Area and there are no problems onto the single deck onto the east bend and west bend and if you are driving on 880 traffic looks good and traffic is moving along very nicely. 580 westbound from the pass and through the whole area is off to a good start, it is 431, lets go back to the desk as steve just mentioned, they are still warning commuters to be careful when heading off to school, due to highways, here is more in walnut creek, tara . Reporter we could see scattered showers downtown walnut crook and there are some wet spots here on the roadways, and the roads were slippery because of water mixing with debris and chp is reminding us to be careful. The rain was coming down and it was a welcomed sight after what has been the dryest month on record. I work in a winery and i feel like it is vitally important for the rain right now. There has been few accidents on the roadway so that is a good scene and and it perhaps it is a storm opening up in the air but of course no promises. Well,
Fed chair yellen testified at the Senate Budget committee thursday. This is two hours. This hearing will come to order. Thank you to my Ranking Member, senator sessions, and all of our colleagues who are here and many who will be joining us. Today we have the great opportunity to hear there the chair of the Federal Reserve, dr. Janet yellen. Dr. Yellen, i want to start by thanking you for your leadership and encouraging Stronger Economic growth, stability and job creation throughout your tenure at the Federal Reserve as vice chair and now as chair. Really is wonderful to have you here. I also do want to take a moment and recognize your predecessor, chairman ben bernanke, for all the work he did on we half of he did on behalf of the country. Im glad we do have the opportunity today to talk about our economic and our fiscal outlook and the steps we can take to continue creating jobs and broadbased growth now and over the long term. Dr. Yellen, your new role at the fed comes at a very dyn
More will not pay a lot attention to libya. Thank you to the last hour of your insight. Please join me in thanking ambassador jones. Thank you. [ applause ] what is the milestone . I could argue why there is any validity to this. It is important for the neck and people to have a pursuit of these questions done in a fair and open balanced way. Not be possible living it to the republicans. I am so proud of them and all they do. Congressman cummings will be the Ranking Member. He is the Ranking Member on the committee of oversight and government reform. Congressman adam smith, Ranking Member of the Armed Services committee has agreed to serve. Congressman adam schiff, committee on appropriations, subcommittee on state and foreign operations. Very important in this discussion and member of the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. Congresswoman linda sanchez, committee of ways and means and subcommittee of oversight. Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth serving on committee of oversight and
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Committee on appropriations, subcommittee on state and foreign operations. Very important in this discussion and member of the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. Congresswoman linda sanchez, committee of ways and means and subcommittee of oversight. Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth erving on committee of oversight and government reform. We will do right by the families of the victims. Two families said dont take us down this path again. Why is this being done . We hope we can shine a light on where our focus should be preventing benghazi from ever happening again. I told a the speaker in a phone call i just had with him that im hopeful that Ranking Member cummings and the chairman can come to some better terms on how we proceed and it is with that hope and his great leadership that i present the chairman, our Ranking Member on this committee, mr. Cummings. Thank you very much, madam leader. And i, too, agree with you that we must be in pursuit of fairness and transparency, not on