2021 chair of civil rights and Civil Justice for remarks. Welcome angela. Thank you. And then to thank you for planning this timely panel is my pleasure to welcome everyone who was watching it before i began im also speaking in a personal capacity this is not on behalf of my employer nothing that i or the panel says today represents any view of any component of the federal government i want to make that clear. So this day and age of a Global Pandemic flu that we would be living through Something Like this was 10000 americans were passed away from covid so they can cast their ballots safely with the pandemic. And those that have obstacles to barriers to voting even before the pandemic moving the elderly individual with longterm care facilities those are increase because of the pandemic there also homelessi individuals and those with the president address so they cannot cast a vote. So there are new laws that require your purging identification that may not be easily available to some pe
The north bay and inland east bay beginning saturday evening at 9 00 until 8 00 monday morning. On mountain peaks, winds could gust 50 miles an hour. This raises a quadruple threat. Intense winds can whip up controlled fires into firestorms. We are taking initiative tos death up our units that are out on the fires. We will put additional staffing out. That will go across the board. Our house is right behind a hill. Is something we think about when the high winds come to make sure to water down our backyard. Reporter that raises the unlikely sect of bay area power shutoffs. The potential is real for sierra foothill counties. Weather is constantly changing. We have a team of meteorologist standing by 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They are monitoring the changes to see what the trends in the weather are and to see if we need to make any adjustments. Reporter prevailing winds could pump unhealthy levels of smoke back into the bay area, forcing more hungry down. It was hard on me but h
Take this into saturday night and into sunday morning. Look at the humidity values. The brighter colors represent the strong wind speeds. Avery in napa county and celano county. As you can see into the afternoon hours, wind is still a factor but so is the heat and is still very dry. Could have relative humidity right around 15 to 16 . Later in the day sunday the winds will back off. The wind is one factor. Of the heat is another. We will talk about a few neighborhoods right around 100 degrees as we head into your sundays forecast. We will talk more about the hot weekend, fire danger coming up in a little bit. Pg e is warming warning about the power shut off this weekend. And outage would affect 97,000 customers in northern counties, most outside the bay area. Only 200 customers in napa county and 50 in lake county affected. On pg es website you can enter your address to see if your home or business is in the impacted area. First responders are bracing for the hot windy weather this wee
The bay area is forecast to heat up this weekend with a red flag warning in the Higher Elevations and fire danger increasing. I do have concerns about that. I guess i will be packing some stuff and kiss after evacuate. Late september and early october are the peak of fire season in Northern California. Traditionally the most dangerous time of year. Good evening, im andre senior. And im cristina rendon. The red flag warning takes part in 5 00 for Higher Elevations of the bay area where the wind is expected to hold. Are meteorologist joins us now with just how bad, or what we can expect, mark. We are tracking three elements that will change in of the weekend. First, the temperature going way up, humidity going way down. Of course the wind we have been worried about will be accelerating by this time tomorrow. Were showing you this, the heat returns this weekend. Tomorrow will be a little bit of a bump in the numbers. The real heat will move in sunday and monday. You can see the temperatur
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficul the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will have senators participating live then virtually as a result of that its difficult to determine to go in ty, seniority and we both come three witnesses the assistant secretary of state and the bureau official for the European Eurasian Affairs and Principal Deputy assistant for western hemisphere fears. We appreciate you being here. We will be talking about china obviously that presents us with manyy challenges and opportunities. There has been a lot of legislation introduced and there is a bill we introduced earlier this year to bring together as many as possible so the minority introduced ase bill senator schumer is the lead sponsor but this is not a partisan issue that is an American Issue. When i put the bill togetheren originally come i did so to