general thurman? >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you for this opportunity to update you on united nations command combined forces command and united states forces korea. it is a great honor to lead the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines serving our country in the republic of korea. and i thank the members of this committee for their support for our warriors. the relationship with south korea is the finest military partnership i've experienced in my 37-year career. together our militaries deter aggression and maintain peace and stability on the korean peninsula. u.s. military presence in the republic of korea supports u.s. national interests in a key ally in northeast asia. since the united states and the republic of korea forged and alliance in battle over 60 years ago, the republic of korea has become a vibrant democracy, economic success and global security partner. currently serving beside us in afghanistan and off the horn of africa. in stark contrast, one of the world's poorest, most closed and most milita

the mayor of thurman said 90% of the town is damaged or destroyed.he tornado more bad weather forced all 300 residents to evacuate to a nearby town. we'll turn now to thurman, to the emergency management director for freeman county. he'll join us very shortly. as you can imagine it's very difficult to get people on the phone because the power is out, the electricity is out, and that is just such a press. until we get him back on the line let's turn to what's happening in afghanistan. the violence this morning in kabul, afghanistan, reminds us that there is a war going on. tens of thousands of american troops are deployed there right now. it's been a very long, tough fight. couple that now with the ended war in iraq and we get a picture of the hardships that the troops have been living with for a decade. for many soldiers the war doesn't stop when they come home and that's the subject of nick kristof's column in the "new york times" this morning. he's the author of the papers on the ground blog. nick, welcome back to cnn. nice to see you again. your c

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there are only 250 residents in thurman. none were killed or injured, but many have taken up refuge in city hall, the town's only building with fire. >> and in wichita, kansas, a tornado caused what's being described as chaos. the storm there downed power lines and caused gas leaks. there was damage at mcconnell air force base and at least one mobile home park. we have live coverage throughout the plains. we want to begin with nbc's jay gray. he is in norman, oklahoma, to start us off. jay, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, lester. first light here in oklahoma, and crews really getting out, getting to assess what's happened here. the worst of the damage in oklahoma to the north and east, and woodward, as you talked about, at least five people dead, two of those children, more than 20 injured, and they're continuing to comb through the debris there and across the midwest right now. >> let's call it like it is. this is becoming now a killer tornado. >> reporter: sirens sounded throughout much of the central and s

. >> general thurman, readiness is one of your top priorities, assess you've stated, the president's new strategic guidance shifts the focus to asia. today we haven't seen an increase in resources to reflect the pivot. we understand that each of our contingency plans is under review to assess the level of resources required, assuming you are engaged in a similar activity, can you tell us how prepared the u.s. forces are to respond to possible aggressive actions by the north korean military, and what are your top three readiness issues for u.s. forces? >> chairman, first off, i can tell you we are prepared to defend the peninsula and can do that. and we can repel any type of attack that should the north koreans decide to do that. so i'm confident based on what i've seen through the exercises, and the fact of the -- with the capabilities we have, and i would be more than happy to go in a closed session and discuss specific readiness concerns that i have and can go into further detail on that. in response to overall readiness, i would tell you that on the u.s. side, the u.s. army has do

rod humphreys is the mayor of thurman and tina is with the red cross. mayor, our thoughts .mayors are with you. about 250 people live there. how certain are you that everyone is accounted for? >> we did primary and secondary searches last night and with members of other fire departments and local communities and we're certain that we accounted for everybody. >> mayor, as mentioned by jim cantore, you've got light now and about 30 minutes, half hour, people will be in and assess the damage. what is your first impression of what you're seeing there? >> well, it's bad. we probably have 100% of the homes in town have some damage. we have some that are completely destroyed. and it's a path of destruction right in the middle of town. >> tina, only one building has power. that's the city hall at this time. as i mentioned, people are seeking refuge there. what do you believe folks need most there at this early hour? >> you know, the red cross is always on the scene to provide food, shelter, clothing, comfort and care. that's what these folks need. they're a gre

