Our camera around Treasure Island and back towards the city and you can see so much more than we could a few days ago. There still are some clouds but there is none in san jose. There are clear skies and it is 63 degrees. 59 in the city, so very little marine layer today. We are going to see it burn back to the coast by 9 00. The temperatures will be right along what yesterday was, and that means spot on the mark for average. We w coming back for this weekend. It will be a little harder. Today is in the upper 80s but saturday and sunday it is mid 90s and we have more in the forecast later. Gianna has a Traffic Alert to tell us about. I sure do. It is a long 580. If you are planning to use 580 along the dubliner change, that is where the Traffic Alert is involving a big rig. There is an oil and fuel spill in two left lanes and they are blocked until further notice. It is just before the 680 connector. It has been there for 45 minutes. Chp says it will take over an hour for two crews to
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Oversight of the department of Energy Research and development enterprise. Welcome, mr. Secretary. Were delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities so i hope we see you much more frequently from now on, and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make draconian cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs, most actually fared well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a subst
Test. Test. Test. And part of that reason is because of the research that is going on at our National Labs. And im going to, again, ask paul to share with you, just because hes fresh out of seeing some of this and has to do with the Battery Storage. And the progress being made on Battery Storage is really fascinating. And ive always said that Battery Storage is the holy grail. If were able to get to that point where we can use our renewables, solar and wind in particular to power these batteries that have long time storage, and what were finding now is that the the elements that are being used to create some of these batteries are not Rare Earth Minerals and theyre elements that we have right here in the United States, so were going to be in control of our future substantially more on the Battery Storage if you just kind of give them a glimpse of whats going on here and i think thats pretty exciting stuff. So a couple of examples, the complex, r d business, beyond lithium ion batteries
Officers were taken into custody by the fbi as part of the civil rights probe that started early last year. Among the allegations chains of racist and homophobic, Text Messages sent between as many as 45 antioch officers describing violence against suspects and allegedly going as far as threatening mayor thorpe, who is black, nearly half of ox. 100 officers were placed on leave because of the tax. In a Statement Released today, the mayor said, quote, today is a dark day in our citys history as people trusted to uphold the law allegedly breached that trust and were arrested by the fbi as our city absorbs this tragic news. We must come together as one. Todays actions are the beginning of the end of a long and arduous process. Civil rights Attorney John Burris and bennys and bob have also filed 2 lawsuits so far involving 13 plaintiffs accusing Antioch Police of civil rights violations. Among other allegations, forbes said todays arrests are demonstrative of issues that have plagued the A