Immediate compupport cspan as a public service. Along with these other Television Providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm testified on President Bidens 2025 budget request for her agency before house energy and commerce subcommittee. She also discusses u. S. Liquid natural gas exports, appliance efficiency standards, and electric vehicle supply chains. This is three and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] the Subcommittee Energy climate and security will now come to order and id like to take a moment to welcome our newest member to the subcommittee congressman rick allen from georgia welcome to the subcommittee. The chair will not recognize himself or five minute Opening Statement. Welcome to todays hearing to review the department of Energy Performance and fulfillment of the statutory responsibilities. We will examine the departments fy 2025 budget request to congress. Welcome back to the Committee Secretary granholm. The department
accountable? i don t know if i can say this happy st. patrick s day is that okay? st. patrick s did we dig up something on him? what did he do? good morning everybody, it is 6 a.m. here in the east we start with extreme weather. heavy winds and rain still bat ergs portions of the southeast with millions on high alert. bracing for potential tornadoes at least 21 twisters touched down in portions of the south ainsley. ainsley: leaving destruction in alabama, mississippi, a thousand now without power. bad in alabama too an electric company sharing this picture of a boat wrapped around top of a tree. that s a boat. janice dean is tracking the dangerous storms she told us about it yesterday. man, it came janice. another day ahead so more people are going to be targeted by these storms know what to do if there s a watch or warning in your area and we have tornado watches in effect. there are reports of tornadoes yesterday, the watch extending in towards florida as well
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A stop at whataburger. Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. The wildfires burning across Southern California are showing no signs of dying down any time soon. Six major fires are scorching well over 140,000 acres. Some 500 structures have been destroyed and hundred of thousands have been forced to flee their homes. The state offices of Emergency Services issued its widest ever text alert warning millions of extreme fire conditions as ferocious santa ana winds continued fueling those flames. Governor ch jerry brown is now calling on President Trump to declare a federal emergency in the state. The governor also just declared a state of emergency for san diego. Thats where the lilac fire exploded to over 4,000 acres in just a few hours, burning down at least hundreds of trailer homes in a retirement community. Dozens of horses at an elite Training Center also died as hundreds of others sprinted from the flames. Red flag warnings have been extende
Evacuate power lunch starts right now for everybody in Southern California, its been a tough couple of days thinking of you guys the jobs data getting a bump to the bottom line. The nasdaq the bigger winner crude oil had been up 2 before it pulled back the rig counts, by the way, are out any minute now health care related. Alexon and celgene and mylan up as well. Another hot stock today, Sage Therapeutics this is on top of yesterdays 70 gain and the ceo will join us in just a couple of moments and steve, no shortage of stuff to talk about today. No. Very excited, brian. Especially with the jobs report. Lets get to it. Its getting to be routine economists say it should slow because of the population growth, theyre right about that part but the job market keeps surprising to the upside nonfarm payrolls up against an estimate of 195,000. October, september revisions not up much. Hourly average wages up just 0. 2 . And the Participation Rate also at 62. 7 Goldman Sachs saying despite the s