about, or at least help the public protect itself and recover from the storm we cannot prevent. Our overall challenge within the department of Homeland Security, and within the Homeland Security community of the federal, state and local governments of this nation, is to learn from and adapt to the changing character of the evolving threats and hazards we face. 9 11, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the underwear bomber in 2009, the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill i
Police shootings . Has it led to a rise in Violent Crime . Here are his first remarks. Our officers are answering 911 calls but avoiding the informal contact. I spoke to officers privately in one big city precinct. Who describe being surrounded by young people with phones taunting them when they get out of their cars. They said to me we feel under siege and dont feel like getting out of our cars. The suggestion, the question thats been asked of me is are these kinds of things changing Police Behavior all over the country and is that what explains the map and the calendar. The honest answer is i dont know. And i adopt know that that explains it entirely, but i have a strong sense that some part of the explanation m is a chill wind that has blown through Law Enforcement over the last year. And that wind is surely changing behavior. Lets go to our justice correspondent evan perez in chicago, where the fbi director seems to be maybe a bit softening his rhetoric. What is it he just said, ev
CASHION, Ariz If there is a phrase the faithful live by concerning their physical worship spaces, it is that the Church is the body of Christ – its people. So, when parishioners of St. William in Cashion lost their building to fire last week, including religious education classrooms, their food pantry and parish hall, they knew they could lean on their pastor, Fr. Andres Arango, as well as one another. A close-knit, largely Spanish-speaking community of predominantly blue-collar families, St. William has anchored the Catholic population of the east Avondale area since the 1960s, when it was built as a mission to serve immigrant farmers. Growth eventually forced St. William to seek a larger building, and in 1981, it bought a former Southern Baptist church at 111th Ave. and 3rd Street, renovated it, and dedicated it the following year.