Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the bureau of Land Management and fish and Wildlife Service. Combined with the park service, these four agencies face a deferred maintenance backlog totalling 19. 4 billion. Thats worthy of repeating. Within these four agencies that g
Subjugation of others on the basis of race. Unfortunately, that same Confederate Flag flew on the grounds of the State Capitol amidst the funeral of a state senator and dedicated pastor who taught that we are all god ose children as the historic emanuel a. M. E. Church. We have come a long way in america but we still have a long way to go in our march toward a more perfect union. Racial hatred continues to adversely impact our society and people of good will must unite to eradicate it. Limiting the use of federal funds for purchase or display of the Confederate Flag is an important step in that direction. Earlier today lawmakers in South Carolina from both sides of the aisle came together to support removing the confederate battle flag from their State Capitol grounds. This evening, the United States house of representatives has the opportunity to further limit the public display of this divisive symbol that is so closely associated with defense of the institution of slavery. I thank t
Midup ander 50s. Elsewhere low and mid60s. A little cool for this time of year. We will talk about april showers and the chance of a thunderstorm and that includes a pretty strong cold front coming our way tomorrow. Details in a few minutes. Carolyn. Thank you, lisa. As you say, we are finally getting the reunion we need, but it has not been good for everybody in the bay abc7 News Reporter Lisa Amin Gulezian reports from burlingame with a look at the problems yesterday storms caused. [chainsawing] reporter pg e crews are working as fast as at the can in the rain a tree limb fell on power limbs. The massive tree is also being trimmed because of its proximity to the busy road game. As a precaution, Burlingame Police dthey shut down southbound shut down southbound traffic in the area as a precaution. The saturated soil also cause this had tree to fall in the castro district. It came crashing down on to a house and pulled powerlines down along with it. Heavy rain is the reason some basebal
Persistent westerly flow. Upper 50s to lower 60s. And midup ander 60s around the bay. A detailed look at the first weekend of spring and the look ahead coming up. Katie. Thank you. In San Francisco a man with a gun is dead this morning. He was shot by police just a poplar park. It happened after 7 00 last night in the Bernal Heights neighborhood. A minnesota called 911 and said there was a man on the trial with a gun. Man was not threatening anybody but he had his gun out when they encountered him. They shouted to the man to put the gun down and then there were several shots. This is a quiet area of the city. Its usual. Its not something to comes to mind to being a problem to the district. The circumstances leading up to the shooting are unclear. Authorities say they will hold a town hall meeting next week to explain what happened. Police vehicles were landized during a hastilyorganized antipolice protest in the Mission District overnight. Police received word of the protests in the ar
Change. Lets get latest now from 7 news weather anchor Spencer Christian tracking the next wave of rain coming in on live doppler 7 hd. Its a vigorous wu one but you couldnt know that from looking at live doppler 7hd right now relatively quiet from hours ago. Minutes ago we had an area of rain down in the south bay now moving out into the central valley. Now we just have Little Pockets of light shower activity beginning to push on shore parts of the peninsula coast line and on to the santa cruz mountains. Over in the sierra where very little is happening in the way of snow fall earlier in the evening. We have got more wide spread snow now and its intensifying. So lets get back to the bay area where the written fall total beginning to i hope crease now up to 16 hundredths inch in San Francisco. 15 hundredths at oakland. Not a lot of rain but give it how dry it has been this is a nice beneficial rain. 7 hundredths down in san jose. Lets take a look at our forecast animation starting 11 0