I call this to order. For the last several monthess i along with Ranking Member and colleagues on this committee have been working on a new farm bill. An important part of this process has been to hold hearings on each title. Im proud to say the committee has officially conducted the work, having held hearings so far on eight titles. Todays hearing covers the four and five. Two titles remain. The reauthorization process affords us the opportunity to review the full range of usda programs to insure that theyre operating efficiently and effectively. Not every Program Needs to measure overall but many can benefit from increased deficiency, improved integrity and the reduction of waste. As we conduct this review, it is important to remember the purpose of these critical nutrition programs. Theyre not about long term. Theyre about giving aid in times of trouble. Theyre about insuring our nations security, helping folks become productive members of our economy and assisting the vulnerable am
In the meantime, this is what im looking at. The euro having a little bit lower. Spain continuing to be on edge after its Prime Minister moved of thethe authority region. The nikkei up 1. 11 . Sent thees election region to elect to a record. Thats your market check. Lets get to the bloomberg first world news. Catalan separatists are meeting today to formulate their response. Catalan president is set to be ousted, but he vowed to fight on. His allies are signaling he could be declaring independence this week. Rex tillerson is calling on european allies to support new sanctions on iran. He is warning that companies doing business with tehran are doing so at their own risk. He was in riyadh for talks trying to bolster a new alliance between saudi arabia and iraq. Saudi arabia has rebuffed his requested in the fourmonth isolation of qatar. Mays efforts to get brexit legislation through parliament has hit a low new load lock new roadblock. Political political fragility was underlined by the
Low clouds. Could be a few weak showers. The system coming in wednesday looks like it has a lot coming. A very active pattern for the next 7 to 10 days and beyond. Highs will be in the 60s but it looks like north bay rain on wednesday. Well have more on that coming up. 60s, low to mid on your temps. We are okay, steve, so far. Im looking at, you know, things that are starting off okay in solano county. You see the [inaudible] when its moving well. We see a lot of green here. We also see our bay bridge toll plaza camera looking nice with no major problems if youre going across the bay into San Francisco. It has been a nice drive on northbound 101 as you approach the 80 split. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you. We continue to follow all the new developments in that deadly shooting yesterday inside of a church in texas. Twentysix people were killed, the victims ranged in ages between 5 and 72. At least 20 others were hurt. The gunman was devin kelley, a veteran from the u. S. Air force.
Lets talk about our weather here in the bay area. Steve has the latest details and it sounds somewhat wet. Reporter wednesday. Yeah. Reporter wednesday, not today but wednesday, wednesday afternoon, evening, certainly to the north and maybe in the extended out look as well. For today, a lot of cloud cover. There could be a few light showers, not a big deal. Theres plenty to the south though. Morning clouds and afternoon sun. Unless youre san jose south, then probably mostly cloudy. Next rain does look to be wednesday evening into thursday morning and again sunday night into next monday. A lot of cloud cover here. It is taking direct aim at central and Southern California, so if you have to head that direction, i would anticipate some rain. 40s on the temps or 50s. Cloud cover holding up most of the temps. There are a few 30s. Mid40s, upper 40s for just about everybody or right around 50. We have 48 hours before the next system arrives. 60s on the highs today, low and mid. 5 02 and traf
Up north near oroville. Also, marysville heads and. The Sacramento Valley up near chico and Feather River canyon. Southern california, we have some moving in down here between Santa Barbara and los angeles. We are in between 2 systems the 30s, 40s and 50s. 41 and cool degrees. Mid 40s. More clouds to the south. We get a break on tuesday and there is your neck system coming in wednesday evening. It looks like for most, 60s low to mid on the temperatures. Also, it has been pretty good so far. Still , yeah and 4 good with the caveat that youre going to see slow traffic. We have had a couple of fender benders and people seem to get on the road a little bit earlier today. I think the body clock is still waking them up early and people got on the road. It is going to be a little bit early of a commute in the south bay on the northbound 280. You can see that if i put up the map, not 280 slow but so is 85 and 101 is getting into some action. Getting up into Mountain View and sunnyvale. Still p