Several of whom will participate remotely. I will come artisticpa wish panl of witnesses. I thank them for a period. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief exec of Competitive Carriers Association paid ms. Shirley bloomfield, chief executive officer of the ruralhe broadband association. Mr. Dean kimmelman, Senior Advisor of Public Knowledge who will be appearing at testified remotely and mr. Jonathans vulture, president and chief executive officer of u. S. Telecom broadband association. The crisis has changed lead dramatically for every american. As the administration and the center for Disease Control and prevention encourages social a distancing to prevent further spread of the virus normalia activities like work, school and Health Care Services are now increasingly taking place online. This has caused a huge uptick for the use of broadband in one estimate shows that every Broadband Usage is up by 47 since the pandemic began. The good news is theres been progre
To mornings on 2 it is a rainy can see that rain is creeping saturday, march 28 it is good to have you on board, frank into the sacramento valley. Mallicoat here and claudine the sierra is going to get and rosemary both working from anywhere from 36 inches of home, good morning ladies. Rainfall. Snow levels will be climbing. Good morning. Good morning to about 3000 feet early on. You. And thank yofor waking up with us this saturday we will see the snow continued morning. A little wet where you are and rosemary how is it to climb. Looking . It will be soggy and now sunday, it will begin to by the way guys i am wearing green today so when was the taper off but it will not go away completely. More rain in the forecast last time i could wear agreed tomorrow morning. We will have details on what to expect for the rest of the afternoon, we will look at the to work . Highs and the extended forecast mostly cloudy outdoors and scattered showers falling over coming up. The bay area which will co
Hands of the taliban the taliban wants to make a deal well see if they want to make a deal its going to be a real deal but well see but they want to make a deal and they only want to make a deal because youre doing a great job the chillers they want to make you trouble announced for the 1st time the taliban is interested in reaching a Peace Agreement with the government in kabul this after they released 2 western hostages and 10 Afghan Soldiers in exchange for 3 of their senior leaders. These are the 1st signs of progress since the broke off talks in Early September after the taliban killed a u. S. Soldier in a bombing but Officials Say theres still no sign the taliban are ready to give up their weapons permanently in exchange for a role in afghan politics demilitarization is a key demand from afghan president ashraf ghani but hes been sidelined while u. S. And taliban do senators meet still joined trump on stage at bob graham in tweeted out highlights of the moment apparently keen to
To convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein we spoke to the founder of the Investigative Group which obtained the footage. The only conclusion i can draw is that a lot of these Network Executives are very close to the people they were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein per amy amy roebuck. Hello youre watching the weekly here on r. T. International im Rosana Lockwood welcome to the program now we start with this bolivia as a long serving president evo morales has announced he is stepping down from office and this follows 2 weeks of intense protests in which bolivia suffered 170000000. 00 worth of damage. Well to get some more on this are now joined live in the studio Senior Correspondent. Has been a turbulent time into. Politics these past few days he just took us through whats happened when it all really began last month during the elections president ial elections then eval moralez claims he won outright so there would be no runoff the 3 candidates apparently gathered 10 percent more than
About the pg e power shut off in the south bay and we will bring it to you live. The time is 7 01 and lets get to breaking news weve been telling about all morning with a wildfire in moraga forcing evacuations overnight. Its called the barrel fire and appears to be knocked down. The all clear was issued for the Sanders Ranch neighborhood of moraga, great news and the fire started just before 1 00 this morning and burned 40 acres. It was burning near merrills star colonel north and sanders road south of st. Marys college and Moraga Police originally ordered evacuations for those along Sanders Ranch road, merrill drive and harrington road and now they say about 70 households out of the 140 evacuated are allowed to go back home. The people who live above merrill circle, you are still being evacuated. They are told to meet and gather at Saint Monica Church and there is another gathering area for evacuees, the safeway supermarket on moraga way. Officials with the Fire District there are clo