i now want to introduce special agent brian ebert. >> good afternoon, everyone i'm happy to be here. mayor thank you for inviting me. i appreciate it. january 20th will be our 58th presidential inauguration. it will be our country's 56th national special security event. about half of which have taken place here in washington d.c. as with all national security events, we work in close congress junction with our federal partners, federal emergency management agency as well as incident investigations. the secret services core strategy is to establish strong relationships with our military partners here in the capitol region and colab rativeratively together. we establish an executive steering committee with those who have primary jurisdiction over the events. the executive steering committee is supported by 25 subcommittees. examples are crowd management, credenti credentialing, fire, life safety and health and medical. the expertise and coordination of all those involved is critical to a successful inauguration. we've been working on this far long time. conducted numerous joint trainin

now would like to introduce our partner and federal lead to the special event, special agent brian ebert. >> good afternoon, everyone i'm happy to be here. mayor thank you for inviting me. i appreciate it. january 20th will be our 58th presidential inauguration. it was designated a national special security event in july of last year by the department of homeland security. it will be our country's 56th national special security event. about half of which have taken place here in washington d.c. as with all national special security events, the se cress serv -- secret serves is the lead 8 for the national security plan. we work in close congress junction with our federal partners, federal emergency management agency as well as incident investigations. the secret services core strategy is to establish strong relationships with our law enforcement public safety and military partners here in the national capitol region and to collaboratively develop a security comprehensive plan. there are many represented here today and many other partners. the secret service employees a unified command mod

hosting this national celebration, and i am going to ask director guilt heart and special agent brian ebert to provide a few more specifics about our planning and then we will be joined by general manager paul wiedefeld to talk about metros preparations. director? >> thanthank you, mayor. good afternoon, everyone. the district has a long history of successfully executing inaugurations and other major national security event in our nations capital. as they may mention since april we've been working with our federal, state, local partners, security and contingency plan to ensure that all those who choose to come to the nations capital for the inauguration or the surrounding events can have a safe and peaceful experience. to anticipate questions about potential protester demonstrations, the district in concert with our police partners, work daily with individuals and groups that come to our nations capital to express their first amendment rights. .. prohibited items, service services, and transportation options, please visit our official website as the mayor mentioned, at inauguration.dc.gov.

we look forward to hosting this national celebration, and i am director gephardt and special agent ebert to provide a few specifics. jummy: there is that news conference going on. you can watch the entire thing on our sister station, newschannel 8. sometime today, the president-elect will sit down with top u.s. intelligence officials to discuss the allegations of russia's involvement in the hacking of the election. suzanne kennedy has more on the briefing at trump tower. suzae: lead directly to the kremlin, according to u.s. officials, to russian president vladimir. "the washington post" will bring that u.s. intercepts overheard russian officials cheering the victory of donald trump and congratulating themselves on the outcome. >> there is overwhelming consensus in the community and overwhelming evidence supplied by the community that russia did engage in an effort to impact on the election. -- nne: >> they have no idea if it is russia or china or somebody. incould be somebody sitting a dead someplace. suzanne: but trump will also hear about key russian players -- twoe been sanctioned kn

mientras sawyer llegaba al mundo en los Últimos minutos de 2016, ebert se convertÍa en el primer bebÉ de 2017. muy curioso! vamos con mÁs aquÍ en "despierta amÉrica". karla: oye, estamos hablando de todo lo que tenemos planeado para este 2017. no sÉ, pero yo tenÍa muchos aÑos sin ver a marco. y ahora me toca platicar quÉ ha sido de tu vida. ¿te casaste? marco: no, sigo solterito. llevo ocho aÑos soltero. salgo, conozco... ser soltero no quiere decir que estÉ solo. karla: o infeliz. marco: no, estoy muy feliz. hace 10 aÑos, cuando me iba a casar, yo sentÍa que si no me casaba no podÍa ser feliz, y brincaba de relaciÓn en relaciÓn. karla: el incasable. marco: pero siempre estaba con alguien. y aprendÍ que puedes ser feliz y puedes estar completo estando soltero. y tengo muchas ganas de casarme, pero no por necesidad de: ay, tengo que estar con alguien. karla: o por lo que dictamina la sociedad. marco: en nuestra sociedad, mucha gente todavÍa no entiende lo de la solterÍa. piensan que si no te casas, eres gay. y no tiene nada de malo ser gay, pero piensan que va por ah