At morning and thank you all for being here today. Todays hearing comes at a perilous time for the 2020 census. Last month they were traveling press reports indicating career officials at the Census Bureau warned the trumpmp administratin about significant that will delay the delivery of census data until late january or early february. After these reports became public the director of the census issued a Public Statement nfirming the problems were found but he provided no details. These developments were particularly troubling because they were not reported to ournt committee. We have. About them in the press before the census charger made his Public Statement. Nobody from the Trump Administration informed us about any of these problems or delays. For these reasons the committee wrote a letter on november 19. They asked for documents that career officials prepare describing these data problems and the resulting delays. They also requested documents that were prepared for the departmen
In concord. 84 for a high. And 4 degrees cooler than what we see for this time of year even in concord. We will talk about the rest of the workweek and temps warming up. Details in a few minutes. We are seeing accidents. The good news is this is off to the right. Starting with a look at main travel times in the one in the were o. Westbound 580 coming out of the altamonte pass in north glen an accident has been moved over to the right side of the road. But its going to slow you down a little bit. The drive time up to 38 minutes. Elsewhere you are in the green no problems there. On 80 highway 4 or 101 out of the south bay. They should be wrapping up the construction here any minute at the ripmond san rafael bridge opening up all lanes in the eastbound and westbound direction. So far, we are not seeing backups at the toll plaza. We are seeing backups at the bay bridge this morning. Metering lights not on but especially in the cash lanes and you are going to be slow and go unless you are f
Will participate in this ceremony on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the holy defense. And the resistance that they imposed themselves in the war they had or are the sacred defense of the wives of the veterans. Let them be honored. From the beginning of the war until 1966, they were on the war fronts. They were looking for means. They were gathered, both those who were in the front line and those who were behind the front and we felt their presence. He had thought of everything, and iranian zeal and iranian courage in iraq, my zeal for being iranian, did not allow us to sit at home and watch the enemy come, a mahdi sharif from the city of sangar, and our country was under attack. I am proud, very proud. 47 i left sanandaj from qom, qom province , i went before their experiences from the good past in the past, the sacrifice and martyrdom of the tunnel to transfer the culture to the youth of today was formed by the bodies of two martyrs defending security in noorabad, fars provin
2012 viscount at to be one in ecigarette use among teens more than doubled. 1,800,000 kids have tried these products. A recent study found that awareness of ecigarettes among youth is virtually ubiquitous. I guess that means that they have to see stuff somewhere like advertising. Maybe television, maybe newspapers, magazines, maybe lots of them. We will talk about that. The growth and you have awareness and use of e ecigarettes has coincided with a plug of recent e cigarette marketing activity. A report published this month in the journal of pediatrics found that you if exposure to leadcigarette advertising on television increased 256 in 2 years. That is kind of like everyone the results are out on the health surveys. Just go, go for it. Go for that dollar. 256 increase extraordinary a major American Legacy Foundation report found last year over 14 million teens saw two for advertising on tv and nine and a half million saw print ads the russo while Major Companies reiterate that the on
Campbell and ive decided we will maintain our current posture of 9800 troops through the end of this year. Amy as the longest war in the history of the United States drags on, we will look at the case of u. S. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. The former taliban prisoner has been charged with desertion could be sentenced to life in prison. And we will look at why climate scientists are calling on some of the nations top museums to sever all ties with climate deniers and fossil fuel companies. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Saudi arabia and other regional allies have launched a military campaign in yemen targeting houthi rebels. The saudiled air strikes are intended to thwart the houthis advance after seizing control of the capital sanaa last year and deposing president Abdu Rabbu Mansour hadi last month. Hadi called for International Intervention on his behalf earlier this week. There are conflicting reports