Subcommittee on oversight and investigations hearing will now come to order. Today the committee is holding a hearing entitled sounding the alarm, the Health Threats of ecigarette. The purpose oftodays hearing to examine the Public Health impact and regulatory authorities related to ecigarette manufacturing , sales and use. The chair recognizes herself for purposes of an opening statement. Our country is facing a serious public epidemic. One that is causing severe harm. This hearing will examine the cause of that epidemic, the uncontrolled and rising use of ecigarette and lifethreatening illnesses ripped the country and the use of ecigarette products young people sort, we must act to protect the American People from the myths and misunderstandings about these products. First, the data is now clear. Over the past several years seen an unacceptably high proportion of young people facing nicotine addiction. This year alone, more than 27 percent of High Schoolers report using ecigarette or
Sunnyvale, upper 80s near 90. 84 in the city and 72 and pacifica. Napa, 88. Proffered, crawford, 89 degrees. A little fog. There are some 40s to the north. Did not take long to start warming up. The city is still a 63, even though the buoy temp is 54. Note breeze whatsoever. Mid50s and the upper hills. Is warm but even the coast, bay, and lynn temps will be well above average today. The high kicking in for 2 1 2, three days. Just like that, it will start to cool down on sunday. A big change on monday. More that coming up in the next couple of days. May be our first rain of the season for some on monday. 70s, 80s, 90s today. 7 01 am. A little hiccup or two early. Now, it is better. It is better than it was. We had a couple of things, as we mentioned. We have not had a lot of serious crashes. Yesterday and today, weve been okay when it comes to super serious things. List begin with the east bay commute. Some people leaving the east bay. You can see a little bit of a backup at the east ba
San francisco is a great beard city. A lot of dudes, a lot of hipsters with beards in San Francisco. A lot of millennials, for crying out loud. No one shaves anymore. At a workplace, most people can come as they are. Im going to be out there. I dont have a beard. It is obvious. If you have a beard model, we are going to get a trim and we will talk about Prostate Cancer awareness month. I like a. Cyclist talk about what is happening at the state capital. The california governor was expected to sign into law a right that a bill that would classify rideshare employees at as employees. We are live to explain the bill. Allie, telus how it would impact drivers and customers. Reporter it was a group that lobbied hard for this change in the law. They had several test and demonstrations. They called them gig workers rising. We have some video to show you. Will go to the video right now. If the governor signs this bill into law, it would mean that rideshare drivers woulds would qualify for stand
Over foro pay half 1 billion contributing to the states Opioid Crisis. This marks the first time a drug company has been held responsible for the crisis, which has led to more than 400,000 Overdose Deaths since 1999. We will get the latest. Then to kochland the secret history of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in america. Is theland in one sense history of one corporation, and it happens to be one of the largest corporations in the industries. S, coke this company hasevenues every year that are laer than that of facebook, Goldman Sachs, nus beall combed. It touches on most every aspect of modern life from energy to the food system to Building Materials. Amy following the death of billionaire rightwing donor david koch, we look at how he and his brother charles koch transformed the American Economy and political system from funding Climate Change deniers to fighting organized labor. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report.
Why they will not do it. Bill dudley has an understandable position. Most of the people in jackson hole are muted. The World Economy is going to a slump and the u. S. May be slowing down as well because of the president straight all of these. The fed is not going to get involved in the politics of making trait decisions. Jay powell on saturday on friday said setting trade policy is the business of congress and the administration, not the fed. Our assignment is to use Monetary Policy to foster our statutory goals, which are maximum employment and stable prices. Kevin despite all of the political snafus around the central bank, confidence declined less than forecast. We are getting new numbers that would suggest consumers are not feeling the recession fears as much as we anticipated. Michael certainly not as much as wall street. What may have happened is companies stopped up a lot ahead of the tariffs imposed and we see that in the inventory numbers. As though start to work down, prices