The army reserve responded within 24 hours and had forces moving to the east coast. I provided dewatering units, Aviation Assets to help the National Guard and it worked just fine. Break. Go to d. O. D. , fema, eplows. 100 provided by the army reserve embedded in your fema regions. 50 it shall over 50 of the d. O. D. Are provided by the army reserve which is utilized routinely to defend the homeland in terms of complex catastrophes to support the Guard Brothers and sisters. That all happened in the National Defense act of 2012. Paul, before we go to you, judd, can you talk that from a National Guard angle . Yes, sir. In addition to what general talley mentioned about authorities in place a unique aspect of the air National Guard is our ability to operate under state active duty underneath the funding and control of the governors. The response capability exists. We saw it time and again across the 54. The Additional Authority that general talley mentioned, i might add in terms of contro
90 of those who are on the minimum wage are older than 20 years old. Senator, let me allow Bethany Spencer from owensboro to tweet, do you think the minimum wage is a livable wage . The minimum wage is largely an entry level wage. 50 of those who earn it our young people who begin a career. They do not stay at that rate for very long. But if you engage in this kind of minimum wage increase right now and this is a liberal staffer who used to work for bill clinton, who runs a congressional budget office, who he says you will destroy between half a million and one million jobs, 50 of young people. It is not the way to grow our economy. The reason things like this are being contemplated is because of this slow recovery we have had after the recession of 2008. Everything the administration has done has made the recovery worse the borrowing, spending, taxing, overregulating. The last thing we ought to be doing in my view is destroying jobs for young people. Secretary grimes, how do you count
Very intense thunderstorm now over western sections of Charles County continuing to move towards the northeast towards the southern sections of our viewing area of the metro area over the next hour or so. Join you with more details on that cell and others in the studio in a few minutes. Leon ok doug. We got it. We turn to a developing story. Protesters have been taken to the streets after a man died over the weekend. Freddie gray passed a week after he was arrested by Baltimore Police breaking his back in the process. Maryland bureau chief brad bell in baltimore tonight where a News Conference just wrapped up. Whats the latest . What did you hear . Brad leon the Baltimore Police commissioner says this is a town on edge. The mayor says shes angry to have to be answering these questions dealing with the death of a young africanamerican man. As you said freddie gray arrested april 12th. He died yesterday. Today, authorities are saying his autopsy showed he died as a result of spinal cord
Essential personnel, the shutdown is endangering National Security and he raised the sector of the mall attack. What if they are planning to do the same thing in a Shopping Center here . Where the person translating that one sueo moll somalian. Wolf says the bill still locks in a 10 across the board cut in discretionary spending. The republicans won the issue on the spending levels. You won on the sequester. Exactly. Wolf says that he can only speak for himself. He says he has no idea how many other republican members of the house feel the same way as he does. Jan, back to you. All right, bruce, thanks so much. Of course a lot of you sounding off about this shutdown. Should congress be paid during a Government Shutdown . This one wasnt even close. More than 1300 people said no way. A handful did say yes. One viewer said they need to have the same consequences they gave everyone else. We invite you to go to our website. What do you think . Peggy fox went to the streets of manassas and s
Between the house and the senate. Im joined by senator john carlos. Twice the bill was rejected. Talk about the mood inside right now. It is clear to us that the republicans in the house want to shut down the government. We dont have a budget starting october 1st and when they have not been willing to negotiate, you do a continuing resolution. You continue at last years level until you work something out. That is regular order. But the republicans want to move their extreme agenda, even though the Health Care Bill was enacted several years ago and upheld by the courts, we wont negotiate that way. We think government must stay open and then we can negotiate. But we wont be intimidated by their threats. So at this point the republicans want to close down government. And republicans say this is their form of compromise to send back a bill to the senate to delay the Affordable Care act. Do you believe this is a fair compromise . Absolutely not. Weve compromised at their level of spending a