The latest weapons, coupled with the fighting skill of the American soldier, stand ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country. View the American people against aggression. This is the Big Picture, an official television report to the nation from the United States Army. Now to show you part of the Big Picture, here is Sergeant Stuart Queen. This is one of the laboratories within the Research and Development Laboratory at the Army Engineer Center in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. It is from Fort Belvoir that many of our celebrated military leaders in American history have come. Today's Big Picture, however, is devoted not to the men in uniform, but to a large group of civilian scientists and engineers who are an extremely important part of this and many other Army installations. This is one of the most important young men in America. His name is Wendell L. Keyes. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Keyes is an engineer, a civilian engineer employed by the Army. As an engineer, he belongs to one of the most desperately sought-after professions in the United States. For there is, in this country, a steadily increasing shortage of scientists, technicians, and engineers like this young Virginian, a shortage which must soon be corrected or result in national disaster. Without engineers, no nation can grow. Indeed, in this technological age, no civilized nation can continue to exist without the constant efforts of millions of highly trained, scientifically educated men. This vast land of ours is rich in every conceivable kind of natural resource, a land of endless promise if we know how to use it to develop it. But it is only through the talent and industry of its engineers that any nation is able to develop and use the natural gifts which Providence bequeaths them. Our standard of living at home, our place among the nations of the world, depend on no small part on the work of our engineers. They give us our economic strength, our industrial capacity, and in the competitive world we live in, industrial strength is the basis of all strength. America has no monopoly on engineering talent, far from it. In the Soviet Union today, new engineers are being trained at an enormous rate, perhaps as much as three times as fast as in our own country. For the Russians, well realized, where lie the springs of power in this technological age? It was Lenin, after all, who said that one engineer is worth fifty communists. True aggression, if it occurs, will come thundering in on the wheels and wings of an advanced technology. We must keep ourselves continually ready to meet any such military technological challenge. For if we once permit ourselves to fall behind, we may find ourselves engulfed by a force which has no comprehension or sympathy for the things we value most. And so it is no exaggeration to say that this twenty-five-year-old American engineer is one of our most important citizens. Without him and those like him, our country would be in serious trouble. Wendell Keyes lives in Alexandria, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in this modern house which he designed himself. This is the community in which he grew up and where he went to school. Except for a two-year tour of duty as an officer with the Army Corps of Engineers, he has lived here all his life. He married a girl whom he first met when both were together in the seventh grade of grammar school. Mr. Keyes is a fortunate man. There is a stability, a continuity to his life, which many have lost in an age when it sometimes seems that all the world is on the move, where parents, children and grandparents are so often separated by half a continent. This man's roots, his past, his present work and his family's future remain here in northern Virginia. He drives to work five days a week past a large motel which his father and uncle own and manage. It was while watching the construction of this same highway as a boy that Wendell Keyes discovered his calling. He grew up wanting to build highways and bridges. Today he not only builds bridges but designs them. They are not, however, to be found along the public highways. For the bridges on which Mr. Keyes works are military bridges. He is a civilian engineer employed by the Army Corps of Engineers conducting research in the famed Engineer Research and Development Laboratories at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The major portion of Mr. Keyes' work as a research bridge engineer consists of design for new types of bridge equipment and then coordinating the manufacture of that equipment with the private firms which will fabricate the equipment for future military operation. Design, planning and coordination make up the principal work of most government engineers. The challenge of being in on the beginning of new technical advancements of helping to direct the development of new devices in collaboration with leading American industrial concerns is, in fact, a major reason why such men enter government service. There is a vantage point from which to survey the entire future of America's technological development. The research and photometric section of the Engineer Laboratories at Fort Belvoir. The gentleman with me here is Dr. Robert Wiseman, who is chief of the section. Doctor, would you tell us what sort of an experiment is in progress here today? I thought we would show you a series of experiments to demonstrate the versatility available in the government laboratories. We'll show you some of the research that is going on to help the soldier see better at night. We shall show experiments on light sources, the testing of filters. We shall talk about optical systems and the image tube which converts the invisible infrared into visible light so that the soldier can see at night. The first experiment that we will demonstrate will be a carbon arc. And this carbon arc has been designed so it will have a long horizontal width. This is necessary for the projection of light in wide angles. The brightness of these carbon arcs can be as high and exceed the brightness of the sun. This happens to be a mercury capillary measuring its brightness and seeing how this brightness varies as the foliage is buried on the land. You see a plastic reflector tested to determine its scatter from the surface of the reflector. Then we have an infrared filter being tested to see how the energy is transmitted through the filter. How much infrared, how much visible, and what wavelengths of energy are being transmitted. In the final experiment we will show the image tube being tested. The image tube has its operating voltage. We're putting radiation on the front surface of the image tube. The image tube front surface then converts the invisible infrared into electrons. These electrons are focused similar to the way that light is focused. And these electrons as they fall onto the phosphorous screen glow the same way that your television tube glows. That was a very interesting demonstration, Dr. Wiseman. How would you describe an experiment of that sort? Is it typical of the sort of work that is being done in the laboratory every day? I would say that this was typical of the activities that take place in these laboratories. We combine the knowledge of many different fields. Even in our own laboratory here, we have combined the knowledge of electrical engineering, of illuminating engineering, of physics, chemistry, electronics, and even psychophysiology. We do a certain amount of basic and applied research here in these laboratories and then contract with universities and other private industries for the rest of the work. We have the latest equipment. Obtained special equipment for our own particular problems. And we have available the latest information from industry and from other government agencies. It's our job to coordinate all of these new ideas and the new programs and to apply them to our particular problems. I would say that it was this opportunity to do research that is the most attractive to the young scientist and research man. Why younger men particularly? Well, it's my observation that the junior engineer or scientist gets an opportunity to take charge of his own projects much sooner in our laboratories than is usually the case in commercial labs. Outside the government, well, it's not uncommon for a scientist or engineer to spend five or even ten years as someone's assistant before being entrusted with a project of his own. When we find a man with good ideas, we try to give him a chance to develop them. You believe then that your research workers have considerably more freedom than the average? Yes. Our people find that it's comparatively easy to switch from one specialty to another. In other words, we are not necessarily confined to one narrow line of research. There's more elbow room for the man who becomes interested in something that is a little outside of the particular field in which he specialized in school. In addition to that, the art laboratories are interested in the individual. And besides the individual having the knowledge that he's doing vital work for his country, he has the opportunity for rapid advancement, for becoming a supervisor if he has the capabilities. The laboratories offer him on-the-job training in conference leadership, creative engineering, management development, rapid reading course and effectively writing and speaking course. What about graduate study, Dr. Wiseman? Does the government engineer get a chance to work for a higher degree? He certainly does. The government not only encourages advanced study, but in many cases it will finance it. Speaking of advancement, doctor, I understand from Wendell Keyes that he actually received a promotion