San francisco and san joke holding on to some upper 60s more on your forecast ahead robin alright, checking back in on the bay bridge toll plaza we have another wave of heavy traffic into San Francisco. This is what i was talking about like 20 minutes ago it was standing out and looking good which makes you think oh the commute so bourbon. Not so fast. We have traffic in ways and this is that second wave of heavy traffic coming in so still crawling backed up the on west grand and the drive time is back up to 60 minutes which is not terrible but its slow. Both intimate and 5. 80 are busy but id avoid the amendments because were at 40 minutes to downtown oakland youll save a little bit of time by taking 5. 80 instead its only a 35 minutes and then 2. 80 averaging 23 minutes from san jose to Cupertino James darya thank you very much rob and 9 oh one and the top story, the coronavirus it is spreading around the bay and around the country. Yeah and this morning we have Team Coverage of the
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Were honored to have the full Committee Chairman with us this morning and i expect senator blumenthal the Ranking Member to join us momentarily. As chairman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over amateur athletics i welcome all of you to todays hearing, it is entitled name, image, likeness of athletic compensation. The expectation or hope that we might limit ourselves to the type of conversation but have no control over my colleagues or necessarily what the witnesses will say that may take us broader in scope. I absolutely look forward to hearing from her witnesses and im appreciative of all l of thm in the university of kansas, the president of Athletic Association and the big 12 and two former student athletes. In my home state we have a rich history of College Enter College Athletics, university of kansas one in the womens soccer team one the 12to title last in my hometown of manhattan, phil snyder revolutionized College Football at Kansas State University and the legacy continu
See spent your unfiltered view of politics. The president of the ncaa Charlie Baker joined the commissioner of the big ten tony National Former team gymnast Trinity Thomas and others to testify on compensation for College Athletes. For the use of their name, image and likeness for they testify before the Senate Judiciary committee advocating for a federal standard. And discussing the need for transparency and equity. [background noises] the hearing of the Judiciary Committee is called to order. Please take your seats. And welcome to all of our witnesses. I am very grateful to my colleague senator durbin for giving me this opportunity to chair the hearing. And we wish him a very, very speedy recovery. He evidently had knee surgery. I believe it may have been because of a College Sports injury. And i do not know exactly all of the details of his stork prayer list. Ive seen him in the senate jim. All of you know our colleague senator booker who is truly a College Athlete star and very kno
[inaudible conversations] the hearing of the Judiciary Committee is called to order. Please take your seats and welcome to all of our witnesses. I am very grateful to my colleague, senator durbin, for giving me the opportunity to chair the hearing and we wish him a very, very speedy recovery. He evidently had knee surgery. I believe it may have been because of a College Sports injury and i dont know exactly all the details of his sports prowess. Ive seen him in the senate gym, but all of you know our colleague, senator booker, who is truly a College Athlete star and very knowledgeable on this topic and a partner with me in longstanding efforts to reform the system, i want to thank our Ranking Member, senator graham, who has been very interested and involved in this issue and im going to put in the record a statement from chairman durbin before i begin my remarks. We all know today that the system of College Athletes is in need of reform. Thats why youre here. Its in need of reform now.