I call this hearing of the subcommittee on fisheries, wildlife, fisheries, water and wildlife, to order. We are here today to discuss innovative financing and funding to address americas deficient Water Infrastructure. The purpose of this hearing is simple, today we will be discussing americas current approach towards Drinking Water and wastewater investment Wastewater Infrastructure investment. Many members of this committee including myself often reference the American Society of Civil Engineers, asce, infrastructure report card. Currently the asce grades americas Drinking Water infrastructure with a d. Wastewater has a slightly better grade, a d plus. That reminds some of our grades in school. Not you. Im glad you didnt look this way. This is not a rural problem or a big city problem, its not a republican or a democrat problem. This is a National Emergency and we need to find solutions before its too late. It is one thing to see these terrible grades on paper, but what does this act
Hospital. Instead he rested at the team hotel as a precaution. Well waiting to see if hell be at the dugout this afternoon. Tia check your clocks if you can. You may have lost power overnight. This is what the firstenergy outage map looked like this a few hours ago. It was close to 30,000 customers. Thats down a little bit to 26,000 customers who still dont have electricity. Brian all right. And if everything is still wet outside, we have a lot going. Laura has an update on a major road closure in mentor. Some of you may have woke up this morning to some thunder. Tia more of the same is coming today, though. Its not over. Meteorologist Samantha Roberts is tracking another yellow alert day. Sam. Samantha this yellow alert for the threat of thunderstorms. Look at what last nights norms did in Cleveland Heights. This is storm damage courtesy of trees on top of cars, trees snapped. My goodness. Look at that. Thats not a small tree at all. We had gusty winds there. I would encourage you in
Oclock when i use to do this a month or so ago was pitch black now here we are at six oclock and it is still nice and laid out more more daylight every single day that shows this spring is around the corner meter logically speaking only two more weeks until were finished with winter actually clapped over her use of your smile and out there to temperatures have been running all day early today there were thirty some degrees warmer than at the same time yesterday. Most of the day theyve been in the twenties now were only running sixteen seventeen eighteen degrees warmer than yesterday at six oclock as because tempers are cooling off theyre starting to drop down through the fifties theyre going to continue to go rapidly to the fifties and in the forties by early sort of mid evening i guess we can call it and then temptress or to become a little bit more steady as we watch another system moving in this one will bring us smattering of precipitation across the area will be a lot on radar not
There. And, by the way, when i was there, there was a man there, former secretary of defense, National Security adviser, brzezinski, and his daughters on morning joe shes a very nice lady, and her father was in this meeting, and he looked over at rumsfeld and he said, would you tell the president to stop saying dead or alive, that we want bin laden dead or alive. Dead or alive is incendiary and kissinger was across the table and looked at rumsfeld and said, i agree, we dont want bin laden alive, okay . But anyway, so heres the situation. With iraq, the first war in iraq was an amazing situation because the muslim arabs supported the west and we went as a unified group to push saddam out of kuwait, okay . I actually went there after the war and even saw the oil fields that were still on fire. The egyptian ambassador to the United States went to the rose garden and announced the support of aour arab friends who would work with us. Talk about the second iraq war. The second iraq war was p
Up the spray from the rain that rolled through there. The next 12 hours we have rain. Rain at noon. It chains to showers at 4 00. The showers will be best across the south bay at 7 00. Most of us are hopefully dry by then. Sue, better news in south San Francisco. Southbound 101 was entirely shut down because of an accident an hour ago. C. H. P. Just now informing us of the two left lanes having been reopened and they have a sigalert in effect. Two lanes, one and two, they now are reopened in south San Francisco. Still a lost wet weather so take extra caution. Two lanes beat no lanes. So true. The wet weather continues. Now another storm arriving this morning with bay area residents making preparations to keep themselves and their property safe. Nick is in the north by. How wet is it . Kristen, it is. Coming down. My mission was to find the rain. High photographer and i have been riding around trying to understand what, exactly, we are seeing in marin and we checked out an area that had