The 30 to 40mileanhour range and even 40 to 50mileanhour gusts. Theres a High Surf Advisory until 4 00 saturday along the coast and here is the rain making a mess of the evening commute. Lets zoom in for a closer look. We have heavy downpours making their way west to east, including some moving back into san rafael, more rain crossing over San Pablo Bay into southern Solano County, Contra Costa County and alameda county, more heavy downpours moving into San Francisco as folks are getting off work. That band of heavy rain extends off the coast and theres more rain moving into the santa cruz mountains. Well zoom back out and put everything in motion. This is the most intense rain and were experiencing the gustiest winds we are going to through the course of the system. Its going to be a wet evening and generally wet, cold weekend, too. Well get into how long this pattern will last coming up. Heres a look at conditions along i80 and highway 50 right now from caltrans cameras. Its been get
Yesterday, Fighting Away tears, called a close friend. Today im hurt. And im hurting. And i know so many people out there are as well. Another investigation into the who and the why. Another set of questions, like why did a 25yearold Bank Employee bring horror to his own workplace . Why did he live stream it . And why was his Weapon Of Choice an ar15, like so many other shooters before him . And now another conversation about gun violence and reform. A conversation well continue in just moments with Congressman Morgan Nicardi who represents louisville The Big Question once again, will this cycle end the same way as all the rest before with nothing changed whatsoever also this morning, back in action, one of the two black tennessee lawmakers expelled from the state house last week is back at work. There he is, justin jones. How soon could his other ousted colleague be back there with him . And the race to keep a popular Abortion Pill on the market, the doj now appealing a controversial
To go around to sate the buyers. So the positives get magnified and the negatives get ignored. That happened again today. The dow dipped 13 points, s p advanced, nasdaq gained. 29 , nice move. First, lets understand, this market is largely driven not by stock pickers but by index funds. That index fund money comes in automatically everyday billions of dollars placed in equities will move equities higher why does this send stocks up so much the for starters, directional. That money tends not to be traded it soaks up supply quite easily. Remember, the stock market is a function of supply and demand. Before the index phenomenon which didnt exist in the 80s and 90s, mutual funds and hedge funds would be selling as well as buying. They still do. But the amount of index money coming in, chiefly for retirement, far outweighs the amounts that are traded. It overwhelms them dont get me wrong, index funds are the right choice for you if youre putting money away for retirement, you shouldnt try t
The committee will please come to order. We turn our attention to the opiate crisis. The nations number one Public Health challenge. Our witnesses sam, the author dream and, true to of americas opiate epidemic. Senator moran i will have an opening statement. Though will hear from our witness. Ive suggested if he wants to take more than five minutes to say what he has to say we would welcome that. Theres plenty of conversation back and forth it is unusual to have a single witness utter hearing. This is an unusual topic. One you quote gary franken is the worst madman epidemic in history. The challenge it presents has captured the attention of every member. This is what we call the bipartisan hearing. Most wars are. Democrats and republicans have agreed on the topic, on its importance in the witness. Its my hope that will restrain from lecturing one another and Health Insurance and focus on the topic. This kills more americans every day than car accidents. In each state were reminded of t
[ is distinct conversations ]. And live here this morning on c spann span 3, a discussion about transparency and oversight at the food and Drug Administration. Well be hearing from dr. Scott gottlieb starting off the conference. Introductions under way. Efforts to pass and implement the food safety modernization act, focus on medical devices, especially the potential of using the unique device identifier to improve monitoring devices throughout the product lifecycle. We have successfully worked on products 10 to courage innovation particularly around antibiotics and 10 to sure appropriate use of them. We focused on drug safety and transparency in the supply chain and especially on the safety of compounded drugs. Among other things, pew submitted transparency to the task force back in 2010 if the. They touch on some of the topics well be discussing today. Reading the background papers for todays meet regular mind med of a meeting we convened in a room directly above of us here a few yea