cochran: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. cochran: mr. president, the senate will consider this afternoon the consolidated appropriations act of 2017. the bill will fund the federal government for the remainder of this fiscal year. i urge the senate to approve the bill. it provides our armed forces with the money they need to safeguard our homeland and protect our interests around the world. the funding levels are within the limits of the budget control act. in total, the bill would increase department of defense spending by $23.6 billion over president obama's fiscal year 2017 request. these funds are badly needed to improve the readiness of our armed forces and to continue our campaign to defeat isil. this bill includes the largest investment in border security in nearly a decade. additional funding is provided for fencing and other fiscal infrastructure. communications and surveillance technology, the hiring of additional agents and additional detention beds to help stop th the -- staff the practice of catch-and-release. these funds wi

in particular, i want to recognize chairman cochran, the leadership of the senate and house appropriations committees, and their staffs. they worked to ensure that the process was bipartisan and bicameral every step of the way. because of their efforts, we now have an agreement that both sides should support. before we take up the bill later this week, i would encourage all senators to review the full text, which includes more information on the priorities i just menged. -- mentioned. then l with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: now, mr. president, late last night, due to the hard work and diligence of the staffs of the appropriations committees on both sides of the aisle in both houses and the staft of the leadership and so many others, we were able to come to a bipartisan agreement on a bill to fund the government through september. most importantly, this agreement takes the threat of a government shutdown off the table. it's also a good agreement for the american people. the bill ensures taxpayer dollars are not used to fund an ineffective border wall. it excludes

i am proud to join chairman cochran. it's not a perfect bill, but no products we all come together on are perfect, but on balance it's a good deal for the american people. it reflects the values of both republicans and democrats. in the bipartisan work that brought us to this point, it lays the groundwork for our negotiations on the fiscal year 2018 appropriations bill. so i want to extend again my thanks to chairman cochran and to the subcommittee chairman and ranking members. it takes a tremendous amount of work to draft each of the underlying bills contained in this consolidated appropriations bill. while we were negotiating, i remember being on the phone at 10:00, 11:00 at night. i went to bed and the staff would keep on working until 2:0. so i thank the staff of the appropriations committee, including the subcommittee clerks on both sides of the aisle who have been here day in and day out for many weeks. i certainly thank on my staff charles, chuck, kiefert, jana paterney, gene quaid as well as assistants from senat

senator cochran. senator cochran: thank you, we welcome the secretary and wish you the best. we want to know what priorities are for funding. we don't have enough money to do everything for everybody who have requests to make of funding levels in this committee. thank you for being here. we're anxious to hear your comments about appropriate levels of funding and the priorities we need to consider in the writing of this appropriations bill. senator boozman: thank you. vice chairman leahy? senator leahy: thank you for the opportunity. secretary kelly, thank you for being here today. there are many issues to discuss, not the least of which is the topic of today's hearing, the budget -- the president's budget proposal. which is just delivered to us on tuesday, including his plans for the department of homeland ecurity. secretary kelly, i've known you a long time, been an admirer of yours. i knew you when you were in the marine corps. so i have -- marines are expected to speak frankly. i think this budget proposal can be summed up pretty quickly. abysmal. i'm not surprised that th

we were fortunate to form a team including senators warner, thune, and cochran, and the result was the connect for health act, a widely supported legislative proposal for elehealth. connect for health, s. 1016, is the product of hard work and determination. it is designed to improve the quality of care and cut costs. i thank the committee for improving telehealth provisions inspired by our connect bill in the bill we are discussing today. in so doing, you are recognizing the promise of telehealth. i became interested in this topic because my home state of mississippi has led the nation in maximizing technology to improve patients' health. the university of mississippi medical center in jackson has been a leader in telehealth for over a decade. the team has managed to increase access to quality care and cut costs by using services like remote patient monitoring and tele-emergency, reaching some of our state's most rural, vulnerable, and costly patients. mississippi is a very rural state, and we have some of the toughest health problems, too. we have the fewest providers per capita, and

