Subcommittee hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the subcommittee on health and Human Services and education to discuss the fiscal year 2017 National Institutes of Health Budget request. We are looking forward to hearing the testimony of dr. Whoins and his colleagues will be brought in for questions along the way. I would like to publicly thank dr. Collins and the staff at the nih for hosting me and other subcommittee members for a briefing at a tour at the nih campus a few weeks ago. I hope it will become an annual trek. Withinleft nih appreciation of the exciting work your staff to every day to find ways to save lives. I am proud than last year this congress was able to increase nih funding by 2 billion a night in confident that through these efforts one day we will find cures for diseases like cancer and alzheimers. Fore disappointed is the proposed budget cut to the. Ih this year the proposal to divert one billion dollars of Biomedical Research
And also time to get the car washed. Many days in a row of dry weather coming your way. So a year sky and frosty cold start. Temperatures in the mid30s again in the suburbs. High today around 63 and light breeze. So again a great day to be be outside today. Well talk more about the impacts for travelers in ten minutes. Now an improving situation on metro. Red line, still delays in both directions, but we are no longer single tracking. Had that earlier problem between due month and van ness. 66 east before 29, crash still blocking the right lane there. And again, those backups are building. Southbound bw parkway at 32, have the right lane blocked there. Northbound georgia at colesville road, left lane blocked each way. Were sending chopper to this one right now to see this from above and see what exactly is going on. Inbound river at golds borrow, were very slow there. If this camera would flip around, youd see a big long line of headlights. Today we will learn more about the second pha
Marty theyre having some problems reaching kate then well check back with her after get the phone line fixed. And we continue checklists developments on kron4newsdotcom at a time line of thence along with pictures from the scene. Also coming up in 30 minutes we have more on the shooters possible motive. Attention marty not to the weather as we take a live look outside at the embarcadero this Early Saturday Morning. And there you conceive a little bit overcast a background but you should really have a nice day. We a reporter fog also depending on where you are, even on the bay bridge. At the golden gate they go the towers being clipped at the top there. Of the morning phenomenon and this will open up for us the real story organum washing is multi folded here for. First some of the wind and then also a little chance of an opportunity of a shower. It will be favoring the southern portion of the bay and lets go with all this with the wind speeds and practically nonexistent. Wind is also us
Whatsoever on the first 250,000 of everybodys income. We should not hold the middle class hostage while we debate tax cuts for the wealthy. We should at least do what we agree on, and thats to keep the middle class taxes low. Eliot the president also emphasized what he would not do a sending time to make a tax deal with house republicans. Obama what im not going to do is to extend bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 that we cant afford and according to economists, will have the least positive impact on our economy. Eliot mr. Obama also waded into the scandal that saw general David Petraeus step down as director of the c. I. A. He offered assurances that damage from petraeus affair was at least so far confined to the general and his family, and offered some words of support. Obama i have no evidence at this point from what ive seen that classified information was disclosed that in any way would have had a negative impact on our National Security. I want to emphasize that from my perspect
Class hostage while we debate tax cuts for the wealthy. We should at least do what we agree on, and thats to keep the middle class taxes low. Eliot the president also emphasized what he would not do a sending time to make a tax deal with house republicans. Obama what im not going to do is to extend bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 that we cant afford and according to economists, will have the least positive impact on our economy. Eliot mr. Obama also waded into the scandal that saw general David Petraeus step down as director of the c. I. A. He offered assurances that damage from petraeus affair was at least so far confined to the general and his family, and offered some words of support. Obama i have no evidence at this point from what ive seen that classified information was disclosed that in any way would have had a negative impact on our National Security. I want to emphasize that from my perspective, at least he has provided this country an extraordinary service. We are safer be