Hundred people irans president is expected to travel to the hardest hit area on tuesday. And all matters in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up saudi arabia says it will ease its blockade on yemen but the u. N. Says the move doesnt go far enough. A possible breakthrough over the long disputed South China Sea and china agreeing to negotiations and italy fails to qualify for next years world cup its first absence from the football competition in sixteen years. Iran has declared tuesday as an official day of mourning after an earthquake killed at least four hundred and thirteen people sundays quake also left thousands homeless and injured the u. S. Geological survey puts the epicenter on the border between iran and iraq semi autonomous kurdish region most of the deaths reported so far are in irans mountainous province the worst hit town appears to be south poles a hub on the iraqi side there are reports of extensive damage in the nearby town of. Challenged ballots reports. Th
I think we will go out and start. By Ranking Member senator could still be here shortly. I will go and make my Opening Statement and begin testimony. Thank you all for being here this afternoon. I appreciate it. Id like to thank you for your comments last week about what we need to strike. Today marks the first hearing in the Financial Services and general government to committee for the 115 congress. This is also my first hearing in a new role as chairwoman of the subcommittee. As they began the budget request, welcome our witnesses. Fcc chairman and commissioner clyburn and michael are rightly. We look forward to hearing from you all about the budget request and the work you are doing to carry out the agencys mission. Fiscal year 28 team, requesting a total of 322 million. While funding is offset by fees that do not minimize or need to ensure that the agency is operating effectively in the funds are being sent responsibly. This is especially important since these are passed on direct
Reform. The schedule may have changed a little bit but one thing hasnt changed is that obamacare is collapsing. Rand paul challenging leadership tweeting just came from the white house and trump open to making the bill better. Its never never been about the timeline for getting the best piece of legislation that helps the most americans. Senate leaders say they hope the Congressional Budget Office will give their bill a new score after theyve made changes. They are looking at hopefully having some sort of vote after the fourth of july recess. So at this point still no timeline. Theyre just saying after the fourth of july but not exactly when they hope to have that vote. At this Point Senate Republicans are looking at using the rest of this week to try and come up with some sort of compromise. They will all leave town and they hope by the time they get back to town here in dc, they will know that they have the needed 50 votes. Thank you. Struck the new healthcare bill is opposed by demo
Chief meteorologist bill martin has the forecast along highway 17 tonight. Azenith . Reporter well you can see the mud slide behind me. Caltrans is using the heavy equipment to stabilize the hillside. Chp is hoping to open one northbound lane tomorrow morning. Commuters heading from santa cruz to san jose. Theyre advised to take alternate routes just in case. Caltrans crews are working to remove rocks and mud covering the northbound lanes of highway 17 near lion hill road. Its the largest hillside this winter. Thats about 100 dump truckloads somebody decided to dump over the hill all at once. Caltrans plans to bring in a specialized excavator tomorrow to safely access the slide and remove debris from the top down. We are dealing with the fact it is still raining, the slide, the terrain, the traffic. Reporter at 10 00 in the morning the mud slide shut down highway 17 in both directions. Half of the Mountain Side came crashing down filling up the northbound lanes and spilling into the so
Good morning. Welcome back. Thats a beauty shot for you. Live pictures looking across the oakland estuary this morning. Nice and peaceful and there is no rain for the most part. Looks beautiful but there is another storm coming tomorrow. Mark will tell you about it. Thank you for joining us. Little break but not coming tomorrow. It wont be a weak one. We are aiding january. January was so much. February starting off with a bang. That is our big concern heading into your thursday. Right now we cant go completely dry but have a lot more breaks in the action as well. Take a look at the rainfall accumulations. Ben lomin topping seven inches. Here you can see some more rain reports for napa approaching three inches. Livermore an inch and a half. San francisco 1. 44 and san jose not as much. About a half inch. Here you can see on Storm Tracker two there is the coverage in the north bay. Up toward sonoma. We have more action here but then as you drift closer to marin not as much but still cov