perspective, the air force -- do they support these upgrades and if so, why hasn't the air force requested these funds for upgrade kits for the national -- air national guard and reserve p1 30 h fleets and is there a possibility for the air force to prioritize modernization efforts for the c-130 h fleet on given its current age and material conditions? >> thank you for those questions. yes, the air force is priced -- prioritizing the upgrade of this fleet but the average c- 130 age is 26 years old and when we look at the fleets we have takers that are pushing 50, bombers over that age so as we do the priority across the budget we have to look at all of the fleets we operate and the capability associated with it. we think you for giving us the opportunity to study and look at efficiencies and improvements we can bring into the legacy fleet. we have an ongoing operational utility evaluation that should report in march of this year to give us the information we need to make those decisions. when it comes to submitting the budget request, our process working through lsd and through omb after limitations, i can't as for everything, we prioritize safety and once we have the

only two alexi of the russian cosmonaut forty seven years old a left turn and colonel in the air force reserve this was his second flight into space or rather second attempted flight into space and forty three year old nick cage american astronaut with nasa he's a colonel in the u.s. air force this was meant to be his maiden flight and what a flight it turned out to be one to stand there in good health they're having their vital signs monitored in a hospital in kazakhstan should and has already met his mother who was at work nor he was pictured hugging her earlier we managed to catch up with his wife who is here waiting at the space center for the eventual cause of what survival. i watched the launch on t.v. and then i got the news from my neighbors you can understand my feelings at the time it was hard but the support of the team my friends my relatives they supported me so much you can be ready for that cosmonauts are prepared they get trained but the wives just stay down here and warry after an hour and a half i was able to talk to him he called and said that he was ok and we're going to se

the russian cosmonaut forty seven years old a colonel in the air force reserve this was his second flight into space or rather second attempted flight into space and forty three year old nick cage. astronauts american astronaut with nasa forty three years old he's a colonel in the u.s. air force this was meant to be his maiden flight and what a flight it turned out to be around ninety seconds into the takeoff the astronauts and cosmonauts knew that something was wrong they experienced weightlessness instead of a gravitational push and there was certainly a period of uncertainty as to what would happen as those emergency procedures launched they had to launch that emergency capsule and hurtle down to earth at a very high speed much higher than a normal landing would take place they landed several hundred kilometers from the crash site were picked up by emergency crews were understand they're in good health they're having their vital signs monitored in a hospital in kazakhstan. and has already met his mother who was at baikonur who was pictured hugging her earlier we managed to catch up wit

daren smith, a member of the air force reserves, sprang into action to prevent what could have been a. (ken) when asked what it's like to be called a hero... smith said "i just reacted, maybe it's something i've learned in the military after all these years." (ken) home security video shows someone removing a ted cruz campaign sign from a texas homeowner's front yard. and again, except this video shows someone removing a beto o'rourke yard sign. police are investigating residents' complaints that someone stole 60 o'rourke signs in one neighborhood. many texans say it's a rare occurance in their neighborhood. with just five weeks until election day, activists say this is targeting one campaign in particular. <> through the first four weeks of the nfl season, you may have noticed that the scoring is off the charts. and anything close to a hard tackle of a qb is bringing out a flag. so who better to talk about these issues than the always outspoken richard sherman. the star cornerback...back at practice today after missing last week's game with a calf injury. his status going forward is

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halloween edition of fall back friday, we have a power play member of the judiciary committee and air force reserve colonel congressman ted lu. you may know him from nbc, rob reiner. a new guest on the show, melvin greg, a break out star in this new netflix show, american vandal. >> squeaky steal is just as important as i am. sometimes low key i be wondering why he play basketball because he not that good. his mom probably shined him up or something for college or e-sports. get out of here. he want that camera time. >> thanks, everyone, for being here. >> thank you. >> halloween edition, congressman, who needs to fall back? >> i think candy corn does. one of my favorite candies, the snickers, at least that's packed with peanuts. candy corn is pure sugar, makes your kids hyper. it is not good. >> i am a huge candy corn fan. i actually like the kind, bonus kind that are the big pumpkins. they're made of a lot of sugar. >> let me ask the question, do you ever eat candy corn when it's not halloween? >> yes. >> really? >> i buy it in bulk. >> that's shocking. you just found out march 30th, candy corn. r