. >>> in iowa now, take a look at the pictures coming in from the tiny town of thurman. a tornado leveled much of the town. only about 300 people living there, and 90% of it, according to the mayor, is now damaged. what's amazing as you look at these pictures, nobody was even hurt. and this is creston, iowa. a tornado hit a hospital there. it was a scary 30 minutes, an hour, huge winds broke windows, sent glass flying from the building. no serious injuries being reported. while yesterday's threat was more widespread, it's really important we make in clear right now, there are several states and some major cities that still face dangerous, even life-threatening conditions as we speak. jacqui jeras is tracking this for us. tell us the latest. >> we think the next couple of hours, the atmosphere is really going to explode across the upper midwest. at this hour, we're focusing in on parts of arkansas, and into missouri. we've got a strong cold front that's pushing through here, igniting thunderstorms. some of these have been severe, with some hail and some damaging winds in

new doctrine isn't howard thurman but your ordination process tell us about that. you come from baptist background. >>> economic baptist tradition i grew up in alabama and that's where my folks originated in st. went to miami were actually grew up close to the time but i came at a fast tradition where parts of your family were pentecostal and parts were methodist empire were baptist and so that was that environment that i grew up with. when i met my wife and moved to to california she had been the united methodist and and so by that time having studied howard thurman the central part of my faithless from the spirit and the spirit from me as something of which all the religious tradition to come so i welcome the opportunity to become a united methodist and i love the capacity for doing ministry beyond the local church and even beyond the country. of the ideas and the diversity of the religious tradition and of course the tremendous efforts that john wesley. >>> caro you ought to do counseling. >>> guests are working grief counseling because grief can be very heavy a

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let me top it to my colleague in thurman, iowa. >> hey, here in thurman, iowa, a small town, 75% of it destroyed. 90% seeing some kind of damage. town of 238 people. but you can see this tornado cut through. they had a tornado warping here. and fortunately, no injuries or no major injuries and no fatalities in this town. they think because they had the warning, everybody took that message to heart. you can see now what is happening, the chain saws are going all over town. everybody out helping their neighbors now, clean up debris. the red cross is out, as they do. they get out so quickly, passing out water and cough and food to people who might need supplies. a lot of damage across this town, essential to the homes and the trees, as you can see. and also, there is a community center down here that had a roof on top of it. that is completely gone and now in a pile of rubble down here, across the basketball field. you can also see the power crews. they have been working here all night long because the power's out to the entire town. they have been working to get the power restored. not r

another tornado hit thurman, iowa. the storm shattered buildings and ripped off the front of this home. >> the house was shaking and i could feel it lifting. >> reporter: only 250 people live in thurman, and almost everyone suffered some kind of damage. but most of the reported tornadoes hit open spaces, keeping destruction to a minimum. a big relief for the governor of kansas. >> i'm just amazed at what didn't happen, really, with that size of system. >> reporter: given the potential for damage, many consider themselves lucky it wasn't worse. cbs news, woodward, oklahoma. >> tonight, federal authorities now working to confirm just how many of the reported 120 tornadoes actually touched down. >>> two teens in critical but stable condition tonight after some uninvited guests crashed a local party. it happened in the 19,000 block of poplar ridge road. the party crashers busted into the house and stabbed two teens inside. three others were cut as well. the crashers then took off. police have not released any names or moti

. >> jamie: without a doubt and thurman, iowa was especially hard hit, where we find chief meteorologist rick reichmuth, surveying the damage, it looks pretty bad. >> rick: it does, a small community, 238 people, and 75% of the buildings destroyed. the big chunk of the town, look at some of the damage here, you can see, this is the back of one gentleman's home and garage, where he's an antique car collector, and, completely destroyed and kept his favorite antique car inside the garage, because that is the one he wanted to protect and, then, this is what happened with this tornado, they've never seen a tornado like this come through the town and no stranger to severe weather and have the tornado warning systems and the mayor did go and activate the tornado warning and that certainly allowed people to have just enough time to get into a safe spot and surprisingly, there were few injuries and no fatalities, when you see this kind of damage, all kinds of trees down, power lines down, obviously, and, now, they are beginning that efforts. of getting power back on and in fact they worked all ni