while away from his job on active duty with the Army. Is this a regular practice? Yes. A physicist or engineer who takes a civil service job before reporting for the military service will be carried on the rolls and receive his normal promotions in absentia. In other words, he would come back to his job in a higher grade and a bigger salary than when he left. I should think that that would be an important consideration for men with a tour of duty in the service ahead of them. As a matter of fact, any civilian engineer or scientist working for the Army becomes a part of the career service of the federal government and is automatically qualified for work not only here at Belvoir, but in many other government laboratories both in and out of the Army itself. Thank you very much, Dr. Wiseman, for this interesting demonstration and the insight you've given us into your work in the research and photometric section. We've been talking with Dr. Robert Wiseman, chief of the research and photometric section of the engineer research and development laboratories at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. As Dr. Wiseman has indicated, the Army engineers are not the only branch of the Army which needs civilian engineers, physicists, or others with scientific training. Here are some other branches where the need and the opportunities are just as great. The Army Signal Corps and its laboratories in northern New Jersey and in other parts of the country is conducting research and development work in problems dealing with heat, light, sound, magnetism, and other phases of the physical sciences. The civilian engineers and scientists of the Signal Corps are at work on projects dealing with radio communications and systems, television and photographic equipment and processes, and a host of other projects which attract worldwide attention. To carry on their work, the Signal Corps provides its scientists and technicians with laboratories which are among the largest and most modern to be found anywhere in the world. In them are to be found electronic and other testing devices and equipment of every conceivable type. Civilian researchers are also an indispensable part of the Army Chemical Corps, which employs not only chemical engineers, but also mechanical engineers, construction specialists, and many others. Young engineers are attracted to work with the Chemical Corps by the opportunity to work with new and often very unusual equipment and on projects unlike those encountered anywhere else in the world. And, of course, a major employer of scientific and engineering talent is the Army Ordnance Corps. Most people associate the Ordnance Corps with the design of such things as tanks. The Ordnance Corps does work with tanks, but its range of research goes far beyond, extending to such unlikely seeming projects as fungus research or the effects of ultraviolet light on new materials. No report on the work of civilian scientists working for the Army could be complete without a view of Army rocket research. This whole new field of engineering was pioneered by Army researchers. These same scientists, assisted by a growing body of younger researchers who have chosen missile research as their career or at work today on spectacular developments which may make headlines in tomorrow's newspapers. Rapid engineering advancements are a commonplace phenomenon in America. America is an engineer's paradise. Our transportation system, our great material wealth, our practical application in huge quantities of each new scientific discovery, our steadily accumulating volume of consumer goods. All these are to a large extent an engineer's creation and all of it consumes engineering talent, talent that is in very short supply. Other countries, many of them, do not find such uses for their engineering skills. Moscow streets are quite a different place when the parade has passed. Consumer goods are rare in this country. The engineers who might design them are busy on military projects. The United States has never accepted the dictum which totalitarian rulers invariably preach to their subjects that all life, all industry, must be sacrificed to the needs of a gigantic military machine. In two world wars, the U.S. has shown the world that a free enterprise economy can produce for war if it must. The vast engineering talent which in peacetime gives us a material luxury undreamed of ever before in history can, when challenged, create the world's mightiest military technology. Today's challenge is something new for us. We are not at war. It is a time of peace, but an uneasy peace, a strange peace which carries with it many of the responsibilities of war. Today's peace is being preserved for us, not only by men in uniform, but by the day-to-day research and skilled planning of the highly trained scientists and engineers who have volunteered their knowledge to the service of their country. Men like Mr. Wendell Keyes of Alexandria, Virginia, civilian engineer U.S. Army, there is need for more such men. A grateful nation will not let them serve unrewarded. Civilians with Mr. Keyes' scientific ability and sense of dedication to America's welfare play an indispensable role in maintaining our nation's future security. The whole story of these talented civilian specialists is as big as the Army itself. We are happy to have been able to show you a small part of it. Now, however, we must turn to another aspect to that complex organization which is today's Army, one which I think you will find especially interesting. When the United States aircraft carrier Corregidor steamed into Bremerhaven, West Germany recently, a new precedent was established in military history. In place of the usual complement of aircraft carried by the flattop was a unique cargo. For the first time, an entire company of U.S. Army helicopters was being delivered to an overseas base in an operational state. The 18th Transportation Company composed of 21 Sikorsky H-34s was en route to Army headquarters at Ober-Schleishheim, West Germany. There it was to become part of the Army's new organic aviation. When the copters left the Corregidor, however, their first destination was the nearby Port of Embarkation staging area where they were to be fueled and completely checked before beginning the long cross-country flight to Ober-Schleishheim. These flying windmills, as the Army calls them, are capable of reaching altitudes of over 11,000 feet and of speeds exceeding 100 knots per hour. The European Defense Alliance, NATO, is dedicated to preserving the peace in Europe through preparedness. The swift-moving helicopters capable of going anywhere, covering land quickly and carrying heavy loads, are part of a plan to improve the speed and mechanization of the defense organization. The Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation staging area was reached shortly after taking off from the Corregidor. As you can see, even these large copters can land as gracefully and as accurately as their smaller brothers. They are designed for use in a new Army program which calls for a flexible fighting force able to move troops, ammunition, food and equipment instantly to wherever they are needed. At the staging area, the transportation company was to be briefed for the overland flight that lay ahead. In a few short days, these helicopters were brought almost 4,000 miles ready to fly, ready to serve. Fueling for the long trip and a painstaking maintenance check was executed by the company's own mechanics. Every instrument had to be in perfect working order. Finally, the last preparations made, the helicopters were ready to go. On a cool gray day, the pilots received weather clearance and maps of the terrain. The forecast was for clearing in the afternoon and some heavy winds. But the best laid schemes of mice and men can often go astray. The weather did not clear and the winds were very heavy indeed. These, combined with the unfamiliar terrain, led to a total loss of position. In an empty field near a small town, the copters had to land to seek directions. West German civilians, attracted by the unusual spectacle, came to stare and give directions. With the help of several friendly farmers, the pilots were able to locate their position and recharge their course. An unscheduled stop and a short delay, and the flight was once more on its way. The weather had finally begun to clear and the rest of the flight was routine. Ober-Schleisheim, the new base of the 18th Transportation Company, a West German home for these 21 helicopters and their crews. This was the first helicopter company to join American forces stationed in Europe. But in the near future, U.S. troops supporting NATO will be getting more and more of these flying egg beaters. For frontline, organic aviation is essential to a mechanized military force. Should they ever be needed, these men and their Sikorsky helicopters will provide transportation quickly, efficiently and without fanfare. They are part of the modern American Army, dedicated to preserving freedom and liberty all over the world, for freedom is the Army's business. Organic Army Aviation, another important step designed to help the American Army retain its position as the finest army in the world. Now this is Sergeant Stuart Queen inviting you to be with us again for another look at your Army in action on The Big Picture. The Big Picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the Army at home and overseas, produced by the Army Pictorial Center, presented by the United States Army in cooperation with this station. You too can be an important part of The Big Picture. You can proudly serve for the best equipped, the best trained, the best fighting team in the world today, the United States Army.


