Zone right now. And caught on camera. Elephant rampage. The angry animal gone wild chasing down his handlers tossing this car like a toy, so what set him off . All right, hey, good morning. Were going to start here with the story that is still developing this hour. Firefighters tell us theyve never seen anything like what happened overnight on this freeway in california. The video shows the moments when a fastmoving wildfire swept across this highway. The drivers were surrounded by those flames. Hundreds of them running for safety. Their cars and trucks left to burn. And an infuriating question this morning, were efforts to fight those flames from the air hampered by the interference of amateur Drone Operators . Lets get the latest now from abcs matt gutman who is on the scene in phelan, california. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, paula. That fire is still smoldering. Now, it raced across the countryside here chewing through thousands of acres in six hours. So facet caught u
Chaos at a concert. Fans running for cover. The deadly lightning strikes, 45 million americans in the danger zone right now. And caught on camera. Elephant rampage. The angry animal gone wild chasing down his handlers tossing this car like a toy, so what set him off . All right, hey, good morning. Were going to start here with the story that is still developing this hour. Firefighters tell us theyve never seen anything like what happened overnight on this freeway in california. The video shows the moments when a fastmoving wildfire swept across this highway. The drivers were surrounded by those flames. Hundreds of them running for safety. Their cars and trucks left to burn. And an infuriating question this morning, were efforts to fight those flames from the air hampered by the interference of amateur Drone Operators . Lets get the latest now from abcs matt gutman who is on the scene in phelan, california. Good morning, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, paula. That fire is still smolde
Budgets. We had employees willing to give up compensation to meet this need of veterans in the community. Maybe some bonuses too. Miss walorski. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary good to see you. Thanks for being here today. The problem that i dont understand with this, this is what i dont get, is that it seems like it keeps coming back to this issue of perception. You know you come today and you have your stats and your tables and your graphs and thoed kind of things and we over here, we want Solutions Just as badly as everybody else because were fighting for veterans in our district and fighting in a bipartisan matter and doing everything we can do legally through a legislative process but what weve been up to since you been here last is multiple hearings that go on every other day and look at the whistleblower retaliation, and systematic failures in denver and waste and fraud and abuse and ive been involved and every time your i. T. Chief has been here and we talked about this
Completely disaffected by washington d. C. And i completely get this and understand it because all of us feel that way. But we can fix these things. I know it has we did it together here in tallahassee. Because we did it together here in tallahassee. [applause] i know in my heart that real sustained Economic Growth is possible. I have set an aspirational goal of 4 perbut we can fix these things. I know it has we did it together here in tallahassee. Year. I believe this country will be the first country developed country to be able to renew ourselves and grow at a sustained rate where people can be lifted out of poverty and where the great middle that defines our country will get a raise for the first time in 15 years. The driving force of this is going to be president ial level leadership here it to challenge the culture of spending and to reform things that are broken in washington dc. This is essential and i believe it is achievable in one term. Dont let anybody else tell you otherwi
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