. >> reporter: the tiny town of thurman, iowa near hi wiped off of the map. many wondering how the neighbors made it through with no deaths and no injuries. >> it looks like a horror movie. >> reporter: most of them raked across uninhabited land. >>> fox amorning news at #:30 starts now. >> you are taking a live look right now. monday, april 16th, 4:30 in the morning. -- fox 5 morning news at 4:30 starts now. >> even though it might be a little overcast, there might be a the humidity, i don't think you will hear any complaints, certainly not from me. >> i think people will really enjoy it. the only thing is that unfortunately, we are really getting into a drought situation at this point without rain. we want the sunshine and the nice summer conditions but the farmers are having a tough time. >> firefighters too. >> yes, we to have an elevate fire risk. a few high clouds outside right now but that will give way to plenty of sunshine. -- yes, we do have an elevated fire risk. we are getting a really warm start to the day. yesterday's high, some 16 degrees or mo

here, in thurman, fortunately no fatalities, a big mess, 75% of the structures in the town destroyed and they have a lot of work ahead of them. >> jamie: i seem to remember last year we set records with the number of tornadoes and people hear 100 in the last 24 hours, are we set to break another record this year? >> rick: it would be hard to imagine that we would break a record like we broke last year. last year broke every record that you could imagine including record for fatalities, over 300 in the one tornado outbreak. not the case here, but, one thing that really happened over the last year, is the warning systems, people are paying a lot more attention because of the activity last year. and i think with twitter and social media, spotters are out there seeing the storms and getting information out, so much more immediately, to people, and i think that is saving lives as well. >> jamie: important, we bought our radios when you told us, thanks, rick. >> jamie: and you talked about the early warning systems and this damage stretched from iowa to the midwest and the sirens went off

at temperatures from frost burg west temperatures low 30s oakland only 32, hagerstown came in 43, thurman6 at last report, we are still mid- to upper 40s well above freezing but it is possible some of these echos may produce wet snowflakes between now and 7:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., looks like it will stay chilly most of this week maybe warm up end of the week. >>> stay with wjz for first warning weather coverage for updates on the forecast and a look at live doppler radar any time, log on to wjz.com. >>> in today's pump watch report finally good news about the price of gas what is driving the recent down trend. >> for the first time in four months drivers are seeing a significant drop in the price of gas. the national average has put 5- cents in the past two weeks first decline since december prices are relatively high on average, drivers around the downry are pay -- country are paying 3 .8 5 for a gallon of regular. wjz pump watch is tracking the prices, our gas is still relatively cheap compared to some other states chicago illinois, drivers are paying 4.17 a gallon. >> vic back to you. >> t

with good reason many residents heeded the alert. >>> a similar scene in iowa, 75% of the town of thurman was destroyed, the town had been on lock down yesterday clean up has only just begun. >>> gwen has been tracking the trouble and also find out what kind of weather we can expect in our area. >> good morning melanie devastating storms across that part of the country let's go to our weather maps and show you what is happening. you can see stretching all the way from texas, still dealing with that, that yellow box outlined there, that is where there is a tornado watch in effect for areas of northeastern oklahoma, so that was supposed to expire a few minutes ago but may be extended if you look at tin tensity of that line of storms as we pan north you can see that weather pattern stretching up to areas of the great lakes that is of course what will happen today, high risk today southern nebraska, kansas, oklahoma. moderate for some parts including missouri a lot of the storms in kansas were small tornadoes rotating around each other but 120 tornado reports over four states so far. straight

at one point, all 300 people who lived in thurman, iowa had to evacuate. we learned that the tornado that touched down there was an ef-2. it was half a mile wide with winds up to 130 miles an hour. it left a path of destruction 10 miles long, destroying or damaging three-fourths of the homes in thurman. for some, their houses were obliterated in a matter of seconds. >> that piece of iron had to come from some building. it was no straight wind, it was just a regular twister. we were in the bathroom, like they always say, and the roof went here. the good lord was with us. he sure was. it's about more than you can bear. >> also very scary moments in the town of increase tcreston, . this is what they're dealing with this evening. a hospital's roof blown off. thankfully, no major injuries reported. patients were relocated to other hospitals. it mainly struck rural areas except for wichita, kansas. one tornado smashed into a mobile home park there. about one-quarter of the homes destroyed. about half of them damaged. but here the worst reported injury was a brok

