Right now some lower sustained winds to 20 Miles Per Hour. Theres the rain. Showers moving near oakland. Well continue to see on and off showers through the day and the sierra snow winds down as well. We will eventually see sunshine here, and every now and again well see a few passing showers, sun will come back out. Brief shower, sun comes back out. Temperatures knaback into the 5 today. King tides will be plaguing the coastline. Stay away from the water. If you have the ability, of course. We have lots of surfers here, but make sure you protect yourself and family if youre headed that way. Fair enough. The super bowl less than two weeks away. Road closures throughout San Francisco start now for super bowl city festivities. Live look this morning at the corner of washington and the embarcadero. Hunz of thousands of people local and tourists will experience the flavor. Its squeezed between the Ferry Building. About 20 blocks of streets will be closed off, more than a dozen workers are
One day before president obama gives his state of the Union Address to congress and the nation there is now every indication the president s speech will focus extensively on the date of the middle class. Jobs are being created at the fastest clip in a decade the stock market is booming, up 168 in five years. When you add to all of that the financial boosts Many Americans are feeling thanks to plummeting Energy Prices but there is a public disconnect. A University Poll asked americans how much the upturn benefits their families. 32 said not much. And another 29 said not at all. To understand why the 61 said they feel the Strong Economy is passing them by you have to understand the middle sclasz today. Wages remain flat and household Median Income as fallen by as much as 8 since the recession, so with that in mind white house Officials Say in his state of the union speech president obama will propose tax hikes on the rich and fees to Fund Programs benefiting the middle class, the total b
One day before president obama gives his state of the Union Address to congress and the nation there is now every indication the president s speech will focus extensively on the date of the middle class. Jobs are being created at the fastest clip in a decade, the stock market is booming, up 168 in five years. When you add to all of that, the financial boosts Many Americans are feeling thanks to plummeting energy prices, but there is a public disconnect. A University Poll asked americans how much the upturn benefits their families. 32 said not much. And another 29 said not at all. To understand why the 61 said they feel the Strong Economy is passing them by, you have to understand the middle sclasz today. Wages remain flat, and household Median Income as fallen by as much as 8 since the recession, so with that in mind, white house Officials Say in his state of the union speech president obama will propose tax hikes on the rich, and fees to Fund Programs benefiting the middle class, the
Petro poroshenko has been effectively named president. A eunt ukraine but the country remains far from united. Dave luce is in donetske, dana cmple there seems to be a bit of a disconnect. How can ploangs be promising when theres an oan going issue at the airport in donetske . Clearly mr. Poroshenko, talking at a new conference today, going on and on and wanting to end the violence and having plans to end the violence, beefing up the military, but in the same breath, he says he is not going to negotiate with terrorists. Armed in Eastern Ukraine, it seems to set the stage for avery long drawnout conflict here. If theres any doubt a war is being fought in Eastern Ukraine, that quickly veape evaporated t. Ukrainians brought out the heavy dpuns. Gawns. Fought back with their own heavy weapons. In kyiv there was an angry response from ukraines new president elect, billionaire Petro Poroshenko. He launched his own verbal assault on armed separatists comparing them to somali pirates. Just lik
Absolutely. I would be honored to do it. Were going to break this sucker down. We have all of this covered with our nbc correspondents at the white house and around the world. I want to take you first to the Korean Peninsula where Kelly Cobiella is in seoul standing by. Kelly, i want to slow this thing down. North korea is issuing new threats, saying there is a, quote, reduce the whole of the u. S. Mainland to ruins. Thats what they could potentially do. Reduce the u. S. To ruins. Yeah. New rhetoric, intense rhetoric from north korea today. There are a couple of reasons for that. North korea, in fact, today, stephanie, interestingly, saying that the u. S. Is being rhetoric. Heres their problem. First of all, it is this antinuclear sorry antimissile Defense System in south korea, which has now gone operational, according to the u. S. Military. They say that it can now shoot down a or intercept a north korean missile. The other thing that has them angry today are these continued u. S. Mi