To the interview with jay blakesburg. The man who shot so many still photos of the grateful dead from 78 up until jerry garcia stephanie has a new book out. About 140 or 150 pictures. Color photos and a lot of quotes from a number of people throughout the years talking about jerry garcia. We will have enliven studio coming up. I got to see him we look the same right . First to the big news of the day. In the past hour we heard from Contra Costa County fire officials about the massive fire at a Petroleum Storage facility in crockett. That was the explosion as it happened. Officials say the fire is contained but they have yet to determine what started it. The fire sent an awful lot of the black smoke into the air in rodeo, hercules and crockett. Interstate 80 is now open after 80 was shut down in both directions for hours yesterday. At this point crews are on the scene investigating are working to prevent any further damage. Lets bring in sarah life in crockett with the remaining concern
Bullet. They say if those tanks had more ethanol in them this couldve been much worse. I was step out of the way so you can see we are. We are at the front gates of this facility and there are a lot of people out here assessing the scene. Right now they are in the cleanup process of this situation. Cal oshas is prohibiting use of the facility and nustar said last night all operations and shipments are stopped for now. We dont know when the facility will be up and running. An Assessment Team has been here for hours touring the facility but still no word on the cause. The contra costa Fire Protection district held another News Conference with an update from the scene. As we know, two tanks containing 252,000 gallons of ethanol in total were destroyed in the fire at Nustar Petroleum Storage Facility in crockett. The remainder of the ethanol is being held by berms around the tank sites but we are told the liquid is largely a mixer of water and foam at this point. The teams here plan to rem
[indistinct conversations] [chatter] as i said, we would like to move on to the next bill. That people leave and come up these do so quietly. You. Eople coming in, thank pursuant to notice by h. R. 12 0 6, the protection order act of 2019. The clerk will report the bill. 1236 to support state, tribal and local efforts to remove access of firearms from individuals who are in danger to themselves and others pursuant to court orders for this purpose. Without objection. I will begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Rep. Nadler last month the country was rocked by news of Mass Shootings on two successive days in el paso, texas, where 22 people were killed and 26 wounded, and in dayton ohio nine people were killed and 27 others injured. A few weeks later, a gunman in odessa, texas took other peoples lives. 53 people were killed in total in Mass Shootings in august alone. Individual to commemorate the victims in dayton, the governor speech was drawn out by calls to do something
Many levels and i want to take us back to the underlying bill and extreme Risk Protection order act. Which would incentivize states and localities to implement extreme risk laws, which is simply common sense. And i wanted to bring forward our experience in my home state of washington, which became the fourth state in the nation to pass an extreme risk law in 2016. Since we have implemented that law in Washington State, and weve supported it with county resources to help enforce the law by also recovering firearms from people ordered to surrender them by a judge, a number of people at risk of suicide have been referred. According to kimberly wyatt, who runs the king county program, she has, quote, seen folks who were in the midst of the Behavioral Health crisis come into court and thank Law Enforcement for saving their lives. Late last year Law Enforcement in Washington State prevented a possible mass shooting after someone flagged a potential threat. And that was a man who posted image
Good morning. The Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Todayerer holding a hearing on our nations growing Mental Health and Substance Use disorder crisis. I will have an Opening Statement following by senator murkowski. Then we will introduce our witnesses. I believe Ranking Member will join us a little later as well. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each is have five minute farce for a round of questions. While we werent able to have it open to the public, live video is available on our Committee Website and if you are in need of accommodations, you can reach out to the committee or office of congressional accessibility services. We continue to see a high number of new covid cases, so we are having this hearing in a larger hearing room where we can be socially distanced limiting the number of people who are in the hearing room, experience depression, anxiety and other Mental Health disorders. Drug overdoses were on the