Because they don't have the same infrastructure requirements like docking in marinas they also use less gas the boats are faster and have less severe environmental impact and because they hover above the water of a craft have a clear advantage over traditional ferries they can travel over shallow water which there is a lot of here in the Bay Area the vessels could potentially take commuters all the way from Silicon Valley to the north bay and anywhere in between Terry Ross reports a company called hover hopes to initially build to hover craft and the infrastructure needed by the year 2021 Kaiser Permanente speaking of building is planning to build and huge new headquarters in Oakland it will be one of the biggest buildings in the Bay Area larger in space but not as tall as the sales force tower in San Francisco Kaiser says it will consolidate thousands of employees from different offices into the new building on Telegraph Avenue Construction is expected to start next year in the building is set to open in the year 2023 there's been a large quake off the coast of Japan the preliminary magnitude has been downgraded though to a 6.4 but still powerful enough to trigger a tsunami warning for Japan the quake was centered on the coast on the northwestern coast of Japan there are no reports of damage yet usually Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much however Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff of the trumpet ministration both agree when it comes to Iranian involvement in the Persian Gulf and the attack on shipping I don't think there's any question that Iran was behind the attack on the tankers there aren't many good candidates on the intelligence is pretty clear His comments come as the Iranian government reacts to additional troops from the u.s. Leaders there say they don't want a confrontation with the u.s. But are also not standing down with their war of words as we hear from correspondent Fred replied another Revolutionary Guard commander came out and said that they were closely monitoring u.s. Forces in the region and that they would be rushing blow if those forces made any sort of move the tension challenges President Trump's assurances to allies that the u.s. Withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal last year may. The world a safer place we're going to update your drive around the Bay Area with Mark Nieto he has an update on highway for us from the extra heavy this morning next on. This summer pass you up. In the 5 hour energy power of your summer sweepstakes you can win one of 5 amazing experience by any energy product including chariots just like snap a picture of your receipt sending it because it's about time you have the. 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Traffic desk after a pretty busy start things have sort of settled out here into a more typical pattern westbound for is still going to be slower than usual from about the railroad all the way out to 680 you know we had some earlier issues near so long away meantime southbound 680 that is pretty congested as well from 5 down to and drafty thanks to an earlier crash and soon all yourself it is already very heavy and slow to create Parkway and Highway 35 skyline shut down and bear Gulch up above Woodside due to police activity there yourself a commute pretty typical northbound one slowing in Morgan Hill and then again flowing from Hellier up towards Trimble and we're backed up to the maze metering lights are on at the Bay Bridge traffic sponsored by big old tires the team you trust this week of participating big-O. 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A addiction crisis that's being disguised as a housing crisis and if you look at the numbers from the city of Seattle on King County prosecutors and law enforcement some of their estimates are that up to 50 percent of the homeless are addicted to opioids that's heroin fentanyl and other synthetics and 80 percent of the people that are actually unsheltered people living in cars tents in R.V.'s suffer from substance abuse disorders and if you look at the numbers only 6 percent of people on the streets say that it's because of rising Rance while at the same time 80 percent of people on the streets are suffering from addictions and that's the clear cause nobody wants to say it but I think until we really address that we are going to be able to solve this problem and it's a Chris Rufo and we'll have a little more from him in a couple minutes dealing with the West Coast bomb explosion. There you go then our sound effects now for the West Coast bomb explosion up day. Bomb explosion I almost want to have the bomb before the explosion I don't know if we're all that dry here that way. It sounds like were blown up. Or blowing up I don't know I would have done better though no it's not Ok that's not we're not doing that is not the solution. It's the same as to who shouldn't but not supposed to lose nobody's going to take it is a policy prescription just an. But you know the feature the West Coast bomb explosion. Yeah that's the one that's the one before you get into this I want to bring this up obviously I'm having trouble getting into it yes our own Mike Kansan executive producer spent 3 days walking around New York walked everywhere on New York how many homeless people did you see in 3 days in New York City 66 in the entire weekend I see 66 picking up my kid from his day camp today in my small town. And way more than that oh sure I will see 626 walking to my car in the parking lot honest to God That's not an exaggeration right last time I was New York I saw. As I walked around New York and nobody got in my face asking for stuff well and one might point out that the various beggars that people in West Coast city city are almost certainly begging for drug money Chris Rufo points out in his excellent article in City Journal which we will furnish a link for that according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy the average heavy opioid user consumes little over 8500 dollars in drugs per month even if you're a moderate user then you're spending somewhere around a grand I would guess and that's what they're begging for on the street corner he's soft heads and give money that's Ok if you're David Crosby and making millions of dollars off your hit tunes you know as a drug addict but if you're a if you've got no means of income that's a lot yeah that's a lot of money to spend on drugs so to get back to the the opening clip which I think is extremely interesting. 