Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency
That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
County we have Team Coverage this evening with everything that you need to know were going to start with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow with the latest on the heat lawrence is like an oven out there it is been on a believable this heat wave really a feeling the grips of it now but starting to see some changes along the coastline and something i think youre gonna like to see but why it is still hot spots out there are a 100 in san mateo but look at half moon bay, a very comfortable 68 degrees blazing hot in livermore right now a 107 degrees 107 and conquer one 04 in dublin, 90. In oakland, a 100 for napa look at saint helene a 110 degrees santa rosa, a 110 it is also a 109 degrees in cloverdale a 104 in the bottle one 04 in napa and look at fairfield a 111 degrees get into San Francisco, 88 degrees of course, San Francisco got up to over a 100 degrees yesterday that was only for Something Like the 14th time in the last 147 years heat, advisories and heat warnings are still in e
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Were still expecting highs, upper 90s to 110. That means the risk of heat related illness and heat advisory in effect for the coastal areas. We expect wind to increase tonight and tomorrow raising the fire concerns. A red flag warning for high fire danger will be effect for our hills and mountains from 10 00 p. M. Tonight until 8 00 a. M. Wednesday. We have a wind and vise ri in effect for the north bay and east bay hills and mountains. Ill have the full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Well look forward to that. Thanks. People triped to save energy to avoid blackouts. Abc 7 News Reporter with more. Twice theyve said its leaking. Reporter he said his airconditioner has been broken its bad timing with the triple digit heat. My wife is a teacher. She teaches from home. My kids are home schooling and its an absolute mess. How do you keep cool in this heat . I notice the pool behind me was open. Reporter bryan wh lives in an apartment complex says he was glad to see the pool being us