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Expect still ahead. Robin. All right, thank you. John yes, well get to the fog in just a bit but we do have a trouble spot to talk about in oakland, its a car fire that slowing down traffic a little bit we actually have some video coming up from the citizens at the shows us exactly whats happening there check this out you can see fire crews have made it out to the scene and it looks like an xfinity van that was involved in an accident there and caught fire so emergency crews are still blocking t...

Here all three of them in the red today. As you just saw the dow finishing down 130. The s p down 28, the nasdaq down 140. We were concerned it was going to slip further into correction territory. Did not do that but not by a lot, my friends. What was going on there . Big tech, momentum stocks having the most trouble here today as we start to think about the recovery, is it real, whats going on with the concerns that the improvement in the economy may not be what we need . The momentum stocks, a...

Nations rail Service Needs 4 billion to stay afloat for fiscal year 2021. He made the comments in testimony before the house transportation subcommittee on railroads. The subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair declare a recess at any time during todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. I also ask unanimous consent that the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions. Without objection so ordered. This is a hybri...

Our next speaker really needs no introduction and stays on the frontline. Congresswoman ayana pressley. She is an activist, a legislator, survivor and the first woman of color to be elected to congress from the commonwealth of massachusetts. Throughout her career as a public servant, she has fought to ensure those closest to the pain are closest to the power. Prior to her being elected to congress she served on the Boston City Council for eight years and was the first woman of color elected to t...

Joe was willing to sacrifice american lives to placate the radical left, open border extremists and we saved tens of thousands of lives, probably hundreds of thousands of lives and we saved millions of lives by doing the closing enough the opening and joes decision to publicly attack the china bans proves he lacks the character or intelligence or instinct to do what is right very lou biden the radical dems the rhinos in the leftwing National Media have exploded over Bob Woodwards new book. Woodw...

You have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operat...

And the aflcios Richard Trumka talks about Union Members and campaign 2020. Then priorities usa chairman guy cecil talks about his super pacs role in the election. Washington journal is next. Ccept yours i a nomination for Vice President of the United States of america. That was californias democratic senator, kamala this is the washington journal for august 20. Joe biden will accept his nomination. You can see that starting at 9 00 this evening. For the next hour your comments on the event of t...

Some of her advisers would have liked about her life story. That is the first thing she did. The second thing she did was what she is going to have to do between now and november, which is try and make the argument for a joe biden presidency. Effectiver speech was on both of those counts. Power last lot of night with president obama. I think she did what she needed to do. Host usually Vice President s are seen as hatchet men or hatchet women. Do you think she waited into that yesterday waded int...

Mr. President , all members are present. Please place your right hand over your heart join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you. Behalf of the board, i like to acknowledge the staff of sfgov tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Colleagues, i like to take a few meetings to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. The 19th amendment which guarantees and protect womens con...

Postmaster general louis dejoy, and the chairman of the postal board of governors Robert Duncan to this oversight hearing, and i thank you all for being here. In all of our districts we are hearing from constituents about significant delays in the delivery of mail, medicines, food, and other supplies. These delays are especially concerning and potentially lifethreatening during the Coronavirus Crisis. These are not isolated complaints. They are widespread. Our offices have been receiving thousan...