Watching our 2 International Coming to you straight from the russian capital 247 welcome to the program this hour. The Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said moscow has nothing to hide in the arctic sea and not on the case as well as a conclusion by germany that the russian opposition figurehead was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent. We have already commented on this and said we have nothing to hide says the soon as alex in the valley fell ill the plane was grounded and necessary measures roomie julie taken this soon as he was transported to germany those who were demanding information from russia went silent and did not demand anything from berlin this is all following the same old scenario we hear public accusations against russia and the official requests to berlin from a Prosecutors Office have so far gone unanswered we were promised today that we would soon receive response as soon as we get the facts we will react accordingly this is all reminiscent of what happened w
Acting customs and Border Protection commissioner mark morgan testified the Senate Homeland security and government official. Pretty discuss the challenges they coronavirus pandemic posed to his agency including passenger travel restrictions. The hearing will come to order. Im looking at the title of this hearing. Cbp oversight unit i was talking to mr. Morgan earlier. Wondering if he wouldve broken of four told the future before he took this position. He wouldve done so. Is been challenging yes. Crisis after crisis after crisis. So first want to say i want to thank the witnesses mr. Morgan or your perseverance and your service to the nation. About the past and present and in the future. Things are not getting a whole lot better anytime soon a fear. I would ask consent to my Opening Statement be entered into record. This hearing on the border that we have not had of quite a few months. Obviously need to is a chart. This really what i want to talk about in my opening comments. I think c
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Your perseverance and service to this nation, both the past, present and in the future too. Things arent getting a whole lot better any time soon, i fear. I would ask consent that my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. As a hearing on the border we havent had one for quite a few months, so i obviously need to use a chart. Thats really what i want to talk about in my opening comments. Weve held i think close to 40 hearings on some aspect of the issues on the border and with our broken immigration system, began keeping this chart on unaccompanied children but then as the whole issue with people coming across and exploiting our asylum laws coming as families, the problem just exploded in late 2018 and into 2019, and the main reason i want to show this chart, youll see the gold colored bars are single adults, down slightly, pretty persistent, pretty stable for the, you know, eight years this chart represents. What you do see, though, in red is unaccompanied children, blue
A cooler 55 down there to fremont kind of a hodgepodge of 50s up to the north bay 63 antioch and 61 for concord if youre comparing this from 24 hours ago in some spots a little cooler this morning than made with the exceptions of san jose and nevado for example, but elsewhere were a couple degrees behind again from this time yesterday, heres the fog kind of helped us out a little bit a little bit more aggressive than we saw from yesterday. Theres what happens by 09 45am nice clearing job and dont you know its going to come back again for tonight, it looks like getting some progress up here, iran Contra Costa County up there as well. The temperatures are going to be spiking for us we do have a heat advisory. Thats now been posted this was the excessive heat watch we had earlier as a formality solano counties in this and all of the Central Valley. Inland highs easily in the 90s all week long because this has been extended now until saturday at 8 inland highs in the 90s were talking to th