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At noon 66 to 67 with the fog quickly receding and this afternoon 71 to 74 degrees. If youre heading out this evening, still pretty comfortable away from the coast. Heres jobina. Good morning, everyone. Well check in here. Live picture coming up right now of the bay bridge toll plaza. From the toll plaza into San Francisco. It will be about a nineminute ride for everyone. No metering lights on yet. Well keep track of that because all week long theyve been turning on the metering lights later and later and due to less people coming into work. A lot of people working from home right now. 87 nice and clear in the south bay right now and pull up our drive times. Albany to the maze, slight slow down with six minutes. And highway 101 to cupertino 10 minutes. Developing news this morning, we are learning more about the u. S. Suspending more travel from europe. The president made that announcement from the white house yesterday. The ban st ....
Congratulations. I am honored to be here for the swearingin of our new secretary of defense, mark t. Esper. I especially wanted think Justice Samuel alito. Highly respected and a great man thejoining us to administer oath of office. Thank you very much. Thank you. Welcomelso delighted to several of secretary espers family members and friends to the white house, including his mother. He proud of him . You Better Believe it. And his three children luke, john and capturing. Thank you and congratulations. Catherine thank you and congratulations. There is no one more qualified to lead the department of defense than mark esper. A west point graduate. Great student. Secretary esper served our 27 years, including in the gulf war. He advanced u. S. National security and government and private sector during. Most recently in the army were he played in equipping our armed forces. Thats ....
But the decision was made not to charge the president with a crime, in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold that isting president accountable outside the criminal justice system. Those are the issues the committee will look into. The big issue on everyone mine will be impeachment and whether the House Judiciary Committee will move through that after the hearing. That remains to be seen. But that will be top of mind. Host take us through the format of the hearing. Guest 2 it will be a regular order hearing, but it will be three hours. The hearing was supposed to be last weekend and be shorter than that, two hours. The committee was able to negotiate with special Counsel Robert Mueller for more times ....
Please welcome ceo anna palmer. [applause] good morning, good morning everyone. Thank you all so much for joining thus morning in person, and on a live stage im anna palmer ceo one of the founders of the punch bowl news im thrilled to be here for the popup conversation a bit of the news of the day, no shortage of that and whats happening in congress right now. Andrew our senior congressional reporter will join me on stage to comoderate that conversation a big thank you to rtx for partnering with us to make this conversation possible. Afterward, im going to be joined by henry brooks who is president of power and controls at collins aero space, as always you can find punch bowl news on all social media media at punch bowl news and share with this conversation this and with that introduce sage. [applause] thank you, thank you so much. All right. Well we have plenty to get to. We appreciate your coming this morning on a busy, busy time on capitol hill and andrew ill turn it over to you. Se ....
Please welcome ceo anna palmer. [applause] good morning, good morning everyone. Thank you all so much for joining thus morning in person, and on a live stage im anna palmer ceo one of the founders of the punch bowl news im thrilled to be here for the popup conversation a bit of the news of the day, no shortage of that and whats happening in congress right now. Andrew our senior congressional reporter will join me on stage to comoderate that conversation a big thank you to rtx for partnering with us to make this conversation possible. Afterward, im going to be joined by henry brooks who is president of power and controls at collins aero space, as always you can find punch bowl news on all social media media at punch bowl news and share with this conversation this and with that introduce sage. [applause] thank you, thank you so much. All right. Well we have plenty to get to. We appreciate your coming this morning on a busy, busy time on capitol hill and andrew ill turn it over to you. Se ....