It eroded. Transportation secretary elaine chao testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the president s 2021 budget request. During the hearing she addressed infrastructure project, highway and rail safety, investment into the nations ports and discretionary Grant Programs that impacted the needs of rural and urban areas. The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. Im pleased to kick off the subcommittee hearing season for this and other subcommittees by examining the fiscal year 20 21 budget request for our department of transportation. Secretary chao, welcome back and thank you for joining us. Glad to have you here. Frur serves as the foundation and quality of life. It facilitates the flow of goods and services, connects Education Opportunities and plays a significant role in our nations overall welfare. Theres no question our country requires an massive investment into bridges and restore Transportation Systems to a state of good repair, improve our ports, bui
Morning to low to mid60s from noon until 4 00. If youre heading out this evening, temperatures around 55 to 58 degrees. More rain on the way and possibly some of it could hit this weekend. Well talk about that next here, sue. All right. Were going to the san mateo bridge. A 14minute drive towards 880. Not bad at all. Light for your earlymorning friday. Some slow traffic out of the tracy area. Very typical. Its observance of veterans day and we have a couple of accidents out there, slow traffic now at southbound 242. This is at westbound 4 and the connector ramp. Heads up and well head to the south bay with an accident on 585 when we come back in a few minutes. At the live desk, the alabama republican candidate for senate now accused of sexually assaulting a 14yearold girl ne nearly 40 years ago. Judge roy moore is calling the accusations an allout war on accusations an allout war on conservative has more on the explosive allegations. Reporter if the claims are true, they say moore shou
Interchange. Bay bridge toll plaza. Well jump over there where we see a smooth flow of traffic. Low clouds over the oakland hills. So far drivers are not having a problem. Now to that breaking news out of lake county where wildfires are tearing apart homes and businesses and charring thousands of acres. This morning a major twist in the story as the suspected serial arsonist is locked up. Heres the latest at this hour. A state of emergency is now in effect for the area about 90 miles north of San Francisco. 4,000 acres are scorched. Nearly 200 homes and businesses just gone. The blaze only 5 contained. Now lets bring in today in the bays pete suratos who has been covering this story since yesterday. Pete, whats happening right now and tell us more about what we uncovered about the suspect in this case. Reporter well, authorities are describing that suspect as a serial arsonist but were near quarter horse lane and we showed you these communities. Pretty much ravaged as a result of this
Up for cleanpowersf i think that commissioner courtneys point we want to make sure that every avenue exfoliated to get interpose e people into the program and theyre telling their friends and not get lost in the overall puc program. How long to build a twitter follows they have over 8 hundred formals. Thats been dormant and we have about 13 thousand followers on the cleanpowersf. The hash tag clean power. Right . What. The hash tags will cross the traffic; right . So, yeah that is the request and if you can keep us posted on the piece i think the wanting to do this marketing and activate the social commitment it is important. We have a couple of good things general manager kelly mentions for getting ready for a grassroots using video for signing up and ill be happy to to share that with you. That sounds like great, thank you. Anything else so theres an item action item before you is p there oh. 18 sorry. So next item, please. Item 18 for the general manager to seek the board of supervi
Proud of what we do at the Environment Commission. One of the things we want to write out of the gate was to introduce some very special folks were providing translation tonight. So, can we please get around warm round of applause for oscar [applause]. And monica wong. [applause] and julie barrios. If you want to givethank you, joe. If you want to get a quick word maybe starting with oscar here at the microphone. Write up here. Into the microphone. Just like that. Excellent. So, if anybody needs interpretation in spanish, [foreign language]. Thank you. Monica, where is monica . Good evening, monica. Hi. My name is monica wong, cantonese interpreter. If anyone needs help up the back of the room. [foreign language]. Thank you, monica and joy. Good evening. My name is joy audio. Im the teacher of the filipino teacher at uc berkeley. [foreign language]. All right, thank you for everything you do. My name is joshua arce. I have the honor of chairing our commission and on behalf of all of us