Good morning. The Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Todayerer holding a hearing on our nations growing Mental Health and Substance Use disorder crisis. I will have an Opening Statement following by senator murkowski. Then we will introduce our witnesses. I believe Ranking Member will join us a little later as well. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each is have five minute farce for a round of questions. While we werent able to have it open to the public, live video is available on our Committee Website and if you are in need of accommodations, you can reach out to the committee or office of congressional accessibility services. We continue to see a high number of new covid cases, so we are having this hearing in a larger hearing room where we can be socially distanced limiting the number of people who are in the hearing room, experience depression, anxiety and other Mental Health disorders. Drug overdoses were on the
85 people died and 18,000 buildings burned. Since then, they have worked to rebuild the town and hope their experience can be a help to the people of maui. John ramos went to the town of paradise and he heard from survivors there. Reporter it has been five years since the terrible camp fire destroyed almost all of the town of paradise. Now that it happened in lahaina, maui, they hope this town can stop being known as a place of disaster and start being a place of inspiration. Reporter there had been fires before. What happened on november 8, 2018 was something that no one could of imagined. Now, five years later the devastation of paradise has been repeated in lahaina it was so much like what we had here. And it was, it was very hard to watch. You know, your heart just sunk watching it. All of the images of the ashes, the burned cars, the total destruction as far as the eye can see, that is what it was like here, too. Reporter looking at paradise it is hard to envision it was once a de
There. John. Yes, all totally different. Start to the morning than what we had yesterday when it was just Crystal Clear out there. This is your view are not so much of a view at all from the east bay hills camera right here. Fog settling in overnight has resulted in this gray start to the morning. But thats also going to result in that relief. Were going to experience today from the heat that we had seen the past 3 days. Now, visibility is low for a lot of our hillsides, Berkeley Hills being among them. You are along the bay shore. It hasnt been so bad for your bridge crossing says thats below that foggy blanket. But those hillsides where youre going to be encountering those lower visibility spots. Current temperatures are mostly in the 50s dublin oaklandalameda at 59 degrees currently looking at some low 60s in concord, pittsburgh in brentwood. Well, upper 50s as well up in the north bay. Now, as we make our way through the day today, we are going to see a lot of those clouds this mor
Just like a little hiccup. If its cloudy, its still 4 e ige on you know, we have the hot spot in the Traffic Department na in the weather today because things out there just cool down. Got a little cloud cover above San Francisco right now. But most of us at this point, are seeing a solid dose of sunshine, just a little stubborn, great near the coastline. Temperatures are currently in the 50s to 60s. Now, mind you at this point yesterday, spots like brentwood in vacaville. Were already climbing close to 90 degrees. So this is a whole lot cooler than we were about. 24 hours ago. A nice break from the heat into the afternoon today. Daytime highs will only reach the mid 80s at the very warmest most of us hanging out in the 70s going to be breaking down this cooler forecast for you. Still ahead in the show. Great. All right, john. Weve been tracking for most of the morning, a hot spot on our san mateo bridge hasnt backed up pretty bad here. Look drive times and over an hour, 127 minutes. S
Graders. But could a spike in covid cases disrupt the start of the new school year . Im justine waldman. Thanks for joining us for kron. 4 news at a time can wane. Here we go. Families enrolled at hoover elementary. Were excited to see some of the upgrades on the campus. The school had a fresh coat of paint. Theres a new playground. And the school year also started in antioch today, several east Bay School Districts and San Francisco start School Next Week as more bay area children get ready to head back to school. Medical experts say the return of indoor classes. Coupled with the recent uptick in covid cases nationwide might result in more children getting the virus for us to assist reports and how experts say, although we are in a lot better shape than in years past covid19 is still a virus to take seriously. The American Academy of pediatrics says 15. 6 million children have contracted covid19 since the beginning of the pandemic 2020. Now as students go back to school, medical exper