6 percent of people listed. Rising rents are housing prices is the reason they were homeless 6 percent how does that square my friends with the. Way the problem's been represented to you by the media by activist groups or maybe the city council in your town right yeah yeah well pointed out the homeless industrial complex which are as are filtering enormous amounts of money through them in an effort to. And I'm putting quotes around this while sneering while are trying to solve the problem you know it was funny listening to that clip I was reminded of one of my great overarching political philosophies and certainly I owe a great deal to Thomas Sowell for this thought but I think the great contest of our time politically speaking is realism versus emotionalism people who understand reality is difficult sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do it's unpleasant it's hard doesn't make you happy but you've got to do it you've got to do the work somebody has a wet blanket on national splurged a voice and then the people who think that if a policy makes them feel good to say to their friends that makes it a good policy and if it sounds good if it makes you feel generous in your heart if you're following your heart never mind you want to know how we're going to pay for this how can you ask that when there are people suffering the great contest of our time is between realism and. I don't know what was the term I use does they're going to go is a pretty good one just to name yeah you should you should present that I should maybe should be the opening question for George Will next hour because he's super and a bad idea so it's funny looking at our e-mail a lot of people are looking for that chat a lot of big fans hate George well because he hates about it he's but that's fine you know what here's here's a hint for you about life it's not going to hurt you to listen to him if you if you have your mind changed well then you have learned something you've improved yourself and if you continue to disagree with them you have further honed your ability to disagree with them effectively well and I don't know you and Joe Ok I don't know but I had no intention of having Trump enter the conversation and all I'm telling you it's it's difficult not to Anyway moving along so it's real Islam versus emotionalism to me and the emotional argument is a powerful one in a lot of these things including homelessness because these people are freakin pathetic but if you're going to move toward a solution it's got to be absolutely drenched unrealism or you are wasting taxpayer money which is immoral can we here clip number 2 please you may find this interesting that the real thing is I think the kind of ideological factions that are in kind of the dominant position in California Portland Oregon Seattle Washington they don't want to say there's an addiction crisis because it conflicts with their social justice ideology that the homeless are kind of virtuous victims of an oppressive society and it all they also want to avoid what they call stigmatizing addiction so rather than confront the problem with clear eyes and really digging into it they've chosen to ignore it if you go on Mayor Eric Garcetti website in l.a. He has a kind of an outline of the 6 causes of homelessness not one of them is drug addiction so they've they've adopted a policy of denial and deflection and the results you can see on the streets it's absolutely not working and it's a catastrophe Wow It's one thing to not emphasize the drug addiction which clearly is what should be at the top of the list but to not even have it among 6 causes of all right Miss Right is. How great an illustration of that of emotionalism is that they're afraid well we don't want to stigmatize this or we don't want to make people less sympathetic toward that or is just it's all about manipulating emotion and what it does make you less sympathetic and if I see if you see people out there in the street and I think are awful system has forced them into this you have to have a different view of them then if you chose to get hooked on drugs and it sucks to be hooked on drugs but does your life dude get out of my way I'm going to my car right but I just I think that's such a beautiful illustration Chris Rufo doesn't have a hateful bone in his body he's West Coast guy he happens to live in Fremont California and and he's talking about solutions helping people but from a realistic point of view not an emotionalist I don't have you know I don't know what that would be how I'd like to hear what he would say to me you are right and not know when you ever hear anybody say wasting taxpayer money is immoral it is immoral you know it's president spending I'd rather you did nothing then spend taxpayer money on something that does no good Nothing is better than that right right nothing is a win for society compared to wasting it on something that doesn't approach to the problem so city of Seattle cops in the city attorney are estimating that of the unsheltered about 80 percent of them are substance abusers 80 percent here's what Gil Garcetti in Los Angeles said causes homeless homelessness housing shortage stagnant wages cuts to mental health services domestic and sexual abuse shortcomings in criminal justice and a lack of resources for veterans So nothing about drug abuse so I guess his argument would be any or multiple of those things drove people to drugs. And that's why and now that