Castor robert costa at this event hosted by the Washington Post. Through these in depth oneonone conversations were learning more about the men and women seeking the presidency of the United States and what inspires them to serve the American People. Our guest this morning is new york senator Kirsten Gillibrand. In 2006 she captured the attention of the political establishment winning an upset victory in the race to represent new yorks 20th congressional district. Just three years later she was appointed to the fill the senate seat of one of her mentors, former secretary of state hillary clinton. Now in her second full term, shes working on behalf of women. She has endorsed paid family leave, reducing Maternal Mortality and spoken out against Sexual Harassment and assault including in congress. Today well hear more about these efforts and senator gillibrands other priorities such as medicare for all, gun control and immigration policy and share with us thoughts about her Campaign Inclu
The interior. An accident on the altamonte pass. A truck accident that has taken away the two right lanes on 580 westbound. Crash involve as big rig with a broken axle. Its going to be an allmorning problem. Traffic slow on 205 and 580. Its going to be worse than normal. A huge back up in the area. Gilroy, the freeway, not affected by anything going on at Christmas Hill park. Valley, traffic is moving well. No problems in the east bay on interstate 80 or 580 or the bay bridge toll plaza. Breaking news on the deadly shooting at the nationally known gilroy garlic festival. Three people and the suspected gunman were shot and killed. The police know the shooters name but not releasing any information about him yet and there is no word of a possible motive. One of the vendors came face to face with that gunman as he was about we were in the restroom and walked out and he is standing right there with the rifle and getting ready to put the bullets in it. Police are searching for a possible se
There. 29, gusting 37, gusts napa, concord, 50ss 60s, down 10 jose yesterday, livermore is minus 9. The low clouds are back in the picture. A cooldown. 60s, 70s, upper 80s to a few low 90s. Big rig accident. Its slow traffic this morning, steve, not the typical slowing. You expect it but this morning, two right lanes taken away on the way to the although month pass. Westbound 580 near grantline road. It happened after 12 30 this morning. 580, the lanes, 1 through 3 are open. One of the right lanes remains closed. They have opened one more lane. Thats belter news at one point the two right lanes were closed. Traffic is very slow on 205 and 580. One of the truck to be complica this wont open until 8 00 in the morning. This is a huge impact for people coming in from the Central Valley. People do come in to the bay area. The rest of the commute looks fine driving through the area and the east bay to the bay bridge. Traffic is moderately heavy. Back to the desk. Gilroy garlic festival, thre
You can hear the sense of alarm and fear as people rushed the exits at the garlic festival. This is around 5 40 yesterday. This was the third they of the garlic festival as the event was winding down. Three people were shot and killed. 12 others injured. The officers confronted the gunman within minutes of the shooting, the gunman was shot and killed, police dont have information on a motive for the shooting or the type of weapon used and the gunmans identity has not been released but belief the gunman got in by using a tool to cut through a back fence on the north side of Christmas Hill park. The main entrance has metal detectors and security. Witnesses reported a second suspect involved with the gunman. We believe they saw witness statement there is was a second individual involved in some way. We just dont know what way. We have teams to try to track down and identify leads regarding the second suspect. We are very hopeful with the witnesss and statements people are able to give us,
Vote the presiding officer have all senators voted . Any senator wish to change their vote . On this vote the yeas are 95. The nays are 2. Twothirds of the senators voting having voted in the affirmative the resolution of the ratification is agreed to. The majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the senate is not in order. The presiding officer the majority leader of the senate. Mr. Mcconnell the democratic leader and i want to take a few minutes here to point out to everyone that our colleague, the senior senator from vermont, just cast a truly historic vote. Of course the tax treaties are significant, but im talking about the fact that senator leahy just cast his 16,000th vote of his senate career. We know of no single statistic that can begin to capture such tenure, but this figure comes close. 16,000 votes cast for his constituents. With numbers like that, senator leahy has already left towering figures like our late colleagues ted stevens and ted kennedy in the dust. Now hes