Russia claims first destruction of SAMP-T missile, France denies. The French Ministry of Defense has declared another disinformation attack by Russia, specifically refuting Russian media claims about the supposed destruction of the SAMP-T air defence system in Ukraine according to Le Monde. Russia claimed that on January 16th it targeted a building in Kharkiv where allegedly French mercenaries fighting against Russian terrorists on the side of Ukraine were located. However, no evidence was provided to support this claim. The French Ministry of Defense emphasised that there are no French mercenaries in Ukraine or elsewhere. Sebastian Le Corneau, the Minister of the Armed Forces of France, said that, unlike other countries, France does not use mercenaries. He condemned and increased monitoring of such manipulations, anticipating that Russia's disinformation manoeuvres would continue in light of the increased French military assistance to Ukraine. The Russian media's claim about the destruction of the Franco-Italian SAMP-T air defence system delivered to Ukraine was also dismissed by France. The French authorities could not confirm this information and warned about Russia's attempts to spread fakes. The SAMP-T system is an anti-missile system designed to protect the battlefield and critical objects from cruise missiles, piloted and unmanned aerial vehicles, and tactical ballistic missiles. Developed by the European consortium EuroSAMP, SAMP-T can destroy aerodynamic targets up to 150km away at an altitude of up to 25km. It can counter ballistic missiles at a range of up to 25km.


Okay, Mr. Weather Channel, what's up with the umbrella? Well, it's that time of year, rain, sleet, rain, more rain, I'm going to be ready. Yeah, but, um, Chris, what makes you think it's going to rain in here? Well, I went to the Fort Rezou this weekend and they had animals lining up two by two. Speaking of rain, sometimes things just go down the drain, kind of like many of Chris's home improvement projects. Not true. True. But the fact is, you don't want to put just anything down the stormwater drain. Everything in our storm drain flows downstream to creeks, rivers, and lakes. Stormwater inlets are not to be used for dumping trash, grass-clipping leaves, motor oil, or any other debris. That's why Fort Rezou's stormwater management program is placing more inlet markers throughout the city to remind residents that stormwater inlets are intended solely for stormwater. The new stainless steel markers also provide an inlet identification number and a contact telephone number. To learn more about this and other stormwater issues, check out the city's website. The old saying goes that decisions are made by those who show up. If you want to be a decision maker and make a real difference in your neighborhood, then you need to show up to the spring session of Neighborhood University, February 18th, 8.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., at the Hazel Harvey Peace Center for Neighborhoods at 8.18 Missouri Avenue. The event is open to anyone who specifically targets neighborhood association leaders. These can learn about a variety of topics and also have the opportunity to meet the neighborhood educator assigned for their area. There's a $5 nonrefundable fee for the workshop. To learn more, call<PHONE_NUMBER> or visit the Neighborhood Education Office website. So, Chris, does all this rain you say is coming, mean you have a do-it-yourself project this week? Maybe. But building an ark would be the easy part. It's telling the rabbits, two, only two, that eats up all your time. Mine went Australian, that didn't do pretty. That was pretty Australian.


The long-awaited Samsung Galaxy S8 has arrived at Appalachian Wireless. Get yours for the introductory price of just $149.99 with a two-year service agreement. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. An East Kentucky network company. In just 18 days, seniors at McGoffin County High School will make their way across the stage and receive their high school diplomas. And the thoughts of each graduate will be on a classmate who couldn't be with them. 18-year-old Madison Nicole Allen died in a single vehicle collision Sunday after her car crashed into a ditch. We've got a good community here, but this is going to be something that's going to take us some time to heal from. A small community like we are. We all know everyone and you get close to the students. Maddie is remembered as an excellent student who was well-liked by her peers. I always perceived Maddie as a quiet student. I saw her smile a lot. But when I've spoken with teachers and students today about her, they've all told me that once you got to know her, she was funny. She had a very good sense of humor and could be a straight shooter if she needed to be. Kay Prep testing and all other school activities were canceled for today. Counselors were set up in the school library for students to utilize if necessary. You hope that you never have to deal with that, but when you do, it's just something that's tragic. Flowers and a wreath will be set up at graduation in Maddie's honor. Officials tell me at this time there are no formal arrangements set up for Maddie. However, students are getting together to work on a video presentation full of pictures. We have some screens, video screens in our school that we use for messages and announcements and so forth. And they have asked to be able to do a memory-type slideshow of her, and they're working on that. Officials tell EKB News Maddie had planned to enroll in the University of Pikeville in the fall. Reporting in Sayersville, I'm Shelby Still for EKB News.