you might offer that argument I you know I've known plenty of people who drank excessively done drugs whatever no no no Gil and that's I mean I appreciate your concern but you can't approach it from that perspective we're going to solve all of people's problems then they will not be drug addicts anymore that's not the way addiction treatment works I mean you might work on stuff while you're working on the addiction. This you know I don't I think one of the real keys to this and this gets back to the realism versus emotionalism argument. Is because of sympathetic urges emotional urges and I'm not for some sort of emotionless you know dystopia Trust me I just believe in balance and realism. It's absolutely undeniable that when you remove the disincentives to negative behavior you will get more of that behavior without a doubt I have 3 kids maybe some of y'all have a couple 2 tree 4 kids whatever I want you to picture this you've got your son your daughter whatever they're of a bit of a slacker character you know they're not terribly ambitious whatever maybe their are uncertain about what to do with their lives you let them live with you at home at age 2728 and maybe you do not only deal let them live there yeah let them live there rent free you have you know that's is that a positive or is that the removal of a negative cost. Is a cost a negative if they're similar so you remove the cost of living there you're letting them live there rent free not only that you still give them $150.00 a month allowance. And because that's not a lot you're buying their pot for him. Wow are you going to get more kids living at home and staying there or less of it come on now through this misplaced idea of sympathy and compassion Seattle has been the great leader in the San Francisco to. An end increasingly l.a. But Seattle's town day what a wonderful wonderful city which has gone completely off the rails. They are letting their kids live at home rent free given them allowance and buy in on their pot in that any negative repercussions for being a drug user for being a bum a vagrant living in a park begging tourists passing out on a sidewalk all these things that society has always said you can't do this and if you do we're going to throw you in the drunk tank or run you out of town we've removed all of those disincentives and now we have way way way way more of it and people are scratching their heads what do we do what do we do man I say gold school I don't want cops bust in anybody's heads always preserve people civil rights always but caught this this ridiculous soft headed soft hearted judge just judges are behind a lot of the side of it well you can't prevent people from camping in front of a business it's their right to use the sidewalk to I mean that is just emotion without logic we've got to move back to realism and you know it's really interesting is you have these super bastions of emotionalism over realism on the West Coast a lot of them have gotten so fed up real Islam is making a comeback so maybe there's hope well that's our West Coast bomb explosion update. Sure we'll move back we might be back later today let alone tomorrow Yeah no the latest round our next line is 415295 k.f.t. See lots of RINGBACK suggestions of what I should do with the baby teeth since I brought one into work the other day oh yeah well you got a bag full of them right out of some other things on the way on the Armstrong and getting show. Strewn on. $719.00 a k.g. Oh and we are heading back to Highway 4 with k.g.s. Barking out of the field at auto body traffic deaths Well more trouble for highway for a new wreck westbound west of Bailey in the 2nd lane from the left now it's already jammed through there anyway from railroad all the way out to just about the $242.00 so. Not going to help matters at all you're westbound 80 commute sluggish Richmond Parkway Danby Gilman South Bend Nimitz traffic is flowing from 238 in pockets to autumn all Parkway and a South Bend succeeding to settle a slower than usual because of earlier problems and to Roddy it's backed up pretty much to the $580.00 interchange in the South Bay northbound to 80 heavy from one a one out to just north of Highway 17 or there might be some construction there and are backed up into the maze metering lights are on at the westbound Bay Bridge this report sponsored by discover go further than ever with the discover it Miles card they automatically match the miles you earn at the end of your 1st year so your 35000 miles could become 70000 discover it Miles limitations apply discover Matt for new card members only learn more at Discover dot com slash travel off to a nice start in the Bay Area sunshine today with highs ranging from the mid sixty's to the low ninety's expect the same for tomorrow I'm but Burckhardt Good morning it's Mark Thompson It's an insane controversy we've touched on it before this mural in a San Francisco high school it may be coming to an end this controversy but it's not ending well are we going to war in Iran it sure does look like it and o.j. 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I didn't look up what's the what's the the story Papa John's had a problem remember they got the owner the pizza place he started with his Camaro driving around and then he have a me too thing or something something no it was I believe it was and bomb related All right on a conference call if I recall any way to make like a bad joke or something it's hard to say what was going on there he seemed to be under a lot of stress anyway he left the company and so their new spokesperson they're completely rebranding he's on the board of directors he owns 9 of them and plans to buy a whole bunch more and he's going to become very celebrity spokesman is she keel O'Neal Shaquille O'Neal's going to be the face of Papa John's pizza from here on out Papa shack which he said everyone likes pizza and pizza loves everybody. So they argue and who's more likable than check and I use the example