Screeria nigeria. I may consume. Thank you mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Lucas mr. Speaker, when i was a boy my father used to point out to me that there were certain moments, certain events that not only define perhaps a community or a generation but leave an indelible mark on a person. He referenced me to go speak to my grandparents about where they were when the news came that pearl harbor had been bombed and i can remember my grandfather lucas describing the exact field, the exact row that he was picking cotton in in december of 1941 when one of the neighbors stopped and said have you heard . My father could tell you exactly the moment walking down the street in elk city, oklahoma when he walked up to a crowd staring into a store selling televisions because everyones mouth was down, everyone was aghast of the news in dallas. In many ways, the experience of two minutes after 9 00 a. M. On april 19, 1995, has had the same mark and the same effe
That have capabilityies, we want to address that life safety immediate response, communications evacuation and sheltering. Thats pretty much something youre going to need to do in a lot of different events. This is our idea that grant dollars have build a lot of capability are looking at where do we need to put more emphasis. Our first work with dot is looking at training capabilities, we want to make sure Senior Executives in the fire service have the latest. But also looking into the Grant Programs and again as we see these threats emerging, because this is dual use, we do have capability, we always go to the consequences, what are the things we need to do if that happens. From a lot of Emergency Management preparedness grants which i again support this administrations recommendation and committee has done a lot of work there, those preparedness grants, those are some of the dollars they can be using to develop this community plans. There are other programs that are not part of fema
Arctic is in my formal title. We here at csis in our program have a tradition. We host a public conversation just a few days before an Arctic Council add mip steer yal, so we had in 20 is 11 the road to nuke, and in 2013 the road to croon. Today, we have the road to the senator who says iglooit but were off next week. I could think of no more perfect speaker to over reflections just eight days before the United States assumes the Arctic Council chairmanship than a person who has been in the areas participating as part of the u. S. Delegation to the Arctic Council add ministerial to speak with us, and, of course, thats the senator, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on energy and Natural Resources and serves as member of the Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee as well as the Senate Indian affairs committee. So, senator, you could not be better placed to help give insights. I think of you as one of thee key u. S. Thought leaders on the arctic, International Leaders seek
And make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you example where we have had predisaster mitigation. States have taken that like in oklahoma to do grants to families to build safe roads for tornadoes. Our goal is to reduce risk. Theres a lot of driving factors of that and changing environment but when we want to look at, what are things as taxpayers if we can spend money on the front end and reduce future costs and potential disruptions to disaster. This is very much in our predisaster mitigation looking at it from outcomes that are based upon buy
This is on target for the forecast that we had been planning on for the past several days. Snow will come to an end. Look at the temperatures in town waking up tomorrow morning, only around 10 degrees. Talk about a warmup in the sevenday outlook. All that and much more coming up in a few minutes. Thanks for not saying i told you so. Lets get out to the team of reporters out there showing the conditions all across the region. Our Stormwatch Team coverage continues with rich live in winchester. Hi, rich. You how are you doing . Talk about getting slammed. Winchester got it pretty good here. Were talking about eight inches, that heavy, wet snow that maybe skiers like but drivers dont. Look behind me. This is an access road to one of the shopping plazas we talked about this. This is the stuff thats going to freeze tonight but when we pan over further, we can see route 7. We actually have some pavement showing, folks it has been a struggle here. Look earlier, this is i81 a little after 2 00