. >> in iowa, in thurman, homes torn apart. the storm started in the afternoon and haven't stopped yet. >> we were there as that tornado was born. >> you don't see it touch all the way to the ground but it is a full tornado. you can see right at the base and some at the top. that is how the tornado forms. right now, even when you see it, there circulation at the ground. >> in kansas a first look at the damage. trees uprooted, stop lights in the street and in nebraska, the tornado dropped this massive hail. >> look how big. oh, my gosh! 6 >> carolyn: forecasters say more violent weather is possible as that system moves east. >>> back here at home. investigators are trying to determine the cause of an apartment fire in san francisco's castro district. it started around 10:00 last night at sanchez and market streets. firefighters were able to quickly get it under control but one person has been hospitalized with serious injuries. the red cross is assisting two people that are now homeless. fire crews rescued a cat from that buildi

the situation is grave in a small town of thurman, iowa. folks waking up this sunday to a scene of utter destruction. that's where we have our chief meteorologist, live on the ground. rick, i know you have seen these before. but this seems to be one of the worst, this entire town virtually wiped out. >> reporter: yeah. so much damage. it's a small town, around 238 people in this town. but 75% of the buildings drivewayed. so that's almost your entire town, if that's what you are living in. most people here lived their entire lives, including the gentleman you see down the street here, cleaning up. that's what is happening now. the damage hahas been sustained, you can hear the sound of the chain saws going, people doing this work, starting to begin to clean up. but thurman, here, nothing as far as fatalities. not even significant injuries. and that's because they also had the warning. i tell you, so many warnings went out yesterday, in fact, the national weather service issued 124 tornado warnings and there were 121 reported tornadoes. so the

. >> >> reporter: only 250 people live in thurman and almost everyone suffered some kind of damage. most of the tornadoes hit open space, keeping destruction to a minimum, a big relief for the governor of kansas. >> i'm amazed about what didn't happen. >> >> reporter: given the potential tor damage, consider themselves lucky it wasn't worst. in woodward, oklahoma. "wjz," "eyewitness news." >> unfortunately, it's not over with, yet, bernadette woods, our meteorologist is tracking where the storms are, right now. bernadette? >> there are still three systems out there. we'll take you to first doppler radar. the center is over minnesota. you see the trailing line? a widespread severe weather threat for hail and gusty winds, not just tornadoes. the thing is this is so wrapped up there is snow on the northern side of minnesota right now and a tornado threat across the south. we'll stretch it over and show you as we head to the overnight hours, all of this moves further to the east. not as many reports at last night, last night, 122 tornado reports. still a lot of severe weather going on.

inuit strom thurman themed things. where was that come from?est: malcolm x was from the cbs footage and strom thurmond came from -- it was a documentary on the 63 march that was put out the usaid in that was along outlaw documentary. opposed to what is your philosophy -- by the way, how long is this? >> guest: just under two hours. if the pbs two hours, hours 50 minutes, two hours. reiko what is your philosophy about i.t. and these people? how must you assume they know? >> guest: i assume they know nothing. we i.d. him at least three times. each person with the pen to pass along their off-camera. president carter once. c-span: here is hubert humphrey and strom thurmond and debate. >> the shutdown cut the public's attention, but no cameras were allowed in the senate. so humphrey and thurman agreed to take a piece of debate to the television ideas. >> we know americans will have two be negroes will be denied equal access of public accommodation decided travels a chance for a place to rest any if not for the accommodations, its invasion of private

jim canore in thurman, iowa.r channel or visit their website at weather.com. >>> the new leader of north korea spoke to his nation and the world for the first time today. he also unveiled a new long-range missile during a military parade. and the multi-stage rocket was on display only days after a north korean policele launch failed. kim jong un said he would make military strength his top priority. the speech was the finale to celebrations marking the 100th birthday of his grandfather, who founded north korea. >>> all right so now the best of alex's office politics and those conversations. from the daily beast and "newsweek's" tina brown to journalist dan rather, a rare look at the personal side of any of these famous faces. >> when you hear that you've kind of you hear it and you hear she's lonely. intensity of that woman that was so profoundly sad to me. it made you have an insight into the woman who was beloved by everybody in the world, but felt she was completely isolated. >> you were taking a number one "n

officials say almost every home in thurman, iowa, was damaged. in wichita, kansas, people are boarding up broken windows. many homes were flattened there. amber has six children and says her house was wiped out. >> we have nothing. i just have one pair of clothes. >> reporter: kansas's governor brownback says most of the storms in his state hit in areas where few people live. >> i'm amazed by what didn't happen, really. >> reporter: the national weather service will send crews today to confirm how many tornadoes struck and just how strong they were. in the meantime, one little mystery here. what happened to the tornado sirens? well, it turns out it appears a lightning bolt struck a tornado signal tower that may have set a tornado siren off, inoperable and perhaps that's why the death toll here was large. that's the latest from here. >> bad luck. dick brennan in woodward, oklahoma, thank you. >>> here in the northeast today's weather story is the heat. near record highs are expected from southern new england, where it's expected to reach 87 degree

