Im eric thomas, and now to the other top story. This is not a legal fireworks display. In the years past, oakland has had a problem with illegal fireworks on july 4th. This year, the police are stepping up the patrols, because the fire danger is so high. News 7 reporter Cornell Bernard has the story. Reporter this year, many will leave Independence Day fireworks to the pros, but others prefer a little dyi. Oakland is infamous for the illegal fireworks displays like this, but the city is trying to stop it. Dont get yourself in trouble for one night. You know, be smart. Be smart this fourth of july. Reporter daisy is sending that advice to the oakland neighbors who may be planning the illegal fireworks display, and the Fire Department has its own warning. We want the people to know both they are illegal and dangerous. If you are caught with them, you will be fined by the Oakland Police department. Reporter the fines ranging from 11,0 1 to 10,000, and th fire danger is high, and the droug
Proponents argue this deadline is necessary to ensure timely consideration by d. O. E. , but given the departments track record, i find this arbitrary deadline to be completely unnecessary. In fact it could be detrimental to the ultimate approval of an export application. In light of recent events related to the jordan cove application in oregon, do you believe it makes sense to force d. O. E. To hastily make a decision on an application based on the final eis . We have consistently said we see no need for this. By performance. And as youve said, i think very correctly, there can be unintended consequences. The jordan cove, when that was rejected by ferc for nonenvironmental reasons, would have caused a problem with the bills as proposed. So, you know, we really should be having records of decision by ferc in this case or marad for an offshore facility because that is the complete set of information that informs our final judgment. I want to ask you about Climate Change and note that C
It needs to be. This issue were working on data, working on technology, and working on the systems issues are all critical. International partners are excited about working with us on, this and israel, which is so far advanced in these technologies is one that we are building up a stronger collaboration on. Can you talk about the Energy Storage at the department . The Energy Storage program is one that we have expanded. A lot of congressional interest in that support, which we appreciate, so we are working we have a battery hub, which is doing extremely well. It is centered at argon. Berkeley is the major partner. We recently put out maybe a month ago a report on hydro and pointed out in terms of storage we still have a lot of capacity for pump hydro in the country, which today is the most costeffective in the places where you can do it. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Yield back. The chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio for five minutes. I thank the chairman very much, and mr. Secretary,
Paying up for School Pictures. The news4 iteam digs into where your money goes when you buy those annual prints. And why some lawmakers want you to be able to buy beer in bulk in maryland. Off the top tonight, folks, we are starting with doug in storm center 4, and with onetwo punch of storms coming our way this week. It all starts tomorrow morning. Doug, most of luis get rain. But some may see a little snow too . It could be a little mix up towards the north and west. Were talking areas like martinsburg, frederick, around the hagerstown area. It will start during the morning rush. Storm team 4 radar tracking the rain. But its not in our area currently. But you dont have to go too far to the south to see where this rain is. Just down to the south in towards the carolinas. Again, this is storm number one moving our way. This is going to be the weaker of the two storms. Its going to give us the rain during the day tomorrow. Take the umbrellas. Make sure you have the coats as well. Its go
Line train was stopped at the Anacostia Metro station. Two suspects fled the scene on foot. They were caught a short time later, walking across the south capital street bridge. The suspects have since been positively identified. By witnesses. So they are now under arrest. We do not yet know what prompted this incident. Now we can tell you police tell us so far they are still looking for the weapon no weapon has been recovered, as of yet. As for the two suspects, theyre both males, one 19 years old. The other, 15 years old. Theyre expected both do make their first appearance before a judge tomorrow morning. Coming up at 6 00, well tell you exactly how police were able to catch these two suspects so quickly. Chris, back to you guys. All right, thanks, mark has been tweeting information on the story all afternoon. For now lets turn back to storm team 4 and the wet weather affecting all of us. Weve been getting rain all day. Its just the forerunner to what were going g a weather alert day.