Collins this hearing will come to order. Good morning. Next week americans will honor our nations veterans who have paid the price for our freedom in times of conflict and served as our shield in times of peace. Today, nearly 20 million americans have earned the title of veteran. Im proud to say that maine is home to more than 114,000 veterans. The second highest percentage in our entire country. We owe them such a great debt. The gratitude we express in words on veterans day can repay this debt only in small measure. A truly grateful nation must match its words with actions. As we will learn today, one issue that calls for our immediate action is to fight a newer enemy facing our veterans and that is those relentless con artists who seek to rob them of their life savings and defraud them of the benefits they have earned in service to our country. Often, veterans fall victim to the same scams that this committee has highlighted in recent years such as the irs imposter scam, the grandpa
Bridges live. San mateo bridge, there is an accident mid span. You cant see it from this camera, but it is blocking lanes and slowing things down. You can see quite a bit more volume unfortunately in the west bound direction as a result of an obstructed flow there. Eastbound direction traffic is slow, as well. That is the result of an accident closer to the toll plaza. Again, off to the bay bridge where things are starting to stack up in the cash lanes and everywhere. Those metering lights will be on in the next 15, 20 minutes. Traffic is alert is to get here. If youre on 580 westbound right there as you come past fruit vail, an overturned vehicle. Then another stall blocking another lane that has your trife speeds down to less than 10 miles per hour. There are lane closures. It is in effect until 5 00 in the westbound direction. They should be clearing that up. No delays and so far it looks that way. Second body is an many days has been found in San Mateo County. Jackie ward with the
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The decisions of the committee for the second reading three or four times, introducing amendments agreed in closed offices behind closed doors it is unknown with whom and unknown by whom we will not be able to qualitatively build a democratic system in the state and will not develop institutions that are the very guarantee of our integration into the European Union and nato, which should ensure at this stage equal conditions for equal conditions for entering the market of all players of all businesses and getting rid of the political influence of oligarchs , that is exactly what we are fighting for, but these are the moments and this draft law does not correspond to that, colleagues. We have all the prepared materials in order to finalize it qualitatively. Political will archamia political will will be for the second stage of the reform, i ask you to confirm this, thank you dear colleagues , please one minute burmich, please dear chairman dear colleagues of course you can call a hare a
Of strong intensity producing moderate to heavy rainfall and gusty winds gusting 35 Miles Per Hour. Likelihood of small stream flooding. It has been a while since weve seen a storm this strong, the last storm ranking three on the impact scale occurred march 11th. Lets take a look at what the Current Conditions are on live doppler 7. You can see scattered areas of moisture and some light scattered sprinkles are occurring right now. No significant rainfall is occurring yet, but as we widen out and show you the flow of moisture coming in our direction you can see thursdays storm is intensifying out to see and moving for thefully in our direction, and when will be its impact on thursday owes afternoon and evening rush . Well, we expect heavy rain late in the day on thursday and strong gusty winds and localized flooding and wet and dark conditions add up for travel delays. Be prepared to track the storm on your own by downloading the abc 7 news app and enabling push alefrmts more on the app