weather channel meteorologist jim cantore joins us now from thurman, iowa. jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. our tornado an ef-2, winds of 125 miles per hour. but some of the homes as you can see behind me, extensive damage. you can just go down any street here and see homes with damage to shingles or siding. this street this morning when we got here, we couldn't even get down because there was so much tree debris. some 900 volunteers out here today. that's three times the population of this down, doing a tremendous job in cleaning things up. all right, where do we go tonight? let's talk about this. we've still got a massive squall line stretching from minnesota all the way down into western tennessee. minneapolis, st. louis, little rock all under the gun. minneapolis with tornado to yo but we've only had four tornado reports so far. it's all about the heat tomorrow, lester. look at this in the northeast. boston, forecasting a high of 91 degrees. their average? 55. that's a bad thing. we've got the boston marathon tomorrow. 27,000 runners

the top of the hour with an extended news bulletin for united states russian prisoner returned from thurman to a filmmaker. go on take that sandwich give it to him and standby. we'll go over it he's seen a couple of times film director. issues the new movie about prison life he has won several top prizes a film festivals that yes that's it the film director and his actors have no expectation of public recognition or fame all they really want is to get away from this dismal scenery as soon as possible and never return but that's it thank you they call everybody. the film crews artistic freedom is confined to this high security jail petersburg. the actor's camera man and director all serving sentences the serious crime. roll call finished return to your area. i'm right you'll toss that snowball from here. film studio is run by inmates in russian colonies a not just for fun the aim is to rehabilitate prisoners their involvement in filmmaking is meant to help them reform and start a new life a basic camera is the only piece of equipment at the disposal of the prison producers the crew is normal

it starred uma thurman and jude law. it's a near future in which individuals are gentically engineered and it's the story of two brothers. one is enneared to be terrific and great and wonderful and one is not. it's a story about their efforts to succeed. there is one part of the story that resonates so well and is a strong metaphor for immigration and it's the following -- they would have a contest as adolescents and as adults they would swim out in the ocean, and the first one to turn back would lose. it was a simple contest. and in theory, in every possible way in theory, the engineered brother should have won. he was stronger, bigger, better, more fit. yet the older brother, the imperfect brother did not. there is this great line at the end where the younger brother turns to his brother and says why is it that you win? how do you win? that's the difference between you and me. when i'm swimming out, i'm not saving anything to come back and you are. and there is this notion, i think, that there is no gene for the human

officials say almost every home in thurman, iowa was damaged. in wichita, kansas, people are boarding up broken windows. many homes were flattened there. amber has six children and says her house was wiped out. >> we have nothing. >> reporter: kansas governor sam brownback says most of the storms in his state hit in areas where few people live. >> i'm amazed about what didn't happen really with that size of a system. >> reporter: the national weather service will send crews today to confirm how many tornadoes struck and just how strong they were. dick brennan, cbs news, woodward, oklahoma. >> dry weather here in the mid- atlantic led to several brushfires this weekend. one in southeast d.c. injured a firefighter there. the fire started around 6:45 last night in a wooded area near the corner of pennsylvania and branch avenues. the fire was eventually put out and that firefighter is expected to be okay. >>> another brushfire, this one near a popular marina in anne arundel county damaged a boat and a building there. close to 100 firefighters respon

deterrent capability and national capabilities, as well as capabilities in the theater that general thurman commands. and again, we -- it's our policy to deter that kind of behavior that you're talking about. while we don't assess that they have the kind capability that you outlined today, the development of capabilities in this regard is something we're very concerned about. we maintain a robust deterrent capability to deter that kind of action. >> they are aware of that robust deterrent capability. i think there's -- it's very unlikely that even if they had a nuclear weapon capable of reaching our shore that they would launch it toward, why would they need to do that if they could simply put a medium-ranged missile on a ship and launch from that ship anywhere on our west coast or east coast against which we have little defense and for which we have little capability of determining for certain who was responsible for it. why isn't that the most likely mode of attack from north korea, if, in fact, they are interested in attacking us? >> well, congressman, i think we have to be aware of a wh

