I love this place for a lot of reasons but the reason i love aei is because only here is a conference on government statistics more popular than the rolling stones. [ laughter ] thats a great thing. This is a pop i ctopic that doe normally get headlines but lets face it, in a time the phrase alternative facts has entered the american lexicon is anything more important that what were doing to talk about today . At aei were dedicated to the data are essential for evaluating success and failure of Public Policies and ensuring were fulfilling the true purpose of our work, to help more people live a better life. Were delighted that aei is partnering with our neighbors the Brookings Institution to examine this critical subject and were coreleasing a new paper on the topic and this is the kick off event for that coissued paper. I want to introduce our panel today and after that our keynote speaker or my cointroducer, at least for this day. Our panel today starts with martin of harvard and the
Falling for most of the evening. Were seeing heavy rain developing in some spots. Street level we go, right over San Francisco at this hour. Those yellows, oranges and even reds you see on your screen from the richmond district, sunset San Francisco, the marina, north beach, that is falling at half an inch an hour. This cell is moving off to the north and east. So well time it out for you. Approaching emeryville around 9 14. Rind, 9 18. Vallejo, 9 39 p. M. Were tracking scattered downpours as well as a chance of thunder and a wet Tuesday Morning commute. A stronger storm is on the horizon and the full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Ama . You can track the rain on our abc 7 news app. Be sure to enable push alerts. A wild sideshow on the bay bridge last night. These dirt bike riders may have thought they got away, but the california Highway Patrol caught up with them in the end. They used a high tech, new airplane that was watching them the whole time. Its better than giving chas
Generator. And there has been some power outages. Ive been pretty lucky myself so far. And senator, weve seen before in backtoback storms whether one isnt so bad and people dont take warnings about the second one seriously. Are you worried about that at all and what do you want to say to those people . I think we all need to take hurricane warnings seriously, but i think we all take it very seriously. I think it will be good news it seems to be taking a trek taking it sufficiently far from the island. I think this will have been the worst, personally, but of course well be prepared. Because my neighborhood, in particular, was hit pretty hard by the hurricane two years ago. All right. State senator from the big island of hawaii, thank you for joining us. And stay safe out there. Storm hermine is drenching the florida gulf coast. They have issued hurricane warnings for parts of northwest florida. They are seeing rough surfs and high tides. Theres flash flooding and many schools will be c
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