Present. The committee a quorum is present. The committee is meeting to hear testimony on the importance of trauma and practices in education to assist students impacted by gun violence and other adversities. Miss beth of georgia, of minnesota, miss the of wilde ofiss pennsylvania, and mr. Pastor of texas, are permitted to participate in todays hearings with the understanding that their questions will come on the after all members of the subcommittee have had an opportunity to question the witness. ,ursuant to committee will 7c Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from or witnesses sooner and provides all members with time to ask questions. Can you hear me all right . All right. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. I want to begin by acknowledging that this morning marks 18 years since the terrorist attacks that struck new york, pennsylvania, and the pentagon on september 11, 2001. Let us please tak
Westbound 580, shut down at telegraph due to Police Activity and you can see in the live pictures that there are police cars and coming to a complete stop right now with heavy Police Presence at the scene right now. Minutes ago, chopper5 was over the scene with chp offering few details. We could clearly see a car crashed against the Center Divider and a shuttle bus, as well pit we are told an ambulance was at the scene but we are not sure who was injured. Traffic is badly backed up on 580 and we have another crew and root with more in just a few minutes. Emily turner joins us with more on that traffic mess. Reporter when you have a full closure on the bay area, its never a good situation but it could be worse. 10 miles and are approaching the interchange and 15 milesan hour as you approach where it is closed at telegraph all the way past highway 24 due to Police Activity. They are routing people often 980 and 24 but i would hop off before that. The exit will be grand avenue and i would
The effects of the first two wage hikes in 582, rather than the actual effect of this bill, which is increasing the minimum wage by 107 . As my colleagues well know, the first two wage hikes will not be as damaging as the increase to 15. So the result of the proposed g. A. O. Study are rigged to avoid using the damaging 107 hike as the appropriate benchmark. Second, this amendment has no teeth, it merely says that congress can make recommendations after the first two wage hikes have gone into effect. But theres no requirement that congress do anything in response. And theres no Fast Track Authority in this amendment. Again, i will say this amendment is not necessary. I urge my colleagues to see this amendment for what it is, an attempt to provide political cover to Democrat Members who are justifiablely concerned about the negative justifiably concerned about the negative impacts of a 15 minimum wage in their districts. Vote no on this bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The spe
You can see cloud cover moving into the napa valley. Right now, looks cloudy. Here is a little fog along the coast and mist. Temperatures to mid 50s to 60 at 7 00. We hit 72 to 80, inland temperatures at noon. 80 to 90. 74 to 80, still warm at 7 00. I felt it yesterday, mike. You missed out. Sorry, buddy. Were looking at the bay bridge camera. Traffic coming into San Francisco is looking very standard this morning. We dont have any significant delays. No metering lights yet. That should happen in about 20 minutes. Everything looking good from the east bay. Drive times average, too. Only one in the yellow, westbound 580 tracy to dublin, 38 minutes. Southbound 680 dublin to mission boulevard, 14 minutes. 15 minutes highway 101 to cupertino. People still talking about the double dose of shaking that mike didnt feel but alexis did that struck the east bay. The epicenter was close to blackhawk. An abc 7 News Reporter anser hassan is live this morning where people definitely felt the shaking
As you get out of the tunnel. Better news in the east bay, concord crash southbound 242 near willow pass, that has cleared from the two left lanes as we zoom out a bit, residual delays definiely remain both on southbound 242 and westbound highway 4. People are still talking about the double dose of shaking that struck the east bay yesterday. There were two small quakes but felt hundreds of miles away. Sky map 7 showing the epicenter of each of these quakes close to blackhawk. The first a 3. 2 magnitude followed by a 3. 5 magnitude. Abc 7s anser hassan live in blackhawk where people definitely felt them. Reporter good morning guys. Thankfully no reports of injuries. In fact, the San Ramon Valley fire say they didnt get one 911 call. People did feel it especially here in blackhawk which is close to the epicenter. Sky map 7 Technology Shows wher 1 00 p. M. It was a 4. 3. The second was a 3. 5 later downgraded to a 3. 2. According to the usgs the greenville fault is the least understood of