Is just over an hour and a half. I see that we have a quorum present. I really want to thank everybody for joining us, its an important issue that i now recognize myself for opening remarks. Pursuant to the notice, were holding a hearing to discuss the american lives on the line come lessons for managing the russia threat. Two weeks ago startling revelations that russia put bounties on american troops serving in afghanistan. This week in the Foreign Affairs committee weve been examining this egregious attack on americans and the Top Administration failure to handle it probably. Its important for the public to know this. Ive personally been involved in four earrings. This week alone that ive with this issue and that doesnt include the actions of other committees working on their own. I just want to underscore to people listening that they should know that we in concert taking over some of this matter very seriously. The one thing if we do nothing else, the most basic and fundamental dut
Sunday night on c. Span. Israel has declared jerusalem its capital, but that is not internationally recognized because of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Congress passed a law requiring the u. S. To move its embassy to jerusalem. But the law allowed the president to issue a waiver preventing the move. President s clinton, bush, obama and trump have blocked the move. The House Oversight committee on National Security recently heldiheld i a hearing on the issue. The subcommittee on National Security will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. In 1995, Congress Passed the Jerusalem Embassy relocation act which states that jerusalem is the capital of israel, it should remain an undivided city and the embassy should be relocated from tel aviv to jerusalem. Yet for 20 years they have signed waivers forestalling the embassy move. To this day 50 years after the liberation and reunification of jerusalem, the state of israel, one of americas s
Process took so long hes no longer eligible he feel turned 21, his father cannot petition for him to become a citizen. He has lived his whole life in this country since he was 3, his father is an american citizen, hes an undocumented immigrant. The only solution for him is the dream act. Only countrythe i know. My family and friends are here and everything i know as america. The dream act is important to me and many others like me who are in the same situation. We have the resources to help this country greatly but dont have a paper to do this. We Hope Congress will put political issues aside and pass the dream act. Yanid is right. Will america be better off if we deported him . The answer is very obvious. Chauns ago, 1992, min parents brought him to the United States at four years old and overcame obstacles to complete his education. In 2009, he graduated from the university of california with a bachelors degree in neuroscience. Heres what he said. My dream is to make several contribu
Pete suratos is there with what we discovered overnight. Pete . Reporter good morning to you, laura and marcus. Were working to get more details from chp oakland as well as the Contra Costa Sheriffs Department which are handling this investigation, but at least from the scene on san pablo avenue i can tell you that the scene is clear, wont affect any traffic in the area. There are reports of a shooting in richmond with at least that driver crashing their car just off the off ramp off of 80 west. We will show you video from this scene. This is from roughly around 11 00 p. M. So the scene has cleared for quite some time, but information that were getting or our crews got from officers on the scene is that apparently the shooting happened just after 11 00 p. M. , its unclear if that shooting happened on the freeway but that convertible, that crash just off the off ramp off of 80 west and san pablo avenue. We do know that the victim was transported to a president who, do not know the exten
A northwest breezes for some in northeast for others. There will be more sunshine today. Even berkeley lab has a northwest breezes. 30s for many temperatures. 40s for some. Its noticeably cooler this morning. Oseguera is okay except for the fog in the valley. Otherwise, mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies. It looks drive through february 14 if everything marches in as advertised. All the models are showing this. 60s and near 74 the temperatures. We are beginning to ramp up a little bit. Good morning. If you are at home trying to figure out what the commute will be like on interstate 80, i do have some data for you. 80 westbound, the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze, 22 minutes. It is getting higher. It was 18 minutes a few minutes ago and will probably go up to 30 or 40 before the morning is over unless something happens. This is a look at the bay bridge. Its backed up for the typical 1015 minute delay before you make it onto the span. Interstate 880 north and southbound look goo