that one says all birmingham atc service is suspended until further notice, all birmingham atc servicetilfurther notice, due toa suspended untilfurther notice, due to a system failure. delay not determined. from that information, we don't know how long this problem will last. separately to that, we've seen a will last. separately to that, we've seen a message from will last. separately to that, we've seen a message from eurocontrol, the european safety regulator. again, they send out messages to all the airlines. their message says the airport is due to be closed until ten o'clock tonight, 2200, because of this air traffic control failure. we can see some of the diverted flights here behind us. somebody has started them up and said their roughly ten of them at the moment. we don't know if that number will go up. people will be thinking back to what happened in gatwick earlier this week are now looking at birmingham, different reasons, but a difficult time to travel. absolutely. birmingham is a busy airport, but it is not as busy as gatwick, which is britain plasma second busiest. at a

. >> that is stunning, wake up with our team for the latest on atc stng at 4:30 am. and here is paul. >> we are talking about the beautiful view of the sunset tonight because the clouds cleared and we had ourselves some rain this morning, that moved out in the clouds moved out in the afternoon. 39 santa rosa,ch nights, san francisco 41, concord 45, 30s inland, fog inland as well, santa rosa 36 degrees, concord 39, livermore 38, oakland 42, a couple showers this morning, we will talk about why we didn't get that much rain but the radar is clear, and we will stay that way for the next couple days. december not starting off so good, october was dry, november was wet and we need a good december to follow things up. not so far, 39% of average over the next couple days. microclimate for classed -- forecast, 50 degrees on tuesday, 60 degrees coming up in wednesday, under mainly sunny skies, why are these st 5 the low pressure centers are in alaska, remember the low hit los angeles, they got hit hard, we were hit the week before, now they are 1000 miles away, we will have fr

we haven't heard yet how much he will be making atce the e intohe ch 2021. yesterday san francisco's park officials said yes to an extension to 2031. the board of supervisors still has to approve it before that is official. some people told the "chronicle" they're not happy with the etension. they submitted 200 noise complaints and worry the issue has not been addressed. >>> we have been talking so much about the song, baby it's cold outside. it could be coming back to a bay area radio station. a converkop controversy that st earlier this week. >> some took it off air after many will people complained in the era of #metoo. they likened it to date rape. it drew international attention. so they posted a poll asking listeners to vote. >> if the listeners decide they want to hear that on koit, you will hear the song monday morning at 7:30. >> as of yesterday, thousands of people have responded to the po91% say they want the song back. >>> a whole lot of free advertising. many bay area skphaoupbts akwra getting into the holiday spirit with the tree lighting event

but i think, atc has been sharing this with folks in the community. we are trying to make some of the recommendations more specific where we can. and not changing them. but trying to make them more specific. the folks in -- especially in the engineer community are looking at this understand where we are going with it. that is going to be coming. that should be out by the beginning of the year. but we did want to make sure that you had some of the documentation that we put together for this report. we are happy to take questions. we are trying to keep it short. >> mostly public comments. thank you for the presentation. it is very user friendly. we can really understand this. i note one of the commissioners here who may know a lot about what you are talking about will have questions. >> when i was gone, there was a presentation of the report in a draft form. >> this is the first one. >> okay. thank you. >> i want to sprinkle a few questions. if i could ask about the 52 document. do you have guidance on how to be more surgical with your inspections, for

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atc-span two, online c-span.org, and on the free c-span radio app. next, officials from the veterans affairs administration testify about their department's efforts to modernize the appeals process. this is an hour and 40 minutes. >> good morning. this is the final hearing we will hold on the veterans improvement and modernization act. let me thank the deputy secretary for being here. secretaryquires the to certify in january of 2019 that the department has the resources, personnel, and procedures, and technology to carry out the new system while timely assessing new and legacy appeals. provides the deputy with the authority to delay if they are not fully prepared. since the secretary is responsible for certifying that his department is ready, i believe it is important for congress to find out the status i understand ms. mason has been designated to oversee it but your presence here shows commitment that it is implemented correctly. i want to- today, talk about progress updating the i.t. system, completing training for employees, and appropriately al

the adjustment we have had in credit spreads recently, that seems to be consistent with some atcing ofthe cycle, but overall leverage of u.s. corporates in particular in investment grade, yes, it seems high, but that is because the profit share is much higher than the past. from that perspective, actually, the u.s. is not the degree over not particularly over levered. francine: it seems markets are pricing in worse than expected rate of from the u.s. and figures worldwide. >> i think you hit on an important issue. the global economy is doing ok in the background, and the u.s. is doing fabulously well. the base case for markets, i would vehemently disagree. you ask can things go catastrophically bad. we have a lot of different potentially bad things going on in the world. we have trade talks between the u.s. and china, plenty of room for that to derail significantly. oil price risks, all those things. you haven't had any slow news days this year and usually. is that a function of all the different geopolitical risks we have? one of the things markets mispriced was the tail risks. that's