p-3 which is a turboprop plane at low altitude penetrating the eye wall, and we also have an air force reserve c-130 doing the same thing from a different direction. so what we're seeing with all aircraft is that the storm is intensifying. the pressure in the center has dropped all the way down to 956 millibars, which is a lot lower than it was this morning. the lower the pressure in the eye, the stronger the storm is. and the winds have increased up to sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. so this is a legitimate category 3 hurricane. >> this is a major storm. there is going to be another national update at the top of the hour. do you think it's going to be gaining strength by then? >> i'm not sure they're going to bump up the intensity any in the next advisory or not. it all depends on what the aircraft finds down lower in the eye wall. however, the forecast with the hurricane center is for the storm to continue to intensify this evening up through the upper end of a category 3, close to category 4 intensity. so people need to be ready for that. and when you get right down to it, if you liv

eighty six mission squadron supply chief of the stockpile of ramstein would be added to the air force. war reserve material in europe and would support this is an interesting phrase european deterrence the european deterrence initiative now the e d i was previously known as the european reassurance initiative and that's funded military projects in europe suits the russian intervention in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen so you already see the groundwork my will is over and crimea. let me but i feel that over it there it's interesting good mothers also remember that we're looking at places africa is another and i think people forget exactly how many bullets are actually made and how much munition would be needed for all of those things the eighty six munitions squadrons fight chief which is master sergeant arthur myrick actually said we're major airlift for u.s. air forces in europe air forces africa so these are real world munitions to fulfill real world objective about the reason we're downloading these things to make sure we have the capability to move the fight forward if need be so what th

air force reserves and board member for the columbus italian festival in columbus, ohio, thank you soreat. thank you. tell us what happened to your organization. >> so for the past 39 years we have had our columbus italian festival. we had participation from the city we didn't find out about the holiday decision until the day of the event which was just this past friday. the event went fine. the festival went forward. we have an event on monday, yesterday wreath laying ceremony at the statue of christopher columbus that was donated to the city by genoa italy in 1955 that the city did not participate. in again, let's not seek a republican answer or a democratic answer. but the right answer. i believe is what jfk said. we have been working on this for about 23 years as far as the indigenous peoples thing. and we have been reaching out to local native american and indigenous people. organizations. if you asked our opinion w we want a combined event. we don't understand why the mayor of columbus wouldn't want a combined event that told the story of both sides. i mean, wouldn't that make t

air force support these engine and propeller up grades? and if so, why hasn't the air force requested these funds for upgrade kits for air national guard and reserve c-130h fleets? and is there a possibility for the air force to prioritize modernization efforts for the c-130h fleet given its current age and material condition state? >> chairman, sir, thank you for those questions. yes, the air force is prioritizing the upgrade of this fleet, but the average c-130 age is 26 years old. and when we looked across our fleets we've got tankers that are pushing 50, we have bombers over that age. as we do priority across our budget, we have to look at all of the fleets we operate and the capability associated with that. for the congressional ads we thank you for that giving us the opportunity to look at and study improvements and efficiencies we can bring into the legacy fleet. we have an ongoing operational utility operation that should report out in march of this year to give us the information we need to make those decisions. when it comes to submitting it in a budget as a budget request, our process working through osd and in through the omb effort, w

national guard as we know it and have come to know it since the end of world war ii is a reserve in the army or air force's also an organized militia the organized militia has the constitutional authorities to enact the laws of the union. if he would call the national guard and calm it not as a reserve of the army or the air force, he's got 500,000 potential additional law enforcement officers he can put on the border. that's really from a constitutional stand point and a legal standpoint what he should be doing. >> some appointed to president obama's decision ordering about 1,200 national guard troops to the border back in 2010. you remember that? >> i remember that. i was in the building. i was in the second they'riate when we -- secoow -- i was in t secretariate. we did it so they wouldn't violate any other statutes. in addition, when we use the national guard, people around the world and even in mexico understand the difference between our national guard and our regular forces and by sending regular forces in there, we're sending a very, very strong message that we want to militarize a lot of our act