We're going to be looking in the Old Testament, the book of Ezekiel, the prophet Ezekiel will be chapter 8. This is a completely different message than what I gave in the first service. I don't know, I was sitting back there and this felt there was something special that needed to be said to you. Hello over here. Nice to see you. It's always great to see teenagers in church with those faces that say, I'm not here, but you are here. And I wish as a teenager I wouldn't have gotten in the trouble I did had I gone to church and say the least. I'm on a mission project called Wake Up America 2023. And I started a prayer ministry called the United States Prayer Force. We have the Air Force and Space Force, so I realized we need a prayer force. And I've been traveling around the country this year and spent a lot of time getting to know our country. I've always loved living here. We're in big trouble, as I don't need to tell you. But there were some things that I did research on. It caught my attention about Mesopotamia, the Persian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Greek Empire, the Roman Empire. They all vanished off the earth. And when you study them, you see the same problems in each empire. For instance, Great Britain had a saying that I was growing up, the empire where the sun never sets. Otherwise, they were in Burma, they were in Asia, Indonesia, all over the Middle East, Israel, for one, and had their businesses and military everywhere. And so that saying was that we are so powerful that the sun never sets on this empire. I did a little research and I found out, well, that may have been true, it's no longer true. It's no longer true for the USA. But I realized it came from the Egyptians. The Egyptians had that same exact saying that sun never sets on our empire. And then the Medieval Persian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Greek, the Roman, all of them had their influence around the world and it's gone. And we've made some pretty large mistakes and probably the largest that you see is that people stop loving people and are more argumentative and divisive. And it starts from there and it corrupts into power and it absolutely corrupts absolute power and it moves through the nation and then all of its tentacles. And so this is a message of hope. Though it's an honest message, I want to encourage you that the Lord has put all of us together at this time because I have so many invitations around the country that to be here is an honor for me. I love David and Marie. We've known each other 30 or 40 years. I was seven when I met him. He was about 20, I think. But one thing I've always known about you as a church is that you're really loving people and it's always fun to talk with you and be with you at special events. So this message is called having a vision larger than yourself. When a nation gets a reprieve, it seems that there has to be a revival in the attitude and the heart of not just the government and not just the politic and the education and those various departments of a country, but in the home. It has to start flowing again with love. It has to be how we do business. I have to start flowing again with we don't do it because agreed. We do it because we're neighbors and this business is supporting me and my family. And so I want to treat you with respect and lack of respect is another downfall. Now there are major issues in all the historical background, but for me, I'm more interested in how can we help one another in God's word before I knew it was I was a bad guy and his word began teaching me what a lack of having a father could never have taught me. And I realized that his whole program is about loving people because he designed us with Jeremiah, the young teenager in chapter one of Jeremiah, his father was a priest. So he's a preacher's kid. And God said, I'm calling you to be a prophet. And Jeremiah said, Oh, Lord, like any teenager, I can't be a prophet. I can't speak. I'm just a youth.  I knew you. And I ordained you to be a prophet. I've studied. I've got a one degree is in real world religions. And I've studied the Eastern religions. And in the 60s, I dove in like everybody else to them. But we aren't some good karma or bad karma. Or we were in our last life of bullfrog. And we're going from here to be a buffalo. There's no hope in any of that. I was always looking for peace and love and hope. And God gave it. And when you stop and think what he said, it changes all the world. Intellectual program pushed upon us. And that is before I formed you. I knew you.  He's still talking about your special. That each one of you are special that he thought you out. I knew you. He knew if you'd be a man or if you'd be a woman, if you'd be tall or short or long hair or no hair, or you would have brown skin, yellow skin, white skin, you'd be Italian, you'd be German, you'd be English. You'd be like my family. They all came from my mother's side, from Ireland. And from my father's side, they all came from Scotland. And I don't know if you know anything about the personalities of the Scots and the Irish, but they're always fighting. So I have a war going on. The minute I wake up every day, I'm pounding myself about something. So I understand that there were different people. And I think it's wonderful how the Bible teaches that we're special people. And yes, we're different. But there are common denominators to help us make it. And that's, first of all, to love your neighbor as yourself. And to love God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength. That fulfills all the Old Testament, all the New Testament. And so when the lack of love comes to the Christian church or the Christian community, that spreads out across a country. And instead of pointing our finger at the cartel, or all the bad guys, or the people that we don't agree with, what they choose with their life, we're supposed to love. Above all things, we're supposed to love. And we have a power that's silent. And I've seen it in war zones, it's two times in 2015 in Northern Iraq with the ISIS fellas, trying to help the rescue of the Yazidi girls and women that were sold as sex slaves after they were kidnapped. And I saw God's love there with them. I had no respect for, quote unquote, the enemy, but a lot of respect for the survivors that some of those young girls were raped 10 to 20 times in three or four days and beaten. And I see how we have a world without God, then you have a world without love because 1st John says that God is love. And we are to love one another. He who does not love does not know God. And there's a lot of Christians that I bump into around the country that I don't ever see any love coming out on. They're critical, they're angry, they're fighting. You have more people looking at one time for the return of Donald Trump than we did Jesus Christ.  So I did a lot of work. That lady who just dedicated a baby, I was told she has three master degrees. It's pretty smart. And I applaud her for that. That takes a lot of dedication to dive in and say, I'm going to see this through.  That's all. And if you say you're one of his, then you have to live it. You're just saying it. I sat in a room about 8 years ago, 10 years ago, at the very most, with a member of Congress. And it was just a meet and greet, shake hands. And it ended up almost two hours. And this person, never meant before, said, why am I so fearful? And so I just meant you five minutes ago. I don't know why you're so fearful. Well, I just need to know why I fear. I said, what do you fear most? And this person said, that America is not going to make it. I was shocked. I said, hold it, you're a member of my Congress, sub the people for the people by the people, you're telling me we're not going to make it? Well, most people in Congress don't think America is going to make it. Whoa. It's the greatest place. It's the world's Disneyland compared to what other people have. But where it's gone, basically, is because of lack of love. Everybody doing what's right in their own eyes, instead of sacrificing their time and efforts to do what's right for our neighbor. And to love them. So I came across this. I've read this for 53 years. And I saw things I'd never seen before. And I thought, whoa, okay. So Lord, you know every man and woman in this audience. And you thought them out. You know that you really know us. You know, all of our doubts and frustrations, our fears, the deepest things we hide from other people. You know all the good things that you've given us abilities to do. You know everything. And so we'd like to hear from you. And only you can allow that. And we're asking you to open our hearts and our ears to hear what the Lord would say. And may your love just overpower every one of us. Would you just fill us with your love and your Holy Spirit? And may your presence, maybe somebody here has forgotten your beautiful presence, that your presence could just walk up and down every aisle. And you could just smile at everybody and just let us remember that you love us.  You love us.  