Good morning, everyone and welcome back as we returned from th good morning Everyone Welcome back as we return from Holiday Season to continue ournu workno in the Economic Opportunities subcommittee without objection the chair is authorized to call for recess at anyny time todays hearing is called reviewing the resources to address veteran hunger. Im hopeful we can shed some light on an important issue for veterans around the country. This hearing will discuss department of Agriculture Programs to identify Food Insecurity among nearly 20 million veterans to provide nutrition assistance to those in need. Specifically todays hearing will focus on how veterans access nutrition resources and recent policy changes have impacted the availability of resources and how congress can more effectivelyly support public and nonpublic agencies seeking to end veteran hunger this continues the subcommittees efforts to review economic factors that contribute to suicide which we now include homelessness
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . On this the vote the yeas are 53, the nays are 40. The nomination is agreed to and confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates actions. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22, do hereby bring to a close debate on the nomination of Lawrence Vandyke, of nevada, to be United States circuit judge for the ninth circuit. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of Lawrence Vandyke, of nevada, to be United States circuit judge for the ninth circuit shall be brought to a close . The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the rol
65 in the city. 57. The average is 69 and 53. So below and above and the high level clouds have pushed off. Whats left of that front is producing some rain in the Sierra Nevada so someone is getting in on that to the north and in the mountains. The breeze is not a huge factor yet but it will from the west and northwest later. 50s and 60s on the temperatures. I doubt we get much cooler than this. 52 in morgan hill. 50s in the santa cruz mountains. Upper 50s around cupertino and san jose. Look for morning drizzle to taper off and then partly to mostly sunny and breezy. 60s and 70s on your temperatures today. Sal is here. Super commute time now or Something Else . A little bit of everything. Good morning. Westbound 580 we start with the altimont super commute, the tracy super commute and you can see there is a crash on westbound 580 at grant line road. A couple of different items although i figure its the same thing. Traffic is going to be slow but if youre driving into livermore you can
There. One is the regular commute at the bay bridge is getting busy if you are coming up on 6 00. We can go to the bay bridge and you can see that traffic is going to be busy which is very typical. I want to tell you about it anyway. Then we have to go to the far east bay to the byron area because there is a grass fire. Camino pablo. There is one way Traffic Control in the area. If you take bascom road you will see it and its going to add to your delays getting out of the byron area. If you are driving out of the tracy area you will see that traffic here is going to be okay if you are driving through. I want to mention on the Golden Gate Bridge approach, southbound 101, there is a crash just outside the Robin Williams tunnel. Southbound onetoone traffic is slow and if you are coming to the Golden Gate Bridge need to add an extra 10 or 15 minutes at least. Lets go back to the desk. Today marks 30 years since one of the most devastating earthquakes hit the bay area or in this country for
That particular branch. Been a different bridge, that partially collapsed during the 1999 earthquake. It was a 6. 9 earthquake, 5 oh 4 pm. As a world series was about to start. He said that world series maybe save lives. Yes it happened around 5 04 and everyone went home to watch the giants play in game three. Subsequently that cypress structure which went down, where most of the deaths where a lot of people were off the freeway. Yes, the bay bridge failed, we so many fires pop up in the Marina District, four people in the marina alone died, a lot of people were forced out of the ballpark or they were at the ball park and they were watching it when it was interrupted at 5 04. A lot of people froze in that moment of what is going on . I was at home in livermore and i did not do any of that duck, cover business. What did you do . I walked around the house and noticed it was shaking, it felt like it was three minutes long it was like 1520 seconds so i did not do what you should have done,