Presents. We are privileged, we are a privileged few, who are not only at the white house, the very center of the planning strategically for our nations future, but we are also, those who have been chosen, to focus our knowledge and our experience on the challenges that longevity has presented itself am our nations future. That is quite a dramatic challenge, you all are aware of that. But im convinced that we are all up to the task before us that we have today. I served as a dell fwat to the 1961 white house conference. [ applause ]. Egate to the 1961 white house conference. [ applause ]. Thats why thats why im hanging on to the rails. [ laughter ] there are over 3,000 delegates at that time. We werent privileged to be in the white house. We were serving is the white house. We were divided into 13 specific sectional areas and a we had great discussions. As a matter of fact, although the convictions were strong, maybe thats not the word, i should say they were passionate, but delegates
Hurricane irma has slammed into the us state of florida and is moving up its west coast bringing widespread coastal flooding, torrential rain, and winds of about 120 miles an hour. Power supplies have been cut to more than three million homes and businesses. Several cities in the state have declared overnight cu rfews to prevent looting. The storm has been downgraded to a category two, but officials are warning of life threatening storm surges. The streets of miamis Business District have been swamped by a up to three feet of water brought by a storm surge. 0ur correspondent, aleem maqbool, is there. They warned miami would flood, and it has. Irmas massive downpours and ocean surges combined to inundate the citys financial district. As thousands from the city hunkered down in hurricane shelters, others captured dramatic footage of the storm coming through. Its probably the hardest its been all day. Of power lines being torn down. Oh my god . Of lethal tornadoes being unleashed. Of a ro
Divide in terms of the infrastructure need. Are the cities more needy than the rule areas or the interstate highway system connects to . Guest yes, the metropolitan centers are the ones that really need the help. Centersban centers and that are referred to as freight corridors. So the freight corridor in. Rizona, dallas, chicago your cities are the ones that are in the most need of assistance to build and rebuild these roads. Another thing to point out about this trunk plan is that it is also called just calling for building new projects and what the states are telling capitol hill is that they really dont need new projects. What they need is funding to maintain existing projects. Thats the problem, that these bridges are ending their service life. Roadways have ended. They are scrabbling to come up with the funding for these roadways and also, on the rural level, places and Rural America that need new projects, aretrump plan, knife we talking about privatizing roadways, that would mea
Abc7 news starts right now with live breaking news. And that breaking news is in emeryville where someone shot at two Police Officers on foot patrol. It happened around 8 30 on watts street and park avenue across are across from pixar. Investigators found a bullet from a 9 millimeter gun lodged in the wall. Police are not confirming that officers were targeted, only a shot was fired while they are on patrol. Follow abc7 news bay area on twitter for that story and many more. Our other top story, a family is making a plea for a driver to come forward. Thats right. They want answers after a deadly hitandrun. The collision happened on willow pass road north of lynnwood drive in concord. Frank fernandez had Frank Fernandez was hit by a car, but no one stopped to report it. She joins us now live from concord. Alyssa . Ama and dan, family members are trying to heal, but they are left with unanswered questions. The Concord Police department is asking the public for help. They dont have the des
Concord you are clear at 58 degrees. The marine lay, even though its creating the problems close to the bay, its shallow. We will get into sunshine today with numbers in the 50s at the coast and low to mid90s inland. Thank you, lisa. We are tracking developing news out of the east bay this morning. Emeryville police are lack fog fog looking for two who shot at officers. Investigators found a bullet from a 9millimeter launched in the wall. Emeryville police are not confirming that officers were targeted in this case, only that a shot was fired while they were on patrol. One person is dead after a car rolled over in redwood city. It happened just 8 30 on the whipple avenue offramp of highway 101. They say the driver was ejected from the car. The crash closed the freeway for more than three hours last night. Know word on what caused the car to crash. A bay area family is making a plea for a family to come forward after a deadly hitandrun collision. Police say is happened sometime between