And I just pray today we'll always remember what you've done for us and be a little bit more gracious and reverent and respectful to you and to our neighbor in Jesus' name. Amen. It came to pass in the sixth year, the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month. If you're new to the Bible, you're probably like I used to be. Why do they say something like that? Or so-and-so begat, so-and-so, so-and-so, begat, so-and-so. Why? Well it's history. You can go back to what the dates are talking about or the genealogy and you can find out in your local library. Well, oh that was part of this thing that happened there that the Bible doesn't talk about but it's telling me the background. So he says, as I sat in my house, so we all have a place to go home to and we sit there, but what do we do once we sit there? That's the question. But in who we do it with? As I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me. I always think it's great to have leadership always in fellowship and I think it's great that our homes are places that people that believe in God can gather together. When I started in San Diego it was 10 people in the living room. I drove 200 miles every week. A year later there was a thousand people, then next year 2,000, next year 3,000 and on and on and on. And there's a couple hundred churches around the world that have been planted out of that original 10 people, but it all started in homes. And I'd always have people get into a home. The Navy guys need friends and they need somebody that can cook for them. So love your neighbor, bring them together. And so we'd have like 150 homes a week and people teach and then I'd take ten of them and the leaders and say why don't you guys go over here in San Diego and start a church. And there was a period there for a few years that every time we sent a hundred people out to start a new church the following Sunday would be 150 people. It was crazy. But we saw how that the Lord moved. He loves people and he wants people to be at peace with one another and especially with themselves. And this is great to see. They're sitting there together. As I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there. And then I looked and there was a likeness like the appearance of fire from the appearance of his waist and downward fire and from his waist and upward like the appearance of brightness like the color of amber. I think it's kind of cool that he reaches down with this hand. I think we all could use a hand from God in our house now and then. It's kind of cool to see that he sees this vision. In verse 3 he says, he stretched out the form of a hand. Now look at this. He took me by a lack of a lock of my hair. Now imagine that just for a moment, grabs a lock, not your whole hair.  And if gentlemen you might be missing a couple of hairs, he would get you by the ear or something if he wanted your attention. But I have found that when I can see the need of people bigger than my need and I have no way of meeting that need or accomplishing what it would take. But I can trust in God and have faith and pray and then see him do it. That's a fun thing. So I see God reach out to heaven in front of these leaders. He takes a prophet, grabs him by the lock of his hair and something new happens. Look, the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven. Now we don't know how far he lifted him up. He said between earth and heaven. I mean we could talk billions of light years. I've flown airplanes since 1966, jets and twin engines, single and water and air and all sorts of things. And I know there's a certain altitude. You better turn on the oxygen. And so I don't know if he's talking about the atmosphere, ionosphere, the troposphere, or way out there. But let's just put it in numbers we can understand. Let's say he lifted him up between the moon and the earth about a hundred and fifteen thousand miles. I bet you anything. He believed in God more than ever in his life at this moment. It took a shattering experience to get his attention. And maybe that has happened to you recently or in the past or could happen in your near future. And he wants his attention, but he wants something more. He wants him to see what God sees. And so often we live such my epic lives that we never see what other people see or why they made that decision or why they changed their course in life. But if we love, that filter of God's love lets us see as he sees people. And so as he's hanging there, I bet you he's saying please don't hiccup or cough. Whatever you do, God, don't let my roots come out. And by the way, I'm sorry. I know that you made me brown hair, but I've got some blonde hair on here that I died or something. Now you're thinking of everything you could empty out at that point. But then when he opens his eyes he's got a vision bigger than himself. It's easy to live the world based on self. We all do it. So I encourage you.  So I look, there's this appearance. He stretched out a form of hand and he took him somewhere. And this is important. He didn't take him to the heroin den. He didn't take him to the gangsters. He didn't take him to the horrible wicked evil people. He took him to his own house in Jerusalem and he looked inside. And after several years of studying the Old Testament and then reading the New Testament, it's only in the last few months that I've seen this wake up America and how we are deceived and we're living as if it's real. So he is going to show something bigger than himself to this man called a prophet.  And you'll notice that God repeats over and over, do you see? Do you see this? No, he hadn't seen any of this stuff. So I'm always amazed when somebody tells me they're prophet Jones or something. And I say, oh, well, I never heard a prophet in the Bible call himself a prophet Jones or whatever your name is. You see, we look at people and we give more glory to the people than we do to God. And we gladly do it because they become heroes to us. But look what happens. He took him to his house. He brought me envisions of God to Jerusalem to the door of the North gate of the inner court where the seat of the image of jealousy was which provokes to jealousy. Now this is not good. The North door to enter the court is where he goes and he has access. It's interesting that the king's palace was on the north side of the temple. And if the king wanted to go worship and not be caught in the crowds, he would go that way. And he chose this door for some reason. And as he goes there, there's an image of jealousy, an image of jealousy. What it is, I don't know, but jealousy is a fruit of our flesh in Galatians 519. It lays out adultery, lasciviousness, party spirit, on and on. This is all manufactured from us. And then it says, but the fruit singular defines your flesh, it's plural.  But then the spirit, the fruit of the spirit is, it's singular and it's the word love. Now when the English translated the Bible, there was no word for God's love in the Greek language, but they had arrows for erotica, sexual, stimulating, filial, brotherly love, family love, friendly love. And they came up with this word agape. And agape is sacrificial, divine given love comes from God. They had to, Greeks had to change their language and then we had to change with them to get this out. So jealousy, you say, what would jealousy be doing in the Lord's house? So people get jealous because somebody's got a Tesla's parked next to their 1947 Chevy, or there's somebody that wanted that same shirt that guy's got on, or this lady's got the hat that she wanted to own, or we get jealous over things. So jealousy shouldn't be in the house of the Lord. That's the first thing I'm sure this shocked the prophet. Verse five, then he said to me, son of man, lift up your eyes now towards the north. So I lifted up my eyes toward the north and there north of the altar gate was the image of jealousy in the entrance. Furthermore, he said to me, son of man, here he goes again, do you see what they're doing? Oh boy, God knows what we're doing. Do you see what they're doing? Do you see what they're doing? The great abomination, he calls them not just abominations, but great abominations that the house of Israel commits here. Imagine if people say they're God's people and they come to his house carrying all this in with them and don't repent of it, what in the world is going on in the city? And if that's going on in the city, what's going on in the country? And so he's just, he's flabbergasted. So this vision from heaven to earth prepared him to get down to earth and roll up his sleeves and see what God sees with his people. This is about you and me, the Christian people. This isn't about all the evil, it's about those that say we are his child. Furthermore, he said, have you seen this? The great abominations that the house of Israel commits here and the response is to make me go far away from my sanctuary. I don't really know I can make God do anything, but to break his heart in such a manner my life saw that he would leave his own house? That's sad. This is the decline of a nation. Now watch this. Now turn again. This isn't it. I'm sure that he's, give me some air. You will see greater abominations.  God's house has a hole in the wall. We had three campuses from the school district. The large campus was 22 acres, the other was the other was six, I think. We had a congregation in each one and we had a high school junior high elementary, Sardinia University and it dawned on me that one day our basketball team won an award for the only high school in San Diego to win four state championships and we were a very small school but we played all the first class schools in San Diego and we were giant killers basically and it dawned on me that just the crowd coming through, let alone the Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night crowd, 250,000 minimum came into that gymnasium that we built because the auditorium was too small and the place we were before was too small. There wasn't one bit of graffiti in either of the restrooms. There wasn't any carvings or scratching on the stalls. Everything was fresh and I had a friend who just went to heaven last year about this time in March and he was the maintenance director and had I found a hole in the wall of the Lord's house, I would have fired him. This is a lack of people giving to the house of the Lord and people caring. Now if the most giving group of people and the most caring and most loving people stop caring, stop giving and then stop loving, what's going to happen on the streets and the beaches and up the neighborhood? You're going to have crime breaking out everywhere, you're going to have violence against people happening everywhere, you're going to have a whole disintegration, defund the police for instance. In all the major cities that cried, defund the police are now begging for millions of millions of dollars so they can now hire police because that didn't work out and Seattle and Minneapolis and different towns are a mess today. I've been with the police department of San Diego 40 years. My first nine was a reserve officer. I could not believe how quickly on the street bad happens and you never know who is pulling a gun, a knife, a taser, who is going to try to chop your legs off with a machete or who. You don't stand in a certain way or distance, you watch everything and then to use propaganda to destroy the police. Now there are bad apples everywhere. I'll be the first to admit that but it's sad when the overall agenda is to loosen the morals and the resistance to evil, evil will win and that's where we are. Now before we close look what happens in the progression here. When I, he said go I went and looked in the hole in the wall and he said to me son of man, he's climbed through the hole. When I dug into the wall there was a door and he said to me go in and see the wicked now not greater or just abominations but the wicked abominations. See them which they're doing here. So I went in and I saw there every sort of creeping thing.  