Mccabe talked about james coleys leadership of the bureau at a house hearing on the annual fbi budget. Texas congressman chairs this appropriations subcommittee hearing. Its just over an hour. Will come to order. The subcommittee is pleased to welcome today acting director Andrew Mccabe to present the fiscal year 2018 budget request for the federal bureau of investigation. The fbi is our premier federal Law Enforcement and investigative Intelligence Agency which makes headlines with cyber threats, espionage or international organized crime. The fbi leads into terrorism, counterintelligence, National Security outlets by combating gangs, financial fraud and Human Trafficking in public corruption. It is the indispensable partner to state and local Law Enforcement agencies and our liaison with the federal Law Enforcement partners. We are very grateful that the fbis leading investigations into the wednesday morning shooting, and we are deeply grateful for the work your officers do every day
Go to abc7news. Com. Were no longer under a flex alert, but were still urged to conserve electricity today. Theyre looking at the graph so you can see demand at a low point right now, as you would expect, but it is expected to peak again around 5 00 this evening. The concerns that too many people using our electricity would cause power outages, and you can see the map now. Pg e dealing with small scattered outages throughout the bay area. Quick action in the scorching heat by firefighters to keep small grass fires from getting out of control. Thick smoke from this one along highway 101 slowed the evening commute. Fire broke out at about 4 30 at mckee road. Chp closed the roads on ramp to 101 for a while. The flames did not spread to nearby buildings. You can track the temperatures where you live with the accuweather app. Download it to be alerted. Developing news. Gulf coast residents are keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm sandy which made landfall this morning. A wide area from tex
Roads. And really the star of the show today, mike nicco, bringing us such a sweltering, miserable hot day. That makes me the star of the show. Some people bring doughnuts. You brought a miserable, sweltering hot day. The breeze out there, its almost nonexistent on live doppler 7. That sets the stage. Yesterday, i went out of the house, just gorgeous. This morning, i could feel the heat radiating off the side of the house as it kept a lot of heat from yesterday. Heres a look at san jose, not everybody in the south bay has air conditioning, but find somebody who does. Youll be in the upper 90s to low 100s today. A look at the 12hour day planner. 57 to 72. Warmer than yesterday. Well stay in the upper 60s at the coast. Look at the mid to upper 80s around the bay and upper 90s to low 100s inland. Still pretty warm at 7 00 from 63 at the coast to near 90 inland. It is a spare the air day also. Heres alexis. A great day to take mass transit. Were not seeing delays with any of our mass trans
Thats the line at the bottom there. The bay, youre right in the middle. 86 to 88, which is kind of conservati conservative. As you head through the north bay, were in the upper 90s to low 100s at 4 00. Spare the air, well touch upon that and the weekend forecast coming up. Great day for mass transit this morning. We havent had any mass transit issues so far. One new problem, southbound 101, if youre leaving San Francisco, just you get to oyster point, reports of a new collision. Details kind of few and far between, but it sounds like we have one lane blocked and another vehicle off the roadway. In the meantime, heres a quick check of the san mateo bridge. Westbound 92. Filling in, but overall, still looking good. Next traffic update around 6 10. We have been tracking breaking news in brentwood where two people are dead after a shooting. Tiffany wilson just spoke to a neighbor. Tiffany. Reporter thats right, matt, i did. And police say that two men are dead and the shooter is in custody