i asked mayor kehler here. >> if i had answers to that, i woul d be carried on people's shoulders like a god. >> reporter: there are a lot of mayors that woulald like to be carried on shoulders, but it's not going to happen. not as long as the army corps of engineers is still stalled and trying to get those easements. here in bradley beach, that's not the issue, but they did have to build teeir berms, over the last couple of days, which they were active in doing, to protect the south end of bradley. as you can see behind me, it is still holding. but as we say, they still have a good 24 hours and at least another couple of high tides to worry about. live in bradley beach, brian thompson, news 4 new york. so true. brian, thank you. >>> now t long island, where suspended in l s than half an storm. news 4's greg cergol is in bayshore and continues our live team coverage. >> reporter: well, sibila, suffolk county executives ordered the ferry shutdown as a safety precaution in the wake of this nasty weather. we actually drove on to fire island today, with the county executive, who took a tou

in fact a couple of waves of even kehler air between now and the weekend. karen details coming up. >> onthe coolest air coincides with my camping trip which is great. looking live on the vine street expressway looking good right now. we've got no problems out there. the vine had closed last night at 11:00 a.m., it just reopened at 5:00 a.m. and we're looking now you can see eastbound and westbound reopened but watch 'cause it's going to close again tonight for construction starting at 11:00 and they close obviously the ramp, too. this is the schuylkill expressway. some of the ramps start closing as early as fine 9 o'clock. we have five nights of construction with the vine closing completely. one more tonight. on the big picture overall speeds in pretty good shape. we had lighter volume in spots yesterday with the holiday so we'll see that picked up a little bit today. we have an early morning accident montgomery county, meetinghouse road near devon closer to delene road. this is in abington montgomery county, police responding to that one. we're going to go

we have really gone from a strategic alignment piece of general kehler mentioned to sort of a framework of cooperation. let's go now to a little more of the details within the countries. duncan? >> thank you, richard. good afternoon. great honor to share this stage with such a distinguished panel. i'm going to try to make three points today. the first focusing on some may see military traditions that we understand what the reality is that the mexican military. secondly, to look at some changes that are underway in the mexican military and thirdly to make observations about mexico's southern border with guatemala and belize. we just returned from a weeklong tour of mexico's southern border crossing all the way across to the east and seeing the entire border along the way and i wanted to share with you a little bit of what we observed while we were there. some general points about mexico's military that if things are worth mentioning so that we're all on the same page -- [speaking spanish] [laughter] >> first of all, i think -- >> i should just mention, the general who is the defense atta

abdullah, general kehler can quantify this and continue to didn't have before grows out of control as you talk about. >> thank you children appreciate it, mr. chairman. i will yield back. >> thank you. mr. knight. >> mr. chairman, thank you. thank you, general, for your service. i just had a couple of quick questions. can you give me an idea of the definition of train and assist? when i went over to poland and some other countries, i was thoroughly impressed with the polish soldiers and the interaction that we had with u.s. forces. so can you give me an idea of what train and assist means for the afghans, was going to happen when they're done, when you're through their attorney, what can we expect from them, how they're going to interact of those types of things? >> again, the numbers that we have right now as the chairman asked me early on, we really working on the ministerial level and at the ministerial level we're focused on what we called eight a social function. intelligence from, planning, programming, budgeting, executing, transparency can sustainably, strategic communications

our senior correspondent brianna kehler is with us right now.y been preparing for several days for this going through session after session after session with her lawyers and her top aides. >> this is the culmination of days of preparation. in fact she's going to be testifying today for between 8 and 10,0 hours. the expectation is four two-hour chunks of time. and she's been preparing with a legal team, with her policy advisors. keeping in mind this was some time ago. so she's reviewing her 2013 jus she has everything in order and doesn't contradict herself. the plan for republicans is to try to make this look less political. or at least that is what we hear from trey gowdy. but -- and the issue being that the focus will be more on benghazi and less on the e-mail practices which certainly have been a vulnerability for hillary clinton. the issue though is it is going to be very tempting for republicans to engage in talking about the e-mails. this is a tricky isn't for hillary clinton. they don't want to be accused by their base of going too easy