I come to the floor today in support of the reauthorization act of 2024. This has been a truly bipartisan, bicameral endeavor and that is how it should be. Its taken longer than we hoped but the final product is worth it. The bill will empower to address the Aviation System safety crisis, make the Aviation System more accessible for passengers with disabilities, provide ehistoric investments to enhane the capacity to recruit and train the next generation of aviation workers and do so without lowering, weakening or watering down the Safety System including pilot qualification standards. There are many important provisions in this bill, but i want to highlight just a few today. Fo first and foremost this bill takes important steps to address critical challenges facing the Aviation System. During thehe pandemic, there wee a critical r experience from the aviation workforce, both in the federal agencies like the faa and ntsb as well as the aviation sector. The post air travel put a huge st
So as not to overreact to the string of low Inflation Readings that we had in the second half of last year. The recent data have clearly not given us greater confidence and instead indicate that its likely to take longer than expected to achieve that confidence. Todays remarks highlight the different paths being taken by Central Banks around the world, with the european Central Banks Christine Lagarde reaffirming that the ecb was still on track to cut rates. Many people expect the ecb will cut rates injune. Now, the timing of the first rate cut here in the United States this cycle has become a subject of much debate from main street to wall street to the campaign trail. The fed had previously signalled it intended to cut rates several times this year from a 23 year high of 5. 5 . Us stocks fell after mr powell spoke. But that is in the middle east have been weighing on markets in the conflict in the region has been cited as a risk to recovery for the Global Economy by the International
told bloomberg news has already resulted in a significant drop in illegal border crossings. those moves that president biden made at the border. the details on that in a moment, but first, the details on the new action from today. an immigration advocate calls it quote, the biggest thing since daca and that it is a smart political move by president biden. joining us now to talk all about it, get all the details, kelly o donnell. nbc news homeland security correspondent, julia ainslie, david noriega and joyce vance, because there will be a legal component to this. to julia, walk us through what this action is intended to do. yeah, i think the first thing is a lot of people don t realize there are some immigrants here who can t automatically become citizens by getting married to a u.s. citizen. those who cross illegally are sitting in limbo because if they want to apply, they have to leave the country and sometimes, they might be denied reentry. it s a huge risk for families
Well get this system in here and light rain out of it. Not much later. For the morning, youre fine. 40s, and 50s on the temps and the system is pumping in a lot of cloud cover and theres instability. Easterly breeze in place. A cloudy morning. By this evening, hopefully we can get rain. 60s on the temps. 4 31, sal, good morning, sir. E good morning, steve. I think im going to get a barometer because you and your high pressure. Im sick of it. We all are. Good morning, steve. Lets take a look at the solana county commute. 80 westbound, Fairfield Vallejo as you head out to the carnegie bridge. We hope this week is holidayweek. I think peoples vacations are going to run out. This is highway 4. It looks good. Pittsburgh and antioch and bay bridge, it looks good getting into the toll plaza. Not much of a delay. If youre getting on the road early, its going to pay off. 4 32. Thank you, sal. Were lt a man who killed a the suspect admitted to being hunk and high when he slammed into the patrol
With this back here. This is not coming over us. Its going to lift northward. 60s on the temps with rain later. 5 01, sal. Good morning, sir. Did you figure out what that wat was one of our own. Lets get to the 580 commute. Theres slowing, but its not as severe or its not as slow. Its slow coming over the hill. Once you make it to livermore, it looks okay. A touch of slowing near the dublin those are holiday lights according to our editors who driveby everyday. It says happy holidays apparently. Its hard to see here, but thats what it is. Traffic is moving along well if youre wondering what that is. Traffic looks good at the bay bridge toll plaza. Moving well into San Francisco. 5 01. Back to the desk. Thank you. San jose police are searching if a man who walked into a classroom at Harker Middle School who sexual harassed and robbed an employee and this happened before kids arrived for classes. Jesse gary shows us a Surveillance Video i have been in this area for four years and never h