came home, but also using that same appearance to attack the credibility of the widow s representative in congress. i wonder if you can speak to just the strategic importance of our military deployments in africa, how many more or less troops are deployed and the nature of those mission s? well, there are two places in the world where our combatant commanders, our four starz are in a shooting war. one is central command. but the other is africa, africa command with general tom walled houser. i advise tvisited him in his headquarters months back. they are dropping ordinance on targets as we speak. they are putting service members into harms way. they are walking patrols with soldiers and service members and intelligence officers from their african allies. they are trying to work out of the hornl of africa. we have a base there in djibouti. there is a tremendous amount of work america is doing to protect
with the raids going on, how tight has security been on the streets in brussels? caller: honestly, other than the presence, there s not been a lot of stopping of nobody s being checked. there s not any bag checks like you might be getting on and off of public transportation. just a heavy presence of walking patrols, heavily armed walking patrols. we did see one interesting thing yesterday when we went to a little french border town as people were coming back from france into belgium, there were police checks taking place, like a border check back in the old days, but that was the only thing we saw out of the ordinary that would affect the average citizen of belgium. reporter: drew, joined by founding strategic risk and consulting firm served 26 years, thank you for joining us, and
this comes as the city prepares for a faith-based march and rally right here at city hall plaza. that starts the next hour. cnn are here in baltimore. let s start with renee outside the just-reopened mall. that was the mall looted by a number of people monday afternoon into the evening. renee, what happened there today when the mayor showed up? reporter: well i can tell you, fred this as you said this was ground zero for where all that looting and violence started. i just took a swing through. not every single business has reopened. i did also see of the businesses that were open many of the business owners were assessing the loss. they just weren t clear at this point how much they lost. i also saw the national guard inside essentially doing walking patrols to make sure
message to defense personnel. what did he say? military and civilians, secretary hagel, not happy about this at all, of course, because they have already been through the budget furloughs this summer. telling especially the civilian workers that got furloughed that they are all essential to the department, that he values their service, but that they are many of them will be furloughed, that the law only will allow them to keep people on duty who are supporting military operations or security and safety of military installations and essential services. so a lot of people are facing the possibility of furloughs if they re civilian workers, and troops on the front line, walking patrols at midnight in afghanistan, may have their pay delayed unless congress acts. brooke? barbara starr, thank you. speaking of congress, the senate is acting. is voting right now, stripping those republican amendments that were added in the latest it rashz of this bill that came from the house. now it s h
paycheck, at ft. campbell, kentucky, there is growing worry. there s going to be bills due, and those places, you can t tell the electric department, hey, i got an iou. washington knows troops are unhappy, so the republican-controlled house passed a measure to keep paying the troops in the shutdown. the senate has yet to act. but for america s veterans, the outlook is more dire because of the other crisis, raising the debt ceiling before the government runs out of money. if it goes longer than a few weeks, if congress can t get their act together, this could hurt millions of veterans who count on these benefits for part of their care and services. more than 3 million veterans receive disability payments. if there s no money, payments could stop. new claims won t be processed, and current payments still might arrive late. barbara starr, let me bring you in. we know the defense secretary, chuck hagel, sent an all-staff