Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house modernization of Congress Committee explored best practices on how to recruit and retain a diverse Congressional Staff. Human resources executives and an author of three books on workplace topics testified and answered questions from committee members. This is about an hour and a half. Okay. All right. The committee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled cultivating diversity and improving retention among Congressional Staff. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. One of the main ways in which we retain staff is by having it be a 90 degrees in here, so my apologies to each of you. We will be distributing fans to the entire audience. Today we are going to talk about whats really the backbone of this institution and th
Life, it was a week ago last time we were above freezing. High temperature last tuesday was 33 and that is last time. Stuck in a block of ice. It looks like foreseeable future will be cold as well. Lets just deal with today and then rest of it coming up next time. Three out of 10 and bus stop buddy, yeah, you cannot even see is smile because that is okay, he is covered up, that is what you should be if you are out of doors any length of time. Wind chills are below zero this morning, no precipitation at the moment so lets check our current temperature, 13 degrees in philadelphia but factor in that wind at 15 miles an hour it feels like three below zero, sunrise time not until 7 23, and sun isnt going to help a whole lot, other wind chills, 16 below in the mountains, feels like two in wildwood and zero in wilmington delaware. Plenty of bright sunshine and clear sky again tonight and then high of only 25 with wind chills in the teens. We will talk about that impending noreaster coming up
Before we get to those water main breaks lets get to the reason for them. It is because it is 12. Twelve. So cold outside, i know it. I should mention that philadelphia Public Schools staff only today, kid go back tomorrow. Three out of 10. Bus stop buddy is ready for kid who are going back today, wind chills below zero many out there so it is same way about a week now with as little exposed skin as possible. We will see buddy smile again but not to day, yes, 13 but it feels like three below, that is your wind chill thanks to those 15mile an hour wind is very biting out there, biting cold. 7 23 is your sunrise time. Checking other wind chills because that is how it feels outside two below in pottstown fourteen below in the mountains. Single digit wind chill in wildwood, new jersey. Today deceiving sunshine. It will look bright, beautiful and appear to be warm but no, it will be a high of 25 degrees, feeling colder then that and dunn to 14, tonight, with clear skies. What about that sno
A crash, though. Watch in lower gwynned on west welsh at evans road. Also watching 95. Moving through girard, looking good. Times from the expressway to the vine street expressway, a 13minute trip. 5 31. Now to breaking news in philadelphias fishtown neighborhood. A 33yearold man has been found dead outside a secondfloor apartment. Police say he was shot in the head. Investigators say the shooter stayed on the scene and is being interviewed by police. Other witnesses are also being interviewed. Two Young Children were in the apartment. Police brought them out. Its not clear if they saw the shooting. Nbc10s matt delucia is on the way. Hell have a live report coming up at 6 00. Struggling to recover. Puerto rico is rebuilding slowly after Hurricane Maria slammed into the island. There is no a. C. There, little water, limited generator power. On the left you see video of the san juan airport. Hundreds are packing the airport, desperate to get off the island. On the right, a live picture o
Thanks. Were starting on the schuylkill expressway this morning. We have a construction project underway on the westbound side. You see in our cameras over here, we actually saw a construction vehicle moving back and forth a second ago. You can see the cones. Then it goes up ahead over here. We do have one lane getting by on the westbound side approaching route 202. Headed toward king of prussia area. Youll run into that. Yesterday, it lasted until 6 00 in the morning. Theres a crash at lower gwen ed at welsh and evans root. Watching the bridges, the burlington bristol bridge is closed now with a construction project until 5 00. About another half hour for that. Typically what they do is do alternating lanes of construction in both directions. Now all lanes are closed in both directions. With another half hour of that, you may need an alternate. The tacony palmyras not the best because its a little further away. Might take more of your time to get by. Again, its open. So its definitely