The House Committee will come to order without objection. To chair is authorized declare recesses at any time. Welcome everyone to this hearing on securing americas election, oversight of government agency. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month, this Committee Held part one of a series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses who had jointly been chosen testified that our nations elections are under attack. The former director of the National Security council under both president clinton and george w. Bush warned that we must take hold and expeditious steps to address cyber threats. We must treat Election Security theecretary of state from commonwealth of pennsylvania elaborated. Election security is a race without a finish line line and our adversaries are not going down. This testimony has been confirmed by the leaders of our Intelligence Community. Foreign actors will view the 2020 election as an opportunity to review their
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Fremont police are telling people to stay away from an area due to an shootout between two vehicles. We sent skyfox over the intersection of stevenson boulevard and alba street. This is very close to interstate 880. At this not anyone was injured. Reports say at least one person was shot after people in these two vehicles exchanged gunfire. For now, there is one of the cars still left at the scene here. That vehicle has a number of bullet holes in it. Police there as well will bring you more information on this breaking news as soon as we get it in fremont. Meanwhile, today is Election Day Campaign workers in San Francisco are out urging people to vote in favor of severalulocal measures on that ballot. Ktvu allie rasmus explains someuof the issues at stake here and what some voters are struggling with. Continue to do everything you can to get out there to talk to voters in the west portal neighborhood of San Francisco, Campaign Workers set up outside a corner coffee shop encouraging Sa