The hearing focused on the departments implementation of the Student Loan Debt for forgiveness program. Its aimed at helping highly indebted students with loans that misrepresented graduate outcomes and potential salaries. Meeting on education and labor will come to order. I want to welcome everyone and note decorum is present. The oversight hearing from the department of educations implementation of the barr defense rule pursuant to Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limited to chair and Ranking Members. This allows us to hear from witnesses sooner and provides all members time to ask questions. Id like to thank secretary betsy devos and thank her to hold enough time to allow all of the members present and have five minutes of questions pursuant to house rules. I am especially thankful pause in this chair i am exercising my prerogative to go last in the question order. So if she were to leave early, i wouldnt get to answer questions. I thank you for agreeing to stay with us the
Economic slow down then theres china upping the ante in the on going trade war out with a new warning for President Trump, aka the chosen one. Those details coming up next and the president targeting an American Business yet again. This time taking on big auto it is thursday, august 22nd and Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning and welcome stock futures indicating the dow will post maybe just some fractional losses and slight losses right at the opening bell if you see here were positive just by about though 8 points overall. The s p again up by 1 point and the nasdaq down by 6 if these futures moves were to hold into the regular cash Equities Trading session. To the bond market now, flashing again, that recession warning signal, the 10 year briefly dipped below the 2 year yield. You can see here following the release of the latest Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes yesterday. Investors on edge fearing the central bank will not act aggressively enough to stave off a possible
Streets calling for a ceasefire. The war in the middle east. Were also following breaking news in santa rosa after 4 deputies have been injured in the shooting. We go live there with the latest details. From the bay news station. Youre watching kron. And news. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at noon. Im justine waldman. Were going to start with some breaking news after for Sonoma County deputies were injured in a shooting with a gunman earlier this morning in santa rosa. Several streets are still shut down during this investigation. Well go live now to kron 4 Charles Clifford, who is in santa rosa with the latest details here. Charles, walk us through what has happened so far well, right now im standing along todd road just to the west of highway 101 of the Highway Patrol Sonoma County are Sonoma County sheriffs santa rosa pd have this entire area closed down as they investigate this case. And theyve been here since early this morning. According to the Sonoma County Sheri
And we have we have more on this breaking news that we told you at the top of the youre looking at some video now. The tree that fell onto a car in San Francisco. 4 people injured. This happened just about an hour ago just before we went on the air. This is at laguna and golden gate avenues in the citys fillmore district. Firefighters say the people injured have been all taken to the hospital. 2 lanes. They are currently blocked on golden gate between buchanan and webster. So thats here in the bay. And then in the Central Valley, were just seeing this video of what the National Weather service out of handford is calling a tornado. They say this is this afternoon in Madera County and you can see clearly a funnel cloud. Tough to see in the that it makes contact with the ground, which is what constitutes a tornado versus a funnel cloud. But if the National Weather serviceuis calling that they probably have intel you cant really see from this video. But just reminder of how volatile this s
Continues across the bay area this morning when the next round of rain is expected. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. Its good to have you. Im stephanie lin. Its saturday march the second and youre likely waking up to some wet weather outdoors. Lets check in now with dave the morning dave. Well, good morning, stephanie. Good morning, everybody. Were being treated to a bay area winter. Finally, this is the real feel for what weve got going on. Weve got some cold winds at work here. We have some rain thats going to be spotty through the day. But it will pounce at times. Kind of coming and going throughout the day. Cant rule out. A couple of flashes are clashes of lightning in there. Potentially some hail those snow levels have really dropped, though. So you might start to see some snow collect in our local mountains. Heres the shot from a radar you can see in th