in iowa, take a look at the pictures coming in from the tiny town of thurman. a tornado leveled much of the town. only 300 people live there and the reverend say 90% of his community is now damaged. what's amazing, when you look at these pictures, nobody was hurt. and now to another small iowa town, this town is called creston. and a tornado hit the hospital there. officials say high winds broke windows, sent glass flying into the building. again, thankfully, no serious injuries being reported. let's make one thing clear. several states and some major cities face dangerous, even life threatening conditions still today. and jacqui jeras is tracking this for us. jacq jacqui, there's no time for people to drop their guard. how's this shaping up right now? >> today won't be exactly the same kind of day as yesterday. we won't see quite as many tornados, but there's still quite a risk, especially across parts of the upper midwest. at this hour, we already have a tornado watch in place. that means conditions are favorable for conditions to develop. it's this line we'r

and it was over that quick. >> remarkably no injuries and death in thurman. they were reported in kansas, nebraska and oklahoma where five people died and two dozen are injured. >> this morning oakland police are looking for a person that caused a crash and ran from the scene. >> around three this morning, a car came down the 580 off ramp and ran a red light and crashed into another car. the driver got out and fled the scene. one person from the scene was taken to the hospital. the police say both cars were totaled. >> a man crashed his car in san francisco. it happened after three. near tennessee street. near the water front. it rammed a tree. and street latch and knocked down a fence in a lumber supply yard. >> the speeds went up to 100 miles an hour. the motorist whose identity is not released and captured by the police. >> no word on what led to the pursuit in the first place. >> there is a modesto standoff. it ended thursday night when the building the suspect was holed up in caught on fire. >> he had a ballistic vest. >> gas mask. and police style radio

utah center seems to be the crowning jewel of what was originally inspired unter 10 usc 1053 t strom thurman act of 1961, and i find it likely that there is that interfaces with it the smart meters through the smart grid system that enables the two-way transmitters on your home to create that virtual wire prism, the wires in your home you can't see and possibly the introduction of mind altering psycho electronic waves in your home via the tower on the ac frequency. >> that was chris in las vegas. we'll hear from korine. >> caller: mr. bamford, my question to you is that you mentioned that congress needs to launch an investigation into the illegal tactics of what the nsa are doing but how is that possible when congress are pretty much allowing and you know, passing legislation to allow the nsa to do what they are able to do? >> all of those questions are very good. and the question that the gentleman just asked, that's the problem. congress doesn't have an incentive to look into nsa because the problem with the congress right now is that no congress person ever wants to look weak on terrorism

the storm system was huge it wiped out the town of thurman, iowa, well north of here and kept repeatedly doubling back on oklahoma, kansas and nebraska, rendering all clear sirens almost meaningless. and the power of the storm was undeniably powerful and great. imagine this, here's a carpet store behind me and this was a delivery truck now embedded in that carpet store. and over here, jeff, is a stonewall that used to stand 100 yards away. >> glor: pretty incredible, dean reynolds, thank you. for more now on these storms, we turn to meteorologist jeff berardelli of wfor. good evening. there was a lot of buildup prior to this weekend about how bad the outbreak was going to be. was it as bad as expected? >> yes, it was exactly as expected. there were a lot of tornadoes. there were a lot of big tornadoes. in fact, yesterday about 120 reports of tornadoes. but they happened in very sparsely populated areas in the plain states. and didn't hit any population centers. >> glor: so then looking in the weeks and months ahead, jeff, do we know when tornado season peaks? >> well, typically the peak

the select committee and commission on immigration and refugee policy, along with my friend strom thurman, allen simpson, ted kennedy. the committee issued a report in 1981 which led to passage of comprehensive immigration reform bill during president reagan's administration. let me remind everyone, president reagan supported that bill, setting of a date to grandfather those in this country who were here illegal with a pathway to citizenship if they did not have a criminal record. i continue to work hard to see that this happens and occurs. many ask why our efforts did not work way back in 1981. there's an answer. we did not secure the borders, even though we passed comprehensive immigration reform. former senator pete domenici and i chaired the appropriations committee, and we constantly added earmarks, sorry to use that word here in this august body today, but we added money that was not in the budget, and often it was taken out for other reasons. the -- at that time the effort of congress and the public just wasn't there on this problem. when i left the senate, the number of border pat