National security prompted President Donald Trump to weeks ago threat an ban on both apps. Today secretary ross said the clock is ticking. For all practicing purposes will be shut down. Reporter the Trump Administration fearing these chineseowned platforms can exploit security gaps and harvest data from u. S. Users in in theory, it argues it threatens u. S. Foreign policy and the overall economy. Were not going to do anything to jeopardize security. Reporter users will no longer be able wnload either app or receive upgrades. If you want to become a tiktok user, you wont be able to download it assuming the Trump Administration action actually takes place. Is that the same for we chat as well . You certainly wont be able to download we chat. Based on what you like, it gives you content that they think that youll enjoy, and like he and my friends can look completely different, like if you do dancing videos, or comedy videos. It really caters to you. We chat is geared for communication, pa
Stop at 11 00 am this morning, weve got a series of votes, ant we are going to observe an actual ten minute clock. Its the first time in senate history, but thats the goal this morning. So we want to be able to hear from everyone this morning, ande have an opportunity for the very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here today to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric grid and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase grid resiliency. In recent years, devastating wildfires and related electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the challenge of maintaining grid resiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Tragically, we remember last years camp fire, the deadliest and most destructive fire inou california history, which incinerated the town of paradise, killed 85 people. Ve state investigators determined that the fire was caused by degraded, 97year old power lines during socalled fire weather, strong wind
Committee on the impact of wildfires on the electric grid. Atmakers are looking wildfire mitigation technology, Forest Management, and power system reliability. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. A lot going on this morning so i think we will have people popping in and out but we do have a pretty hard stop at 11 00 this morning with a series of votes. We are going to observe an actual 10 minute clock. This is the goal. To be able to hear from everyone this morning and have an opportunity for the very, very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric rate and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase grid resiliency. In recent years, devastating wildfires and electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the challenge of maintaining grid resiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Tragically, we remember last years camp fire, the deadliest and most
Gusty in the Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet. We have gusts now to 32 Miles Per Hour, knoxville creek, 22 Miles Per Hour in the oakland hills, mt. Diablo at 26, to the wind gust animation, again gives encouraging ws winds will diminish into the evening. Late tonight, gust at least at the surface dropping below ten Miles Per Hour into the Single Digits. So good news there. On the relative humidity side, though, mixed bag here up in the north bay and over much of the east bay. Well see right now relative humidity ranging from only 5 into the teens. A little bit higher in the santa cruz mountains. We expect relative humidity to increase a little bit in parts of south bay and east bay, but it will remain dangerously low in the north bay. The red flag warning in effect for high fire danger. Well have more details later in the newscast. Dan . Thank you so much. Breaking news in southern california. A fastmoving wildfire has destroyed several mobile homes. It broke out around 2 00 p. M. In
Cspan3, a conversation from Brookings Institution on potential increased Infrastructure Spending. During a president ial campaign, donald trump said he wanted to spend more on roads, bridges and airports here in the u. S. Were a little behind schedule so im going to talk fast. Im really pleased that what we wanted to do was bring together people who have done work in the area of infrastructure to talk about where there is evidence, where there is not evidence, where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and so we have a panel that is one part water and three parts transportation. Newsha ajami is Senior Research associate at the Stanford Woods Institute for the environment, director of urban policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not