Let me thank all the subcommittee members who will be participating and those who will be participating virtually in a few minutes. There is an interesting debate among the people of this country about which powerful special interests have the most clout on capitol hill. Some people think it may be wall street and some people may think its the militaryindustrial complex, and some people think is the fossil fuel industry. I myself, i may be wrong, but i would give the nod to the pharmaceutical industry, an industry which charges the American People by far the highest prices in the world for Prescription Drugs and has managed to create a situation where they can raise their prices to any level they want, any day of the week. Today people walking into a drugstore, walking into a pharmacy, the pharmacist is telling them the price of your medicine has substantially gone up. Thats what the Drug Companies have done. Drug companies are in industry wood year after year make huge profit and they
Keeping it clean and fresh for the bay area. It is because of that ocean breeze kicking in and that is why we are looking at temperatures a little cooler someboo inand an82day as 67n ano in san jose and 85 for concord. You can see the seasonal temperatures as we go through our day. We will talk about some changes by the end of the week and it will feel more like summer. Details on that are coming up lets see how it is getting busy on the altamonte. It is already. It was busier than usual even at last check of the roadways. A possible broken down vehicle right around airway. That might be adding to an already busy ride. I will keep a close eye on that. I am not sure if it is on the eastbound and westbound side but it is sluggish on tracy and mount house yawned north flynn. There is one advisory that might be adding to slower travel times. It is 35 minutes, 205 towards 680. Now along the 101 southbound area out of sausalito, it is a little slower as they work to now to campaign 2020, it
So the weather headlines, scattered showers continue as we go through the afternoon. Weve had the cold front that pushed through late last night and behind that, looking at that scattered activity just behind the front, an isolated thunderstorm as possible. Especially closer to the Central Valley. So far, the east bay communities, drier weather returns tomorrow. We will time that out for you taking you hour by hour on futurecast coming up. Clicker and im ready and my to track your commute this morning. Lets start with bridges starting with the san mateo bridge where we are seeing some delays. Pretty regular for this time of the morning, but brake lights are popping up in westbound directions. Eastbound directions look pretty good. Not a lot of folks out there at this hour in the eastbound direction. The bay bridge meeting lights are not on yet. But i expect any minute for them to go on, because you can see the backup starting at the toll plaza. Back up underneath the 880 flyover. So pa
Leadership that is focused on winning a future that is increasingly complicate d and confusing if not threatening. Fundamentally thats what government is supposed to do. But ask yourselves. Can we count on washington to adapt quickly enough to prepare us for the future . How is it that were falling so far behind . Now if you accept the distilled reality on cable television, we hear we are two americas. There are red states and blue states and they are rural or you are urban immigrant and nonimmigrant. Those of us who live in cities who govern in cities know that is false. But they are right about one thing. There are two americas. Washington and the rest of us. And this city is led by a great may mayor. Im talking about our national government. Which is broke b. 60,000 teachers and supporters were walking through my city in the pouring rain, which is like a snow day for us. Their courage, their enthusiasm led me out to the streets to start talking. I took five teachers out to lunch. On
On what was agreed last week. R. B. I. Shery your stock and bond markets were closed today. This national day of mourning and remembrance for former president george h. W. Bush. We got u. S. Equities trading higher in the morning session. We will get them again trading in about an hour. Energy futures were trading 1 . Wti slipped to 6 10 of we have become a terry coming out of the opec plus meeting. Not the concrete deal on more production cuts, really no specific numbers out of that. We did get the british pound trading and fluctuating between gains and losses. We have seen more concerns over the brexit deal, Prime Minister may really having to be forced to publish their secret legal advice on the divorce bill. We will keep a close eye on what is happening in the u. K. When it comes to the canadian dollar, we sought weaken the most since june saw it weaken the most since june. Canada turned dovish because of the oil prices within canada. We will get u. S. Futures trading in about an h