The temperature trend for los gatos will be in the low 60s, 73 by 3 00 today. Ill show you what to expect as we head into the long Holiday Weekend in seven minutes. Mike, youre saying the commute is building . Slowly. Its building nonetheless and we look at our Speed Sensors. The peninsula doesnt see any problems. Pleasanton towards sunol, we have a little snowing out of the Altamont Pass. A little slowing there and the bay bridge toll plaza. Of course thats the slowest spot for the bay because you have the metering lights on. We have the backup but you can watch traffic slowing through the fast track lanes so thats pretty good. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 6 01 right now. Developing this morning were learning about a second botulism death in the bay area. This latest case happened in napa county and isnt related to the botulism outbreak caused by nacho cheese in sacramento county. Pete suratos is joining us live with the symptoms you should be aware of. This is pretty frightening, pe
Next, hearing examines race ways to prevent Identity Theft by Social Security numbers. Held by two house subcommittees, this is one hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome to todays hearing on the federal governments use of Social Security numbers. Unfortunately, chairman sam johnson was unable to be here with us today to discuss one of his favorite topics, ending the unnecessary use of Social Security numbers. I know everyone here joins me in wishing chairman johnson a speedy recovery. I would like to welcome chairman heard of the oversight and government reform committees, i. T. Subcommittee at all of the i. T. Subcommittee members joining us in ways and Means Committee hearing room today. Back in 1936 when Social Security began issuing salsa skidding numbers, they were only used to track earnings and administer the Social Security program. Back then it wasnt much thought about keeping your number a secret, but today Social Security numbers are the key to the kingdom for identity
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished, excuse me, well, i want to call it the oversight Investigation Committee room which is sometimes used by energy and commerce, and what a but beautiful room. It is more conducive to the good hearing. This is the the first one of the 115th congress and welcome here, and welcome in the Witnesses Today. This is the and welcome back to my friend and colleague Ranking Member from colorado. This is our Medicaid Oversight Committee on existing problems and ways to strengthen the program. We are convened to examine a critical component of the Affordable Care act, medicaid and medicare expansion. It covers over 70 million americans and accounts for more than 15 of the Health Care Spending in the United States. In 2015 alone, the federal taxpayers spent over 350 billion on medicaid and the costs continue to rise each year according to the congressional budget office, and the shares are expected to rise significantly in the coming the decad
Unseasonably cool. 63 at san jose, 56 in oakland, mid50s, also, concord, clayton, redwood city at 56 degrees, east palo alto, the honda as well, you will enjoy the sunshine, but a cool day, only 53 degrees in black hawk, also alamo, diablo, and denville. Vallejo in the low 50s, boy, you can see all the way to the farallon islands. Mid50s in sonoma as well. Far reaches of the bay, only 49 degrees in lakeport and toss up a wind near 10, boy, its going to have a chill in the air. Well talk about precipitation and when you can expect the first rain fall at 5 18. Watch out for black ice throughout the bay area as well. Lets start along the slowest traffic of the morning on the Altamont Pass, 44 miles per hour, down to 30 want to hit northland, give yourself plenty of time to get through the commute. Heres a look at the dublin interchange, going slowly in the commuter direction from the Altamont Pass to 680, 15 to 20 minutes. Lets head to a smooth moving told bay bridge, metering lights not
Light rainfall this this morning. We could get a break soon. Then well see another round of rain later this afternoon. Right now breaks in the clouds. Blue skies. We seen temperatures mild this morning thanks to the cloud cover overnight. 40s for most folks dipping down in the 30s in santa rosa and livermore. Future cast shows scattered showers to start off the day. Adding into the evening hours, notice we see light rain. The good news for some of you who really could use a break in the rain, this area of low pressure will skirt the coast. Most of the heavy rain will stay offshore. Watch what happens. Sunday mostly dry for most of sunday. We are looking at showers for the second half of sunday into monday. Well talk about that coming up. I want to note this Winter Weather advisory could see four to six inches of snow in the high country sunday morning and monday morning. Be cautious. It should be a beautiful weekend in the sierras. Great ski weather. Snow showers off and on for saturda