the the john cochran campus was funded for design in 2010.roject proposes to construct a new inpatient bed tower allow for expansion of specialty care clinic with estimated cost of $443 million. in 2015 all of v.a. major projects including john cochran project were rescored to skip process to ensure project the requirements are still valid and project remain high priority for the department. john cochran project did not score high enough to be included in 2015, 2016 cycle and not actively developed by the department at this time, however, project is eligible to be reconsidered and skipped and will be reconsidered for funding in a future budgets year. in closing, each day we move towards our goal of improving and a streamlining our processes in order to provide xetional care that veterans earned and deserve. mr. chairman this concludes any state and thank you for the opportunity to testify before the committee today and pleased to respond to you or any members was cheat. >> i'll start questioning with mr. darrell, you know, quite honestly when

meteorologist molly cochran has the first look at the forecast. it is going to heat up. molly: good evening, kimberly. right now we are still in the upper 60's, definitely mild in the d.c. metro, 70's culpeper and fredericksburg. coupled with the warmth, gusty wind. r movingsaw brad's hai in the live shot, and that is because of the wind gusts, 26 manassas, 31 in the d.c. metro. northwesterly winds sticking around with us tonight and into the day tomorrow. overnight lows feeling better compared to last night, mid 40's, low 50's. mostly cloudy skies and quite breezy. withng off the work week highs around average this time of year and plenty of bright sunshine. coming up in my extended forecast, when we are expecting to hit 90 degrees. kimberly? firetrucka charred left behind at a fairfax county fire station. firefighters forced to handle an emergency in the roadhouse. this happened this morning when the firetruck caught fire inside the ansell road fire station in springfield. the flames quickly spread to the attic. this was at the edsel road fire station. go todon't ever

meteorologist molly cochran has a look at your forecast. i don't know that it can get any better than this, molly. don't think so, especially compared to how dark injury we were -- dark and dre ary we were. i will tell you, earlier this afternoon, we made it to 35 miles per hour at times. some of the north westerly breezes will be sticking with us heading toyou are the nationals game. that first pitch coming up at 7:05. if you are taking mom out, no worries in terms of rain. also notice our temperatures staying in the upper 60's as we head through 8:00. overnight lows going to be dipping 50's. a little bit breezy druid coming up in my extended forecast, we are tracking a major warm up. i will tell you when we are expected to hit 90 degrees. stay tuned. kimberly: we will see you soon. metronight, a fight on a platform slowed down travel this morning. two men got into a fight at the van ness station. one ended up getting slashed in the face. both are facing charges tonight. tracks are closed while police investigate. another investigation to

for abc 7, molly cochran. doug: and once we get to see next week and temperatures through the 80's, anytime we have thunderstorms and cold fronts we have to think about the potential of severe weather. when you see a picture like this, not so much. it's only 50 degrees in spotsylvania. it's rainy. it will stay that way throughout the region. what happened, will the nationals play? don't know. could be the second makeup game in a row here. 56 is the forecast temperatures, periods of rain through the night. this is doppler. it's pretty solid. northern suburbs not so much. you'll get yours in bait. it's a solid area of rain that will continue through the afternoon and evening. the rest of the rush hour. there will continue to be good indications on radar and computer we'll have heavier pushes of rain. 9:30 southeastern suburbs. overnight, patches rain, gusty winds. very chilly temperatures. not appropriate at all or customary for this time of may. the storm center the northeast taking very heavy rain with it. aro

