sub committee on environment and climate change will now come to order. the chair recognizes themselvesst himself for five minutes for the purposes of an opening statement. good morning, again. today the committees convene for a joint sub committee hearing to conduct oversight of an issue ravaging communities and plaguing the environment. fires often occur within the u.s. an average of 73,000 wildfires burn seven million acres of u.s. land each and every year. though these fires are in some cases part of the healthy ecosystem, their destruction has defr sta devastated communities here at home and around the world. wi your representatives from each of these areas that have been recently hard hit by wildfires. among you including my colleagues from california, oregon, washington and colorado. we are also joined by a member of my staff here from australia whose community still feeling the impact of recent wildfires in his nation. the annual area burned in our nation s western
historically? guest: well, yeah. a lot of barometers or maybe indices of what makes a civilization successful i m very worried about because they re all predicated i guess i would clarify that by saying constitutional governments, sizable middle class. it has to be larger in aggregate than the wealthy and the poor combined. and we re starting to see, we ve seen for 12 years until 2017 a steady erosion in the income, 1.7 trillion in student department largely accrued by the middle class, the age of home ownership falling, the age of marriage, age when people get married lengthening, first child born, the demography itself we re down to 1.7. so the middle class is being tested as never before. and also i think you have to have a sense of borders. i would always study what would cause wars, and they were always over borders, and they were not important in strategic defense, but he were symbols that their culture could inculcate common customs, traditions that we unite variou
5. This is the cbs morning news for friday, july 17th, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. This morning its still unclear why a gunman opened fire at two military sites in chattanooga, tennessee. Four marines are dead and two servicemembers and a Police Officer were woupted in yesterdays attack. The gunman identified as kuwaitborn Mohammod Youssuf abdulazeez was killed. Fbi says he acted alone. So far hes not been linked to any Terror Organization but they believe it was an act of terror. Officials say he had numerous weapons. Kenneth craig has more from chattanooga. Reporter and this is where the tragedy began here at the strip mall the site of the Recruitment Center with the first shooting yesterday morning. You can see this morning its the center of a agreeing memorial and a huge outpouring of support from this community. Witnesses say a lone gunman in a silver mustang convertible drove up to this Chattanooga Armed forces recruiting office and opened fire. A
Chattanooga, tennessee. Four marines were kill and another was wounded. A Police Officer and one other person were also wounded. Their names have not yet been released, but the gunman is identified as 24yearold Mohammad Youssef abdulazeez. He was born in kuwait but lived in the chattanooga area. He was killed today apparently by the police. We have a team of correspondents covering this story. First well go to Mark Strassmann in chattanooga. Mark . Reporter scott, this is the military recruiting station where it all began. The facade is riddled with bullet holes. Those blue numbers behind me are where the shell cases fell. This strip mall was first of two attacks. Police say around 10 30 a. M. Mark drove right up to the Armed Forces Career center and then gunshots as stunned witnesses watched. We heard a loud pop and then there was a pause. We went to the window to see what was going on. When we went to the window, there was a guy in a silver mustang convertible and he was just unloadi
Chattanooga, tennessee. Four marines were kill and another was wounded. A Police Officer and one other person were also wounded. Their names have not yet been released, but the gunman is identified as 24yearold Mohammad Youssef abdulazeez. He was born in kuwait but lived in the chattanooga area. He was killed today apparently by the police. We have a team of correspondents covering this story. First well go to Mark Strassmann in chattanooga. Mark . Reporter scott, this is the military recruiting station where it all began. The facade is riddled with bullet holes. Those blue numbers behind me are where the shell cases fell. This strip mall was first of two attacks. Police say around 10 30 a. M. Mark drove right up to the Armed Forces Career center and then gunshots as stunned witnesses watched. We heard a loud pop and then there was a pause. We went to the window to see what was going on. When we went to the window, there was a guy in a silver mustang convertible and he was just unloadi