Cspan. Org landmark cases. Earlier today u. S. Northern commander general Lori Robinson and Southern Commander testified on their operations including how they handled the threat of Ballistic Missile attacks and whats being continue to combat the opioid drug crisis. Speaking before the Senate Arms Services committee this is an hour and 50 minutes. We will call the meeting to order. Were going to receive testimony from two of my favorite people, general Lori Robinson. I have to say i taught her everything she knows from when she was Wing Commander at Tinker Air Force base in oklahoma, and from kurt ted, commander for the u. S. Southern command. I think there is a lot of overlap. Weve talked all three of us have talked about this between the north and the south command, and i think thats one reason senator mccain would want to have these meetings together. The new National Defense strategy and the nds identifies in protecting the homeland sustaining american advantages in the western hem
In ad jigs general tidd talked about combating the Opioid Crisis and improving elicit drug interdiction. The Senate Armed Services committee hosted this four and 45minute event. We will call the meeting to order. Were going to receive testimony from two of my favorite people, general lori robinson. I have to say i taught her everything she knows when she was the Wing Commander at teeinger air force base in oklahoma. And from kurt tidd, the commander for the u. S. Southern command. There is a lot of overlap. We, all three of us talked about this between the north and the south command and i think that is one reason that senator mc cain would want to have these meetings together. The new National Defense strategy, nds, identifies protecting homeland, sustaining american advantages in the western hemisphere as key priorities even as the dod focuses on the rising challenge of great power competitors. As we have seen from increasing economic and military efforts by china and russia to gain
Julia sims joins us live. When might this be resolved . Some of we apologize for that. Several people were frustrated saying they werent given enough notice. Some were worried it is a potential Public Safety issues. Csx shut down nine different crossings in apex and cary. Company is making improvements to the tracks and crossings. Residents say the closings had caused unnecessary gridlock. Residents in one neighborhood say they were trapped for two days. We talked to a csx spokesperson today. Julia asked them about the status of the crossings and he said they had no comment and they were doing the best they could and hung up on her. A town spokesman told julia are having a hard time getting information from csx. Well continue to follow this at 530 67 89. A serious crash knocked out power at several wake county homes this morning. Troopers say a driver was speeding on rock service station road and hit a ditch near elbridge drive. The car went airborne and hit a utility pole snapping it
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Can you comment on that . I would be happy to. Its been our experience whenever federal money has come the date has stepped up to issues and made additional money available as well. In kentucky we have been able to do a lot of the Major Projects through that whole mechanism. But the one thing i would say about 45 on average the money that states have to work to build projects is federal funding and of that 45 it constitutes more of the larger projects that we actually build and so its a critical piece of where we are. The states are doing a lot and we have seen that in a number of states enacting new funding mechanisms and so forth. We applaud the state could have done that and we are certainly encouraging everyone to do what they must find th to find the mt is necessary to invest. But youre right it is a difficult advance with the state budget and so forth but we found a lot of our colleagues that are interested in spending more on transportation. You made a great point about the hars