yesterday of how Shaq would be an equivalent of what o.j. Simpson was when I was younger just kind of a likable he was a great athlete just kind of a fun everybody would like to be around him sort of guy Druce o.j. Simpson who now has a Twitter account and we came across this tweet which is hilarious Wow I just had to un follow o.j. He's funny on Twitter but give him a google and you will not like him anymore. Or something random like a 1000 followers you crafted that gem of a tweet not a dry eye and a hilarious so I brought in one of my son's teeth last week as he's a he's a 3rd grader so he's losing the big ones in the back I prefer to describe it as Jack has boxes full of body parts and I was the tooth fairy and so I left the money and candy. Pillow and Candy again ironic and just brought the to the work because I didn't want to accidentally leave it only comes along a fairy tale even a pack of smokes asking what do I do with this tooth. There's a long fairy you. What I do with this 2 thing we had lots of moms and grandmas join in. With you know save it and how cute it was and all that sort of stuff you save them stem cells for future health problems I had about that. Truth I don't know skeptical. Now I don't know if I believe that it is crushing up add little baking soda and see it sell it to the showdown I'm going to do that. But a bunch of different people said put it in a can or a bottle of Coca-Cola and a bunch of people suggest that last week my friends put a tooth in a Coca-Cola and within I had somebody last week say a day dispersants and 2 weeks it completely dissolved actually thought of doing that but then I thought you know I will technically have body parts dissolving in Mass and I'm not sure if I want that label children's body. With body parts dissolving in and said Yeah that's him. Mother's Day necklace no. More them as a necklace and tell people there are no money I'm doing it while Siri on there how about you keep all their their old teeth and and their old hair as well and the skin cells they have and when they're old and certainly you can reassemble as cute little kids. Yeah. Certainly what's coming up in your news Marcia Phillips Well we've got the world weighing in on the Iran u.s. Tensions now a lot of countries adding their voices Jon Stewart's battling with Mitch McConnell I don't know if you heard about this latest twist celebrity political indorsements do they really do know any good I don't know what they don't know well no we can save you that trigger a national debate on that story they don't do anything neither do we really a political endorsement of any kind do nothing there make me roll my eyes to something on Marshall's news next. Now we want you to turn your attention to everyone's favorite topic taxes. 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Sounds a tad boarding facility is under investigation in the south today 730 at k g o a 10 good morning on Brett Burkhardt Cal OSHA is investigating a wag after 5 of its employees were victims of a vicious dog attack last week a dog reportedly attacked one employee and his others jumped in to help they were also attacked it took several officers to restrain the dog that's currently in the custody of the Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority the dog was flagged as needing special care but the dog hotel's says they were not expecting that type of behavior total class the Golden State Warriors took out a full page ad in The Toronto Star this way to congratulate the Toronto Raptors on their in be a championship the Raptors defeated Golden State as you know in a 6 game series that featured key injuries to several lawyers including Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant's the print which was time to run on the same day as the Toronto championship parade. Features Steph Curry and to Rhonda guard Kyle Lowry sharing a post-game embrace in the meantime Oakland Mayor Libby shaft has made good on her bed when Mayor John Tory Assaf sent over products from Oakland based companies like Everett and Jones Oh Blandish Red Bay cafe and old can be here c g o 8 in business and temperature where the markets are positive this hour the Dow is up 300 points the Nasdaq is up 150 points and you can thank the presidential tweaks for the boost in a little more than a week President Trump will head to the g. 20 summit in Osaka with a plan face to face meeting with China's leader as he looks for a trade deal goosing the stock markets just after the open to President Trump tweeting optimism regarding the trade war with China had a very good telephone conversation with President Xi of China we will be having an extended meeting next week at the g. 20 in Japan our respective teams will begin talks prior to our meeting our thanks to Correspondent Bob Constantini Mark Nieto as spotted some problems on the Bay Bridge next on 10 underage smoking invading is a serious problem one way to combat it raise the legal age to purchase from 18 to 21 about 80 percent of high school students turn 18 before graduating if they can legally buy tobacco they can share with underage classmates raising the purchase age to $21.00 reduces underage access That's why do a lab supports making $21.00 plus the law nationwide learn more at Jewel dot com slash t 21 jewel labs for adult smokers only paid for by Jewel labs Doug Andrew hair I call my favorite financial vehicle the laser fund laser is an acronym that stands for liquid asset safely earning returns the laser fund a limits the dangers of rising taxes inflation and market volatility you know losing money when the stock market goes down is unacceptable to me learn how I protect myself when that happens I want you to have a free copy of my latest bestselling book The laser fund how to diversify and create the foundation for a tax for. 