Junction. A battalion chief tallied the damage for us. Four sheds and a garage were lost to the flames along with three homes. We get the developing news tonight from debora villalon. Shes live near the intersection of interstate 80 and 680 where the first report of this fire came in just about 4 00 this afternoon. Why did this fire get out of control so fast . Reporter essentially in one word it was the wind. The wind was just whipping for hours out here. Right now its pretty much just mop up. You can see pg e back there. They are restoring pole that is were destroyed by this ferocious fire. Fires consuming several buildings on its marchest. A battalion chief described the early going on its march east. Theyre trying to find some place to hold it. Reporter holding it proves impossible and whipping winds that carried embers among properties. At least two homes didnt have a chance. At least two of them were inhabited homes. The Sheriffs Office came in and evacuated homes out ahead of it
Congresswoman velazquez, johnson, and mr. Hoyer. Morning, everyone. Here participating in congressional hearings, and this is the toughest one. Lady. M a tough i wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone of you for your grace and your dignity. Pray pe father, i that those americans that have been ignored by the other side that are paying close attention to what is happening here in lisa, i would like to ask you a question. The last seven months have clearly been very tough on you. But you persevered and now you are on a brighter path. Todaywould you have been unemployment for compensation emergency benefits . Had the extrat unless you have experienced how the job market is today and the incredible you mayesearch spend three hours preparing for an interview. You have no idea what it is like to go through the world of the internet job boards. Would i was facing a of taking actually, i enrolled. I have a bachelors degree and i had enrolled in my local Community College with all th
Do. We all support that. One of the things and youre very right about the people who dont want to work. Those make it hard for the rest, but we are not going after those who are fraudulently accessing the fund. Thats something we also need to look at is get people off their duffs and not create a dynasty of people that are on unemployment forever or social service. God bless you, all of you. Good luck in your future. Thank you. Thank you very much, congresswoman napolitano. I would like to ask for questions one point we should know that the work that the law center is doing, and i want to single out chris owens to say what melt has been doing to end that discrimination against people unemployed and unemployed for a long time. You dont have to add insult to injury for people. You dont have to tell them theirs dogging it when they are trying to make their way. With that, i recognize congresswoman moore, congresswoman spear and we have congresswoman maloney. Weve got to move fast. We dont
Recent talks to the pope in rome. I think it should be discussed. It should be considered, especially since we know what happened in iraq with the christian community. Fiona . I would actually just want to say to fyodor that it actually is discussed here, but he gets back to what dr. Brzezinski was a saying about a nonsectarian tone to the debate. The u. S. Does not want to take sides in this conflict. As we look about in the balkans, if you think back to the 1990s, various European Countries in particular of standing with historic coreligion, the idea that catholic portions of europe were standing with the coops and others, the serbs because of old religious orders. I think we have all learned from that, so that was not completely accurate depiction of the 1990s that we have to be extraordinarily careful. We are all skirting around the proper ways or the ways of describing a very complex situation. The u. S. Does not want to be seen in the middle of a sectarian conflict. It gets to th
We strongly believe that if every member of congress would take even a few minutes to speak personally with unemployed workers, there would not be any question at all about the need to extend the federal ui program. More than anything else, they want a job. But finding work remains very difficult in an economy that still has one point 5 million fewer jobs than before the recession started six years ago. We have never had anything close to such a sustained job deficit after any recent downturn. It has been said in opposition to an extension that the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program was adopted for extraordinary circumstances that are disappearing. No. No. These extraordinary circumstances continue, as indicated in the report issued just this morning by president obamas council of economic advisers. It highlights that the current longterm Unemployment Rate is at least twice as high as it was at the expiration of every previous extended ui benefit program. The extraordi