Experiencing what is known as the icebox. Effect. Where in effect, most looks at the sun. And it gets quite cool. Virtually, all of oregon is now choking on smoke. Thats whether you are inside or outside. Countless thousands of oregonians are under evacuation orders. Any are quite literally fleeing for their lives and abandoning their homes is the flames approach. When i was home this weekend initially thought that a number of my communities had been hit by a wrecking ball. That mr. President really understates the situation. Because usually, you can hit by a wrecking ball, theres a little bit left, its not just ashes. Now thousands of people in my state have lost their homes. Theyve lost their businesses, they have lost lifelong memories. We brought a picture to a family of a loved one. Lovely that they cherished. And it just struck me that is those kinds of memories, losing them, painful in any instances. And of losing houses and businesses and the like. The death toll has been risin
Several Democratic Senators came to the floor to push for more coronavirus Economic Relief to local and state governments designed Health Emergency workers. Here are the speeches leading up with senator ron wyden of oregon. Senator from oregon. The covid19 pandemic has thrown our country into a nightmare level crisis of joblessness. The congress has not done enough to stop it and has not done enough to save the jobs of our people. I have come to the floor this evening, the distinguished democratic leader, to call for the senate to pass legislation that is all about saving key jobs that form the backbone of our local communities, our firefighters, our First Responders, our teachers, our families, and so many others. They need our help. They need it now. Senate democrats have been warning since march, covid19 cases exploded and our economy went into lockdown, that our states, cities and towns are now facing budgetary disasters unlike anything gone through in recent memory. The shortfall
Blew up and rolled through. Now, we are seeing mostly clear skies. It will still be very humid today as we go into tonight. We are going to start to feel that humidity rising and storms developing with a chance, once again tomorrow morning of more thunderstorms. Im talk more about that. Coming up in a few minutes, mike a tracking a hit and run crash in the north bay. The lightning show, my kids got excited last night. We are looking at a smooth, easy, calm drive. The north bay, a couple reports. Westbound 80 at maritime academy, a crash reported, a hit and run crash. One was on the shoulder. Across the bridge, a short time later, a crash reported. It might be a truck involved in the first crash. Waiting for follow up. Well let you know. No lanes are blocked. Meanwhile, over here, the travel times are a great story, the bay bridge, no delays. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Back to the micro climate weather. Crews are probably still cleaning up from that game that ended only a short time ago
Speak, a cloud comes over the sunlit arch, the wind comes off the frozen peak in the middle of march. So there we are. April on the calendar, march outside and in december in my heart. Colonel mastriano was commissioned 1986 and currently teaches military strategy at the Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania and spent the early years of his career with the second armored calgary in germany after the fall of the iron curtain, colonel mastriano deployed to iraq for Operation Desert Storm that led the main attack against the Republican Guard as a job using. Most recently he has served in nato headquarters in germany and in afghanistan served as director of International Security assistance for set the joint intelligence center. A ph. D. In history and the several masters degrees. His first book, of which he has been named winner of the 2015 called a prize is titled alvin york a new biography of the hero of the argonne and includes an important clarification of the events of that day i
Speak, a cloud comes over the sunlit arch, the wind comes off the frozen peak in the middle of march. So there we are. April on the calendar, march outside and in december in my heart. Colonel mastriano was commissioned 1986 and currently teaches military strategy at the Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania and spent the early years of his career with the second armored calgary in germany after the fall of the iron curtain, colonel mastriano deployed to iraq for Operation Desert Storm that led the main attack against the Republican Guard as a job using. Most recently he has served in nato headquarters in germany and in afghanistan served as director of International Security assistance for set the joint intelligence center. A ph. D. In history and the several masters degrees. His first book, of which he has been named winner of the 2015 called a prize is titled alvin york a new biography of the hero of the argonne and includes an important clarification of the events of that day i