Secretary of state Rex Tillerson testified last month before a Senate Appropriations subCommittee Hearing on his departments 2018 budget request. The Trump Administration wants to get 30 of the budget for the state department. South carolina senator Lindsey Graham chairs this twohour hearing. The subCommittee Hearing will come to order. Id like to welcome secretary of state tillerson. We need to increase defense spending. But once you do that, then if youre not going to deal with entitlementeds, you have to go to nondefense discretionary funding to find the off sets. And this account gets pretty much devastated. Im not blaming you. Im not blaming anybody. I just want the country to know i think this budget request is in many ways radical and reckless when it comes to selfpower. And i look forward to working with you, mr. Secretary, to find a better budget but also to find a better state department. You just got there, been there for a few months. A year from now, i think youll have a b
Catherine and dont forget. You can track todays storm and future storms by downloading the kron four mobile app. Well send out important weather and traffic alerts as the storm moves through the bay area. Its free to download in the app store for both android and apple devices. Bureau says its notified all 36 families of victims of the ghost ship warehouse fire. And today the coroner released the names of two more victims. Theyre 35yearold Jennifer Mendiola and 36yearold Joseph Matlock both of oakland. Meantime investigators say theres more work ahead in determining the cause. But atf officials tell kron4s Haaziq Madyun that theyre now bringing in some help. He joins us live now in oakland. With more. Haaziq . Reporter things are slowly pushing beginning to return to normal trotters are serving customers relatives. Atf is beginning their investigation to pinpoint the cause of this fire. Reporter zeroing in on a potential electrical cause for the ghost ship warehouse fire that is why we
After a fire ravaged the oakland warehouse. All 36 victims have been found and identified. Now the big question that remains is what caused this enormous loss . Kron 4s Ella Sogomonian is live at the scene where federal investigators are working into the night for an answer. Ella what do we know so far . Right now investigators continue to examine all electrical devices in the room they believe the fire first erupted by digitally mapping the warehouse. Reporter 36 lives perished in the oakland warehouse fire that served as sanctuary for bay area artists. Those who have lost a loved one continue to visit this site for themselves. Bob lapine traveled from utah. He lost his son Edmond Lapine in the fire. Bob lapine, lost son to fire we just wanted to come and get closure ourselves just to see and i wanted to have memories. Now that all victims have been identified the complete focus of the investigation has shifted to a question that lingers what started this fatal fire . A refridgerator
But its coming. We have ice to deal with for tomorrow morning. We will talk about this in detail. Lets get you through the rest of today first. 30 degrees. We are not making it above freezing for most places. Cloudy skies. The clouds make it feel colder. Winds are out of the southeast. Notice what that does to the temperatures. At midnight we are increasing the temperatures but that creates a problem. Warm air, precipitation heading our way. I say precipitation because it will be different. We are looking at the potential for sleet then more importantly so freezing rain. That will create issues on the roads if you are an early riser getting on the road, relax your plans a little bit. 9 00, 10 00 will be just as good as 7 00, 8 00. Looking at Winter Weather advisories. Check out Garrett County. They are under an ice storm warning. That is where it will be worse. This is an overview. I will detail. Freezing rain turning to showers, warming up, drying out, showers then rain then a couple
Were following tonight is out of the east bay. Where the eastbound side of interstate 580 in oakland is shooting. Vicki thanks for joining us. Im vicki liviakis. Grant and im grant lodes. Grant this is the third shooting in the last two weeks in oakland. Chp officers have closed the eastbound side of interstate 580 at harrison street as they search for evidence. The shooting happened just after seven. And as of right now we know there are two victims. Grant both of them were in the same car. We have a crew headed to the scene and will bring you the latest information as soon as is comes into the newsroom. Vicki our other big story tonight. Vicki get ready for a wet and commute. Another round of wet weather is about to hit the bay area as many of you are getting ready to hit the roads for the holiday. Grant on your left its storm tracker4 top right. Conditions in tahoe. At kirkwood. Grant and bottom right. Is how it looks at San Francisco International Airport tonight. A lot of people a