The next chair of the council of economic advisers. His is an hour and 25 minutes. We will consider the nominations of Kevin Hassett to e the chairman and honorable patenaude as the deputy secretary. We will begin with an Opening Statement by me and senator brown and turn to senator ortman, who will introduce the witnesses. And senator shaheen, who will introduce ms. Patenaude. I see friends and family behind you as well and i see my good friend, bob dole, at least i did a minute ago and we welcome him here. Each of these nominees stands to impact the standard of living for americans across the country and will play an Important Role in spurring economic opportunity. Positions inas had academics, education and policy. He is an expert on Economic Policy and contributed countless papers, commentary and testimony. His nomination has received bipartisan support from economists including past c. E. A. Chairman. His understanding of tax policy and the way it feablingts citizens and businesse
Development department recently appeared before the banking committee. Such as the Community Development block grant. This is about 90 minutes. This hearing will come to order. This morning we will consider the nominations of Kevin Hassett and the honorable pamela pate naude. I see friends and family behind you as well and i see my good friend bob dole, at least, i did a few minutes ago and we welcome him here. And will play an Important Role in spurring economic student. Mr. Hassett has had a distinguished career in economics that includes positions in academia, government and policy. A widely consulted expert on Economic Policy and has contributed countless papers, commentary and testimony. Nomination has received bipartisan support. Mr. Hassetts understanding of tax policy will be an asset to the administration. He has extensive experience with economic modelling. For pro growth policies. Key to Economic Growth is not only robust Financial Markets but also economic policies that wil
Really nice comfortable air conditioning and your hands get clammy from stepping outside. Doorway back in the nice climate controlled space is 5 feet away from me and im sweating like crazy already. Lets get to the hit, momma can get back inside. Take a look here it is a hot, hot day. Record to beat is 98. We are calling for a high of 96. Flirtation with that certainly and that high was set in 1994 which interestingly enough, fun factor you was summer of that here comes the top of the charts. Interesting irony and dual symbolism there. Love that. Eightytwo is what it feels like right now. Sunnies barely about to come up, and were going to heat up from here. Go by feels like value here today, rather than air temperature. That will serve you better. Storm scan is empty, it wont stay that way toward tail end of the day and toward night fall we will have a couple showers locally very gusty thunderstorms out there. High again project to hit 96. Shore no picnic either 94 there and up in the
Alexis smith, and meteorologist mike nicco, tracking the storm on the way. One is on the way and one here now. We will start with that and talk about the big one tomorrow. In 10 minutes. I want to show you visibility player on live doppler hd because it is due to the heavy drizzle and mist in the air, visibility is as let as two miles and. 11 in rain the last 24 hours and it is not. We have heavy drizzle to spotty showers and more likely showers at noon to 4 00 and they will head to the north this afternoon to the evening and more drizzle is developing for the rest of us this evening. How are the streets affecting the commute . We have a couple crabs and i will get to those but i will talk about flooding in marin county and it is not a heavy rain this morning but more due to the king tide an area that always tends to flood. So northbound 101 around lucky drive c. H. P. Is reporting all of the northbound lanes flooding so you want to reduce the speed through the stretch and here is a lo
We have a crash southbound 680 and it sounds like the last couple of moments they got the four car crashed pushed to the shoulder. Damage is done. It is, withing on to 242 in concord. Our Traffic Camera south of where the crash was, traffic is okay. Can you see how misty and drizzly it is and i imagine the weather had something to do with the collision. We are tracking breaking news from santa rosa where firefighters have a warehouse fire under control. It broke out atth and wilson and went quickly to three alarms. Some parked cars caught fire. It depleted the resources in santa rosa and they had to call other agencies for help. There are no reports of anyone hurt. The nfl is meeting in texas and raiders are on the agenda. There is a plan to keep the team here and matt keller is at the practice facility in alameda. Matt . Good morning, raiders fans are passionate, in the black hole dressed up cheering for the team and now they have hope the team could stick around in the bay area. This