The senate began its business. Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to consider the president s budget request for the department of interior for fiscal year 2018. This is the second of three budget hearings before our committee this year following the Forest Service last week and the kept of energy which is coming up on thursday. Secretary zinke, welcome back to the committee for your first appearance since our bipartisan vote in favor of your confirmation on march 1st. It was nice to be able to give you the the official tally this morning, make it officially official. I want to start by noting you have taken on some tough tasks at the department including some challenges that really have gone unaddressed for years. I think you are off to a good start. And i appreciate that. I have enjoyed working with you during the early month of your tenure as secretary. I truly appreciated the opportunity to host you and some members here on the commit
Department. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Hearing was cut short because Senate Democrats did not consent for Committee Hearings that day to go two hours past 10 a. M. When the senate began its business. Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to consider the president s budget request for the department of interior for fiscal year 2018. This is the second of three budget hearings before our committee this year following the Forest Service last week and the kept of energy which is coming up on thursday. Secretary zinke, welcome back to the committee for your first appearance since our bipartisan vote in favor of your confirmation on march 1st. It was nice to be able to give you the the official tally this morning, make it officially official. I want to start by noting you have taken on some tough tasks at the department including some challenges that really have gone unaddressed for years. I think you are off to a good start
Hours or the good news with this is although it is enhancing our rain chances, it is still relatively weak and it looks like the majority of the heavier rain and gusty winds will be on the east coast of florida from Central Florida on north to jacksonville. If youre planning to travel in that direction, be aware that you could be getting those tropical heavy downpours, especially along i95 from daytona on north over the next 24 and near shore. So if you happen to want to do any boating off of the east coast of florida, they have tropical force storm winds. That is a bit nasty on that side of the state. In our area, we will continue to pull that moisture out of the system. And that will enhance our coverage of rain over the next 24 hours or so. You can see how big the system is. It has been interesting watching it. You see the circulation that was not present yesterday when yesterday, it was about a 10 chance of developing into a tropical system. Then it really blew up with its organiza
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With where its coming down right now. Its one of those location, location, location things. You look at orlando to the north, doing okay. Theres a spot of rain in eastern marion county. The heavier showers remaining in the southern parts of the viewing zone like melbourne back out into osceola county, big rain is still on tap. Heres the line moving to the north and east, should be arriving in cocoa about a minute from now. Merritt island in eight minutes. Minutes. How heaviest raining . On top of titusville, just to the south there along a1a, a quarter inch per hour. 32 of an inch per hour in the open waters before wilson and the scattered showers are going the other way. For now, big rain has kind of settled south. Thats where a lot of the action has been tonight into the early evening, down here in fort myers and funnels in from Sarasota County to fort myers, rolling over top the state coming to our southern zones. The big nasty weather has been all down south with watches and here t