You can see where this all happened here. The bak was on fillmore at union and then just two blocks away, the sinkhole opened up on green and it has ballooned in size from there. Just look at these images. Our sky seven caught overhead during the day today. Abc seven News Reporter jared stone has been talking to neighbors and businesses about those repairs. Happening now. Crews working into the night in San Francisco to fix a water main break that happened late sunday and led to a sinkhole monday, 20 minutes, one 30 minutes thats been going. Youre looking at video recorded on fillmore street in the cow hollow neighborhood of San Francisco sunday night. Water was, you know, kind of like a river gushing and coming. You could see it was coming all the way down the street. Cyril collick recorded this video sunday at union and fillmore street. And this is what it looked like on monday evening. The sand and water clear from that area. Im in shock. I mean, we live right down the street and we
30 minutes. Thank you. Madam president , i welcome you, senator from texas, after thanksgiving break, i have my parents, 94 and 89, with all children and grandchildren, and this and that. I would like to be thankful, blessed to have my mom and dad, happy about it. Now we are back. Precious little time to do it. Funding for the government expires this friday. 800,000 dreamers wait to hear they can live and work in the only country they have ever known. 9 million children reauthorizing the Health Insurance program and millions more waiting to restore funding for Community Health centers, the most costeffective and only healthcare lots of people can get. We need to funds costsharing programs that have pocket costs for low income americans because the administration refuses to do so. Texas, louisiana, puerto rico, the Us Virgin Islands are desperately in need of additional aid to recover from the natural disasters god brought on them and the debt ceiling must be raised again and in short o
Human services. The Health Committee holds a courtesy hearing on the nomination of the secretary, the finance committee receives paperwork, it will vote on the nomination. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement and former secretary and former governor of utah Michael Leavitt who we welcome today, good to see you and have you back and senator young who is a member of this committee will introduce alex azar after his testimony then senators will each have five minutes of questions. We have a lot going on in the senate today but we have a good turnout so i anticipate a good, vigorous questioning period. Alex azar, if confirmed will be did the of health and Human Services, you will be running 1. 11 trillion organization, that almost equals the total of 12 Appropriations Bills Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Parks to National Defense to national laboratories. You will be overseeing medicare and medicaid, the nations government run Insurance Programs f
Objectives. To begin with, any agreement must provide our armed forces with the resources they need to fulfill their missions. That means setting aside the misguided notion that new defense spending needs to be matched tkphrar dollar for matched tkphrar dollar for spending needs to be matched dollar for dollar by noon on defense spending. Some describe this notion as parity but of course there was no parity p at all in the damagg cuts of the budget select conflicted on our National Security fiscal year 2013 its been cut by 85 billion more 85 billion more than on defense spending, that number has real consequences for the men and women who serve our country in harms way. Last year secretary depends mattis testified that quote no enemy in the field has done more harm than combat readiness of our military then these selfinflicted budget productions. Nothing about this issue needs to be partisan during carter, all similarly warned that cuts would handicap our men and women in uniform. Thos
Border security. Like our republican colleagues democrats want to make sure our men and women in uniform have the resources they need to do the job. There is not an argument about that. We also want to make sure that there are crucial investments in Economic Development and job creation your home. Programs that support the middle class and help it grow. That includes a number of things. Opioids, Life Expectancy has gone down in America First time in years because of deaths from opioids. Young people, middleaged, are we going to shrug your shoulders at that . Theres a lot more to do and it affects rural areas, urban areas, suburban areas, 63000 americans died of drug overdoses. Those are deaths on the battlefield in a certain sense as well and the flower of her use and part of america are affected. So many in rural areas. These are kids full potential andnt many of them were veterans dealing with some more and they served our country and didnt get what they needed when they came home. E