Impeachment trial showed President Trumps leadership style. He says it has led to the mismanagement of the pandemic. Programme to todays coming to you virtually. This program is part of the Commonwealth Club virtual series addressing the impact of covid19 on our community and society at large. We would like to thank the members, donors, and supporters for making todays program possible. It is so important to support programs like this right now. Today i am very excited to be speaking with congressman adam schiff, chair of the house Intelligence Committee. National recognition and prominence for his role in the russia and ukraine investigations and President Trumps subsequent impeachment. In the last few weeks, congressman schiff and some of his colleagues have proposed a 9 11 Style Bipartisan Commission to investigate the governments response to covid and see if it ignored key warning signs. If you are watching online and have a question for congressman schiff, please put the comments
Notably russia, and surely it puts a crimp on the future of electric cars. Look at it this way. Why buy electric when a gallon of gas on average now costs 1. 81 and likely to fall much lower. In wisconsin, the average is all the way down to 1. 22. There are some places where its below 1. We will bring them to you. Its a big negative for the stock market. The dow industrials are going to open down 500 points. Thats roughly 2 . The s p down 1 . The nasdaq down 1. 93 . The oil crash really hurts stocks as well. Every energy stock is down. The airlines and the Car Companies, they cant cash in on cheap jet fuel and gas because people arent flying and theyre not driving. Where is the additional help for Small Business now that the first rescue package has run out of money . As of right now, it has not come through. Treasury secretary mnuchin negotiating with democrats over the weekend. Its supposed to be a better than 300 billion plan but its not here yet. Perhaps thats another reason for th
Line from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now on kpix 5 and str exclusivlesftod look th rolling in to bay area. Good morning, everyone it is thursday april 23rd i michelle griego. Good morning to you. Lets get a checkup traffic with gianna. We will see if the fog is impeding any of your roadways right now. No fog advisories from chp so that is good news. It was an overnight accident unfortunately this was a fatal crash. No lanes are blocked, everything is over to the shoulder. This is in the clearing stages. A vehicle went over the hill and exploded, of course this was a very seriountagaithey are clearing everything on the roadways so this is eastbound 580 right around foothill, we will keep you updated on that again, no major delays and that left lane closed only intermittently. We will have roadwork as well as you work your way out of marin heading into San Francisco. Looks like it is pretty quiet across our bay area bridges with no delays. We just got some new v
Clouds along the coast and right around the bay. Otherwise inland, concord, look how mild you are this morning, 61 degrees right now, oakland, 67, 53, livermore. 56, san jose and santa rosa, taking you through our day, upper 60s in San Francisco, mid 70s, san jose, low 80s in concord, 6 to 12 degrees above average and it gets even warmer still. I will have that full forecast coming up. Lets check in with gianna ok a no delays to report on the golden gate, just a heads up, just north of your we do have that ongoing roadwork around 101 as you work your way into the wall to grave, just keep that in mind if you are commuting through their, oneto one, roadwork continues along the san mateo area, also, but again the Golden Gate Bridge looks really good. I am starting to see a few brake lights writer on mission boulevard, some red popping up here. This is an ongoing project, hoping to have things opened up at the east by 6 00 this morning. I am anne makoveck, taken alive look at capitol hill
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. April 23, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable kathy castor to act as splote on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. 7 the speaker pro tempore the a prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and comity among the members of the peoples house. These are days of great political, social, and economic stress in our nation, and those whose work is to legislate through this pandemic are naturally under considerable pressure. Give us all patience, especially with one another. May all our citizens in the midst of great turmoil be filled with gratitude for those in our nation whose work must go on when it would be so easy not to assume their responsibility to do so. Continue to bl