channon is that forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve left and colonel in the russian air force the flight would have been his second journey into space is american colleague forty three zero nick haig is a colonel in the u.s. air force and he was his my space flight with masses of highly explosive rocket fuel right behind you when something does go wrong to make a fast getaway and experts have been a porting to the escape system that propelled the pad to safety. thank you very much but of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed these keep systems thanks to them our guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's. him in presence of. about the design of how they built this levy escape system that it works so very well but you're in a very volatile situation with lots of rocket propellant around you going very very fast very very high so things could have done much much worse and it's just great that the escape system works so well i flew on to the space station aboard a soyuz rocket myself came back in the soyuz capsule on my fourth mis

baikonur alexy of cheney and his forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve lieutenant colonel in the russian air force i thought his flight was supposed to have been his second to join into space his american colleague forty three year old nick is a condo in the u.s. air force and his case it was to have been his maiden flight. when you've gotten more than half a million pounds of burning rocket fuel right behind you in a booster that's gone faulty you need to get away and get away fast experts and astronauts are applauding the escape system that propelled the pair to safety. thank you thank you but yes of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed these keep systems thanks to them our guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's the interests of. about the design and how they built the scape system that it works so very well but you're in a very volatile situation with lots of rocket propellant around you're going to be very fast very very high so things could have gone much much worse and it's just great that the escape system works so well i flew out to th

nick haig alexi of chanaan is forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserves lieutenant colonel in the russian air force those days of flight was supposed to have been his second to journey into space as american colleague forty three year old nick haig is a colonel in the u.s. air force in his case it was to have been his maiden flight following their ordeal in a dramatic rescue and medical tests after that friends and family expressed relief as the two men were welcomed back by can or. so when you've got more than half a million pounds of burning out rocket fuel behind you and a booster that's gone faulty well you need to get away and very very fast for thursday's so his crew that meant relying on an escape system that was first developed in the one nine hundred sixty s. . each and every soyuz spacecraft is equipped with an emergency escape system that is designed to enable the crew safe escape in case of an emergency on board during blast off in the ascension phase the system has an evacuation capture and powerful engines attached to it the engines are active fifteen minutes before launch if the flig

astronaut nick hague alexi of china is forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve left colonel in the russian air force thursday's flight was supposed to have been his second journey into space his american colleague forty three year old nick is a colonel in the u.s. air force in his case it was to be in his maiden flight following the ordeal a dramatic rescue and. medical tests friends and family expressed relief that the two men were welcomed back to by karl. intended for today's life near the two minute mark the first stage boosters begin to separate you could be something that goes wrong. all right and i cheated and there's no time to wait think that one hundred twenty one seconds and merge and see protocols engage or to magically the mission is compromised they're on their way milli seconds to get the crew a weight up with. the families of the crew and the heads of course morse and nasa watch on a stage action system jettisons the crew module away from the rocket boosters the for the tons of high explosive fuel detonate and we have lift gate tower for destroyers now jettison the ballistic trajecto

baikonur alexi of chanaan is forty seven years all of the house the rank of reserve lieutenant colonel and the russian air force first days flights would have been his second journey into space meanwhile his american colleague forty three year old nick haig is a colonel and the u.s.s. cole said it was his maiden space flight. now with masses of highly explosive rocket fuel right behind you when something goes wrong you need to make a fast getaway expert saw uploading the escape system that propelled the path to safety. you. purchased that you purchased of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed these keep systems thanks to them. back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's. impressive. about the design and how they built the escape system that it works so very well but you're in a very volatile situation with lots of rocket propellant around you're going to be very fast very very high so things could have done much much worse and it's just great that the escape system works so well i flew out to the space station aboard a sleaze rocket myself came back in the soyuz capsule on