[applause] what a great iowa welcome. Two thousand six, Amy Klobuchar is the first woman representing 2006, Amy Klobuchar is the first woman representing minnesota. She desha in 2016 in 2016, and analysis ranked her first among all 100 senators in sponsoring or cosponsoring bills were enacted into law in the 114th congress. [applause] before serving senator klobuchar was elected to county attorney for the largest county in minnesota and to she knows how to drive in the snow. [laughter] join me again in welcoming senator Amy Klobuchar. [applause] sen. Klobuchar thank you for being here. One of the reporters sent a tweet this morning and it said i suppose Amy Klobuchars snowmobile is down. I drove down with my staff and we got here at 2 00 a. M. Just to see all of you. Minnesota started voting yesterday so we had a vote rally, but i wanted to be here and a ceeo. I knew you would be here despite the snow because as we know, you have to have strong Public Schools, you must have a strong is
[inaudible conversations] the hearing of the Judiciary Committee is called to order. Please take your seats and welcome to all of our witnesses. I am very grateful to my colleague, senator durbin, for giving me the opportunity to chair the hearing and we wish him a very, very speedy recovery. He evidently had knee surgery. I believe it may have been because of a College Sports injury and i dont know exactly all the details of his sports prowess. Ive seen him in the senate gym, but all of you know our colleague, senator booker, who is truly a College Athlete star and very knowledgeable on this topic and a partner with me in longstanding efforts to reform the system, i want to thank our Ranking Member, senator graham, who has been very interested and involved in this issue and im going to put in the record a statement from chairman durbin before i begin my remarks. We all know today that the system of College Athletes is in need of reform. Thats why youre here. Its in need of reform now.
Bay area is sweltering including San Francisco. 90 degrees today in the city. If youre planning to beat the heat at the beach, ocean conditions are expected to be a bit dangerous with large swell and sneakaways expected. What youre looking at is pacific bay. Lets turn things over to our chief meteorologist. We have these big waves. At the same time, we have this high heat. Those two things shouldnt go together. We have this system off the coastline. That is really helping kick up the waves. 10 to 22 feet. Were looking at some calmer serve as we head throughout tomorrow. Again, be careful if youre headed to the beaches. Talk about hot. Look at these numbers today. Some of the warmest. Santa rosa, 95. He ill give you more details on the cooling and also rain chances and that micro climate forecast. Today is about this hot area of High Pressure helping to bring the heat across the west. Now this is beginning to pull away from us as we have this cooler system developing to the south. It do
What we see right now is a Pressure Gradient tightening up. It is setting us up with winds tomorrow gusting at 2535 Miles Per Hour at higher elevations. They issued a red flag warning starting an hour ago. Through basically saturday morning. He will see two nights of very strong winds. Especially in the higher elevations. They will keep temperatures warmer out they are. Instead of below freezing like it was in napa. Temperatures will be a little bit warmer. The other side benefit of the strong winds coming are going to be the airquality. We have had spare the air days. Not an issue with airquality. The winds will mix out the pollutants in the particulate matter. We will get more sunshine. We will get better airquality. We are going to see the winds picking up late tonight and early tomorrow. The high fire danger as bay area Fire Departments taking precautions. Team coverage picks up with amber live in the Oakland Hills where she found homeowners nervous about the fire danger. Reporter
Bursts of moderate to heavy rain. Alameda is getting heavy rain. 40s to 50s. And 46 berkeley lab. 50 officially in the city. And 47 tiburon. And seller isnt toe at 7 degrees. And maybe a little snow in mendocino, lake county. And theres going to be a lot of snow. In the sierra, a Winter Weather advisory has kicked in. Look for morning rain and scattered showers in the afternoon. Rainfall forecast a dont a third. And the system looks promising on friday. Sal, things are picking up. Im sure they are in traffic as well. As a matter of fact you can see traffic is going to be busy at the macarthur maze. And it is going to be slowing down at the bay bridge toll plaza. This is a 28minute delay between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze or i should say a 28minute drive. And you can see traffic is backed up all the way to the maze. Add 20 minutes to get on the bridge. Unless youre in the carpool lanes. 880 is okay in both directions as you drive past the commute. And westbound 580 some