I want to take a few brief opening remarks and then ill turn it over. Then ill turn it over to Ranking Member sanders. We are here today to consider, to serve as the nest director of budget. To serve as the director since there were 20. Teen President Trump nominated him in march as the nations facing a unprecedented crisis, both health and economic from the covid crisis. The office of management and budget paint played a key part, in addition to building the president s annual budget we also to do financial, management grants management, information technology, program assessment, and Property Management just to name a few. Given the vast responsibility over the organization its important to have a senate director in place. Before we hear from the Deputy Director of want to discuss our response to the coronavirus pandemic. Congress working with the president to provide needed relief for individuals and businesses and state and local government on a series of bills resulting in spendin
Out of several feet of water drainage definitely an issue in this area along governor prince boulevard. Water gushing down one side of the hill, on the other side, also more i did not see the water at all. Thats the thing. I didnt see the water. All i remember is just driving. As soon as i see the water and brake, im already in the water and my car immediately shuts off. Im like oh my goodness. I tried to start it again, it shut off again. And speed limits were reduced because of the weather. Also in south jersey, the pounding rain caused problems on the rails. The tracks of new Jersey Transits river line here in camden were flooded. The line shut down between the bank center and the Walter Rand Transportation Center for more than an hour at the height of the morning rush. So our rainfall totals from this morning were very high especially in delaware and south jersey where we showed you the video from. So from this morning, there you can see some of the heaviest rainfall amounts in par
Obscure for a handover. Dagen and hangover and cureallss. And looking for direction today. We are seeing a market that is pulling back, Dow Jones Industrials down for the third day in a row. And right now down 23 points and a mixed bag as far as how components are doing. The big picture is the trend is to the downside, we are 5. 7 behind the alltime closing high in september by the Dow Jones Industrials. Theyre doing so great year to date. Theres some profittaking going on because of concerns in washington. Hang over fears on wall street, a lot around here, basically on top of that. Lets bring it in on friday mornings. Connell thank you, Nicole Petallides. Janet yellen to run the Federal Reserve, the nomination of current vice chair janet yellen to replace her boss, ben bernanke. That should happen later today. Connell with all the dysfunction of washington is there a possibility, the senate fails to confirm reddick . Peter barnes at the white house with latest. The senate is going to
The level is 16. 67. Down more than 15 . Yesterday, the vix hit 21. It has certainly calmed down. Hoping for a coup by jan moment in washington, d. C. Lori lets get more on that partisan logjam. It is finally showing signs of easing. Rich edson with his exclusive reporting. Rich House Republicans will present president obama with an offer. If bars treasury from extending that. He is taking nothing off the table. It is time for leadership. It is time for negotiations and this conversation to begin. I would hope that the president would look at this as an opportunity. Rich jackboot disagrees. I think prioritization is just default by another name. It is just saying that we will default on some of our obligations. By definition, if we do not have enough money, we will be in default on our obligation. Rich he also says it would be difficult to reprogram computers to pay some bills, but not all. Lori we want to go into peters report. What is the take at the white house . Peter jay carney is
Now the forecast. Leyla gulen . Now moisture in our forecast just a few high clouds. It is going to be a chilly start. You will want do dress in layers from emeryville to the bay bridge and to San Francisco, it is a clear start to the only with no clouds. That will come later on tonight but we will see clear conditions. It will warm us closer to the weekend. We will see temperatures wrapping up in the upper 70s and lower 80s. The next 12 hours dress if you can in layers topping out in the midtoupper 70s by evening, though, clear skies and cool. We have a couple of direction. Northbound traffic is not affected. We have an accident from Castro Valley approaching northbound along 238, watch out for that slow go away from 580. This is the drive in san jose beyond the julian street offramp the traffic is building. The countdown clock to a possible bart strike is winding down to the midnight deadline but there is a set back and accusations. Matt keller has more from the fremont bart station.