we get the first forecast with molly cochran. molly: starting tomorrow we are tracking a warm-up. highs in the upper 80's. we are still getting to a cold might come overnight lows in the 40's, 50's. mostly cloudy skies, but the rain is over. if you take mom out tomorrow, maybe breakfast, 56 degrees at 8 a.m., but 5:00 p.m. in the mid-70's. already feeling much better compared to today and yesterday. it will also be quite breezy for mother's day. midpeak winds beads in the 20's, even 30's back towards hagerstown and cumberland. that will keep some of the cool air in place. over the next five days, we are going up from here. hitting 90 degrees wednesday. little more about this warm-up in my extended forecast coming up. it's a forecast you don't want to miss. kimberly: thanks, molly. lights and with the sirens blaring, rushing a police cruisers colliding responding to the same call. as a anna-lysa gayle reports, they were greeted by gunfire when they arrived. >> they were just shooting. and ansa: shots fired impact from a crash at the neighbor's saturday evening at 6 p.m. in potomac

meteorologist molly cochran has to first look. molly: we are clearing out nicely, the rain coming to an end. gray shading and a few specks of green, spotty showers heading into the evening. it looks like the nationals will finally get the game in tonight. if you as we will remain cool overnight. temperatures in the 50's. some of us falling into the 40's overnight tonight. mostly cloudy skies, northwesterly wind moving in. that sticks with us tomorrow. a bit breezy for the mother's day forecast, but definitely a great day to spend time outside with mom. into theratures also mid 70's by the afternoon, feeling much better compared to today and yesterday. there will be a little breeze. through the early half of the week, we are tracking not only the sunshine to stick around but also a significant warm-up. i will talk more about that coming up in my extended forecast. kimberly? kimberly: thank you, molly. new developments in the firing of fbi director james comey. "the new york times" reporting comey will testify before congress but on

chairman cochran. >> mr. chairman, thank you. i join you in welcoming and expressing our appreciation to the witness for his help in figuring out appropriate funding levels for the activities under the injurjurisdiction of the u. army engineering research center in vikzburg, mississippi. we've supported research requirements over the years at that site, and most notably there have been successes in new developments of technologies and critical infrastructure protection for our guards, for all federal laboratories and research centers that contribute to our knowledge of how to do a better job of assuring our safety and security. i want to ask you the response you have about the suggestion that the facility at vikzburg which covers the entire nation in terms of producing solutions that face us in our ever changing threats to our national security, were these resources continue to be actively utilized? >> sir, in our quest to stay out in front of the threats, whether it's, you know, government-run lab, financed or the civilian, you

i know chairman cochran shares this goal. as vice chairman, i will work with him to do this. but this budget is an obstacle, not a pathway, to meeting this goal. the president's budget proposes not bipartisan -- in fact, i'm willing to bet if you put the president's budget on the floor today and asked for a vote up or down, even though the republicans are in the majority in the senate, it would not pass. because it doesn't make a hint of a gesture toward true bipartisanship. appropriations works best when you have bipartisan cooperation. it's also because it's not in the best interest of the country or the real priorities of the american people, and that's why it would not get even enough republican votes to pass. it's unbalanced. it's needless and provocative. it's appallingly shortsighted. rural america, including rural states like vermont, is missing in action in the president's budget. his budget eliminates key investments in rural communities, leaving them without federal partnership support for everything from infrastructure, development to affordable housing. programs

we are seeing major gains. 13 degrees warmer today than this time yesterday in antioch, seven in cochran fairfield and six degrees warmer in livermore. current numbers a really comfortable start to the weekend, a lot of 60s and seftsds on the board, 75 right now in concord, 69 in san jose, 61 in san francisco, and nevada checking in with 70 degrees. overnighted to we have mainly clear skies right now but the fog is going to move back in around the midnight hour. so a lot of us tomorrow morning will be waking up to overcast skies once again and temperatures mainly in the 50s. so hour by hour watch as the fog mufds in around that midnight hour, the time stamp right here in the corner of your screen, early sunday morning you can see the majority of the renal has gray skies overhead and that's going to be the theme at least for the first half of our sunday. once again 7:00 in the morning, a lot of low cloud cover not only around the coast but along the bay. tomorrow the clouds, especially around half moon bay is going to be very stubborn to break so limited sunshine the closer you are to the

