Plan to stay out of the extreme heat as much as. We have a heat index already and how indicative how humid it is. Upper 70s from the d. C. Metro area, eastbound to the bay. Not much of a rain chance the first part of the day b heat index is over 100 degrees as early as noon time p. M. High in the 90s. 60 chance of more thunderstorms later today. Possible storms for today and sweltering saturday on the way and deep fried friday here today. Complete check of then teday forecast, which has the cooldow at thed of it, melissa. I like hat. A cooldown somewhere in the future sound pretty good tome northbound 95 before orcentrep parkway road work so a delay there. After you take a look after fredericksburg you can see. The rest of the beltway and op inner los looking okay. Yesterdays storm knocked out power to thousands of people across the d region. This morning, about 5,000 people are still without electricity. Largest group is in fairfax. Dominion energy says 4,200 people are without power.
Ild wind and rain hitt g our region hard yesterday. This video from a parking lot in leesburg. Homeowners from around the region haveleaning up to do today. News4 justin finch joins us live from yuma street where the storm caused serious damage. What are you seeing . Reporter thats right. H first ting you notice here at 4 30 is how dark it is at yuma northwest. Hey are working restore power to several customers in this area. Take a loi beh me here. Working under way is right now on what was a l veryrge tree that came down in yesterdays storms. Crews having to frst get the tree down to work on the wires that came down with it during thest storm yeday. Take you to owdeo right from late in the afternoon. Close to 6 00 p. M. , neighbors tell us the storm was really being down on this area and eventually they heard the snap, crackle, and collapse of those big branches to that tree there. That also took down some wires. Also, too, setting off small fires, until the yard of that home where th
Effective, no fly, no buy legislation, and bring up h. R. 1217, bipartisan background check legislation. Mass shootings followed by moments of silence and no action cannot become americas new normal. We need a vote and we need to vote now. Thank you and i yield back my time. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from illinois, ms. Kelly, for five minutes. Ms. Kelly mr. Speaker, with over 30 americans killed by a gun every single day, for far too long i have been saying inaction is not an option. Yet, in my threeplus years in congress, House Republicans have refused to do anything on gun violence. This weeks lackluster beltway big gun lobby written bill isnt only gun vote this congress has had. Why is it that when our country was facing a horrific oip united epidemic opioid epidemic, we empowered our states with the resources necessary to combat this issue . And why is it that when a terrorist boreded a plane with boarded a plane with a bomb in his shoe, we asked
Questioned that. I can go back to the Clerks Office and get that answer for you, ill get you an answer between meetings but ill definitely have an official answer. I guess i would need to know where is their time coming from, where is the other half and whats the responsibility there. Again, even if you look at lafco meeting once a month and those hours along with ours associated with work outside of lafco, its definitely probably more than likely wont even be onefourth of the time. I just need to have a clear understanding of how the time is broken down for that in particular. Secondly, i think what im missing here, i know this is really from my understanding and just, i was hoping you could clarify, were talking about this budget in the context of general fund dollars, not necessarily the cca dollars that come from the puc this is lafco general fund, which is separate from city and county general fund. Okay. And so where is this money coming from . This money, the city prior to i thi
Not referring to those costs in this because normally speaking you dont get to the level you need. You are getting into they technical stuff that you get away with just Drinking Water every day . L. Just echoing commissioner breeds administrative the Clerks Officery, i want you to know what the breakdown is on that and also to look at the 1314 budget would be helpful. Im inclined to say that were probably in line with the budget this year unless, you know, for the fy1516 year, unless theres some sort of consideration to make for the Committee Clerk salary and benefits just so that we would have if enough in the budget if we wanted to use outside Consultant Services. But i think that just echoing back to commissioner lindos thoughts on what do we do after that, is that well have a greater need for outside services as we sort of switch gears into a body thats not so consumed with cca i will definitely, i have the notes to get the 1314 budget. I think thats something thats pretty easy for