Today will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We find ourselves this morning with a bit of challenge on the house floor. Votes may start within five minutes. Multiple role call votes may be up to one and a half hours voting on the house floor. In the interest of time, i had the great Opening Statement written by my texas constituent, i will not give it but ask that without objection so ordered. Would you like to speak or put your statement for the record . For the record, okay, guys. Moving forward we have three witnesses here. We have mr. Chadre, you guys have five minutes. The head of furk. You have five minutes. Thank you. Mr. Chairman. Ranking member rush, members of the subcommittee for the opportunity to be before you today. Before i begin my marks i want to briefly reflect on the passing of senators demin chi, former chairman of the committee and hell be remembered. Id like to start by taking a moment to acknowledge all those impacted by hurricanes harvey and irma, the los
We are awaiting a press briefing from the Las Vegas Police officials in any minute. But first lets go to our very own hillary vaughn. Charles they are walking out right now. We are on a 20second delay for the live view. Carlos, you ready . All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Im obviously sheriff lombardo, clark county. This will be our fourth Briefing Since the incident took place yesterday evening. Ill give you a short synopsis of our updates, then we have other individuals standing behind me to make comments. So, there is two things we are attempting to achieve. We have to finish processing the scenes. We have three separate scenes, it will be four at this point. We have the 32nd floor of the room at the mandalay bay. We have the event location. The house in mesquite and now we have s. W. A. T. Getting ready to hit the house in northern nevada. At this point we did in the last briefing, i was unable to tell you what we retrieved from the house of mesquite. We retrieved in excess of
Happening over the venetian bridge. Our pete suratos is standing by for a News Conference at the center there. What did you find out. Reporter they tell us theres going to be a News Conference at about 11 45 a. M. It could be a combination of police as well as other city officials speaking at that News Conference. I want to go and show you guys a live look right now. You can see it on the screen of the situation right now at the valero refinery. You can see the flames coming out of the stacks. When we were crossing the cartinas bridge earlier we could see the black smoke. The flares are a result of a power outage at the refinery just before 7 00 a. M. Were learning that pg e says it happened during what they call a routine switching but that power was restored shortly after. Now, as you mentioned, some places are still being asked to shelter in place such as Matthew Turner and Roberts Temple Elementary School and folks at the nearby Industrial Park were also notified to evacuate. Now,
Coming up tonight at 6 00 we will hear more from the father what he has to say about galen and how long he considered him a putback. Reporting live, nbc bay area news. Thank you. We continue the coverage on our website just click on the top story box right there on the front panl take to you the raw video of sheriffs News Conference today. Nbcbayarea. Com. Fire and smoke shooting from a bay area refinery. The flaring at valero refinery triggered evacuations and shelter in place orders. The worry potentially toxic smoke and some say they werent warned early enough about the danger. The the smoke still pumping into the air right now, rick. Reporter yeah, it is. And residents, first of all they want know about the issue. Air quality still being tested they want to know about that as well. The latest whats happening at the refineliry the black smoke stopped about an hour ago p. Pufrmg through steam it could go back to black as the refinery tries to get on line this while the area remains o
Today. Right now the storm is over pennsylvania. Torrential rain and in some places, blizzard conditions. Here is the big picture as best we know it. 67 in the caribbean. Close to 8 million customers in 15 states and the District Of Columbia have no electricity. Spent last night in red cross operated shelters. This may be the worst storm ever to hit new york city. One of the Biggest Challenges is where the massive subway system is shut down, tunnels and stations are filled with high water. No idea when the trains will be running again. This is a difficult situation. Take a look at laguardia airport. The runways are submerged and levels were so high they reached the jet lanes where people usually walk on to the planes. An entire neighborhood is destroyed by fire. At least 80 homes burned to the ground in the new york burro of queens. This is an awful image. People are going through hell right now. Tell us about it. You know, they really are. About 80 homes, the fire official telling us