Congress Without News Today

The third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Good friday morning to you. Im kris sanchez here for Marcus Washington. Boy, wasnt it nice to see his smile . Oh, yes. Were going to have him a little later in this hour as well. Im laura garcia. Before we get to weather right now i want to tell you about a small earthquake that hit the north bay this morning. A 3. 3 magnitude quake hit about 5 00 a. M. It was about 13 miles north of healdsburg. No reports of injuries or damage so far. But ...

Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person and those that are appearing distancely. We look forward to their testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the Third Party Administrators are in administering the mission act. Im also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation, as well. Almost every member of our committee, though not physically present at the moment, some ...

Next, the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee examines caregiving provisions under the Va Mission Act signed into law on june 2018. Almost two and a half hours. Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses appearing in person and those appearing distantly. We look forward to their testimony to get a better idea of where the department of Veterans Affairs are in administering the missions act. We are also interested in learning more about the caregivers implement...

Be made permanent and the speaker of the house is rather ominously warning that quote the enemy is within. The acting chief of the Capitol Police department recommended the fence remain around our Capitol Building indefinitely and that there be a Back Up Force always stationed nearby to respond to any such violence. This follows yesterdays warning from our own department of Homeland Security about the potential for attacks by those inspired by the assault three weeks ago now. And an attack even ...

Attacks by those inspired by the assault three weeks ago now. An attack even Donald Trumps former Defense Secretary now says was, quote, fomented by the former president. All of it in service to the big lie. Since january 6th, a lot of Members Of Congress are reporting, 32 Members Of Congress have now asked House Leadership for more protection. We will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the house of representatives. A threat that members are conce...

Know about his sons business dealings in ukraine. He is backpedaling on that. Twitter and facebook now accused trying to suppress this news. The fireworks on the final day of questioning for judge Amy Coney Barrett as democrats remained outraged that they failed at blocking her. Senator Kamala Harris and democrats trying to delegitimatize judge barrett for refusing to discuss her personal views on policies while democrats led by senator harris refused to discuss how they want to delegitimatize t...

Across our bridges, its a very thin marine layer, but its sitting right at the surface of the watch for some lower visibility, little bit towards the coast in San Francisco at the golden gate and in pockets right along the coastline. Most of us though its nice and clear as youre getting out there now air quality is also continuing to be pretty clear with good conditions for almost all the entirety of the bay area again today temperatures are nice and cool winds, nice and calm so not all that bad...

A record breaking heat last week now expect uh they see you can see some fog hanging out across the bay making. Visibility on our bridges a little bit lower we saw last week when were so fog free so bay bridge as well as Golden Gate Bridge to have an impact their air quality is good all across the board across the bay if you head out to the central valley, couple of moderate pockets to know this morning. But all in all a pretty solid start to this morning, were back in the 40s and 50s for curren...

There this morning, nothing active in blocking right now, but we had a crash that was lingering at the pay gates for over an hour. Weve had several stalls on the bay bridge and the skyway and traffic has not recovered the drive time looks a little better because it was 30 minutes. Now were down to 60 minutes, but its still crawling from west grand all the way up to the suspension span so get out there early and be prepared for that we had a crash here at the san mateo bridge that cleared we caug...

Committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation title 1 under Veterans Mission act, program of assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace. While officials were invited to discuss the critical programs they oversee, the department chose to...