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All the Chilton auto body traffic desks I'm happy delays now forming on the Bay Bridge East abandon their reason is a crash as you approach the island blocking the 2 left hand lanes involving an overturned cars so watch out for suddenly stopped traffic there also in the South Bay on southbound $85.00 there's a report of a wreck near Union in San Jose blocking the right lane. And if you're on north down to 80 in the South Bay flowing out the downtown from the Guadalupe Parkway most of the way out to Lawrence expressway westbound 80 a slow ride Richmond Park way down to Gilman southbound 680 into sort all stacked up because of an earlier crash from 580 all the way down. 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Drone drones and police cars and hurting else someone close a member 1000000000 stuff like that just for me do you think he was the one to originate that idea or did people confuse him for George Clooney you know just kind of went with it and it just got away from. Under control so. Now from fake George Clooney if it became clear to me I looked exactly like some movie star or big time celeb or maybe giant tech leader. I would absolutely constantly show off like posh Beverly Hills Hotel I would have a sister. Call 5 minutes before and say Mr George Clooney is going to be there in just a moment or 2 he's asked to keep a low profile if you could just Dischord him right to the back of the dining room that would be great if you don't mind a friend of mine who looked a lot like Jay Leno he was at a Jimmy Buffett concert and he had a ball cap on pull down only so Mr Leno can take you up front and I took him all the way up to the front row of the Buffet concert because he looked like Jay Leno why don't just kept his head down in return and I'm telling you. I'm not so I'm going to change the name if you just you know because I haven't gotten permission to use the story on the air but it was one of the cleverest things a buddy of mine ever did is hilarious their big golf trip and went to go have breast dinner at this really nice restaurant at this and they said. Were closed for a private event and my one body gestures and my other body who's a middle aged guy kind of distinguished looking he says. Oh boy we have Senator Johnson here and. He'd planned on the heating here at the club and the gala press has just a moment she goes back to the manager there's a United States senator out front so I know this guy he's a good guy but he's not a senator and Senator Johnson if you could follow us place and they set him up at the table Yeah that's the ad lib and would there be a crime or are you defrauding an innkeeper anybody impersonating a senator and an awesome a crime I would. Suggest to your friends a politician is really have an insight. As the u.s. Gets ready to send another 1000 troops to the Middle East to bolster surveillance in intelligence gathering in the area of the world is weighing in you've got China's top diplomat warning the United States against opening a Pandora's Box after the recent flare up in tension. Between Washington and Tehran German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country is taking very seriously the New us information about Iran's alleged responsibility for attacks last week on 2 oil tankers near the Persian Gulf but Japan whose tanker was one of those attacked says they're not still totally convinced Iran was behind the action but now the world is watching and waiting it was clearly Iran and I guess the rest of the world does the rest of the world does a lot of business with Iran even though we're trying to can courage them to stop and they won't say well we're not sure so we're going to continue to sell them stuff that's a little like our mealy mouth treatment of the Chinese compared to our treatment of the Soviets back in the day there is a lot of money being made so you just you want to handle things carefully who among us hasn't had a business relationship with a problematic client or customer or supplier and you can do you his soft pedal the bad stuff and just hope business continues to that's what you're doing what Europe is doing clearly in Japan as well Jon Stewart has a response to comments Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made about him the Kentucky Republican told Fox News he didn't know why Stewart was a so upset over the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund that we have never failed to address this issue and we will address that again I don't know why he is all but out of shape but we will take care of the 911 but control pleasure for Stewart shot back on Monday night's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert going after McConnell accusing him of you love the 911 community when they serve here in political purposes but when they're in urgent need you slow walk you down there you hear is that as a political pawn to get other things you want and you don't get the job done completely and your answer to that charge is yeah. Well yeah I kind of say yeah does to I mean I I understand why John Stewart's made I'm. Sad that it works that way but it does work that way always has always will and the other way I hate that it does but it is the way they were going if it's really important then they then may use it even more as a political pawn because it's so important they know there's no way people can vote against this so I'm going to put this in this bill that has crap in it and they'll have to vote for it because they can not vote for it exactly and all the time it disgusts me but that is the way it works but good for Jon Stewart calling mature not allowed our enemies petitioning the government for the redress of grievances Surely you favor of that still unless it involves hate speech this information just coming in now turns out there are 9 a New Jersey man the latest American tourist to die in the Dominican Republic that's quite a few relatives always been going on and it's just like piling on now I mean it's become of the news media became a war I doubt it I mean I've known a handful of people who've gone to the Dominican Republic