California is progressive stance on issues from Climate Change to immigration has long come to appear to my eyes political opposition to president on trump in return to trace the states as dominated by liberal elites absent touch with the u. S. Heartland so what does this picture raji logical battle reveal about the choices facing americans in the coming president ial election earlier this year the 1st of 2 special reports of apes house went to find out. California has natural and manmade wonders hollywood Silicon Valley agricultural bounty and the 5th largest economy in the world it leads the u. S. In combating Climate Change and with 40000000 people is the most populous and diverse state but none of that seems to impress americas President Donald Trump very much the place is totally out of control you have sanctuary cities where you have criminals living on the taxes are way way out of whack and. People are stuck to move pretty sure for the president attacking california makes perfec
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person
Getting tested, so the Positivity Rate is just above 5 . The governor implored californians to help protect each other. I dont care what your political stripe is or background is, Everybody Needs to be loved and everybody loves. So you know what . Everybody cares about somebody. And somebody else. If thats the case, demonstrate it. Reporter as far as hospital capacity, the covid19 cases account for 8 in the state and 30 of i. C. U. Beds are filled with coronavirus patients. We have more Surge Capacity for the hospitals if necessary. And theyre ramping up Contact Tracing and on track to have the goal of 10,000 contact tracers trained by july 1st. Back to you. Thank you. And the governor noted the importance of Early Warning systems after a 5. 8 magnitude quake jolted the eastern sierra. Some of you may have gotten the alerts. Reports came in around 10 40 mt. Ande are hours awa from a vote that could end policing in Oakland Schools. Theres a rally right now in front of the Administration
Believe it is simply boredom during the covid19 pandemic. It is hard to say why it is so much now other than people are probably pretty bored about now, you know. It has been, what, three and a half months . Reporter Richmond Police also say that if possible to record those people who are setting off those illegal fireworks. They are offering rewards that lead to confiscations. And when you call in, theyre asking you to provide specific information about the location of those homes and they assure you that you will remain anoon mouse. Were live in richmond, kenny choi, kpix 5. You have asked about fireworks in your neighborhood and we have been getting a lot of responses. Jen says there have been fireworks about two weeks between 8 00 p. M. And 2 00 a. M. Lorraine tells us the fireworks have been starting before dark. And another says it has been nightly in concord, so much so it sounds like Christmas Celebration ifs her native country and barbara says she has been hearing the firework
Temperatures near average for the coast and may. Above for inland areas. Change for the weekend. Lets look and see if theres anything new out there. Good morning. Good morning. Not looking at anything too serious as we look at the commute. You can see traffic is going to be okay if you are driving at the bay bridge toll plaza. It looks fine. No major problems. Also looking at a commute on the east bay. The traffic is moving looks like i didnt put my mic on. Traffic in east bay looks good. Slow traffic on 880 northbound in union city. We will figure out why it is sloping down and let you know by the next traffic update. Lets go back to the headlines. Topping the news today. Governor newsom is expected to provide another update on the coronavirus situation. The state has been posting single day records this week. The governor is angry at people he calls selfish californians. We cannot continue to do what we have done over the last number of weeks. Reporter as counties continue to reopen,