mr. butler. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member nelson and distinguished members of the cyber subcommittee. it's a privilege to be here. thank you for the invitation. my views really represent my views and not that of any particular organization. i'll just quickly hit the highlights of my written statement, they track very closely with a lot of the opening comments. my comments are really focused around my assessment of the threat in the electoral processes after interviewing a few different states. secondly, recommendations to the federal government partner with the whole of america campaign and thirdly what this subcommittee can do going forward. i've been watching the russian influence operations threat for some time in uniform and out of uniform and our ability to counter russian influence operations is not only a function of what we know about the threat but our willingness and ability to address that threat. as i've looked at the election infrastructure in a few states we've learned from 2016 and what is our kn

mr. butler. mr. butler: thank you, mr. chairman. thedistinguished members of subcommittee.hank you for the invitation. my views represent my views and not that of any particular organization. i will hit the highlights of my written statement. they track closely with the opening comments. my comments are focused around my assessment of the threat and the electoral rossa sees after viewing a few different states. secondly, recommendations partnered with the whole of america campaign and thirdly, what this committee can do going forward. i have been watching the russian influence operations threat for some time in uniform and out of uniform. our ability to counter russian influence operations is not only a function of a we know about the threat but our willingness and ability to it -- address that threat by hardening resilience and other countermeasures. as i looked at the infrastructure in different states we learned from twice 16 knownat our vulnerabilities are. when you look at the voting registration systems and the registration proper, we are making progress. however, sta

by mr butler in southeastern france is the french government revealed his new plans for an immigration law the mayor of this city cannot says the state should be doing more to protect refugees. from flowing the island winds to an enchanting desert breeze the. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now as we take a look at weather conditions across europe we've got a rather messy setup across the central southern parts of the region with low pressure centers here further towards the north it's high pressure and what we'll find as we head through a lot of part the weekend into next week is cold air sinking its way southwards and pushing further towards the west but in the meantime we have got this area of snow across the eastern side of the alps through into parts of the balkans but some heavy rain across italy further towards the west where the conditions not too bad for the u.k. largely dry paris some brightness temperature just five degrees madrid into double figures heading on into thursday you can see the snow still very much in place so slow moving situation this one j

mr. butler referred to me on a building permit. i want to say it was temporary shoring of a building. those do not go to the planning department. we need to approve them, when it comes to someone on the third floor, we're doing the process and refer to engineers for approval. so the permit he's referencing that i was so wrong on, i was actually right on. a temporary shoring permit. i wanted to correct on that item. >> thank you mr. duffy. i do get it, there's a lot of permits out there. i think in the spirit of the conversation, it's hard to monitor and track, but thank you for clarifying that. >> and just one other thing -- the misrepresentation on plans is as big of a problem as demolition. i don't know if you're getting all that, that's one of the issues that we deal with a lot. someone shows something in a building as existing that's not there. that's a huge issue for us and that's something that -- i'm a senior building inspector, what do you do with -- like if the city attorney wants to get involved, go ahead. i don't think anybody at d.b.i. will ever object to that. and if you

mr. butler and i think mrs. her in touch with the young congressman from massachusetts. >> two years later the kennedy 's got married. >>> time for a check of the accu weather forecast with meteorologist melissa magee, lots of rain on our way. >> we have he got that flood watch that goes up in 15 minutes, walter, and stays up for rest of our weekend but one to 2 inches is likely a good soaking is on the way. here's storm tracker six, sky six live in hd looking at commodore barry bridge on this saturday evening, and visibility is certainly low, in fact, we're down to a mile in philadelphia, in fact if you are catching a flight, sky six live in hd is looking at philadelphia international, a good idea to check ahead with your carrier for some weather- related travel delays, because we will be, in and out of the moisture, so saturday night, tonight, right into sunday morning, we're going to be dealing with a lot of visibility issues. the ground is cold, and we also have wet ground as well. so a lot of low level mois