House conveniences for business at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. The house is expected to take up Energy Legislation that week. Live coverage of the house of representatives is on cspan. On cspan2, the senate comes back monday at 3 00 p. M. Later that day the Senate Begins debate on the nomination of gail smith to be administrator of the u. S. Agency for international development. Coming up next, a subcommittee looks at policing and the role of the Civil Rights Division. They heard members from that division. This is about three hours. This hearing will come to order. Welcome to everyone here. Welcome to the witnesses in the first panel and welcome to those who have come to participate in this hearing. The purpose of this hearing is to look at the challenges facing the brave men and women of Law Enforcement. A great many of us have been growing more and more concerned at seeing Police Officers the subject of public vilification. Seeing Police Officers being undermined and hearing from Police Off
To put forward, so, i commend the u. S. Senate proappropriatio committee providing some assistance in that regard. I want to just invite david to ask, to address whether the, whether we can wait another 30 or 40 or 50 years to take action and expect not to have consequences. Thank you for the question. Not acting increases the cost of action. The longer we delay in action will increase the cost of action. Because we will have infrastructure lock in and other dynamics that will make it increasingly difficult to in fact shift to low carbon xwhis. We have the opportunity and i think we in fact are on the trajectory as lisa and others have said, we are on the trajectory of moving very rapidly toward that low carbon economy. The price of solar panels for example has fallen 75 in the last five years. And we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs in doing so . And we are in fact creating, there are 100,000 jobs in texas alone. Thank you. I want to welcome sam adams, who works with the World
Its called the crossroads of new york state, and this weekend our cspan cities tour will explore the history and literary life of syracuse, new york. On book tv, well visit the special Collections Library at Syracuse University and learn about the Antislavery Movement in the area through the papers of abolitionist garrett smith. A local author discusses her book, prelude to prison. Then well talk with jeff hems lee about his book going viral. Reality is a process of social sharing. Its the process by what that happens. Viralty is what happens when people share content usually into their own networks. Oftentimes somebody who has a lot of following, a lot of followers or a lot of people paying attention to them, also spreads the content. On American History tv, well visit the Erie Canal Museum to learn how the canal influenced the growth of syracuse, the state, and the nation. Then it is on to Harriet Tubmans home. Our trip to syracuse takes us to the Matilda Jocelyn gage home. Her speec
Have that big range but well call it 35 for the triangle. Mainly cloudy skies with some showers to our south and east. 40 at lunchtime. Still some rain this afternoon and evening with temperatures normal. Highs today in the mid40s. We will be well above normal later this weekend. Temperatures will climb into the 106. Well take a look at how warm it getsment coming up. Already. How are we looking right now. So far, so good for the most part at least on major routes. Well have a story here in just a few minutes right after this traffic report about an accident in southern wake county overnight that took out some utility lines. At this point, rock rvice staying road remains closed at elridge drive. Consider using old stage road as a good alternate route through the rest of the morning. Extra time there. We could see a change in the congestion patterns on 42 and old stage road. Just getting word of a minor accident on tryon at trail wood and an accident on green at calvary. A lot of people
The sprinkler going. In napa it wasnt rain but hail that came down surprising a lot of people. One person sending this video in. Dark clouds brought rain out for some time. A photographer also found a rainbow over rohnert park. And this is what it looked like on the connector to the bay bridge. Mark tamayo is live tracking all of this. Reporter very unusual to be tracking this many much thunder activity. Looking up in Sonoma County 60 lightning strikes for this part of the bay area. 40 out toward solano county. 90inches in that Flash Flood Warning has expired. But that warranted the Flash Flood Warning out over solano countiment this is the history of all that thunderstorms activity. Very intense thunderstorms up toward napa. Out toward Sonoma County as well. You see it towering over napa producing the thunderstorms and hail. Out toward Browns Valley you can see basically the result out there. Looks like snow but widespread hail for this part of the bay area. Right now, lets take a bre