We are looking at the reliably of the electric grid, with state utility were presented to us. You are watching live coverage on cspan 3. My heart is full of gratitude. That is the thought right now. To all of you, to my colleagues, to the staff, being the chairman of the house and conference committee, is the ultimate thing in congress. This is been the best. We have a whole other year ahead of us. Thank you for your service. [ applause ]. We have a lot of work to do. Go ahead and get started. State utility regulators have challenges. They have affordable electricity. They have this during this congress. They understand what drives the growing reliability crisis. This is from the entire electricity portfolio over an extended period of time. They have different retail choices. We are relying more on transitional organizations. This is due to environmental growing regulations and agencies. Fans will be on foster fuel generation, and market distortions. These factors are contributing to p
Well take a look at the next chance of rain even heavier coming up. Heres sue. We go to the east bay with the east shore freeway from Golden Gate Fields on into berkeley moving at a nice clip. You can see the gaps between headlights so not filled in yet and moving nicely. In fact, lets take a look at your drive times from hercules into San Francisco under 30 minutes. Thats always a nice drive. Slowing out of tracy for Early Morning commuters and we do have road work still over the waldo thats due to be picked up southbound 101 through the Robin Williams tunnel in about 30 minutes. Heads up if you drive across the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Big changes coming and the first test starts today. Amy hollyfield live at the bridge. It could confuse some drivers. Reporter the big message is ignore the signs. You will see them start to be tested this morning. Theyre going to Start Testing them on the marin section, the eastbound side, toward richmond. They will start lighting up the arrows at
In from 580 and 80. 880 continues to be your best look. Slowing out of tracy into dublin pleasanton. Take a look at this. Flu fresh, fluffy snow. Commuters may have their hand full but it certainly is beautiful. Matt keller is there live for us. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, natasha and reggie. Fluffy, white. That would describe many peoples comforters on their beds. They may want to get under that more and longer this morning because it is cold outside. But it is very beautiful when you see the snow. Check out this video that we have up here in the Livermore Valley. This is around 2 00 a. M. This is Livermore Valley on mines road. This is below 1,500 feet. The snow was sticking to the ground, sticking to trees, and sticking to cars. The photograph who shot this video said there were very icy conditions making it dangerous to drive. Of course if youre in the upper elevations you may not see the snow but you will see cold temperatures and possibly freezing conditions. Be ca
Of san leandro. And as you take a look, this stuff is moving southward. So watch out if youre in union city area. Hayward, youre heading into that area. Youre going to be seeing down pours around solano k weve even seen a mix of rain and snow over the higher elevations. This is a level one storm. Showers briefly have a chance of lightning, hail and wintry mix above 2,000 feet. Rainfall totals, about almost a third of an inch in concord, getting exactly that in Mountain View so far. And there is much more rain in our forecast as the stronger storm hits. Ill be back with those details in a second. You can track the storm with our app. You can go to your area and check on your neighborhood. A controversial decision by oakland mayor libby schaaf who warned about possible ice raids is gaining national attention. While some are applauding her courage, others are furious. Laura thorn Laura Anthony has the story. That is part of this job. Reporter despite receiving personal threats, libby scha
This is a clear statement that an ideological bent against a nonprofit was very specifically there, while other emails in the same chain of emails shows that they were picking who they wanted. Thats the politics that was going on. Its the politics were trying to prevent. As i said in my previous statement, the department of justice is given a number of dollars for Grant Programs, we may not always agree with how those Grant Programs are run, but we give them that. Additionally, Congress Appropriates a tremendous amount of money, much of it going to the same groups. A year and a half ago this body came together on the violence against women which has and will continue to do good work in exactly the area people are talking about. But this is the reason we have legislation before us today. Weve had political activity thats been going on according to the democrats by republican attorneys general, according to this document by the last attorneys general, the fact is we need the legislation,