158 billion. Following open remarks, lawmakers offer amendments focusing on high speed rail authority, face mask requirements for mass transportation, and Disaster Relief funding. Our third order of Business Today is consideration of the transportation housing and urban Development Appropriation bill for fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize mr. Price to present the bill. Thank you. Thank you, madam chairman. I guess we can assume everyones now ready for the main event. Im proud to present the fiscal 2021 transportation housing and urban Development Related agencies appropriations bills. Before i mention a few of the bills highlights i want to once again thank our Ranking Member and former chairman of this subcommittee for his unfailing good humor and cooperation and collaboration. Hes a pleasure to work with. I also want to thank full Committee Chairwoman nita lowey for her steady leadership, kay granger for her leader and the committee. Finally i want to recognize our accident staff
Look at the commute here. Traffic is moving along nicely. If youre driving on the east shore freeway getting out to the mcarthur maze, taking 16 minutes. At 4 01 back to headlines. Happening today, a stride by hospitals in santa rosa sat to begin in two hours with almost 700 essential workers preparing to walk picket lines in the middle of a pandemic. Ktvu has more on the reasons why. This whole thing with the strike during the pandemic is horrible. This housekeeper stood with staff outside santa rosa Memorial Hospital bracing for a week long strike they cant avoid. Its mentally draining to be a housekeeper at the hospital right now. I am so scared for my coworkers waelz. Scared because of risks taken. Cleaning rooms without ppe. Also on strike, nursing assistants and respiratory therapists, dietary aids and medical technician, front line workers amid covid19. In my Department Six people have gone home sick. No, we havent been given what we needed. Again, the hospital doesnt really car
Like a cooler week so. Temperatures especially inland, well below average for this time of year. All right. Over to sal, 6 00. Things usually pick up at the bay bridge toll plaza. Want to speak about that or something else. I will speak about that. We will look at the approach from the east shore and look at the toll plaza itself. And also the east bay commute. So first start with interstate 80 the east shore freeway. You can see traffic is going to be moving along okay and its going to take about 17 minute to drive between the carquinez bridge and mcarthur maze. We dont have a big back upat the toll plaza but it may appear. You can see the traffic is moving well. Its 6 01. Now back to the headlines. All right california right now, has close to 400,000 coronavirus cases. More than 386,000 cases are reported and more than 7700 people died. More than 41,000 virus cases are reported in the bay area. 7100 people have died from the virus. California Hospital Health Officials Say 6900 patien
Yeah, i will. Glick look out almost two weeks into early august and the the pattern favors near normal to below normal temps and it is starting we had bump up saturday. It was warm to hot and back down on sunday. And guess what, its going to continue to keep on favoring areas that will be below normal especially inland. 62 so a cooler forecast and this week will include ukiah and by the time we get to wednesday and thursday its deep fog bank. Solid marine layer. Theres drizzle tuesday night, wednesday morning. Napa west of 146789 oakland west at 126789 these are just roaring onshore wind directions. A little low will move over us and usher in lower pressure for the week. So with that in mind, temperatures will be below average here. Coast, and inland. Over to sal at 5 01 on a non. He tells us. Well, we are off to good start i like what i see here, steve. Traffic continues to move along very well around the bay area. And we are going to look at the is a mateo bridge. Traffic is moving a
Significant vote here in Santa Clara County. Two agenda items today, number one, support, officially the black lives matter movement, and number two, officially declare racism is a threat to Public Health. The two supervisors who coauthorrized them include cindy chavez. Corteze said if the resolution pass t would work with the community to ele cism. Black Community Leaders demanding action on several fronts including defunding the sheriff, jails, and district attorney. The supervisor said the cuts to the department are likely any way because of the covid19 pandemic. I think by august you will see te ofns cu in rectiof e dollars to try to help people. We dont want promises of equity in the future. We want to be compensated for everything taken from us. Reporter there seems to be a lot of momentum for change in the last three weeks with near constant protests and demonstrations across the south bay, but keep in mind, the proposals are authored by two members of the five member board, but