Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and
For today. Signals are not working. The power outage affecting safety. Due to the Power Outages, the rockridge bark station. A. R. T. S several other stations, the escalators are not working. The golden gate transit buses have delays due to drivers who cant get to work this morning. A dree totree down in lanes blo the slow lane on 24 near acalanes. Slow almost to the walnut creek area. Well be back in a couple minutes with an update on some of the road closures in the north bay. Thank you. Lets get you caught up on the latest information on the kincade fire. This morning it is burning more than 54,000 acres in Sonoma County. Containment dropped to 5 after being at 10 over the weekend. At last check 94 structures were destroyed. Were not sure how many of those are houses. 80,000 structures are in danger. Two firefighters were hurt yesterday. Two of them had burn injuries. One of them serious. About 185,000 people are being forced to leave their homes. This is the largest Evacuation Orde
Area geyserville then it was spread on the heels bergen windsor, then they started evacuating santa rosa. 2 firefighters have been hurt. None of the public has been her nobodys were reported missing. At this point the 2 firefighters hurt. So what were hoping that theyre ok especially one that was actually had to be taken to hospital 94 structures, including many homes burned so far in this fire and that is why they say it is serious when they ordered evacuation got to get out see why the winds can change in any direction in in one case over the weekend we saw hurricane strength wind yeah with wind gusts to some of the peaks topping 7475 Miles Per Hour which is the threshold for a category one hurricane. We have to make sure to to really point out the fact these are sustained winds like you have in hurricane these are just pick us that hit momentarily, but they are strong strong epough to topple trees and weve seen lots of that too and are its its really interesting to put into perspect
Thats why the Evacuation Order. James, yeah, and just to see the size of the mandatory evacuation. Order now really does explain why were seeing such high numbers in terms of the total number of people evacuated which is approaching 200,000 and all those 10s of thousands of homes that are in jeopardy, right now the purple area is the mandatory evacuation zone and it stretches from the hills to the west of guys are with the fire initially started all the way out to the coast. And it also extends from geyserville all the way down to northern santa rosa i want zoom in and show you some of the fire areas because thats what each one of these dots represent and the color correlates with how long the fires been burning so the original fires broke out in the lighter cor here as you can see in that section of the hillside but the newer fires all these red dots these of the ones broke out over the weekend you can definitely see the fire has been moving aggressively in the southern and southwest
6 00. Big news for families this morning. Governor newsome signed a bill that will let middle and High School Students get a few more zs. The reason for starting the school day a bit later. That state law is aimed at helping teens get more sleep because studies show a correlation. The author tweeted saying the bill to Start School Later has support from doctors, Public Safety and researchers not to mention the california pta. It was anything but an easy a for the bill which was rejected several times and was opposed by some school leaders. Some folks saying it should be decided at the local level. 8 00 would be the earliest start for middle schools. 8 30 is the earliest start for high schoolers. The 202223 school year is when the changes fw s go into effect teens need eight to ten hours of sleep. You might wonder why not just send them to bed a little bit earlier . Good luck with that. Teenagers have a Natural Sleep pattern meaning they can have a tough time falling asleep before 11 00