Committee heard from representatives of veterans organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [no audio] [silence] [no audio] good afternoon, everyone. [audio difficulty] millions of veterans every day. This committee is gathered to hear from those organizations about their firsthand perspective and their support for comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This piece of legislation has been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those veteran Service Organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts they have in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its passage and its ability to be sent to the president. Additionally tomorrow, september the 10th, is worldwide Suicide Prevention day, and this is our opportunity to call attention to the tragedy of suicide and urge for sw
Steve talking about improvements. At least it seems that way, rosemary. We had the disturbance that moved through over california and it brought a mix to the atmosphere and helped to clear things out a little bit. The onshore breeze will continue over the next few days, and hopefully that will help to continue to push some of the smoke away from the bay area and further in land. We have a spare the air alert in place and the hazy skies are expected to remain. Morning clouds followed by afternoon sunshine, at least away from the coast, this morning starting with fog along the coastline. Temperatures are expected to cool. I will have a look at Current Conditions and what to expect for the afternoon coming up in a little bit. It is 5 00,. Lets check the highways. Right now, we have traffic that is doing pretty well around the bay area. I want to put up the fire closure map as you approach santa cruz. Boulder creek there are several areas, outlined in purple, still shut down. Highway 17 is
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That moved through the bay area. Thankfully, we did not see the thunder and lightning we were concerned about. I was over areas of the north bay that actually had lou sky overhead. It was a nice change. We will continue with the hazy sky. Once we become a little more stable, we are likely to see smoke return as fires continue to burn on all sides of the bay area. We are giving you a look at the temperatures, clear skies in place. Many of us are cooler. We are in the upper 50s in San Francisco. 66 in livermore, san jose at 64. Seminaries along the coastline are joan joined by dense fog this morning. We will show you the rest of the extended forecast coming up in just a little bit. It is 4 00 on the dot. Lets say good morning to sal. Hi, sal. Hello. We have traffic doing well around the bay area. It looks good at the bay bridge. If you are driving into San Francisco, the traffic is moving along very nicely. There have been no major issues on interstate 880 in oakland. I like what we see
Forecast with kari, another warm one ahead. Were starting out with warm temperatures again this morning. This is what we look at for those fire conditions. Usually those Early Morning hours are critical and seeing some of the fire not spreading as rapidly and were looking at still another morning start where we have temperatures in the upper 60s, not much of a wind, but at times we get these gusts up to about 11 miles per hour. As we talk more about this well get a look at how our trends change for today. Thats coming mike, hows it looking for those routes . Kari, we actually have a couple of Traffic Alerts were watching. On the peninsula, getting more dale around the embarcadero exit. The speeds are okay on the peninsula but the big problem is the active Traffic Alert in San Francisco for northbound 101. From 280 you see more slowing building up. Half the freeway is closed right now because of a crash, a pickup truck reportedly hit the hillside there and brought dirt and debris down o