they drop dead now is the thing so yeah this is very odd but 9 and what do we have a sense of what time period 9 in the about the last couple of months I believe that's been very long. Relative say that 55 year old Joseph Allen was celebrating a friend's birthday last week his brother said Alan didn't feel too well Wednesday night he was found dead by the maid in his room the next morning there is some than well this is obvious something funky going on it reminds me very much of when. Conventioneers started dropping Dad was that the seventy's. They called it Legionnaires disease because the I think it was the American Legion that was holding a big writing at this hotel complex and turned out to be bacteria in the air conditioning system water and the air conditioning system was functioning as a giant disease atomizer bring it around into people's lungs and I just wonder if there's something similar to that going on in the Dominican Republic one why. Snowed which has some lovely scenery and some fine bars and golf courses but it's not exactly you know super super modern bloodless note is Armstrong and Getty have pointed out many times before political candidates may view it as a coup to get a celebrity to endorse him but a new poll found those kind of endorsements don't really matter much to voters in a hill Harris survey 2 thirds of voters 65 percent said celebrity endorsements don't affect who they decide to vote for and the other most of the other 3rd are lying and if they do matter to you please don't vote you're too dumb to vote we have been saying for years just because it's true endorsements don't matter but another stupid thing the media covers is when somebody gets endorsed not Senator Johnson has been endorsed by no it makes no difference but the media will talk about it all day on the set and say I have to talk about it is that that same Senator Johnson who got an intern who got the table all right gets around to tell you what my full throated. Fettered is Marshall Phillips I'm starting to get a show that conscience of the nation the only time endorsements matter to me is sometimes in local races where you got a handful of people and. A lot of time and get absolutely believe what you see the sheriff who you think's a great guy saying yeah he's my hero you know if the president will come it's not my make no difference whatsoever no non. Congress or newspaper endorsements any of those endorsements none of them make any difference now keep that in mind as you hear people discuss that I have a depressing text about the homeless situation if you want to be depressed coming up on the upside a bunch of the late night comedians did take on the topic of o.j. On Twitter. To be funny doesn't it yes who's involved in the late night joke off. Meyers Meyers is always funny Kemel when Fallon I've always got a very funny kind anyway that's on the way on the Armstrong he show. $744.00 a k g o we have a crash on the eastbound portion of the Bay Bridge. That auto body traffic deaths trouble on the Bay Bridge. Right at the island at the actually the Treasure Island off ramp there is a crash involving an overturned car the 2 law planes and the Treasure Island off ramp shut down in the back of there is to the center Anchorage you've also got new problems in the South Bay 2 collisions on northbound 851 near Union on the shoulder another one just north of 17 involving a motorcycle that's blocking the left hand lane now the combination of traffic solid from almost an expressway also northbound a what a lot of Ellis there's a crash in the right lane with traffic there backed up all the way to 80 heading into San Francisco or backed up into the maze metering lights are on in the backup watch out for a crash near West Grand of the 2 left lanes on the Bay Bridge responsive by jumpstart m d r you're ready to finally lose unwanted weight jumpstart Mts medically supervised weight loss program gives you the tools you need to get results eat real food and get one on one support so you can finally say you did it don't wait call today 8 by 5 jump start the much of a marine layer today the sunshine will warm things the mid sixty's or the coast low ninety's and I'm but Burckhardt Good morning it's Mark Thompson you no doubt have seen o.j. 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If you get the next hour a new book we're on a lot of different radio stations thank God and different stations there are different ways some of us are listening to us live some radio stations like run the 1st hour and the 3rd hour and we've got the 2nd and 4th or whatever one of those Anybody listening to us in the future probably on the podcast you know or in some radio stations you know where to different times that's crazy and blowing my mind oh it just occurred to me I need to know that President Trump is resigned. Me you will have already known that by the time one of now is on in the future wait has already happened now that wouldn't work it's also who don't know it's we that don't we know we're living in the past 3 of us who show we're not even talking about that . One should think a little more thank you Britney that was Britney Spears and her husband discussing time travel but the reason I brought it up only to stone Louisianans can we have George Will next hour in actual real life chronological order yes a conservative columnist he's got a new book out about conservatism we're going to talk to him a little bit about that should be pretty interesting Oh yeah I can't wait how could it not be in a way yeah I've got a homeless thing for you that's pretty interesting from somebody who witnesses it and it deals with it on a regular basis Ok but maybe 1st since it has become such a national story that o.j. Simpson is now got a Twitter account oh boy what a great idea. For some reason. Bunch of the late night comedians decided to get into that and it's a little thing we call the late night joke off I will grade each one of these jokes in the bottom grade get or will be banned from comedy for life let's hear it it's crazy Ok to Twitter account he's already got over 600000 followers it's more followers than when he was driving the white Bronco. Heisman Trophy killer o.j. Simpson is on. It he posed in some videos and wrote thanks to all my new followers love learning how to use Twitter has really been Twitter for like 4 days or he's already got almost 700000 followers the last time o.j. Had this many people following him he was on the for all 500. 