Next, a look at the u. S. Electricity industry and the reliability of the electric grid. Well hear about efforts to strengthen electricity infrastructure and the Energy Departments role in responding to hurricanes harvey and irma. Held by a house energy subcommittee, this is an hour. Well come to order. Good morning and welcome. We find ourselves this morning with a bit of a challenge on the house floor. Votes may start within five minutes. Multiple role call votes may be up to one and a half hours voting on the house floor. In the interest of time, i had a great Opening Statement written by my texas constituent, analise. I will not give it but ask to put that in the record. Without objection, so ordered. Mr. Rush, would you like to put your statement for the record . For the record, okay, guys. Moving forward, we have three witnesses here. We have mr. Chattery, ms. Hoffman and mr. Collard. You have five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member rush, members of the subcommittee
Today will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We find ourselves this morning with a bit of challenge on the house floor. Votes may start within five minutes. Multiple role call votes may be up to one and a half hours voting on the house floor. In the interest of time, i had the great Opening Statement written by my texas constituent, i will not give it but ask that without objection so ordered. Would you like to speak or put your statement for the record . For the record, okay, guys. Moving forward we have three witnesses here. We have mr. Chadre, you guys have five minutes. The head of furk. You have five minutes. Thank you. Mr. Chairman. Ranking member rush, members of the subcommittee for the opportunity to be before you today. Before i begin my marks i want to briefly reflect on the passing of senators demin chi, former chairman of the committee and hell be remembered. Id like to start by taking a moment to acknowledge all those impacted by hurricanes harvey and irma, the los
The rain is triggering mixed feelings for the people in the Santa Cruz Mountains, they want the water, but worry about what it can do to the thousands of acres that were ravaged by that fire in september. Robert honda is at the lexington reservoir. Whats the biggest concern tonight where you are. There are concerns and there are some benefits they hope to get out of it the Water District says it hopes to get up to 4,000 acre feet of water from the storm. As you heard, the storm could cause problems in the fire area. And make it hard for keeping the reservoirs from being clogged there. Many Property Owners are watching todays rain with dread, sandbags can be seen along the road, diverting fire away. The fire burned 1500 acres since september. Norman noble lost a utility shed and flames scorched his property. Hes worked hard to divert water. The areas burned hotter than other places, so everythings gone. Thats going to be they have the Water District taking short and long term action aro
See the crime until today. Gasps oh my god im so glad she wasnt hurt though elrita says crimes like this are uncommon in her neighborhood. Thats unusual here. It just doesnt happen. But shes not surprised by much anymore. You know, anymore you got to be careful. Stay in your car, dont get out right away, survey your surroundings. I do that at grocery stores, and apparently im going to have to start doing at home, which is a shame that suspect is still on the run. The victim is okay, she wasnt hurt in the exchange but her car is still missing. She is asking everybody to keep an eye out for the grey nissan rogue. You can find the cars license plate on our website. When will they vote . When will they vote . Thats the question left for the state senate tonight as they discuss amendments made to the stadium bill. Director Kevin Bolinger is in carson city where senators just passed the amendments. But have yet to vote on the final bill. Kevin is in chambers and will update us as soon as pos
Here with our guest stars . And they held down the fort, did a great job. Yesterday we start off with a crash on the schuylkill, same thing overnight, fatal crash on the schuylkill, get to that in just a moment, tough, tough, tough driving on the schuylkill. We know one place we dont want that the schuylkill expressway. Tough as it is. The wet letter cooperate for us here today. Really looks like just a nice day, and a nice sense of summer here too. We take a look at storm scan, totally quiet at the moment. Will stay that way yet again High Pressure in place, throughout the day see lot of sunshine to help warm things up very efficiently to the point that we are flirting with record territory. Lowlying cloud cover has formed. I saw a hinton my own drive in already towards day bring, at its worse, at the moment, patchy, a lot of spots like Philadelphia International airport, where it is clear as a bell. No problems. That may change, though, over the course of the next couple of hours, su