. >> the valley town of cochran between fresno and bakersfield is working 24/207 raise its levees. tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> well, and the take-away from the story, too, 200% of snowfall in the mountains right now, the snowpack in many places. that's like two winters of snow. sort of the underlying thing here sin from structure. the levees, the dams, all this stuff. it was built tin '50s. so we put a lot of load on it and there's a lot of demands on it because of how we move water. no landscape has been altered more than california, whether it be gold rush or logging or water. the way we've manipulated the water has created an infrastructure that needs to be maintained. so whatever that's worth. even though we're getting a lot of snow, we should be getting ahead of this a little bit because we're going to continue to have events like this where we have heavy rain, heavy snow pack. >>> forecast highs. tomorrow warmer than today. right now it's 86 in napa. that's nine degrees warmer than yesterday. 11 degrees warmer in novato. out at the beach a little bit of fog, but it doesn'

most deadly form and common form is a type calls agliablastoma multi-forming, the type that johnnie cochran, my good friend and your good friend, died from. the type that senator kennedy died from. what makes this the tumor so deadly is even with best standard care, from the time of diagnosis to death, with surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, it's still really about 18 months. we've been on a path to try to teach the body's immune system how to eradicate and fight this cancer. in the latest generation of the vaccines that we've developed, so we give a vaccine, basically a shot, that teaches the body's immune cells how to basically identify the cancer, go into the brain, find those cancer cells, eradicate those cancer cells. in eight of the 16 patients that got the vaccine, they all survived more than five years. and about four of those 16, they're now approaching ten years of life. so we think that we've been able to make a real impact in this group of people that are now in long-term survival mode. we've now gone out and about 120 different medical centers with the vaccine, in a phase three

chairman cochran. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much for chairing the hearing and we appreciate your leadership. and we welcome the secretary. and we wish you all of the best. we want to know what the priorities are for funding, we don't have enough money to do everything for everybody who -- who have requests to make of the funding that was in this committee. but thank you for being here. we're anxious to hear your comments about appropriate levels of funding and the priorities that we need to consider in the writing of this appropriations bill. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. vice chairman mr. leahy. >> and thank you for the opportunity to make a couple of brief opening remarkz. secretary kelly, thank you for being here today. there are many issues to discuss, not the least of which is the topic of the today's hearing, the budget -- the president's budget proposal. which is just delivered to us on tuesday, including his plans for the department of homeland security. secretary kelly, i've known you

and ann cochran pointed out we're still at a dangerously high trend. donald trump will come in lightly below average look at 10 years, this is such a promising development, a huge see change from the open and unfettered floodgates we had under obama. and he would have had if hillary clinton was in office. every day there is more reactoreaffirm reaffirmation. national security, have you so membership of these what i call, refugee -- hadis, who aric the refugee programs and endangers people from the sig sign sthied -- inside. lou: this is a refugee complex built up. paid government moneys from u.s. but they have grown up here, not only in welfare second o'or but in education, cleans and universities -- colleges and universities, then nonprofits who are paid per refugee. we created an incentivize system to bring in unvetted refugees from all over the world. that is part of why president obama's administration was doing that. feeding the machine that had been built by the left. >> yes. yes, that is right, then, of course, with an eye toward solidifying wha

and ann cochran pointed out we're still at a dangerously high trend. donald trump will come in lightly below average look at 10 years, this is such a promising development, a huge see change from the open and unfettered floodgates we had under obama. and he would have had if hillary clinton was in office. every day there is more reactoreaffirm reaffirmation. national security, have you so membership of these what i call, refugee -- hadis, who aric the refugee programs and endangers people from the sig sign sthied -- inside. lou: this is a refugee complex built up. paid government moneys from u.s. but they have grown up here, not only in welfare second o'or but in education, cleans and universities -- colleges and universities, then nonprofits who are paid per refugee. we created an incentivize system to bring in unvetted refugees from all over the world. that is part of why president obama's administration was doing that. feeding the machine that had been built by the left. >> yes. yes, that is right, then, of course, with an eye toward solidifying wha

