Is our smoke forecast, those red and purple colors end lating that intense smoke for us. More on a heat wave in store for us in the extended forecast coming up. Gianna . Good morning. A Traffic Alert continues sow to 1 connector to south 808 is completely shut down as fire crews and emergency crews work on an accident involving an overturned vehicle. Theyve got a lot of activity there on scene. They have called out tow crews to the scene as well. So hopefully theyll be clearing this shortly. But in the meantime, traffic is still closed in that area for that connector south 101 over to south 880. Were starting to see a few brake lights also northbound 101 working your way out of the south bay in that area as you approach the 280 and 680 connector. Traffic is getting busy in the Altamont Pass. Ill take a look at the bay bridge coming up in my next report. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are continuing to follow this shooting investigation going on right now in san jose. Thi
Traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning everybody. The topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. But gold played a very, very Important Role in American History. Think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinating about was the quest for gold. An unquenchable desire for Precious Metals, gold above all, but also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold wa
Little bit better this morning effect today and again likely with that onshore flow. Over the next several days. With it were looking at our temperatures will be temperatures that are in the actually slightly below average 50s, the 60s this morning. For this time of year. You can see the green and mid 60s in San Francisco and yellow dots indicating good to low 70s oakland and upper 70s moderate air quality. But still for parts of the san jose. And mid 80s for concord. Peninsula, dealing with that ill talk more about that labor unhealthy air, you can see those red and even purple dots day weekend forecast coming up. Gianna . Good morning, those brake lights are building into the and that does indicate Altamont Pass were seeing heavy ride already as you work unhealthy to very unhealthy air out of tracy. Over on to 580 make that can to Mountain View from san jose. Connector. Unhealthy air for union city thats our slowest spot this morning. Give yourself a few extra minutes and as far as 6
Colleges, black colleges and universities and minorityserving institutions in preparing students for success. Pursuant to committee rules, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and Ranking Member. This is to allow us to hear from witnesses sooner and allow adequate time for questions. I recognize myself now for an opening statement. Examine thel Critical Role of historicallyblack colleges and universities, Tribal Colleges and universities, and Community Colleges in providing lowincome students and students of color with a quality Higher Education. Our first three bipartisan hearings have clearly demonstrated that a College Degree remains the surest path to Financial Stability for americans across the country. This is particularly true for lowincome students and students of color, whose educational and workforce opportunities have historically been limited i enter generational poverty and systemic racism. Studies show students with income and the bottom of distribution can double
Test. Test. We also know that while these institutions are doing the most work to close that achievement gap, and advance economic mobility, theyre severely underresourced. Its great to see the Community Coming together in a bipartisan way to prioritize and address this issue, and i look forward to working with all of you on this. Madam chairwoman, id like to enter into the record this report by the United Negro College fund, which is led by my close friend, michael lomax, who actually the emcee when i was sworn in to congress in our event just recently, entitled the hcbus make america strong, the positive impact of historically black colleges and universities. So ordered. Thank you. The 2017 report found that the total Economic Impact in the u. S. Is 14. 8 billion annually. The equivalent of ranking among the top 200 corporations on the fortune 500 list. In maryland, we have four hbcus that generate 1 billion in economic output and 10,000 jobs. A maryland graduate can expect to make a