Years, starting out with the Washington Times and then moving to the Washington Post to cover local stories in virginia. He then began to cover the white house during the presidencies of bill clinton and George W Bush during his career. Peter has covered everything from elections, economic crises, Foreign Policy, natural disasters, legislative battles, eight Supreme Court nominations, six president ial inauguration ins, three impeachments, and countless state of union addresses. Along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the Washington Posts Moscow Bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. He was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. And following the september 11th attacks in 2003, he was embedded with the United States marine corps during the invasion of iraq. His very first book was the New York Times bestseller the breach inside
Our distinguished guest this evening is one of the most prominent journalists working in the field today. Peter baker, whos been working as a journalist for over 30 years, starting out with the Washington Times and then moving to the Washington Post to cover local stories in virginia. He then began to cover the white house during the presidencies of bill clinton and George W Bush during his career. Peter has covered everything from elections, economic crises, Foreign Policy, natural disasters, legislative battles, eight Supreme Court nominations, six president ial inauguration ins, three impeachments, and countless state of union addresses. Along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the Washington Posts Moscow Bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. He was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. And following the september 11th atta
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Quarter mile visibility. Some will extend down to the Richmond San Rafael bridge. This morning thinking less of that but still its with us through about 10 00. And then by the afternoon, early afternoon, upper 50s. Plenty of sunshine. Low to mid60s. So its a short day, of course, with some of the shortest days of the year. Make sure you get out and enjoy all that warm december sun. Sue . We are taking a look now and will check back in. Still Holiday Light, no metering lights. If your travels take you along the 80 freeway from hercules into San Francisco including getting through the toll plaza its stis. Its a pretty good drive all the way around. Youre seeing green on our road sensors. The key all weeklong. We do have some slow traffic as youre heading into danville. We had an accident blocking the left lane of traffic and chp is en route to get that car out of lanes. For now between alamo and danville southbound. Sue, thank you. New this morning a driver has been arrested after a cras
To get right to gwen with a look at what we can expect tonight and into the weekends. The colds weather is not going anywhere i want to tell you. Tony great description. Because it continues to be cold. We have just entrenched in this arctic air mass, cant seem to get a break from t where we are right now, temperature wise, 26 degrees, but it feels like it is only 17. Weve got windchills with those winds moving in from the north, right now, light winds at about 9 miles an hour. And, elsewhere, the double twos at gaithersburg, 28 at cup pepper. Into the teens, and the low 20s, as well, always a lot colder to the north and northwest. Feeling like it is only 18 degrees at dullos, 15 at frederick, like at hagerstown, feels like only 12 degrees this hour. And that cold arctic air as i said is if the going anywhere. It will be sticking around, right into the rest of the week. Were really entrenched in it, not going to all, those temperatures really have a struggle timing to climb. Another ar