ou>> ayman here to talk about weapons of any kind. we worry about crime in the streets, worry about crime and cited your department. -- incited your department. call the next item. >> item 3, reports to the commission. >> we start with the first report which is the cheese report. >> good evening. >> i was in yale last friday to speak to group concerning immigration. as far as the crime is concerned, we continue to having 9% reduction. this is a 4% reduction for violent crimes and 10% for property crimes. this parcu

ou>> ayman here to talk about weapons of any kind. we worry about crime in the streets, worry about crime and cited your department. -- incited your department. call the next item. >> item 3, reports to the commission. >> we start with the first report which is the cheese report. >> good evening. >> i was in yale last friday to speak to group concerning immigration. as far as the crime is concerned, we continue to having 9% reduction. this is a 4% reduction for violent crimes and 10% for property crimes. this particular week, we had an increase on the rolling cycle on violent crime 4504-553 crimes. we have had a larger decrease in property crimes. we continue at the pace for 9% reduction year to date. homicides were back up even though this close prior to today, the crime picture continues to be a good one. i know there has been concerns about the reduction and resources. i know that in bernal heights area, the captain removed foot peak that had been working for quite some time. frankly, this is the result of the reduction and resourc

. >> ayman bethesda at the farmers market. come down and check us out.ood morning, washington. >>> 5:40. not bad outside. temperatures in the upper 40's, low 50's. 49 in bowie. 55 in petersburg. feels like all. -- fall. mostly sunny skies expected, and temperatures in the lotus mid 70's, low 70's in the north of town. it is going to be gustier with a westerly wind up till 30 miles an hour. northeast tomorrow, mid 70's. the wind will be dying down later this evening and tonight. look at the seven-day forecast. we are talking total sunshine friday through the weekend with high temperatures in the upper 70's to nearly 80 degrees. that is what i love about october, comfortable divisions -- conditions with sunshine. >>> in montgomery county there was an accident on the beltway than has been cleared child from the of route near the interchange of connecticut ave. that is on the shoulder. lanes are open. 270 looks pretty good coming out of hyattstown. all lanes are open. there are a couple of incidents. in incidents accident on the green lake near the interchan

where is his number two, ayman al zawahiri? where is mullah omar, the leader of the taliban? if this was a private company, the management would have been fired and the shares would be tanking. but these are not private companies. instead, their budgets just spiral upwards. >> you actually wrote about this, i thought, very intelligently. you think there's a basic shift that needs to take place in intelligence. probably easier to say than to do, but why don't you say it anyway? >> we need to get back into the sort of espionage business. people don't usually use that word, espionage. but we're not very good at spying. what we need, if we're ever going to find bin laden, is going to be a penetration of al qaeda or a group affiliated with al qaeda. i think we have got better intelligence coming out of the tribal regions in pakistan, hence the, you know, the better drone program, but i think that as the intelligence community's risk averse, maybe if the stakes were higher and we face a bigger threat from al qaeda, some of these concerns about can somebody pass a background check,

it was ayman al-zawahiri who runs al-qaida these days and had his finger prints on the uss cole bombingthe embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania. who'd have imagined that 29 years later the broad reach of influence from these two is still directly affecting the territorial u.s. and our homeland security in the broadest sense? our focus today as mr. hamilton said is on the state of domestic intelligence reform, which means different things to different people. for my purpose here today i mean foreign intelligence activities of the intelligence community that take place inside the united states mostly under the purview of the fbi and the department of homeland security. i'm not addressing criminal- intelligence and law-enforcement information when they involve purely american domestic activities such as timothy mcveigh or other purely domestic terrorists, which would be the province of our law enforcement and homeland security agencies, not the intelligence community. instead, i'm primarily concerned with total intelligence reform. particularly integration as envisioned by certainly the