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senator: the hearing is called to order. we are here to discuss this innovative financing and funding to address america s deficient water infrastructure. the purpose of this hearing is imple. senator boozman: many members of this committee, including myself reference the american society card.il engineers, report currently it grades america s drinking water infrastructure with a d. waste water has a slightly better grade, a d-plus. some of us grades in school. [laughter] senator boozman: this is not a rural problem or a big city problem or a democrat or republican problem but this is a national emergency. it is one thing to see these terrible grades on paper, but what does this mean for people in their day-to-day lives. if we imagine life without clean and efficient drinking water, we picture communities that are not our own. we picture countries. currently an estimated 1.7 million americans live without access to clean running drinking water in their homes. there are ....
the issue of water infrastructure financing and safe drinking water was the focus of the hearing of a senate and private and public works subcommittee. an arkansas resident talk to lawmakers about his families struggle getting access to safe drinking water and the help he received from erode government assistance program. he was joined by local officials to brief members of the nation s water systems. this is about one hour and a half. i called the suing of the subcommittee on fisheries and wildlife, fisheries water and wildlife to order we hear today to discuss the innovative financing and funding to address america s deficient water infrastructure. the purpose of this hearing is simple. today we will be discussing america s approach towards drinking water and wastewater investment come wastewater infrastructure investment. many members of this committee including myself often reference the american society of civil engineers, a sce, infrastructue report card. curr ....
this is only the third tornado to touch down in appomattox county since they started keeping track in 1950. and while there are dozens without a home. the county administrator says they are getting help taking care of those in need. susan adams, appomattox county administrator - the one thing about appomattox county is that it is a very friendly community and the churches have done a tremendous job or providing housing that any of the dislocated people have needed. danner tight you can help too. there are several locations to dropp off donations. we have those for you at wset.com. 3 3 mark tight one man was killed in appomattox in this storm. 78 year old edward harris was found in a field. katie brooke has more on him tonight live from appomattox. katie liveu mark, i m told by friends at the evergreen baptist church today that harris lived here all his life he was a farmer, and had a community. sheriff letterman tells me harris lived here off twin tunnels lane in a m ....
day orlando. we re hanging out in studio b, where they are finishing up the guys. we ll talk about how they got started doing the unique form of art, coming up. plus, david martin. hello, luanne, i have your preview of the orlando ballet s largest production of the year. they call it don quixote. the people behind the wonderful of. good day orlando. into amy: nice, and, he ll be sake later today, very hot! it will be steamy out there. good morning, everybody, thanks for joining us this morning. one difference from yesterday to today is the dry air that continues to fill into central florida and it will limit any kind of cloud cover we ll have today and clock numbers are in, low and mid 70s reported in it is warm out the door. it is humid out the door, and now we are seeing a lot of sunshine, look at that. satellite perceive, low level clouds perspective, low level clouds burning off the next little bit. forecast, mostly sunny skies, high temperatures, upper ....
be wet with rain starting to move across the state by saturday night. on sunday, a strong storm system will pass through the midwest, bringing heavy rain to central and eastern iowa. an inch or rain will be possible, especially in eastern iowa where the highest totals will be possible. temperatures will remain in the 40s to start next week, but will dip back into the 30s by this time next week. we begin tonight in webster county where the courthouse is closed . but the government is still open. vandals broke into the building early tuesday morning and damaged it with fire extinguishers. but a hectic 24 hours later the county is back open for business. roger riley has the story from fort dodge. 50:00 this is vandalism and somewhat considered a disaster vandals sprayed fire extinguishers inside the iconic webster county courthouse early tuesday, causing the building and cointy government to close. 1700 tuesday morning there was some vandalism at the court house we started ....