Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. To serve as United States secretary of labor. Let me say before i begin my pening statement that we welcome secretary chao. Good to see you and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so well well it wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement nd i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself more than 30 years ago to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. So we welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays t
Along the coast in the low 70s. Lets talk about your high fire danger. Red flag warning will be in effect from 9 00 until 5 am. Those for the northbay hills in the east bay hills as well as the diablo range. We will talk more about this extreme fire weather that we are expecting for the next couple of days coming up. Lets check in with gianna for look at the traffic and south bay. This is just off of the 101 southbound in the lorne expressway. Unfortunately this is a fatal crash that happened through here. Still a lot coming off the offramp. Completely shut down for the investigation. If youre trying to exit south 101 you can look at a here. It is not affecting the main lines of 101. I did just check in with chp and they are issuing a fog advisory for the north and off the gulf gate bridge. Heres a live look of that off the Robin Williams tunnel. Vity heading into the ed Golden Gate Bridge itself. Still pretty quiet out this morning. The traffic is backed up pretty early as you work yo
Beat us at the ballot. Theyre not going to win the president ial we have great polls, great internal polls, ohio, iowa, pennsylvanias looking north carolina. We just won two races that a lot of people thought we were going to lose both those races. One was down 17 points three weeks before the race and he won by a substantial margin, by a substantial margin, dan bishop, and he was up 1 or 2 points and he ended up by what was it, 25 points or some incredible. I will ask you folks because i dont want to be inaccurate otherwise i will have a front page story. We have breaking news, trump exaggerated but he won by many many points. He was leading by maybe two, maybe three, but he won in the 20s. So its been so were looking great in north carolina. Were looking great in florida. You had one or two congressmen, democrats listen say we cant beat him at election, so lets impeach him; right . Didnt you hear al green, hes a real beauty, that guy, but he said very distinctively, it was all over t
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