This is a different type of creeping thing but every creeping thing, an abominable beast, so he's talking about the Old Testament and Leviticus and he's talking about the clean food, the unclean food, things that would hurt people if they ate them and he says and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed around the walls. This is the inter sanctuary. This is before the priest would go in and worship and it was so dangerous to worship as the high priest. If God did not receive the attitude in the heart of the nation from this priest he was dead. He'd go in once a year and they would tie, have bells around the hem of his robe and those bells kept ringing. They knew that God was still accepting the sacrifice.  God was not accepting what the people were offering because he knew they're hypocrites. As I caught my attention, that's probably where the Pentecostal church came from, you don't want to drop dead, that's for sure. So that's one thing but look at the wrap up here. There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the Lord's house and in the midst was Jazaniah the son of Shafen.  There is a sign at the end times that in the church there'd be a form of godliness but the power thereof would be denied. So all over America the ungodly spirit has penetrated into the Lord's house. This is shocking to this man. He's a prophet speaking out and now he understands why he's speaking out. Then he says he's seventy men, you know where that comes from. God said to Moses choose seventy men from among the people and have them stand at the tabernacle with you. Otherwise it was a picture of the church in one sense is that I'm in spread the authority and the gift and anointing of my kingdom on these men. You can't do it all yourself. And that's what Ephesians chapter four is all about. The pastor teacher is the pastor and teach that you would do the work of the ministry. But when is the last time you truly served like Jesus served any neighbor of yours or person at work or in the jail you just got out of or the parking lot you just got out of. It's just a challenge to us to think bigger than ourselves that we're not perfect. Seventy men and instead thick cloud of religious acting religious with their robes and their incense. You can see God's heart's broken. So he finishes by saying son of man have you seen what the elders of the house do in Israel. They do in the dark. I don't know what you do in the dark. Every man in the room of his idols. You're kidding me. He's got idols and he's the minister going to go out and bless Israel. But he gets a little more poignant and they say the Lord does not see us. The Lord has forsaken the land. They say I've always wondered who they are since his little boy who are they that do all this. The Lord hasn't forsaken us yet. I'm standing up here in his name saying that he's giving a reprieve to Americans if we his people not talking about outside of his home. I'm talking about us in his home if we will humble ourselves and we will seek his face and we will pray and cry out he will hear us and he'll heal our land. That's to you and me because in first Peter chapter 4 verse 17 Peter said now is the time. Otherwise there's a set time that's going to be fulfilled and he's now saying now is the time that judgment must first begin in the house of God. So what was going on in the Old Testament with Ezekiel God was stirring Peter's heart to warn my people that this is going to happen one more time and before anything happens to a non-believer it's going to happen to us. I know he loves me. I'm very secure in his love but I'm also very aware that I need his help and he said to me turn again and you'll see greater abominations that they're doing. So he brought me to the door of the north gate of the house of the Lord and to my dismay women we're sitting there weeping for Tamuz what weeping for Tamuz. Tamuz was the sex god statue of the neighborhood. He was the counterpart of the Greek culture from Adonis the naked man standing on a pedestal and his abs all ripped and his body showing to everybody and they worshiped him. Well godly women shouldn't be lusting after sex but it's predominant in the house of God. He said to me have you seen this old man again turn again you'll see greater abominations so he brought me to the inner court to the Lord's house and the Lord opened the door of the temple of the Lord between the porch and the altar 25 men 25 men with their backs turned towards away from the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east and they're worshiping the sun toward the east. I remember when I first moved to California young dude and started surfing boy the big deal is get up before sunrise turn to the east get ready catch the first wave before the sun pops up down by trestles every morning about four o'clock people started going down there getting ready for that first wave but the point isn't about don't serve the point is men be godly stand for righteousness because men if you and I don't stand for righteousness we'll fall for everything in our family we'll fall with us and the country will fall with us. God wouldn't be a loving or righteous God if he did not judge in his own house. I have a granddaughter at my house right now she arrived around 1 30 this morning I guess and her husband and four of my great grandsons and I love them but if they goof off I have to say none of that goofing off in the house you want to go beat each other up do it out in the street but I'll watch so you don't hurt each other he's a loving father but if you've never been disciplined this message seems so foreign oh my gosh what's this man saying up there he said have you seen this 25 men it's just 25 godly men would stand up in every neighborhood and start praying he said to me have you seen this is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations would say commit here is it a small thing there's nothing trivial about being alive it's a wonderful gift to know I'm alive and I'm breathing because I was supposed to be dead this month that's right I went for a regular checkup doctor said I want you to see a cardiologist my heart's great I had a four-way bypass seven hours two of the three major arteries were a hundred percent gone and one was 50 and they did a lot of work I had no idea and I was told I'd have a catastrophic incident probably about March or April of 2023 today a year later I'm working out the gym four times a week walking an hour every day half hour morning half hour at night and enjoying life enjoying my 31 grandchildren my six children I'm not even a Mormon or a Catholic I just have a beautiful wife that loves me above all things so I understand the dad side of him talking but he hasn't done anything he's now interjecting by bringing somebody along to see what he sees that makes sense and this prophet his eagles boom can't believe it now these 25 men oh they're acting like they go to church the 70 men they're acting like they're spiritual leaders oh the women they're lusting oh my goodness lord your heart must be broken I've had discipline children and I'm not the best in the world for that because I've got a tender heart but if it's something I know it's a rattlesnake right there by the pool don't move I'm gonna shout at him and we've had that go a couple more steps and it was ready to strike the two little girls I'm gonna tell a person on the street put the gun down because I know there's a sniper over my right shoulder and if that person doesn't put their gun down and as the chief of police said I think that anybody that is in trouble and is going to die that there should be an opportunity for them to know there's an alternative I said yes sir I'd go along with that and he said I want you at every SWAT call out but I'd see people just be so silly and so dumb and so wound up in themselves if they don't understand how big the picture is so he leaves them with this have you seen this is it a trivial thing nothing's trivial about your soul it's eternal it's eternal he said the land in verse the final verse here verse 17 but they have filled the land with violence and they've returned to provoke me to anger indeed therefore I will act in fury I struggled with this be quite honest with you because they who has filled the land with violence they a text without a context there's nothing but a pretext I had to see in context they they have filled the land with violence who God's people what and then I saw what he meant if you and I are supposed