I call this to order. For the last several monthess i along with Ranking Member and colleagues on this committee have been working on a new farm bill. An important part of this process has been to hold hearings on each title. Im proud to say the committee has officially conducted the work, having held hearings so far on eight titles. Todays hearing covers the four and five. Two titles remain. The reauthorization process affords us the opportunity to review the full range of usda programs to insure that theyre operating efficiently and effectively. Not every Program Needs to measure overall but many can benefit from increased deficiency, improved integrity and the reduction of waste. As we conduct this review, it is important to remember the purpose of these critical nutrition programs. Theyre not about long term. Theyre about giving aid in times of trouble. Theyre about insuring our nations security, helping folks become productive members of our economy and assisting the vulnerable am
Matter. That would be good in state court, but is of little value. Reporter the Attorney Says he is representing several clients with similar dilemmas. Legal resident that is broke the law years ago, paid their debt and nou face having green cards revoked. What many noncitizens are finding is what they did 20 years ago and paid their debt to society is coming back to haunt them. They are caught up in the labyrinth of enforcement procedures. Reporter they are asking v. A. s and judges to modify their sentences. Its possible if they did not properly advise them of the immigration consequences of pleading gill toy the crime. Hes throwing himself at the mercy of the court. Its still a fearful thing to me. My kids are in college. You know, married. We just had a 21 year anniversary. Reporter in a statement, the v. A. s office said we are interested in Community Efforts to ensure everyone entitled to such relief can get it. We are working to ensure outreach and assistance so all members of t
South to the north. Temperatures hot today not so much at the beaches in the 60s. Thats refreshing. But we are going to plow through the 70s and reach the high 80s around the peninsula. Mid90s in los gatos and morgan hill. Triple digits in gilroy. East of the bay the hottest, 106, brentwood, tracy, oakley, Discovery Bay and mountain house. Look at the triple digits also livermore 104. Ptown 104. North bay numbers from the 60s through the 70s in sausalito to the 87degree mark in mill valley, 93 in napa and still 100 degrees in cloverdale. We still have a string of triple digits to come. Well talk more about that but right now lets say good morning to sandy. Good morning to you. Yeah, that crash we have been talking about throughout the morning has been cleared still were seeing some residual delays on 580 this morning. You can see westbound the speeds down to 33 miles per hour. Still no major delays there. All right. Road construction to talk about on your traffic roundup here both dire
Crawl approaching hillcrest in the westbound lanes. We teamed this out well. You can see they are doing the lanes changes right now across the Golden Gate Bridge. Eventually they will get four southbound lanes open in the commute direction heading into San Francisco. No delay for your Silicon Valley ride on 237. Easy breezy for you. Its been nice so far. So far. But its still early. It is. See you at 6 00. All right. Thank you, elizabeth. Well, one of the most powerful political jobs in the bay area is up for grabs today as san jose voters choose a replacement for their termed out mayor chuck reed. Kiet do has more from city hall on whats at stake. Reporter good morning. A lot is at stake here in san jose as voters in northern californias largest city pick a new mayor. Santa clara county supervisor dave cortese seen here on the left came in first in the june primary. City Council Member sam liccardo was the runnerup and the most recent polls show cortese with a lead but a large group o
Registrars office where they will be counting votes today. This is a crowded field. Were talking about 15 candidates running for oakland mayor. Five have separated from the pack. Jean quan looks to fend off Current City Council members libby schaaf and rebecca kaplan. Professor joe tuman and businessman bryan parker. A recent poll found any one of the five frontrunners could win thanks to the citys rank Choice Voting system. That system allows voters to select up to three candidates in order of preference when marking ballots. Its meant to eliminate the need for a separate runoff but it takes the registrar a lot of time to count the extra votes. For a final tally its going to take into the following week. Reporter the ballots in the election were already coming into the Registrars Office yesterday where they were being sorted and test run for what is likely going to be a very long complicated count. Well, hopefully people will get out and vote but it sounds like voter turnout will be l