We are here today to discuss the state of the united States Department of Homeland Security countering weapons of mass Destruction Office. This september marks the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack u. S. Soil. Since that time, there have been general agreement that we as a nation must be prepared to address terrorism and attacks on our country regardless of the mode of attack. This means being prepared for low probability, high consequence attacks involving chemicals, biological, radiological, or nuclear materials. As we emerge from an extreme the tragic year where covid19 took the lives of over 600,000 americans, it does not take a lot of imagination to envision the damage that a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear attack could do to our country. In addition to the immediate Health And Safety consequences, such an attack could affect our critical infrastructure and destabilize large swaths of the country. For its part, dhs, it falls to the office to not only preve
The chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. We are here today to discuss the state of the united States Department of Homeland Security countering weapons of mass Destruction Office. This september marks the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack u. S. Soil. Since that time, there have been general agreement that we as a nation must be prepared to address terrorism and attacks on our country regardless of the mode of attack. This means being prepared for low probability, high consequence attacks involving chemicals, biological, radiological, or nuclear materials. As we emerge from an extreme the tragic year where covid19 took the lives of over 600,000 americans, it does not take a lot of imagination to envision the damage that a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear attack could do to our country. In addition to the immediate Health And Safety consequences, such an attack could affect our critical infrastructure and destabilize large swaths
We are here today to discuss the state of the united States Department of Homeland Security countering weapons of mass Destruction Office. This september marks the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack u. S. Soil. Since that time, there have been general agreement that we as a nation must be prepared to address terrorism and attacks on our country regardless of the mode of attack. This means being prepared for low probability, high consequence attacks involving chemicals, biological, radiological, or nuclear materials. As we emerge from an extreme the tragic year where covid19 took the lives of over 600,000 americans, it does not take a lot of imagination to envision the damage that a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear attack could do to our country. In addition to the immediate Health And Safety consequences, such an attack could affect our critical infrastructure and destabilize large swaths of the country. For its part, dhs, it falls to the office to not only preve
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Sometime. 152 people remain missing this morning as Search And Rescue teams work around the clock in surfside, florida. Nine people are confirmed dead in this condo collapse. Eight of those victims have been identified. There are two significant positive developments in the last 24 hours that may aid the Search And Rescue efforts they have contained a fire and the weather is much more favorable for crews. That is helped rescuers carve out a trench as they search for missing residents. This morning details about a 2018 Engineering Report of this building that showed it had major structural damage. Lets begin with Rosa Florez in surfside, florida. For the latest. What could you tell us, rosa . Reporter well the Fire Chief saying theyre using every single tool in their tool box. Very aggressively. Theyre using canines, sonar and drones over the pile of debris. Theyve also, like you mentioned, cut into the debris with a trench creating a trench. Now this is really important and i think i s