Funds cost 7 billion every month, and thats just for the army. Mr. President , we have an opportunity to correct this or we have an opportunity to waste another 20 by a yearlong c. R. I am urging the American Public to make it known to those of us at veterans day programs this weekend and next week. Im urging my colleagues to stress this when they talk to the public. There are there are appropriation bills that are not yet worked out but for heavens sake, lets at least do the bill that pays the troops that sends a signal to the rest of the world in these trying times that we are at least going to fund our Defense Department and our future veterans who are on active duty and who have taken the oath today that we will do them in a modern and timely fashion. Were five weeks late. Lets dont make it another five weeks after this and another five months after that. Pass a fullfunding appropriation bill for our troops, for the department of defense, and give them the type of representation an
Has dropped temperatures. It is snowing on mount diablo. Hamilton will be seeing snow as well. Not a ton but definitely colder , 30 degrees at mount diablo. The winds are the other part of the story and the rain. In the next couple of hours as the front passes through the kinkaid fire zone theres a Flash Flood Watch for debris flow and mudslides. If rainfall rates transpire, three quarters of an inch an hour we could see that problem. You could see an emergency bulletin in those areas. We are preparing for that friend to come through. It will be in the next couple of hours when the heaviest rain is. The heavy wind will be pretty much throughout the evening hours and in the mountains a winter storm warning that is significant. It is almost a blizzard warning because the highways are already closed. The wind and snowfall rates, the snow level will create conditions that are almost impossible to travel. It is a good storm and a big storm. In terms of flooding rain not there. In terms of a
Perhaps some wet pavement down there. We are clearing throughout the day. Breezy at the coast. Even with the sunshine we will not warm up that much today. Heading out, grab the jacket. 40s in the north bay, 50s elsewhere. The rest of the day, continued cool for the last day of septber. 60s to near yoynirive af5 a. M. We have reports of an accident approaching the bay bridge toll plaza. Then a stall, too. You are seeing a bit of a delay on the cash bound lanes. But otherwise the fastrakers are moving good. Always if you can carpool, a great way to go. K at your otherwise commute outside of the central valley, looking at about a 45minute drive time west on 580. From the corridor, from hercules to the macarthur maze, about 14 minutes. Back up at the bay bridge about 12, so make that 26 minutes headed into San Francisco from hercules. And looking good on south 101. Well be back in a couple minutes with an update. A kansas city man accused of intentionally settin a string of fires in the so
2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Do you expect the testimony of the whistleblower . Absolutely. The president says he deserves to meet his accuser. The president is the whistleblower. The president of the United States is the whistleblower. And this individual is a saboteur. Did you order the murder of Jamal Khashoggi . Translator absolutely not. This was a heinous crime, but i take full responsibility as a leader in saudi arabia. Three of the four inmates who escaped an ohio prison have been captured in North Carolina. The last inmate is still on the loose. We continue to use every asset at our disposal. Chaos in hong kong. Prodemocracy demonstrators hit the streets ahead of chinas national day. Montanas gave has declared a winter storm emergency amid record snowfall in september. All that caught on camera, a dramatic oil thanker explosion in south korea. Looked like special effects, but very much the real deal. Check out 15yearold Alan Johnston with the highla
Nine document pages now at the heart of this growing controversy. Greg lee monitored todays testimony, and he joins us in the studio with some of the big takeaways of this testimony. That testimony went nearly 3 1 2 hours, at times growing very tense. During that public hearing, some of the house intelligence committee, Joseph Mcguire said multiple times, this situation is unique and unprecedented. House democrats criticized him for not releasing the complaint sooner, while republicans called all of this a charade. The whistleblower complaint driving the controversy behind president trumps call with ukrainian president and igniting in impeachment inquiry released to the public. In it, the whistleblower alleges the president used the power of the office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 u. S. Election, by asking for dirt on former Vice President joe biden and his son, he goes on to accuse white house officials of trying to lock down records of the call. I want t