, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I want you to know, im here because it work for you [applause] rep. Cartwright im not here to lecture at you. I hope we all learn something from each other. There are some other people who work for you that i want to introduce to you. They are all people who work in the district in pennsylvania in the 17th Congressional District, and i want you to know who they are in case you ever need to call upon them for help. Starting with my district director mr. Bob morgan. [applause] cartwright bob is also an Economic Development specialist and when i first learned about what it is to be a member of congress, i learned there are no more earmarks. We will talk about that in a bit. What that means is you need Economic Development specialists to help local municipal toicials right for grants get federal funding for important local projects. Bob is an Economic Development specialist, we also have mr. Bill hanley down at the end from pottsv
Is the nations capitol. He knew to take metro onto reletting night. [laughter] and he came down from saratoga springs. Despite the fact that he is a new yorker i should say that no less a local source than the Washington Post saying he succeeds in showing us the human face of washington, and too often perceived as faceless, that is achievement enough. Tom lewis. [applause] thank you very much. Im glad that you knew microphone. Take the metro. I will be getting to it. I am glad that you knew to take the metro. I want you to no that i invited several people to come tonight, as my guest. And i have been in the back of the green room and have gotten frantic messages saying, we are stuck in traffic. And i said, ditch your cars, grab a metro, and get off at federal triangle. They will be coming in late, and i expect others, too, will be will be that way as well. I want to thank rebecca very much for her introduction and think the Smithsonian Associates for inviting me. Delighted to be here,
To vallejo. Where are you heading to in vallejo. We have reports of possible damage from the earthquake. We did get looking at the chp twitter feed and they are saying westbound off southeast sonoma boulevard closed, westbound i80 south of route 37 closed at this time. Other south route 37 roads open and caltran is on of course, keep an eye on that. Are you noticing anything apparently we lost cornell. Cornell talking about 121 there in Sonoma County and he was shut down. That is, of course, the prudent thing to do. Name there are possibilities for damage because we remember the last thing you want is the type of situation like we had in the sonoma quake. And 880 just pancaked and it resulted in 53 deaths. So lets get right to where you were talking about the traffic information. Whats going on. You see cars coming across. Looks like traffic is moving fine here. We go over to the bay bridge, it doesnt appear that is affected right now either. We are looking at traffic thats able to mov
Night. Ariana with a problem, taylor shaking it off in a showstopping moment. Welcome to my world. But queen bey steals the show. As the vmas turn into the show. As the vmas turn into the bmas. And good morning, america. Happy monday. Only one person in the world can upstage beyonce, there she is right there, blue ivy. With a little yeah, mommy, last night. What a way to end that show. Just incredible. Such a sweet family moment. Then, miley cyrus also engineered her own statement when she sent a young, homeless man to the stage to accept her video of the year award as she looked on with tears in her eyes. What a difference a year makes. Very classy. Could do a lot of good. But we want to get right to the state of emergency in Northern California after the biggest earthquake to hit the San Francisco bay area in 20 25 years, measuring 6. 0. We have full team coverage, starting with cecilia vega in napa. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter good morning. The governor declared a state of emerg
This may not have been the epicenter of this mornings quake but it is definitely the epicenter of the damage. The earthquake at 3 20 a. M. , magnitude 6. 0. The largest the bay area has seen in 25 years since loama prieta in 1989. Can you see from our nbc chopper. In all 33 buildings condemned. The quake left gaping holes in walls and in some cases, walled pulled away from each other. We should add more than 100 homes have been redtagged, meaning you cant go inside. Many locals, filling up the napa area hotels and motels. That earthquake centered between napa and American Canyon. We are showing you on the map right there. West of both of those cities, few miles from the napa county airport. Tonight we have new numbers from the queen of the valley medical center. The hospital said it treated 208 people in all. 17 earthquake patients admitted and are staying the night in a hospital bed. One remains in critical condition. Were tracking the Power Outages as well. Pg e said it restored powe