Welcome everyone to the committee today and thank you secretary Robert Wilkie in particular and all of the staff. You will hear a lot of questions and hopefully you will give us a lot of good answers and we will hopefully get some good results and move in the right direction. We have the committee and we had a good year last year. We got a lot of things squared away that needed to be addressed for some time. You said we gave them to you and we will look for the results to share and that is what we will be reviewing. We are making sure we are making progress with result not just promises. I think we will be able to do that. This is an important meeting this is our annual review of the budget. The present budget came out a few days ago and todays budget is a significant one and a significant increase. We have a unique situation. We get more money than anybody in increases every year. However you want to calculate it money is not our problem. Weve looked out for our veterans and we know w
Welcome everyone to the committee today and thank you secretary Robert Wilkie in particular and all of the staff. You will hear a lot of questions and hopefully you will give us a lot of good answers and we will hopefully get some good results and move in the right direction. We have the committee and we had a good year last year. We got a lot of things squared away that needed to be addressed for some time. You said we gave them to you and we will look for the results to share and that is what we will be reviewing. We are making sure we are making progress with result not just promises. I think we will be able to do that. This is an important meeting this is our annual review of the budget. The present budget came out a few days ago and todays budget is a significant one and a significant increase. We have a unique situation. We get more money than anybody in increases every year. However you want to calculate it money is not our problem. Weve looked out for our veterans and we know w
A candidate who will also deal with the corruption issues indeed and thats certainly something i want to look into a little later in this Program Including the economy but lets talk about the candidates specifically mr her on we have two veteran candidates a comedian who has no defined policies no experience and yet is very popular what kind of a message does that send and why is that. Yes first of all i am now in a very difficult situation because i think i need to react to what the russian call except who is representing grass today which is kremlin propaganda russia is aggressed russia is waging war against Ukraine Russia annexed crimea russia is not electoral democracy which is too cheap to teach us in the democratic rules of the games and how to conduct elections so first of all i would like to stress that we. We have free elections and there are different candidates including brought us from candidates but as a broader was brushing again today it is because of russian aggression
I think this gives us another opportunity to bring the subject up again, like you say, for the equal pay, and harassment in the workplace and all of that. Good evening. The japanese car maker, honda, is to close its entire plant in swindon, with the loss of 3,500 jobs. The company is expected to make a formal announcement tomorrow. Production will end by 2022, with manufacturing going back to japan. Honda has made vehicles in swindon for more than 30 years, and today the unite union desribed the closure, as a shattering body blow, at the heart of uk manufacturing. 0ur correspondentjon kay is in swindon tonight. It was the mid 1980s when honda bought this old airfield on the edge of swindon and turned it into a massive car production plant, and since then its grown. There have been bad times, but on the whole this has become a crucial part of swindon plasma economic revival. And so the news tonight that the plant could close, with the loss of at least 3,500 jobs inside and thousands mor
The marine layer doesnt help in this situation in terms of clearing out the air quality. However, we are waking up to cooler temperatures this morning, and weve been seeing those colder temperatures really the past couple of days. 45 degrees right now. Wind speeds nice and light, about 5 miles per hour. Look at the temperatures in santa rosa, 28 degrees. Napa 32 in through concord 38. Livermore 35 and our air quality again still unhealthy, but if you notice in through San Francisco and Half Moon Bay, we have seen a little bit better in terms of the conditions, still seeing some moderate spare the air alert conditions, but i will break town our chance of rain, the time line for that, coming up in about 15 minutes. Good, we need it. Vianey, see you then, thanks. As vianey just mentioned, today will be yet another day of dangerous air quality across the bay. Several weekend events have either been postponed or canceled all together. In brk erkeley in, people waiten long line waited for th