checking in on current numbers, 70 still in cochran, walnut creek in san francisco, 61 degrees.ll, we have a layer of warm air above our heads squashing the marine air, this could impact visibility tomorrow morning. typical southern time -- summertime weather. this big area of high pressure has been warming up a good portion of the west coast since tuesday, 60s 1090s tomorrow and here is the deal first sunday into monday. after monday the high backs off and things cool off by tuesday in a big drop-off by wednesday and thursday. >> dense fog tomorrow morning outwork ocean beach in half moon bay, possibly simson beach as well. away from the coastline you will have or sunshine in temperatures respond by warming up. there's a big adventure range in the 60s, the red contour links with the 90s. has locations a little warmer than today about 92 to 95 degrees on sunday afternoon. mid-90s near vacaville, 89 in santa rosa, by the rim of the day in the 80s as you work inland, there toward danville in livermore, drink lots of water and look for the trees to stay cool in the shape. san jose

we get the first forecast with molly cochran. molly: starting tomorrow we are tracking a warm-up.

this is northbound 101 so from tenant to cochran a 10-minute ride. >>> i like to take a look at sfo onvercast mornings like this. there are four runways. when it's overcast, visibility is an issue and that's why at the tower they call for delays on some arriving flights. so we'll be checking in with that tower after 6:00 this morning to keep you apprised of the situation. right now santa rosa 50 degrees. it's 57 in redwood city. overcast skies with winds up to 32 miles an hour in the fairfield area. thank you, linda, our weather watcher in fairfield. other wind speeds 10 miles per hour in the bay and santa clara valley. but linda is spot on because the national weather service is also reporting a southwest wind at 32 in fairfield. we do have visibility not so much an issue because it is a little bit breezy. right now visibility has improved in petaluma at 7 miles. our satellite-radar suggests a big change from 24 hours ago. we have this right here. you see this big gray shield? that's the return of the low clouds, the fog, the marine layer. and that marine layer is roughly about 1200 f

the south bay, we'll continue to see the traffic building up along northbound 101 from tennant t cochran it's 15 minutes, no accidents. an earlier crash southbound 680 near stoneridge, traffic is backed up beyond 580. it's 20 minutes from 580 to 84. over at 880 that doesn't look any better. so that would not be your greatest alternate this morning. 22 minutes in that southbound direction. and san mateo bridge getting pretty crowded as well as the richmond/san rafael bridge. you can see this is backed up over at the toll plaza. headlights on the left side of the screen moving in the westbound direction from the parkway to the west end of the bridge an 8-minute ride. bay bridge toll plaza, 26 minutes in the red just what you expected to see around this time of morning on a tuesday morning commute. that's a check of your traffic. >> thank you. >>> two people are dead and several others are injured after a violent high-speed crash in alameda. from "skydrone5" you can see the silver pickup truck crushed. alameda police say there were 7 people inside when the truck came careening down park str

meteorologist molly cochran is here with your forecast. from the stormwatch 7 weather team: today: morning rain. midday break. pm thunderstorms. some strong to severe. highs: 72-77 winds: e to sw 5-10 mph owers dtmsendingpartly to mostly cloudy. lows: 55-59 n: w 5-10 mph friday: olated afternoonzy. shower. ghs: 76-80 arti get to you? day will be o ey day. an upper level i spinnover the settled through today. rning drive with rain tapering off by the end the commute. it will dry out for a few hours, but then scattered owers fox news. some advertisers dropping sean hannity's show. >>> new concerns about climbing mt. everest and overcrowding after ten people died so far this year. get to kohl's memorial day weekend sale and take an extra $10 off when you spend $25 or more. save on summer styles you'll love and for a limited time get $5 kohl's cash for every $25 you spend. d it on anything. only at kohl's. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more. add one a day women's complet