Mr. Lehrer good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs, and i welcome you to the first of three 90minute debates between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates, and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to between the commission and the two campaigns. Tonight, well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes. Rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator, i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular give and take another threeandahalf minutes. Even then, no single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates, under their rules, may not question each other directly. There will be no opening statements, but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The
Continue to see fog to your morning commute before eventually burns off later on today, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures pretty similar to the start of the day yesterday, pittsburgh and conquer 59 right now while dublin in alameda. Each at 58 degrees to kick off this morning. Later today, daytime highs a touch cooler but not really a big difference here will still be in the 90s for antioch very close to the 90s and livermore concord well low 70s and oakland mid 70s and both hayward and fremont robin. All right, thank you john lets check in on the traffic now we want to take a peek at the morning commute starting off with 80, its looking good moving well 7 minutes here from the bottom of the maze over to the fremont street exit so come on in no trouble spots or San Francisco. Heres the Richmond Center fell your connection between the east bay in the north bay and its also looking good you have some tie in those doesnt really stack up much during of the 4 oclock hour even 5 oclo
Hayes fog thats what were starting this morning with you can see from the east bay berkeley, not looking at much of a view just yet thats due to low cloud cover thats lifting above the east bay hills so most of our bridges are just fine on even the golden gate as you traverse up into Marion County are down in San Francisco, looking great as far as visibility goes not so great as far as air quality goes which will be getting to here in just a minute 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with alameda at 59 degrees hayward concord oakland in the low 60s right now nice mild morning of course its tempting to get out there maybe go on that job but id say work out indoors. This next week as we do see hayes sticking around 6070s, 80s and even a few 90s remain in the forecast today weve got all the details on the smoke all still to come first, lets get a look at traffic with rob. Thank you john will traffic is starting to ease up on our bridges but its getting slow on the freeway. So lets c
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
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