one of the other pieces which really required the expenditure of time was with the goz nop is to see how those satellites operate on orbit. this was the first flight of the boeing 601 bus in a geo stationary operation like we had for go z nop. we need to see when we have a new satellite time on orbit to see how it's going to operate, what its performance is going to be are we going to see life-limiting procedures start to develop. it took many years of watching those satellites to operate from '06, '08, '09 when they were launched. we could then say, now i'm comfortable saying the projection life will be longer than it is. that's where we came to about this time last year. >> i'll recognize the gentleman from georgia, the chairman of the oversight committee, mr. louder milk, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. children. i want to continue on with the line of questioning that my good friend mr. buyer brought up. mr. powner, you brought up the slides and the charts indicating the life cycle, the launch dates, now we're extending the life span and the useful life of the -- both satellit

that nop funds would be provided for sanctuary -- that no funds would be provided for sanctuary cities. they made that public back in december early in the month. to the committee we wrote that no funds for executive amnesty policy should be provided in this bill, no funds for the daca program to carry out that amnesty program be included, that no funds -- no spending of funds in the immigration examinations fee account for anything other than nationalization and immigration benefits to be provided by congress. it would bar funds for salaries of bill appointees or other employees who direct law officers to violate the law. why should we be paying people who direct their own subordinates to violate fundamental immigration law? no funds should be used to grant prosecutorial discretion to aliens in removal proceedings. that no funds for an extension of temporary protected status be expended unless approved by congress. that no funds to abuse -- to the parole authority has a real abuse in this parole authority, and so it said we shouldn't be funding these abusive practices that undermine t

scored points on each other, but it is going to be evolvinging beyond iowa and new hampshire to be a n nop-trump frontrunner. >> and is the challenge, cruz and rubio or is dr. ben carson still a challenger? >> well, i think that chris christie is as well. he had a strong debate, and you can't count out somebody with $50 million in jeb bush either. so we are far are from winnowing the field, but it is a good debate and substantive back and forth and healthy. >> and people got better appreciation of where the candidates stand on anyism pornt issue that the future chief of comma commander has to deal with. and angela, another important exchange, and this one on surveillance. listen. >> i am proud to have joined with conservatives in both the senate and the house to reform how we target bad guys, and what the usa freedom act did. it did two things. number one, it dended the federal government's collection of bulk phone metadata of information -- >> so is senator cruz wrong? >> yes. it is not the most credible, but we are at a time where we need not less tools, but more tool, and that metadata progra

nop delays into the bridge. >>> in just a few hours, we're expected to learn the name of the allegedacobber who created chaos and panic inside the roosevelt field mall. cast rin craig is in mineola where the suspected gunman is being held. reporter: we expect to see ab m in a few hours when he's brought out of this police building and sent over to the courthouse. he's expected to be at court a little later today for an anrainment. th what happened at the roosevelt field mall, it was chaos at the hands of this suspect. according to investigators, one single bullet was fired by h during an attempted robbery. investigators say the jewelry and watch store, 1:00 in the afternoon, sutter an off-duty ndethotook down the suspect. many thought this was an active shooter situation. workers hid in their stockrooms and brought shoppers in with thdrem. it was frightening for a while for those who weren't sure what was going on. >> we were just running. it was chaos. >> people let as many people as they could and locked their front door and weapon went into their safe house in the back. >> reporter: ther

buffalo would have had more than 20 inches of snow by nop.ning me now is the weather channel's psycmike sidle. unusually warm whether there, right? >> hi. it is. we're out here at a minnesota vikings tailgate with the fans this morning. it's 36 degrees. the average high 26. it's their second warmest december on record. and they may end up with their number one. it was number one. the past three days have been cold here. this time yesterday -- nobody is complaining about the fact it's -- >> no, we almost wore flip flops. >> is anybody missing the snow? >> i don't think so. not yet. >> what about the frozen lakes? >> not bad for a tailgate in late december in minnesota, right? >> perfect. >> let's talk about the chance of a white christmas. here in minneapolis-st. paul, 72% of the time, 3 out of 4 christmases white. there is some snow in duluth. unless you are in the rockies or northern plains, way up in northern main, you can pretty much forget about it. like the warm-up we've had here, 8 yesterday morning, 36 nou. it's going to warm up. the e