The Labor Day Weekend could be rough for bay area drivers because bart is shutting down the transbay tube halting service between San Francisco and the east bay. Anne makovec reports from the embarcadero station, the end of the line for San Francisco passengers starting tomorrow. Good morning, anne. Reporter good morning. This is the second time we have seen this, this summer. No trains crossing the bay between midnight tonight until 4 00 on tuesday morning. So heads up anybody trying to get around the bay this weekend. Bart workers are going to be doing some maintenance jobs on the tracks near the transbay tube. They are going to be repairing and replacing rails near the tubes west oakland station entrance. That station is going to be closed completely. Buses will then run between San Franciscos embarcadero station and the 19th street station in downtown oakland. This Maintenance Work has been long overdue and the shutdown raises questions as to how long it will take to build the seco
Includes the manner in which subsidized payments on the national debt. Congress is appropriation law is standing conflict with the debt ceiling log which caps the amount of debt the federal government can go at any one particular time. Since enacting a statute in 1917 congress has routinely prescribed budgets mandating spending that so plainly exceeds projected revenues that they will inevitably require the treasury to borrow funds in excess of the debt ceiling to make good on our obligations. And for Decades Congress has improved approved home virtually every time we have crept close to the Borrowing Limit and all in all this is a very good thing because it is the largest borrow in the world a default by the United States government would in all likelihood trigger a worldwide economic depression. All that changed in the summer of 2011 when the republican majority elected elected to optimize the debt ceiling. And use the threat of the federal default in the resulting and the resulting
Much. Thank you mr. President and members of the senate, mr. Speaker numbers of the senate, Lieutenant Governor, members of the Governors Council and including that constitutional officers elected. Thank you for being here. Former senator scott brown governor Chris Christie we salute you. [applause] [applause] i have always admired and appreciated you both for years and i have admired your commitment to serve its for all of us and i thank you very much for being with us today. [applause] [applause] to my fellow citizens and other distinguished guests, my thanks to all of you for being here. With great humility and high honor that i assume the office of the governor of massachusetts and i am well where of the authorities and have come up as i take office, but this is part of serving and protecting the people of this great state. And the obligation to always live up to that. The people have invested in me for the title of governor for the next four years and i am also a holder of life on
Aroundrecommend that that might overshadow tomorrow. Guest this is something john bennett will have to address on camera. Hes put out statements supporting Steve Scalise who spoke to a racist group and he acknowledged in 2002 also majority leader kevin mccarthy, republican from california has also supported scalise. Scullys has said he regrets talking to that group back then that he wasnt sure he was talking to that group at one point blames staff on it. He has been able to weather the storm because while the have been a democrat whether the calls for him to step aside as the leader, republicans have not. Anytime you get into this type of controversy as long as your team, members of the kindle call for you to step aside, then youre probably going to survive. At the same time it is something reporters will be asking about this week. Host the headline track issues of lacking the republican, the first one in the caucus so that she would not publicly defending scalise. Up and democrats hav
Good morning, governor. Good morning. [applause] im delighted to welcome everyone to the Assembly Chamber for the inaugural of governor edmund g. Brown jr. I know for my colleagues and i its a great way to start the new year by being on hand to see someone whos been such a Strong Partner sworn into office for a record fourth time. Last year the assembly presented Governor Brown with a commemoration noting he had spoken here to more joint conventions of the legislature than any other governor. While, technically, not a joint convention todays ceremony adds to that record. The best thing about governor jerry brown isnt the history he has made. Its the history he is going to make. Governor brown has been a leader in putting californias fiscal house in order and today the next chapter of that leadership begins. Governor brown has been a leader in making Major Investments in high speed rail and local k12 education, and today the next chapter of that leadership begins. Governor brown has bee