Good morning. ]. Good morning. I want to thank you for taking the time to join us today. I want to thank my colleagues for paying attention to this important issue as well. I am going to defer any remarks from myself other than to say it is an important issue to speak about and keep in the face of everybody americans detained abroad. It is something that we pay vigilant attention to, the chairman, and i am going to yield to my colleague and friend mr. French hill who did all of the heavy lifting in putting this round table together and say thank you, mr. Hill for every bit of work you put in on this. Not just for this round table but consistently throughout your time of congress and you are recognized, my friend. Chairman, thank you. Thank you for your persistent leadership on behalf of americans wrongfully detained or held abroad. First, let me start out before i do, welcome our families and provide introductions for the family members that are here on this very tough and emotional da
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[indistinct conversations] good morning. In congress, and your recognize, my friend. Mr. Hill chairman mast, thank you. First, let me start out before i do opening comments and welcome our families and provide introductions for the family members who are here on this very tough, emotional day for them. And a quarter, her husband ryan is a humanitarian aid worker who has been imprisoned in afghanistan since 2022. He is the father of three kids and has been away for 600 days. Deborah, her son is a freelance journalist and was kidnapped in syria in 2012. This august will mark his 12 and hopefully final year away from home. My dear friend marion, her father is a texas psychologist who traveled to syria back in february 2017 to treat refugees and establish a clinic. A day after arriving, he was stopped at a checkpoint outside of damascus and has not been seen since. Giselle, her father jimmy is an iranian journalist and Software Developer who has been detained by the Iranian Regime since 20
Noon. Good afternoon. Im gasia mikaelian. Governor gavin newsom is holding a News Conference right now on his revised budget for the upcoming year. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama has been monitoring this developing news. Shes live in our newsroom with more jana garcia. The News Conference started at 11 00, and the governor is still laying out his plan and talking with the press. The governor was very specific about what the problem is. He said that the revised budget is lower than his original 310 billion budget that he first proposed. This may revision is just 288 billion. He says that tax revenue came in well below the projected levels, requiring cuts and pauses in spending for programs that were originally expected. He says the state now faces a 27. 6 billion deficit, which means budget cuts and delays. The solutions were about to set forth are overwhelmingly supporting existing core programs without short cuts. And i say overwhelmingly, not exclusively, because im not naive. There are areas w
Today, were expecting close to 90s inland 80 degrees San Francisco. And it is wildfire preparedness week with the temperatures. Sizzling how fire crews are preparing for potential trouble. From the bay news station. Youre watching kron. News and news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman. Temperatures across the bay area are expected to be the highest that we have seen in quite some time. Were going to take a live look outside right now. You can see just how sunny and beautiful it is. Heres a live look across the golden gate bridge. We are going to check in on those sizzling temperatures right now with kron fours gayle ong. She gets us started now with the forecast. Yes, a little taste of summer here. Here are the current temperatures during this noon hour. Upper 70s already over in livermore 79 and oakland. 75 and downtown San Francisco. And you can see in the north bay. It looks like santa rosa is already at 81 degrees today. So here are the tempe