to be loving people and not religious people and not condemning people that's not our job we're to be loving people then Jesus said you're the light of the world he said I'm the light of the world and he said you're the light you've multiplied him then he said you're the salt of the earth but what good is the salt if it loses its savor it's good for nothing but to be cast down the ground and stomped over by men's feet and when the body of Christ lives like the world we've lost our savor and when we are not there to be the life shared with others violence steps in and there have been so many murders in the last 36 months in our country it's sad so many destroyed lives have an 18 year old grandson loved him was beside his mom my daughter when he got born and a friend said you're not sleeping here just buy this off of the internet he never woke up again from that pill the toxicology report said there's enough fentanyl in it to kill 10 full grown men I was a bad guy and I found out where the person lived that gave him the drug and I found out his dad was a big dealer and in my old days and then I ask God's forgiveness I pray for them that's what their family's doing is killing kids recently in San Diego we got a bust of fentanyl so large it was enough to kill every American citizen we're at war and it's a spiritual war and you're the target rejoice those of you in heaven revelation 12 the angel spoke telling us there are people in heaven but whoa whoa whoa to those of you on earth why because the devil satan that serpent of old has been cast down to earth and he's full of wrath why is he full of wrath because he knows his time is short you have lived as dirt people made from the dust we're just dirt bags he has lived as the most beautiful angel and the wisest creature god ever made in heaven in eternity he's cast down to the earth and he knows his time is up and you and I the little dirt folks are going to eternity and getting a new body so he is unleashing everything to destroy human beings and it starts in the mind progresses to the heart and people turn their backs on the house of god I'm begging you don't sell your soul for a bit of pleasure it's no trivial thing that you're thinking human being a savior has come to help us out of this mess and he took every bit of sin and violence and anger and bitterness of my soul upon himself and died I'll never die he resurrected from the dead I'll never know the grave behold we shall not all die but we will be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye


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So today we're going to meet to discuss the status of actions taken in response to the lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi accident that happened in Japan, March 11, 2011. It's been about eight months since our last update, we did that last summer. And so we'll hear the progress that the NRC has made and that the industry has made in those intervening time. In these past eight months, much has occurred, including completion of seismic and flooding walk-downs at each nuclear plant facility, a commission decision on the issue of filtering strategies for boiling water reactors with Mark I and Mark II containment designs, and the receipt of integrated plans from each nuclear power plant licensee to implement the March 12, 2012 orders on mitigating strategies. So today we're going to hear from two separate panels, first a panel of external folks, including representatives from the nuclear industry, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. And following these presentations, we will have the NRC staff come up and brief us on the NRC's progress. So just a few reminders before we begin, please keep your remarks to ten minutes so that we can get through everybody in time and to the extent possible, all of you, including those of you that I see on a daily basis, remember to reduce your use of acronyms so that we are as transparent as possible. I think we are ready to begin again. Now we have a presentation from the NRC staff, and I will turn it over to William Borchardt, the Executive Director for Operations. Well good morning, thank you. Before Mike and the team begin the real presentation, I'd just like to make a few points. First, I'd like to acknowledge and thank all of the stakeholders for their valuable contribution throughout this entire process. It's been a very intense, sometimes difficult two years, and without their contribution it would have been impossible for us to get to where we are. I'd also like to acknowledge the efforts of the steering committee and the Japan Lessons Learn Directorate, because they've been at the forefront of all the progress that the NRC staff has made. Having said that, I think we're at a unique position in time now. We are transitioning, in my view, from a period of policy decisions to one of implementation. And that's afforded us the opportunity to take a serious look at how we address the issue that David Lockbaum mentioned this morning, and one that we agree with, that we want to try to get our process back into the normal line function responsibilities at the right time. We think that right time is coming up, probably toward the end of this year, in my view. That could change. The makeup of the steering committee made sure that we didn't get disconnected. It's largely made up of representatives from the major program offices. And just by that fact alone, we made sure that the operating reactor fleet and our regulatory oversight of that on the day-to-day mission type activities didn't become disconnected from the work of the Fukushima Lessons Learned. However, returning these activities more to the line function, I think, will have additional benefits. So, Mike, if we have time, we'll mention that later on in the presentation this morning. I'd also like to mention how valuable the international interactions have been throughout this process. We learned lessons from the international community very early on the process. The near-term task force did a tremendous job given the time constraints we put them under. And we said that there were some items that weren't included that we learned from our interactions with the international community. That interaction continues to this day in a very robust way, both through bilateral interactions but also through the work of our international atomic energy agency and the nuclear energy agency. And the next convention on nuclear safety review meeting, which is about a year from now, will again have a very strong focus on Fukushima Lessons Learned. And it's through that that every regulatory agency in the world is bringing to the table what they're doing, what their industry is doing in response to Fukushima so that we can cross-calibrate. I think we're in very good position today based on our understanding of what's being done around the rest of the world. But it has been a very valuable source of information. I'll turn it over to Mike. Good morning, Chairman and commissioners. We're happy to be here today to discuss the status of the Fukushima Lessons Learned activities from the staff's perspective. Today, Dave Scheme, who is the director of the Japan Lessons Learned Project Directorate, will walk through the three orders that were issued on March 12th. Scott Flanders, then, who is director of the Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis and the Office of New Reactors, will give you an update on status of seismic and flooding. And then Eric Leeds, who is the director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, will discuss the rule makings in the tier two and tier three activities. Slide three, please. Before we begin, I'd like to make a few points. The first is that in its report in July of 2011, the near-term task force noted that the current regulatory approach and the result and plant capabilities allow the task force to conclude that a sequence of events, like the Fukushima accident, is unlikely to occur in the U.S. Some measures have been implemented, reducing the likelihood of core damage and rheological releases. And therefore, continued operation and continued licensing activities do not pose an imminent risk to public health and safety. We supported those conclusions at that time. We continue to support those conclusions today. Notwithstanding that, we do believe that enhancements are appropriate. Enhancements focused on ensuring protection, and thus the actions with respect to reevaluating and upgrading the seismic and flooding design bases, flooding protection. With respect to enhancing mitigation, strengthening station blackout mitigation for beyond design basis external events, I know I've used the word that I tried to avoid in this presentation based on the discussion of the last panel. But certainly, that really was focused on strengthening our protection, if you will, enhancing our mitigation with respect to those types of accidents. And then finally, strengthening emergency procedures for station blackout and multi-unit events. And on slide three, I do want to make the point that, and Commissioner Saviniki touched on this a little bit, we were driven by principles. And those principles had us, in fact, make sure that we were focused on, did not distract from our focus on operational safety and security, that we didn't displace other high priority activities. And last but not least, we did want to make sure, do want to make sure, that we take action promptly, but we want to do things right the first time. That certainly was a guiding principle. Now slide four, please. As was discussed in the previous panel and is highlighted on this slide, and certainly you'll hear more discussion later, we do believe that considerable progress has been made, and in fact, substantial safety enhancements will be made, will be in place by 2016. Of course, some of those