4 days since then joined Twitter this weekend and I know I know this is the wrong say but he looks terrific I mean. Dude 71 what's your secret I mean your other secret I know. You know I'm going to go to reverse order Myers with a solid a great delivery and originality Kimmel with a solid beat because he formed the joke much better same joke as Fallon who got a c. Minus but Fallon makes jokes as if he's doing it for 4th graders on purpose because Jay Leno stayed number one for years doing yes keep it dumb and that was all a joke Myers was hilarious that was out of the 1st 2 though are an example of what Conan O'Brien when he finally wrapped up his lawsuit recently he wrote about in The New York Post about how lots of people come up with the same joke at the same time you can't just assume always that that if I do a joke or anybody knows a joke that it was stolen sure if you did it 1st and there's a perfect example that they had the same joke Kimmel's wording was much better. We got this text. I work in security and every day I deal with trains and it's recently I met a mother looking for her son she described him and I knew who he was I helped her find him and she said she'd take him his girlfriend their dog and he declined saying she had too many rules later the 2 were shooting up in my parking lot and are presently passed out right in front of me in the same parking lot. I was watching c.n.n. In the lunchroom and they were talking about Los Angeles and skid row enough tens of thousands of bombs and one of the cops was saying you know it's really really hard to get a lot of these people off the street they like the tent lifestyle they like the independence they don't want to follow the rules they like doing drugs away and if they got friends living around I'm a lucky kid Well here's something you might not have considered if you're the super compassionate type and wanted to make it as pleasant as possible to be homeless if you make it pleasant enough and people will just keep doing it if there is. If there's no if you have a bathroom or no sanction for using the bathroom outside. If you provide enough food if you provide a little bit of shelter Ok I guess I'll just say this way as a kind of unimaginable time plus impunity for drug use vagrancy public drunkenness whatever and then throw in if you're extra extra stupid like San Francisco or Seattle decriminalize property crime make the penalties so light or so infrequent that people can steal steal from store or steal from houses sneak into garages that sort of thing decriminalized and you know negative behaviors and you're really really get a utopia. Please don't be the sort of don't give money to beggars don't do that that's just moron ik alright even the police in your lefty ist cities in America say that's a bad idea I see it all the time and others like you even freaking Gavin Newsome has probably changed his mind as he's gone communist but who are you people that stop at the if the intersection and give some money to the bigger What are you doing please stop your you're looking for your own approval you're trying to elevate yourself as a selfish act you want to appear generous Now we occasionally will bring this up and somebody will tax her email email us mail bag Armstrong and get a dot com By the way any time or text for 15295 k. F.t.c. But will have people say no no I know there are a junkie I just you know figure has a rough life being a junkie Here's a couple of bucks and I fear that. Well I congratulate you on your realism anyway Christ's Church New Zealand businessman who shared a video of people being shot at that mosque you remember that horrible horrible story he shared a video online and was sentenced to almost 2 years in prison he had earlier pleaded guilty to 2 counts of distributing the video which was live streamed on Facebook by the gunman I had forgotten it was 51 only now. Anyway this this Ennio idiot when asked about the video said it was awesome and I guess just for being a jerk you got sentenced to 21 months the specific the specific wording of what the judge says. Encouraging mass murder and offending and glorifying the murder. Ok Is that a crime in New Zealand you know what's unclear to me is if it was the act of sharing it is what was horrifying it or was it the messaging that he was attaching to it you know which was the whole look at it isn't as great well you're British Commonwealth countries are way way way on the wrong side of free speech questions and they're getting really enthusiastic about punishing anybody who says anything that is racially insensitive or what have you and I have a feeling he ran afoul of those laws Britain's gone nuts on that stuff they're just . They're dealing with something that's. Going to be extremely difficult already as most continue to be and that's grafting millions of people from a completely different culture into your country and trying to you know hang together and not have violence and hatred and you're suburbs burning like Paris had that sort of thing and so they're trying to bend over backward to be accommodating and welcoming in the rest of sort of quite the experiment My son is in Robot camp this week. I have never been more jealous which sounds pretty cool sounds extremely cool I have you got to get through that and get at least a b. To graduate into death by. I have spoke somewhat negatively of the camp lifestyle over the years and I still mostly feel that way and I've got some guilt about this one