Senate committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to order. Im usually on time and excuse me for being late. We reauthorize a Higher Education act. Today were looking at ways to simplify the free application for student aid or fafsa to make it easier for students to apply for federal Financial Aid. Well introduce the witnesses and after your testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. Senators may be coming and going because of the tax bill. Nearly four years ago in a hearing before this committee an unusual thing happened. Four witnesses from diverse back grntds agreed that almost all of the 108 questions on the free application for federal student aid or fafsa are unnecessary. The fafsa is the government form 20 million families fill out every year to qualify for it federal aid that helps nearly 20 Million Students attend universities. Weve spent a lot of time holding this to remind people of all it questions even though most people fill it out online. Th
Senate committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to order. Im usually on time and excuse me for being late. We reauthorize a Higher Education act. Today were looking at ways to simplify the free application for student aid or fafsa to make it easier for students to apply for federal Financial Aid. Well introduce the witnesses and after your testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. Senators may be coming and going because of the tax bill. Nearly four years ago in a hearing before this committee an unusual thing happened. Four witnesses from diverse back grntds agreed that almost all of the 108 questions on the free application for federal student aid or fafsa are unnecessary. The fafsa is the government form 20 million families fill out every year to qualify for it federal aid that helps nearly 20 Million Students attend universities. Weve spent a lot of time holding this to remind people of all it questions even though most people fill it out online. Th
And get better. That will make me happy. Reporter friends said robinson was a selfmade man who started cleaning windows in high school and grew it into a multi Million Dollar business that he recently sold to dedicate himself to sick kids. The car he was driving was a 250,000 exact replica of the batmobile in the 1960s. He wanted to see a smile on their face and just to make them happy made him happy that he was able to help somebody. Reporter robinson, a divorced father of three adult kids, the accident on i70 eastbound last night just west of hagerstown. The batmobile you saw, the 250,000 car had broken down. He got it partially off the road in the left lane. He got out of the car to look at what was wrong. It was dark at 10 30. The dark was hit from behind. He was killed wearing his costume. The other driver in the incident has not been charged. The accident was witnessed by a family who had just met robinson at a gas station where he had given those children souvenirs. Some big dev
Igniting this fireball. It happened overnight at a gas station in east oakland. It took firefighters two hours to put out the flames. The gas pump was crushed and knocked on its side and the front of the car was wrecked. The driver was arrested. Millions of credit cards have been stolen from a target after thieves hacked into the store. Im kiet do. We have a live report coming up. And im anne makovec live in the newsroom. They say the devil is in the details. Now the bart board is dealing with two, a second contract dispute will be one of several emotionally and financially charged issues covered in a meeting this morning. Kcbs mobile it just drove the lower eastshore freeway and says the volume of traffic is lighter. The closer to christmas the fewer the delays we have been seeing. This is a live look approaching ashby avenue in berkeley. Traffic is moving well toward powell and emeryville. Bay bridge cash lanes are backing up not even quite to the end of the parking lot. And the fast
This afternoon, well see a cool windy condition at the coastline. Mostly sunny inside the bay temperatures in the 50s. 56 degrees in pacifica. 57 in concord. 58 in san jose. All right. Lets check your kcbs traffic with elizabeth. Thanks, lawrence. Things are looking good. We showed you those East Bay Drive times earlier. Well show you the south bay drive times right now and this is what it looks like. Obviously, very quiet conditions right now if you are traveling the guadalupe parkway, 280 through downtown towards cupertino is 11 minutes and 101 coming up from morgan hill so far no delay traffic moving at the speed limit including for Silicon Valley drives. Thats a live look at westbound 237 heading towards sunnyvale. That roadwork should be cleared right about now right around 5 00 when they expect to re open lanes new york between 23rd and downtown oakland. Chp has a couple of wind advisories in effect issued around midnight. This is the bay bridge, theres one for the bay bridge tol