Chairman johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, bell honorable christopher miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center, and honorable kenneth cuccinelli, senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary. This is an annual threat hearing. When i look at all the threats that this committee has considered and all the threats facing this nation, i think it is pretty interesting how many hearings we have held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for consent to have my written Opening Statement to be entered into the record. When you consider these threats, for example, i will just go down the list cyberattacks, ransomware, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned right now as we try to develop vaccines. But the hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Loss due to intellectual
Today. So much smoke and haze. A lot of fire shop on the infrared satellite and a lot will continue. My satellite may not move. I will have to toss it. The system is stuck. Cordelia junction and 238 and bay bridge, where would you like to start . The Cordelia Junction because we have a truck accident on interstate 80 at 680 and that has made a slow traffic coming from fairfield and vacaville mostly fairfield and the backup is not that long and not quite into vacaville pick a big back up there. Slow traffic on highway 4 this morning because of earlier wrecks from pittsburgh into concord. The big 80 at industry pick look at all this slow traffic. This is not typical because of an injury crash there clear at industry. You may want to consider using an alternate route. Get on the freeway in union city and avoid heyward on 880 s. We will begin with breaking news where fastmoving flames near vacaville have burned homes or loose money. There is some injuries as well. The fire vacaville is par
Debates backtoschool, voters are not allowed to see or hear him say those words. Almost immune. We have a lot more on this, believe me. Lets get straight to your money. An economic indicator, here it is, 1. 19 million new jobless claims. That is the lowest number since the economy tanked. It is very good news for the recovery. The trend in new claims is flat out down. The dow industrials taking a little heart from that. We were lower, now were going to be up maybe 30 odd points. Not much of a gain. Theres a lot of green on the lefthand side of the screen. The market story is the march to new highs. The techheavy nasdaq already hit several records this week. The dow is at the 27,000 level. Thats up 8,000 points in four months. Theres a lot of very positive news in the background. Positive vaccine news. That helped. Dr. Fauci says well have tens of millions of doses of the vaccine available early next year. Heres another plus. If congress doesnt come up with a virus relief package, the p
Over the east bay right now cloud cover remains into the afternoon for the coast while the rest of us get a good dose of sunshine. Well through the afternoon. Right now temperatures are in the 50s and 60s with alameda and san mateo each of 59 hayward oakland pittsburgh fairfield among areas at 61 degrees for your current temperatures after these 50s 60s to start the day temperatures later on rise into the 70s and 80s for a bayside in inland areas making for a beautiful and pretty comfortable afternoon. Darya and james thanks a lot of california has to shut down again because of a covid surge. The governor says. Its got to be a rollback so that we can try to flatten the curve again. Yeah, hes ordering all counties to close indoor operations for certain business sectors, but the restrictions are even tighter 4 counties that are on the states watch list and we have a few of those here in the bay area. Capital of error for Ashley Zavala reports. Governor Gavin Newsome constantly compares c
Livermore at 63 right now concord and fairfield youre at 65 while berkeley San Francisco in tehran. Still holding on to the 50s later today, San Francisco rises to the upper 60s oakland low 70s. While san jose in the low 80s. Daria. Thanks a lot john california is shutting down again the governor Just Announced a major step. Back in reopening the economy ordering all counties to close indoor operations. But the restrictions are even tighter for the counties that are on the States Coronavirus watch list and there are some in the bay area. Area Stephanie Elam has more. This morning, los angeles on high alert and on the verge of a complete shutdown weve never had as many people infected or infectious. Weve never had as many recorded positive cases each day. And weve never had as many people in the hospital Los Angeles County reported nearly 2,600 new coronavirus cases monday. As california added more than 8,300 new infections. The same day governor Gavin Newsome taking action. Closing ind