Hoover institute to talk about solutions. Still no speaker on capitol hill. Congressman jim jordan fails his first vote. Whats next as republicans still search for a new leader. Welcome back. Thanks for joining us, im janelle wang. Im raj mathai. Safety and the citys spike in crime. Those topic dominated the first state of the city address from mayor sheng thao. It comes amid criticism that she and others lacked the leadership to solve the citys big issues. Nbcs lena jones was there and has the details. It was about an hourlong speech that took place. There were a number of different topics the mayor discussed, but no topic got more attention that the citys rising crime rate, the mayor saying it is unacceptable and shes doubling down to make sure that residents in the city of oakland still face. Among the promises she made, in addition to vowing to double Public Safety efforts, mayor thao wants to address other topics. The neighbor used todays speech to tout her recent investments in P
Pretty disgusting. When i was elected president of the senate in 2007, i was the first woman ever to be elected to lead the legislative body in massachusetts. And today, only 25 of our legislature consists of women. And in the senate, the number has grown to 13. This is not just a problem massachusetts. 18 of the 500 seats in congress are made up of women. There is not enough progress. We need to support women who have dreams of running for office. Those of us who are female legislators have to set an example to future generations by showing that it can be done. When i was head of equal pay for equal work, i always said, and i say it today, when you go through the door some of the people here and myself opened pushed open, dont close it behind you. Keep it open. The bottom line is, Women Deserve to be in office. Not because of the fact they are women. They are just as qualified and hardworking as men. Too many young women do not feel they have enough credentials to run. You heard that
The constitution. Also in the next hour the new president will sign executive orders. One of them we have already learned is the first shot against u. S. Trade deals. With the stroke of the person, americas roll in the tpp will be dead. Later the day the full senate is set to foet on trumps pick to lead the cia. Congressman mike pompeo is expected to win confirmation. Were covering it all from the public hearings on capitol hill to the closed door meetings at the white house. Lets begin with cnns athena jones. Shall we . Good morning. Reporter good morning, carol. As you mentioned a very busy first monday, kicking off with the breakfast meeting and listening session with Business Leaders. Hell meet later with union leaders. Signing the executive orders, we learned the First Executive order hell be signing with withdraw the u. S. From the Transpacific Partnership trade deal. Thats in keeping with the promise he campaigned on. All this after a busy and rocky first weekend. President trum
supplier, the water district. the water, when you think about it, is free. it falls from the sky. you know, what costs money is collecting it, transporting it to the state and federal water projects, getting it here to the valley where it s treated and put in pipes and delivered to homes and businesses. reporter: meaning your bill may not be going down even as water storage goes up. some customers understand, but just bring it down a little bit. let us breathe. let us just have a little room for us to not stress for a month or two or three. reporter: in fact, tang says it will be the snowpack measurements taken in about three months that may determine if rates, as he puts it, get blunted for consumers. for perspective, we did have huge storms that filled up lexington reservoir, but this is the first time it s been full since february 2019. we re in the middle of the week. it s been sunny but we have to pause for more rain. this is a live look house san francisco,