New this morning. Developing story in northwest. Firefighters were called to the 1600 block of 17 street for a fire inside dupont italian kitchen. Dc fire Officials Say the fire was confined to the kitchen and the buildings duct work. No one was hurt. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. President trump is back at the white house after a busy president s day weekend. This week, hes expected to roll out new executive orders on immigration and he will do it with a new National Security advisor by his side. Abcs Kenneth Moton has the latest. Trt 1 29 soc stunning dash cam video from falls church. A man quietly church. A man quietly waiting at a stop light when a high speed collision happens right in front of him. Witnesses say police car was traveling westbound on route 7, when a car facing the opposite direction tries to turn left on Patrick Henry drive. And boom. Fairfax county police say both the officer and the driver of this other vehicle were hospitalized with non lif
From nonaligned movement. You may have to stand alone to adequately defend u. S. Security interests. I hope you will explain how you plan to defend these and your ability to successfully represent the u. S. While we have the opportunity, i would like for you to discuss our governments efforts to counter smuggle something how you may use if confirmed to further ensure the security of Nuclear Material globally. I appreciate your attendance before the committee today and look forward to growing our relationship should you be confirmed. Let me also welcome laura holgate. Thank you for your longstanding public service. A as was pointed out by the previous witness, this is a family commitment. We thank you for your willingness to serve our country in this critically important position. You bring a host of kwaufrgzs to this nomination. Senior position at the department of energy and department of defense, career that prevents states and terrorists from requiring and using weapons of mass dest
President of the United States use them as a political bargaining chip to force congress to comply with his domestic agenda. The bottom line for me is that our troops deserve than that and thats the reason i support this bipartisan budget act of 2014. It increases it stops the cuts in defense. It increases the money going to our troops, and it prevents them from being used as a bargaining chip in the future because it sets the military budget for fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2017 so that that is decided they cant be used as leverage for some other agenda. I think that is the sort of stability and predictability they need and they deserve. And i think the great question, madam speaker, is if not this, then what . We know that this budget agreement at least comes close to meeting what the president has asked for on defense and comes close to the congressional budget within 5 billion. Thats not enough money to repair the damage that has been done over the past five years, but its in t
Zirin and former Soccer Player Jules Boycoff. Plus well look at how the United Nations is coming under criticism for failing to investigate allegations of Sexual Exploitation of children by french peacekeeping troops in the Central African republic. Specifically thats strange for the u. N. Anchor and we go to texas where at least 20 people have died in record flooding. Will this force republican president ial candidates including texas senator ted cruz to rethink their Climate Change denialism . All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now the democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. An explosion has struck a shiite mosque in the saudi city of dammam, killed 21 people at another shiite mosque marking one of the worst attacks to hit saudi arabia in years. The United Nations has passed a nonbinding resolution aimed at curbing the cultural mrundering of iraq. The resolution adopted unanimously by the 193nation general assembly. It applies only to iraq not to
Specifically thats strange for the u. N. Anchor and we go to texas where at least 20 people have died in record flooding. Will this force republican president ial candidates including texas senator ted cruz to rethink their Climate Change denialism . All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now the democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. An explosion has struck a shiite mosque in the saudi city of dammam, killed 21 people at another shiite mosque marking one of the worst attacks to hit saudi arabia in years. The United Nations has passed a nonbinding resolution aimed at curbing the cultural mrundering of iraq. The resolution adopted unanimously by the 193nation general assembly. It applies only to iraq not to syria, where isil controls the ancient city of palmyra. Isil posted video showing the destruction of iraqi sites, incl the ancient assyrian city of nimruses when in reality we have not seen that at all. Anchor an amazing figure despite cutters promis