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forecast. good morning and merry christmas and prepare to bundle up if you head out early in the morning. numbers low to mid 40s. but more sunshine in the early going and partly cloudy skies. so around the coast mid 40s same for the bay. low 40s join land. here is what is happening. high pressures over the west coast keeping us fairly dry all week this afternoon the numbers manage upper 50s and a few low 60 s, clouds increase by this afternoon, exed forecast, numbers regain 60s, for the most part this week numbers will be above average. we should be upper 50s by later in the week mid-60s but it looks nice fair christmas ahead. we are following developing news in hayward, two c hp officers are injured after being rear ended in a crash on interstate 880 happening near highway 92. yes, sir i is a flores is live where the southbound lanes have been completely shut down, jessica. reporter: that s right, anne, we are just off the a street exit. can you see this on ramp ....
special counsel leading into the russia investigation. as nbc learns the president is shaking up his legal team. breaking overnight, a powerful earthquake rocks greece and turkey. two people killed. 120 others injured. historic buildings destroyed. new video shows the grafrantic moment that quake struck. and maria menounos getting battle. > this was a gift. i needed to change my life. new york to d.c. in 29 minutes. why it could happen sooner than you think. today, july 21st, 2017. this is today. so glad to have you alock with us. we have willie in for matt. get like a flashback of the 90s, everybody glued to television sets, waiting for the wait of o.j. simpson. o.j. simpson, soon to be a free man after that decision by a nevada parole board. the country s most infamous inmate granted parole. not before simpson made controversial statements about his past. we have full coverage. starting with joe fryer. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. ....
mail, they face an unprecedented financial crisis. since 2006, mail volume has declined more than 25% or about 60 billion of pieces of mail annually. they ve lost money for nine straight years. they face mounting long-term financial challenges. they have $54 billion for retiry health care and has exhausted its statutory debt limit and it lacks the funds it needs for critical infructure investmeinv. and a delivery fleet think about all the millions and millions of postal boxes that need somebody to come deliver the mail to them. it is a miraculous thing that for less than 50 cents, you can put a stamp on an envelope and a day or two or three days later, it s going to show up at another address in the country. it really is truly amazing. but if you re going to purchase new delivery vehicles, you re going to need money and it s something that the postal service does not have. in the mean time, they must manage a delivery fleet of vehicles on average is 20 years old and c ....
important to know the approach we re taking here. are there costs to be cut? yes. are the things we can do to become more effective? more efficient? yes. but i also believe the postal service is a vital tool of commerce and a thriving vibrant, productive postal service is essential to our economy. we cannot ignore this. think about the world of the internet, think about the way commerce is moving, the way we communicate, how we send bills and kmoocommunicate as a nation. you have to have a vibrant, thriving postal service to achieve that. that s why i think so many people are here today and rithser one of the most important things our committee will be addressing and taking care of and that s the goal and what we re trying to achieve and i thank you all for being here. we should have a good hearing today. with that, ranking member, mr. comeings of maryland. i want to thank you for your hard wi hard work and staff on both sides working so hard for a long time to try to ....
mr. hanna, it strikes me in your response to some of my colleagues on this side of the aisle, comments with your role about vice president cheney and the agreement or the decision to invade iraq is it was a mistake and you apologize for that in your own way. but we should just move on from that. is that a misrepresentation of how you view your actions? it s senate more complicated than that. of course. and too long to explain. that, yes, if the case depended on weapons of mass destruction in iraq, that was false. and the american people didn t understand the grounds on which we were going to war to take out a guy who is a horrible dictator and a major strategic threat to american interests that the american congress in 1998 passed a law almost unanimously saying the iraq liberation act saying we ve got to doing? to get rid of this guy. didn t say war necessarily but it says we ve got a big problem with iraq, we need to doing? about it. but it was based, wo ....