Welcome to the oversight subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties. The infiltration of local Police Departments. Good morning to the chair of the committee, miss maloney, our Ranking Member mister roy the vice chair of the committee ocasiocortez and all of our wonderful members who join us. I want to take a moment to extend the welcome to tlaib this is her first hearing with our subcommittee. Were delighted to have her join us welcome miss tlaib. Before we begin today i want to play a video that will set the stage for the discussion that were about to have. Please go ahead and play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society, and every institution. Police, fbi, to the department of justice. Check out the social media posts, its a good day for a chokehold. Or, look at this piece of, street justice or just plain karma quickly, hopefully by police gunfire. Or, if you can read it. That and any situation right, what if i told you that all of those inflammatory words
Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
It has burns more than 371,000 acres and has killed five people. The fire has destroyed nearly 1,100 structures. We are waiting for a scheduled News Conference about the lnu fire. Well bring it to you live when it begins. Meanwhile the scu complex fire has grown to acres. It is burping across seven counties. It is also 35 contained. It has injured five people including three First Responders. And this morning weve got an update on the czu complex fire along the santa cruz and Santa Clara County border. The flames have scorched nearly 83,000 acres and it is 26 contained. One person killed in connection with the fire. Nearly 800 structures are destroyed. Okay. We told that you there is a News Conference going would the lnu complex fire in the north bay. Lets listen in to cal fire. As well as our family and friends at home. All of russ safe but our priority is to do what we do as we go out over the years to protect the community as we serve the state. Specifically to the 83,000 people tha
In fog or clear sky. Right now in San Francisco it is about 58 degrees. Current temperatures throughout in the 60s and 50s, but heading to the afternoon it will be another day in the 90s. I want to show you satellite radar to give you sort of an idea of why we have a fire weather watch that will take effect on sunday. You can see a low pressure system just to our south that is churning. Then the interaction with a High Pressure system to the east is going to drive some moisture to the bay area. The interaction of those two and the instability in the atmosphere is going to bring another chance of seeing dry lightning in the bay area with the potential for that heading into tomorrow, which is why the National Weather service has issued a fire weather watch that will be in place sunday through tuesday because of a chance for fastmoving storms. We are going to take a very close look at that because this is going to, of course, impact the alreadyburning fires that are out there, what thats
Oakland near the Oakland Police station. There was a brief confrontation here between demonstrators and police but they are our heavy barricades and the crowd went in different directions. Right now they are in the grand lakes section. We saw some video online from a few weeks ago, fireworks being set off by demonstrators. Police have Just Announced an Unlawful Assembly which is in the precursor for arrests. A clock this evening. Several hundred people began marching through the streets of oakland to protest the shooting of jacob lake in wisconsin. It has been allowed demonstration. No violence, still quite a bit of vandalism. There are folks in the crowd protesting with shovels and other tools and began smashing windows in downtown oakland particularly along clay street. In some cases they even pulled plywood off the windows first and then hacked away at the glass. Most of this crowd were not committing vandalism, we want to make that clear. The anger among the demonstrators is palpab