Committee will come to order. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. The honorable John J Sullivan to be the ambassador to the Russian Federation. First, we have two very distinguished colleagues of ours who wish to introduce our nominees. Torefore, i am going postpone my Opening Statement and i ask the Ranking Member to do likewise. Beh that, we are glad to joined by senators sullivan of alaska and cardin of maryland. Sullivan thank you very much, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member menendez. It is an honor to be in front of the committee again in front on behalf of my friend John Sullivan to support his nomination to be the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related, although i regularly joke with senator markey who is also a proud sullivan member in his heritage that at some point in history, we will probably all related. I have supported secretary sullivans nomination before and can spe
This is a life shot of San Francisco. There will be a packed house in Golden Gate Park because we have the hardly strictly bluegrass festival. Welcome back. Bluegrass fans or not, i that you were listening to this the last few days. I love bluegrass, i really do. What i like about the festival is is very. There are artists that you may not think as bluegrass. Theres something for everyone. There is something for everyone and i like that the founder wanted to keep this free and wanted people to come and experience this even if you dont have a lot of money. But one of the bands playing today, i saw them in olympia and they tore it up there. If youre off today and have nothing to do, try to get out Golden Gate Park. They are on this one stage. This is a time to remember warren hellman. We lost him a couple years ago. This is a free event. You dont date you do not see threeday Music Festivals that are free. But there is no one outside trying to buy your tickets. Expect a busy couple of wee
Well keep tracking where the heavy rains are going and where theyll be sticking around and where the freezing rain temperatures are going to keep going too. Mark you can get the forecast on our fox 25 weather app. It has severe whether weather alerts and down loads free on any apple or android device. Mark sox have signed pitcher david price. From the free agent markets. Lets get right over to sports director tom leyden. The boston globe reporting within the last ten minutes that drive price who is the prize free agent in all of baseball this offseason, a guy who the red sox desperately were in need of at the top of their rotation, he has come to an agreement to join the red sox, listen to the numbers. Seven years, 217 million. It is a monstrous contract, you knew thats what it was going to take to get price here, but it appears as though the two sides have come to this agreement. We will stay on top of it. It is still evolving, we dont know too many more details within the last ten mi
Lets get weather and traffic with david murphy and karen rogers good morning. Reporter all right everybody were starting off with rain and snow showers that are clearing the coast. They wont be around too much longer. Later in the morning a possible flurry or a burst of snow from the west. We have warmer temperatures this morning, not thats its warm. Remember yesterday when we started out with singledigit numbers thats not the case. 34 in philadelphia, 35 in millville. 37 in wildwood. Wind are not that strong, they are out of the southwest. Later on well have frontal boundary come through wind will shift out of the northwest. Youre seeing that north and west of the region. Youll see cooler air coming in. Well gelled milder for the first half of the day. And windy in the afternoon. We have a high of 38. By 6 00 p. M. Were all the way down into the upper 20s it will feel much worse than that, because of strong winds that will build through the afternoon. We have cold air in overnight the
A doctor say iss at least 7 people were killed and dozens injured. Skwr z cannot independently confirm those reports. The syrian conflict has spread due to refugees and the threat of military strikes in syria has heightened fierce. They have vowed to defend themself and says its still a powerful allie. Reporter the syrians president report has supporters here in lebanon and across beirut. Iran warned the United States to stay out of the conflict and not expected to retolerate against israel. Thats not an empty threat if the survivele of the assad regime is in question. Hes specific for his own survivele. The war in syria threatens to escalate beyond its boards. Its warning the syrian president made back in 2011. When you play with it, there could be an earthquake that will effect the entire region. That region includes israel where people crowded distribution centers. Israeli government also deployed Missile Defense in preparation far possible syrian attack. In jordan, people are just