Increase water storage and conservation in western states with Brenda Berman and water resource efforts from colorado, idaho and arizona. This is about an hour. The hearing of the Senate Energy Natural Resources soouks will come to order. I want to apologize for being tardy. Im trying to be in a few places at once. Thanks for your patience. Throughout the rest, water is essential to everything we do. The infrastructure took centuries to build. Without these dams and canals and reclaim water plants the American West would not be the worldwide destination that it is today. It has taken tremendous foresight. They have been great investments. In my home state in arizona, what started as a 10 million federal investment which now contributes 250 billion to the nation. Earlier i toured all 15 counties in arizona. I saw forehand how these Major Investments shaped the state. From hoover dam, salt river praur project, federal investment in these projects is therefore critical. When i visited in
It was a little bit farther north, now its to the west of eureka, portland, in between portland, eureka, funneling in an on shore flow and the water temperatures went down, 5253. Temperatures not moving that much or changing that much. Few 40s to the north. 50s, low, mid to upper. 49 gilroy. 5151 san marteen. Couple observations in san jose, 52, 53. West, southwest breeze, out to the delta, fog and low clouds in place. This low wont kick out until thursday. Until then, upper 70s and 80s. Pretty quiet. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Typical problem spots we usually see this time of the morning is your drive from 205 westbound, westbound 580, a little bit backed up. Checking on the commute, east contra costa county. Highway 4 starts to got busy. You will see no problems. Your drive through concord and walnut in to 24 looks good. On 24, lafayette, no problems, making your way towards the tunnel. Busy on the roads but everyone moving, traffic is moving smoothly overall. The bay bridge, g
Car crash that happened this morning around 5 00. See the back up, see where the flashing lights are, by the emeryville tower, oakland span tower of the bay bridge where this fourcar collision was. Two of the vehicles need to be towed out of the way. You see the back up across the span. Lets show you the map here. This is creating quite a back up. Not just to the toll plaza but beyond. East shore freeway through past powell, its congested and also westbound 580 as well. There is a new report of a crash. A couple of crashes, they popped up in this back up. One of them at westbound 80, it connects with westbound 580. Also another crash just before the toll plaza. Give yourself extra time if you can, maybe take bart or figure out some other way to get in to the city if this is your commute. This is our photographer keith, driving in that back up on westbound 580, not just that crash on the bay bridge but two smaller collisions reported west of the toll plaza and east of the toll plaza and
We are now getting people really does celebrate the fourth of july which is this coming thursday, i know the best thing about the fourth for me is going down to our local firehouse and have a big pancake breakfast and the children love it. Barbecues throughout the bay area. Parades. Its a week for it. And traffic was a little bit lighter. That may because people are extending the holiday. Speaking people enjoying the holiday, sal is off to after a ninemonth closure, the Salesforce Transit Center is back open but there is no Transit Service yet. What the public and do and what they can go see today. Reporter most people are coming upstairs to salesforce park, its five and have acres and includes a rooftop garden. These are native plants to chile and behind us you can also see the bus bridge, that remains close, there were no buses coming into the center today, that will happen a little later on this summer. I did get a chance to speak with some folks this morning and ask them how they f
Napa, 74. Today, 79. 82. 64, 77. Those are warmer. But theyre also below average. The system will bring rain to Northern California. By that, i mean, extreme Northern California. And points north toward portland and seattle. If you have travel plans there. We will get ready for the rain. Mostly sunny skies. Theres still an onshore breeze now. 50s with the temps. A few 40s to the north. 40sto 50s. Lima valley. 56. Thats quite cool for this time of year the fog will peel back. And except for a few high clouds. Golden gate. A nice day. Upper 60s, low 80s. 6 01. Sal is here. The bay bridge. People want to know what the bridge is like, coming into San Francisco. I think for right now, its pretty typical. We just say its about a 20 minute wait. Lets go to it now and look at the toll plaza. You can see traffic is going to be backed. Its not a lighterthanusual day. This is a look at interstate 880 in oakland in front. Coliseum. If youre driving down the peninsula, it looks fine. And if we can