The subcommittee on water oceans good morning. The subcommittee on water, oceans, and wildlife will come to order. This subcommittee is mint street hear testimony on h. R. 2245, the cecil act. And committee rule, any oral statement that there are limited to the chairman and the Ranking Member. The vice chair and the vice Ranking Member. This allows us to get from our witnesses soon and helps members keep their schedule. I asked anonymous consent all of the members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the subcommittee clerk by 5 p. M. Today or the close of hearing whichever comes first. During no objection, it is so ordered. One other bit of housekeeping. Im told votes are expected in about 30 minutes. That will interrupt our hearing this morning. We will recess for those votes and then we will come back as soon as we can get that finish line apologist for the inconvenient but sometimes thats what we have to do things around here. Good morning.
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Lets find out how things are going to be looking with Steve Paulson. Hes been tracking all the latest for us. Still a little cloudy behind you, steve. A lot of low clouds, but once that burns back, then, more sunshine today than what we had over the weekend here. And temperatures starting off 50s and 60s havent changed really. And if youre far enough inland, youll start to bump out of those 70s get into the 80s. Our system with the thunderstorm activity is now moved out. So much calmer here, especially up in the mountains. 6070s and 80s on your highs and your average to a little bit below. All right, back to ali. An update on the traffic. Ali we are keeping an eye on the Road Conditions out there. Its very, very empty at the bay bridge toll plaza. No problems getting into the city. And im checking the chp log and theres really not much to tell folks about this morning. So overall, light traffic just about everywhere, including highway 24 and lafayette, you can see traffic moving smooth
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