Republican Senate Finance committee chair, Chuck Grassley who joins us right now. Thank you for coming. Glad to be with you, neil. Neil what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate . Chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes . I dont think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the Opening Statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. And then at that point, there might be some debate of that. But i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thoughtout testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. Neil as you know the president seems to be,
Advertising a raffle with a semi automatic rifle as the price. And add appeared in vanguard magazine and the raffle is open to anyone who bought a 20 ticket. Today, the union called it off. That was after the citys former Police Auditor said it was in poor taste, especially in light of the shooting last weekend in gilroy. I have a problem with using weapons as a way to raise money, especially for wonderful organization like a chaplaincy and that is just in general. Completely understand the optics of it, the horrible timing of this, and it wasnt our intention. That is exactly why we decided to cancel the raffle. The Police Officers association has held fundraisers before with a gun as a prize, available need officers. But now it says it will hold any raffles involving weapons. A Family Assistance Center for gilroy shooting survivors and their relatives will stay open through sunday. Services provided include emotional support and grief counseling, help filing claims for medical bills.
Gunmen in the gilroy garlic festival shooting killed himself. Police said the 19yearold rampage was cut short with the police engaged in killing him in less than a minute. He killed three people and two of them children. Identifiers, investigators have not identified it a motive. They arrested a man for graffiti and vandalism in bay point. The graffiti included racial slurs. Today Police Revealed the man has a personal relationship with one of the victims of the vandalism. And that all of the evidence indicates this is not a hate crime. The 911 Call Center Technology is about to get updated. The mayor and governor announced details today on the nearly billiondollar Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan the governor is explaining his designed to sign a law changing the guidelines. The law meant to reduce the risk of some concussive hits in children. Players are now allowed 30 minutes of contact practice twice a week and that is down from 90 minutes. Medical professionals are required
Firefighters are at the scene of multiple vegetation buyers in Contra Costa County and calfire says over a dozen buyers have been reported in the area near marsh creek road and Morgan Territory and this is near the communities of brentwood and, there is a shelter in place for residents near the fire but no evacuation orders have been placed yet and it is unclear how many acres have burned but we will monitor the fires throughout the morning and bring you the latest on air and online after a check of our forecast here is darren the good news from the Weather Department is there is less of an onshore flow meeting last wind. That weaker onshore flow is having an impact for the rest, Treasure Island looking back at the city pretty view but it gets a lot better when you get to the top of the tower and look the other way, looking east towards sunrise you see this low clouds but they are spotty and the lesson the way of low clouds the less marine layer because were not pulling in as much of a
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