enhancements to safety will extend beyond the 2016 timeframe, and some of those we'll discuss also as we go. We were well served by the activities of the near term task force, but reflecting on a point that Commissioner Austin-Dorff made with the previous panel, we certainly have, through the work of the steering committee, through the work of the staff, with engagement of the industry and other external stakeholders, we've continued to learn, and we've continued to apply those learnings in the way in which we've approached the lessons learned activities. In some instances, that provided for more integrated actions, some instances broader actions, and in a number of instances, earlier actions being taken. And so we think this process, again, built on and continues to get better based on the work of all, with the NRC, with all of the stakeholders in addressing these issues. And you'll hear that discussed, or Eric and Dave will give examples that sort of illustrate those particular points. Also, as we addressed the lessons learned, we looked for opportunities to take earlier action on activities that gave us the best, if you will, or the greatest safety benefit, so that we could take additional time to do the detailed work that it takes to resolve some of these longer-standing issues. So, again, I think that was discussed at the previous panel. Scott's discussion in the area of seismic will illustrate at least one case where we found that to be the case. Slide five, please. This slide touches briefly on some of the related efforts to the near-term task force. Eric will spend a few minutes talking about recommendation one, and so I'll not talk further about that now. With respect to the risk-managed regulatory framework, of course, that activity focuses on a strategic vision and options for the framework. We've got direction from the commission. We've informed the recommendation one work based on that particular product, and we'll come back to the commission, of course, with plans following the commission's SRM1 recommendation one. We are implementing the commission's actions on economic consequences, namely, to update regulatory analysis procedures. We have prioritized actions to ensure timely implementation of the most risk-informed improvements. And then, finally, with respect to application of lessons learned to other regulated facilities, we have, the staff has developed a plan. We've been briefed, the steering committee has been briefed on that plan, and we look to engage and begin implementing that plan later this year. So that concludes my overview, and now let me turn to Dave. Well, thanks, Mike. And good morning, Chairman Farland and commissioners. It's certainly a pleasure to be here today to discuss the staff's progress in implementing the lessons learned from the accident at Fukushima Daiichi. The staff has been working diligently over the last two years to enhance the safety at U.S. nuclear power plants. We have focused on taking regulatory actions to ensure that the plants can cope with external events that could lead to a prolonged loss of electrical power and a loss of cooling water at power reactor sites. This slide provides a summary of the regulatory actions that are currently underway. As you are well aware, we issued three orders and requests for information just over a year ago in March of 2012. We also initiated two rule makings at that time. One is to address the station blackout and mitigating strategies that will build on the actions that are being taken by the order, and also another rule making that will integrate the licensee emergency response procedures to deal with severe accidents at nuclear power plants. In the next couple of slides, I'll focus on the progress we've been making on the orders. Next slide, please. So the tier one order status, after the implementation guidance was issued in August of 2012, the licensees developed their integrated plans to provide details on how the orders would be implemented at each plant. And they submitted those plans to us in February of this year. Since then, the NRC staff has been reviewing the integrated plans for two of the orders that address the mitigating strategies for the beyond design basis events and also the enhanced spent fuel pool instrumentation so that we can ensure the plants meet the intent of the orders. In our reviews, we've taken into account the refueling out of these schedules for each plant and prioritized our review of the plans so that all licensees will have sufficient time to design and install the plant modifications in accordance with the schedules that we laid out in the orders once we approve their plans. We intend to issue the safety evaluations on each plant with the first safety evaluations to be issued by the end of May and following through the summer until the fall and all of them will be done by the end of November of this year. All licensees will implement plant modifications within two refueling outages. Many of the plants will be in full compliance after their outages in 2014. Some more will be finished in 2015 and all plants will be in full compliance with the orders by the end of 2016. Next slide, please. The third order that was originally issued to require reliable hardened containment vent system at all boiling water reactors with the Mark I and Mark II containment was also issued at the same time as the other two orders. However, the commission recently directed the staff to revise this order. In response to a November 2012 notation vote paper that was developed by the staff and made recommendations for additional requirements for the Mark I and Mark II containment venting systems, the commission directed the staff to follow a two-step process. The first step was to revise the order that we had issued last year to require that the containment vent also remain functional during severe accident conditions after the reactor core has been damaged. We are currently working to issue this revised order by the end of May and the implementation guidance for this order will be complete by September. The second step of the process is to develop a rulemaking that will consider filtration strategies to decontaminate and confine the potential release of radioactive material during a severe accident, and this includes the option of installing engineered containment filtering systems. The regulatory basis for the rule is to be done within one year and the final rule will be issued within four years.


Now contrary to claim by authorities, I would necessarily say about eight-hundred students lost their lives in the tragic accident at Yogyudu area of Lagos. On Tuesday, a truck had accidentally rammed into a student from Babs Farfungwa Secondary School, killing many in the process. Plus, Steve Rafferke's correspondent, Desti Lee-Momer, has more. The bronze truck from Tuesday's incident was still conspicuous when our crew got here. It was as a result of the rage felt by some residents. Babs Farfungwa Millennium Secondary School experienced a very tragic moment yesterday when a truck driver rammed into pedestrians. Now it may look like the school is deserted right now, but that is not the case as this is actually closing time. The police actually released a statement saying that just two people died as against the rumor peddling around that over seventeen or fifteen people lost their lives as a result of the tragedy. Isheri Road, which was a shadow of itself at the end of the tragedy, seemed normal again as motorists ply endlessly. From Nigerian police had claimed that just two boys lost their lives and twelve others sustained injuries. However, eyewitnesses gave a different account. According to the information we had yesterday, that the driver was chased by Ulu safety and on his way coming, it's past about seventeen of the students. They all died and majority of them have injured. It's easier I'm selling market here. So as those children come inside, I went there, but I saw children on the floor. So they carried all these motor that they used to carry and they used to hire, so they pack all those children inside their motor and went. It's not true. It's not true. It's not true. The main road, I saw about eighteen children, wet leather, clay, all of them, and all of them. We see their brain. You see the other one brain. You go to another way, see this one, see eye, come out with hand broke. Actually it's tellable. So something, they rushed to, they rushed to the police inside there because they see no concern the police. No concern the police, but the way they attacked the police, it was tellable. Even they destroyed all the vehicles inside the police station there. Even though my vehicle that I pack it there, they destroy everything. You can see me standing there. I don't care to go out to do it again. The police was able to bring the situation under control before it would have deteriorated. But what further steps should be taken to cut this menace? Good measures so that such a thing will not occur again. You know, chasing vehicle on the road. It goes two ways. It's either hit somebody or you went into somebody's structure to destroy it. So there are ways government should make things so that they will improve. Even if somebody commit to offense and started running, you can only pick the person number. Within a short period of time, you will be able to get the person.  Destiny Mama for Plus TV Africa.


LeBron had a lot of post-game moments over the weekend, Danny. A lot of shirtless words were said out loud. But one of the things he said on Friday was, Brani could play for us right now. Your thoughts? Cap. I mean, that's a dad talking, you know, and proud of it. Brani's a very good player. But that's definitely a dad talking. I don't think that's the case right now. They do need some help. It's just a health situation. But that's just the dad and him talking.