105 in iowa, that is a lot for us. Just a couple of hours ago i was on a call with iowa state leaders who are at the state Emergency Operations center. Let me say that again. Emergency operations center, an e. O. C. You just dont set those up for fun, folks. You set them up when your state is in crisis. They gave us a picture of whats going on with our workers and our Small Businesses on the ground in iowa. Within three hours the state received over 11,000 calls for Unemployment Insurance. 2,000 of them are selfemployed. They wont qualify for Unemployment Insurance. You know what would relieve their hurt . This package, phase three. Meanwhile my democratic colleagues are holding this bill up that would actually deliver the relief that is necessary for these workers that i just mentioned for things that have nothing to do with a crisis. Senate democrats are stalling funding for hospitals and Small Businesses until they get to jam through their Green New Deal. Mr. President , you tell me
Session. We will bring you gaveltogavel coverage as we always do. Its go to the house floor. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. House ir lays before the a communication from the speaker. He clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , october 17 2019. I october 17, 2019. Hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member
Toll rising and the flames reaching containment. But first, u. S. Attorney Merrick Garland is appointing a special counsel to investigate hunter biden who he is named and why the case is now taken this turn. From the bay station, youre watching kron. And news. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im Justine Waldman and we start with some breaking news as u. S. Attorney general Merrick Garland is appointing a special counsel to investigate hunter biden. Garland says he is naming david weiss as the special counsel. Why says the u. S. Attorney in delaware who has already been probing the business dealings of the president s son. And this is coming after a plea deal broke down last month and a tax and gun case against hunter biden. So heres what the attorney general said just moments ago. Tuesday of this week, mister weiss advice me that in his judgment, investigation had reached a stage at which he could should continue his work as a special counsel. And he asked
Station. Youre watching kron. Bay areas suffering after a scrap metal fire at a recycling facility in the east bay. Huge plume of smoke there yesterday. Thanks for joining us tonight on kron. 4 news at 5. Im grant lotus. Fire crews are still on the scene of that fire at this scrap metal facility near the port of oakland. The smoke could be seen and smelled across the bay area. And officials are saying that the air quality all the way down to near the south bays taking a hit. The fire started around 5. 30, last night at the ships are steel scrap metal facility. That is right near the port of oakland, massive plumes of smoke could be seen across the bay in crews worked overnight to get control of the fire. Some good news. Nobody was injured and the fire is not threatening any structures. The exact cause remains under investigation. Tonight. And even though the fire is mostly under control right now, the air Quality Management district put out an advisory today saying might be sensitive t
The coastline and through the golden gate, most of us are sitting under nice sunshine now and temperatures are starting show some movement. San jose, youre at 70 getting close and brentwood in vacaville while still in the 50s over in timber on as well. San mateo and on up towards cloverdale as we move into the afternoon, temperatures will be right around the same as yesterday. So not a lot of changes just yet. Were going to save those changes for later on this weekend. And ill break them down for you and your forecast rain. All right, john, thank you for that. Well, we started off light. Then we got busy looks like things are light again, especially across bridges. 11 minutes meteor lights are still off at the bay bridge. So no Traffic Building at the toll plaza. 13 minutes 80 to 101 san mateo bridge. Richmond, sandra bridge about 8 minutes there. Maybe youre taking the Golden Gate Bridge right now. 37 to the tolls about 21 minutes. And lets look at our highways where were seeing that