Eligible to receive famous from pg e face a hard deadline tomorrow or risk being left with nothing. The according to the new york times, as many as 70,000 people have not filed a claim as of two weeks ago. Thats about twothirds of the people who are eligible. An 8. 4 billion fund was set aside by a bankruptcy judge for payouts to victims of the north bay and butte county wildfires. Those fires were sparked by pg e equipment. People eligible to file include those who lost their homes as well as those who lost wages or suffered emotional distress. The deadline again to file is tomorrow night at 5 00. For more information you can go to our website at www. Ktvu. Com and click on web links. This comes on today which marks 28 years since the deadly Oakland Hills firestorm. The massive fire on october 20th, 1991, was sparked by a grassfire northeast of the caldecott tunnel. Firefighters thought they had the fire under control, but it flared back up the following day when the winds kicked up.
Of conscience whistleblowing in an age of fraud. He takes you through these cases. What you find with most whistleblowers is they tend to be very interdirected. You tend to have a loyalty essentially to a higher purpose or calling. I have spent 26 years in government either full or parttime service between the national guard, the cia, 10 plus. Ears on capitol hill and so on i take it deadly seriously, i will until the day i die and that is what drove me in that circumstance because it was very clear during the war there was an amount of intelligence flowing out of the theater in the early days of the conflict potentialated chemical agent attacks had taken place or alarms had been going off. I was working at the equivalent imagery Headline News operation at the time, very. Uick turnaround reporting every time during that war, that six week period these reports , we would call the headquarters in riyadh and asked the question is this real . Every time, we would be called false alarm, don
Dr. Shuck and thank you for being with us today presenter to have you here. If he is an important subject to talk about in the area for government a lot of people hear about but dont necessarily know the details. There are a lot of us that dont understand the breadth and depth of what the va does so its great to talk to about the via general uncertain about your book and about your time in the administration. I would love to begin by hearing about what brought you to the va you are very successful in your civilian career and make in that tradition from the civilian world and to the government world can be a bit jarring. What drove you to want to take up working within the government especially with the va . Guest during my 20s i didnt have a chance to serve the way that you did. I spent my time in medical institutions and doing my medical training and its always one of the real regrets that ive had with this amazing country that we have that i wasnt able to get back. Later on in my car
Standard for accountability and openness out in our community and thats why weve done 17, yes, actually 17 town halls in person across our Community Just this year. Three of them have been in manteca. I think at least three. And weve really been trying to make sure that were listening to every single voice in our community. Whether you voted for me, you didnt, you didnt even vote at all, i am still your representative in office and its my job to make sure that im going out and listening to your concerns, your suggestions, your comments about how i can do my job and making sure that my First Priority is to be grounded in the needs and the realities of our community here. A little bit about my story, i ran for office because i love the Central Valley. My family settled here in manteca, my great, great grandfather came out on a wagon train in 1850. He came 2,000 miles in search of gold and stopped 50 miles short because he settled right here to become a peach farmer. Theres a eucalyptus t
Given adequate steps this is the language in the bill. Madam re the facts, chair. If attorney general barr was given Broad Authority to take adequate steps in correcting the in any democratic district, imagine that. Imagine the uproar. There would be a public uproar. Same could be said for a democratic attorney general. This section not only gives Broad Authority to the a. G. But its extremely vague and will leave state and local Election Officials struggling to comply with this section. To make matters worse, weve not heard from a sing the state or local election single state or local election official about how this might affect their ability to conduct elections. This is the reason why we have hearingings and call people into congress to listen to them about the impact of legislation that were debating in this house. And we did not have a single hearing before this bill was rushed to the floor. This is not regular order. This is not what the democratic majority promised when they we