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 t
oversight of the department of energy research and development enterprise. welcome, mr. secretary. we re delighted you re here today. this committee has jurisdiction over the department of energy s 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, i d like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. i ll start with the good news which is that despite the administration s best effort to make draconian cuts across the board to deo research and development programs, most actually fared well in the house of representatives. i m 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. i m also quite happy that the hou
test. test. test. and part of that reason is because of the research that is going on at our national labs. and i m going to, again, ask paul to share with you, just because he s 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 i ve always said that battery storage is the holy grail. if we re 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 we re finding now is that the the elements that are being used to create some of these batteries are not rare earth minerals and they re elements that we have right here in the united states, so we re going to be in control of our future substantially more on the battery storage if you just kind of give them a glimpse of what s going on here and i think that s pretty exciting stuff.
a top national security adviser. this morning what s behind the other top officials could be on their way out. all that plure the clinton affair. monica lewinsky more candid than ever before on the yearlong relationship with the president that changed her life forever. i don t think my heart had ever beat as fast. why she is suddenly ready to say everything? one-on-one former first lady michelle obama and jenna bush and the unexpected bond between their families. that hug was like the hug that went around the world. and putting on heirs, the royal family all smiles as they release rare family photos in celebration of prince charles s 70th birthday today, wednesday, november 14th, 201 from nbc news, this is today with savannah guthrie welcome to today, nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. just when you couldn t get worse, yet another wildfire breaking out out west. this devastation in overnight as hoda mentioned. this one s outside of los angeles,
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