Sliding into San Francisco, heavy winds and rain developing along the coastline. It is light in livermore. I have been talking to folks on twitter. It is misty in gilroy and just depends on where you are. If you are dealing with light rain, it will push its way east and looks like heavier rain is headed your direction. We will zoom in here again. Heavy rain for San Francisco. The san rafael bridge, at least half of it dealing with a steady downpour. This is highway 24. Most of the rain through the valley. As we take it to the coastline. It is pretty bad on a typical day and with a heavy downpour and coming in from the south. Keep that in mind if you are driving around. Allow yourself a little extra time and use caution. Light rain falling. And it looks like heavier rain will start to develop in the next 20 to 25 minutes. We will zoom in here. And we have a few self containing ranges. And again, it is light for most of san jose at this hour. We turn our attention to the east east bay an
The senate is in at 1 00 eastern time. Votes are scheduled at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Majority leader harry reid and minority leader mcconnell had set a deadline of 3 00 p. M. When theyre planning to convene a caucus meetings and update members of the parties on a possible plan for taxes and spending on the new year. Will bring you live coverage of the senate on cspan2 started at 1 00 eastern. In the house, the return of 2 00 p. M. Youll be considering a number of pieces of legislation. What the live coverage of the house here and cspan. Next, retiring senator kent conrad reflects on his career in congress to. It is currently Senate Budget Committee Chairman and was first elected to the senate in 1986. This is about half an hour. Senator conrad, your Farewell Speech was yesterday. What is that like . It has been great. I had the Going Away Party the night before. A lot of my colleagues were there. Then the Farewell Speech, in which i had a chance to reflect on my service here. But also, to
To do anything that crazy. Jimmy its kind of a weird thing where you can go out with a prosthetic nose and people dont notice it. [ laughter ] its true. When youre really jewish, it doesnt make a bit of difference. But carl, i see carl, ill see him later tonight, well be watching this later tonight. I see him almost every night. I love that guy. Jimmy i love the idea of you guys hanging out together. I said to carl the other night, this is really funny, i said, carl, you know, youre 90, going to be 91, youre amazing. Just, im im just so amazed at everything you do. Can i ask a personal question . He said, of course. Every once in awhile, do you ever achieve an erection . This is all true. [ laughter ] and he and carl said, i do, i do, not so notice it. [ laughter ] thats true life jimmy insurrection, i think, actually. Wow, thats and how often are you guys together during the week . Couple of nights a week. Jimmy thats great. I love the idea of you guys hanging out. We have chicken. Ji
Heartbreaking situation. Ellison barber is in washington following the response and federal officials and the white house. Less big with jeff paul on the ground in seattle with the very latest. What is the latest on the situation on the suspect that apparently killed himself behind the controls of the stolen airplane . Reporter i want to give a little bit of a better idea what it is like at our location. We are in washington, behind us is the entrance to the ferry. That is we have to take over to get to the site. Now Authorities Say it is sparsely populated island with very few people and they do not believe anybody on the ground was hurt. During the plane crash. We are also learning more about how, a little more about the man that stole the plane. Authorities say is with the airline for more than three years and passed all extensive
background checks. The fbi tells us he was allowed to be in the Security Area and they do not believe any security safeguards were compromised. They say w
I think everything that ive seen and viewed and experienced in the last couple of weeks has had an impact. But, so its the been everything. This is limited in time and scope, and i think that its appropriate. Its a lifetime appointment, and allegations this serious, we ought to let people know that were serious about it. Mick mick rich edsons live on capitol hill. Hey, rich. So senator flake says he changed his mind after a conversation with a democratic colleague. Reporter thats right, mike, and good afternoon. Senator flake says after a conversation with democratic colleague chris coons helped to change his mind on all of this and push more that oneweek investigation by the fbi. Senator flake spoke to the atlantic in which he says he trusts chris coons and that if it were anybody else, he wouldnt have taken that plea seriously. He also says, quote, i dont know if there was any one thing, but it was just unsettled. , you know, when i got back to the committee, i saw the food fight bet