The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, we are reminded at this time of year of the greatness of your gift to us in sending your son. Use us as instruments for his glory. Because of our faith in you, make us bold as lions in these turbulent times. May our lawmakers Work Together to protect and defend our constitution, realizing, as iron sharpens iron so friends sharpen friends. Make our senators grateful for the fires in our nations history that have tested their commitment to freedom, providing opportunities to become profiles of courage, serving their generation with faithfulness. We pray in your great name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The Livermore Valley area. We will get to that in a second. First lets start with the south bay to give you a check and things look good. A lot of gray on the map. No problems. Earlier problem on 101 has been cleared out of the way. Problems we are following for you in the pleasanton area Livermore Valley area southbound 680 north of sunol a crash involving a vehicle that hate couch. So good reminder for anyone hauling furniture or anything to tie up your items on the back of your truck so stuff doesnt fall off a crash on 5 0, 680 interchange. Bay bridge toll plaza is busy this morning. We are not sure if metering lights are on but looks like it. And this is because of a stalled vehicle earlier this morning. This was a garbage truck blocking one of the lanes. Thats been cleared out of the way. But you can see the backup continues because of it. 5 01 now back to the desk. New this morning, just after midnight, Oakland Police moved in, cleared out a protest by homeless activists outside
Not sure why its not recording. One more day of these temperatures. 60s is average. There goes way below. I will have more details, coming up. Allie is here, quiet so far. Pretty quiet, just an issue to tell you about if youre driving in from tracy. This is westbound to a five. You can see this on the map here. This is grant line road. There is a vehicle that crashed, two vehicles that crashed in the center device. Things are good in both directions, just about a dozen or so cars on the road at that hour. The field the democrats running for president in 2020 has expanded. New york city mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg says he is running. He made the announcement over the weekend. Doug joins us live from washington to tell us how it could scramble an already crowded race. Good morning. We looked at National Polls is also first contest in iowa and new hampshire, there are three different frontrunners right now for democrats. . Voter registration drive is 15 had been 29. Over 30 mi
We are good to go. Welcome everybody. We are back with chatter on books and happily we already disclosed location, one more page books in arlington we take books, wine and chocolate more seriously than we take ourselves. Thank you so much for letting us be here. Thank you so much for coming. Its going to be out in the open. My name is jeanne mcmanus, later were going to be speaking with wil haygood who im honored to meet. The book will talk about a lot of things that talk about tigerland which is Remarkable Book about some really incredible young man at a very difficult time. A couple of the things on tap, random thoughts, i know youre the you. I kind of obsessed with look at bestseller list you hate. I take the bullet for the team but im always interested in something that pops up unexpectedly, and i talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up, to kill a mockingbird, was a prime example, and we know why and we know why the handmaids tale was there.
Is a Remarkable Book about some incredible young man at a very difficult time. A couple things on tap some random thought, jeannie, i know you have a few . Im kind of obsessed with looking at bestseller lists which you hate. I take the bullet for the team but im also is interested in something that pops up unexpectedly. I talked a couple weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up, to kill a mockingbird is a prime example. We know why and we know why handmaids tale was there but this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. By william athis is a book that was written was published i think early 80s written in 1978 by william lee he moaned. I think he was an english professor he had lost his job and separated from his wife and he got in a 40 Econoline Van 1975 van and road what he called the blue highways. This was before gps. All the back roads were colored blue. Those were the roads he chose to take. He went to 38 of the 50 states and ju