because he was all excited about getting out of school last week and last day of school and you know now I've got the whole summer ahead of me and I got him in a camp where he's there from 9 to 2 every day this week which you know while it is very cool and very fun it is a place you got to be all day long not at home do whatever the hell you want so I don't I your window in the center is 92 so not crazy though but anyway I almost exactly what his school day was. But it's a robot camp which does some really cool it's pretty expensive but I'm going to be interested to see how it turns out on Friday as we get to bring home a robot you know why the hours are the camps are a lot of them are though they hours they are it's because people use them as childcare they they don't want their kid to be home all summer long I do want my kid to be home all summer long which you know you can do what you want but that's what I want to do. But yeah they they work on a robot all week long and then on Friday. We get to go in and see what the robot can do there's some sort of display for the parents are really nice sort of a nice i hope it's going to be like that Boston Dynamics one that can jump up and down and do somersaults on lift boxes. Open some sort of Rube Goldberg machine where you put a marble at the top of a ramp and at the end of it you got a fried egg it better not just creep along a couple inches and turn around and I am I'm expecting more than that I'm picturing the thing creeps along a little bit turns a little bit raises arm up and then you notice there's a cat about 30 yards away and the thing just vaporizes the legs are wow wow you done you completely vaporized that cat that's amazing son did you do time well spent we're going to talk to George Will about his new book about conservatism coming up on the on presidential. Chios San Francisco Cumulus to download it to an n.f.c. You can take them with you wherever you go we are following fallout from an explosion in the East Bay 8 o'clock a k g o a 10 Good morning I'm Brett Burkhardt investigators say 2 containers of butane caused a huge explosion in a home in Union City leaving 2 men injured the explosion was so powerful it actually knocked down shelving at a neighbor's home there were 5 people inside the home during the explosion and knocked out windows and doors a grandfather and his son were injured and taken to the hospital there was no fire but officials say the home is likely uninhabitable officers are looking for a killer after another freeway shooting in the Bay Area this one happened on 680 in San Jose the c.h.p. Says a man was found shot inside a car in the center divide of northbound 680 near Capitol Ave attempts to revive him were unsuccessful officers closed all northbound lanes overnight for the investigation but those lanes have since been reopened there are no details about any suspect at this time as you sit in traffic this morning think water Richmond ferry ridership has exceeded all expectations and Terry Rouse reports a ferry business is booming in the Bay Area as leaders try and ease traffic congestion efficient say the last couple of months the service has seen about 750 passengers a day and on a couple of days there has been nearly a 1000 riders the service was launched just 5 months ago and officials say they are about where they expected to be in 6 years from now 3 more ferries are in construction and set to come online in the next few months yet another ferry dock is coming to the ferry building next year a temporary dock will be set up for separate Cisco's new chase arena that will be followed by a Permanent Mission Bay terminal another Alameda ferry terminal is also scheduled to debut next year Berkeley Treasure Island and Redwood City are being looked at as possible occasions for future ferry service even a hovercraft is being considered for service to and from San Jose apply the South Bay shallow waters the father of one of the children killed in the 2012 Sandy. Hook Elementary massacre has won a lawsuit against 2 men who falsely claim the shooting was a hoax or responded Scott Carr has more 6 year old Noah Pozner was among 21st graders and 6 teachers killed by a lone gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 because I run with solicitation for concerts New York school I think there's somebody who's suing in here right away to sending the Loomis engine can just pull this thing go in the corner his father Larry has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened I published lots of you know of photos on my Google plus and that's where haters started to show up a Wisconsin judge ruled that Pozner had been defamed by James Fetzer and my pal a check the authors of the book nobody died at Sandy Hook the publisher moon rock books has also agreed to stop selling the book damages will be decided in October the decision is the latest victory for a victim's relatives who have been taking a more aggressive stance against conspiracy theorists as a result of threats made against them Pozner and his family have had to relocate 7 times Scott Carr federal authorities have been speaking of relocation stepped in to keep former Trump campaign manager Paul man of Ford from being moved to New York's Rikers Island correspondent Laura Jarrett has more his defense attorneys reached out to the Bureau of Prisons federal authorities citing his age and health issues to try to make sure that he wasn't transferred to a state facility obviously Rikers being an infamous prison and someplace that is not nearly as present pleasant as a federal facility man a Ford is serving a 7 and a half year sentence for tax fraud bank fraud and other charges stemming from the Russia investigation he's facing New York state charges of residential mortgage fraud conspiracy and falsifying business records Mark Biello has a new crash to tell you about on the highway want to one next time and now a message from Vistaprint. 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