Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Overnight, lightning strikes off the coast as a Severe Thunderstorm Warning moves across the bay area. Were bracing for another day of intense recordbreaking heat after more rolling Power Outages affect hundreds of thousands of people. Good morning, everyone. It is sunday, august 16. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Those thunderstorms were seen off the coast of santa cruz, on the peninsula, near pacifica, and all across the bay area overnight. From the lightning to the winds to the heat to now these brush fires were tracking, were following it all. Lets get over to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at whats happening right now. Lisa . Hey, liz. You know, when we had one of these thunderstorms around fairfield, the temperature went from the 80s to 100. That was a heat burst that came down from the upper levels of the atmosphere with a thunderstorm. Just amazing whether the around here. As we go in c
Im rene marsh. Nice to have you in for christine romans. Im dave briggs. It is monday, april 2nd. I hope you had a wonderful easter. We start with trade. China making good on the trade threats opening fears of a trade war. China will slap tariffs on 3 billion of u. S. Goods. The chinese tariffs from agriculture exports and pork and fruit and nuts and steel, pipe, nuts and aluminum. This is escalating tensions with the United States and china. The president has more trade actions in the works like tariffs on 50 billion of chinese goods. Experts warn they could cause further retaliation and a trade war would be devastating for consumers and companies. The president has accused b beijing of unfair trade moves. The exodus of a number of people from the white house like gary cohn and Rex Tillerson may pave the way for the president to move on the tariffs. President trump on an antiimmigrant rant on easter sunday. Much on twitter. Here are the tweets. Border patrol agents not allowed to do t
Russians. The second one, it says that mueller is authorized to investigate manafort for money he received while working for the prorussian leader of the ukraine. As we know, manafort has been charged with money he made from that work. His attorneys are arguing that mueller overstepped his jurisdiction because it has nothing to do with the russia investigation. The threepage memo is notable for what we dont see. Parts of it are blacked out. In fact, most of it has been blacked out. It appears to indicate other allegations and people that the mueller team is investigating. Now, the memos existence has been classified up until now and it was released as part of muellers response to manaforts motion to dismiss one of the indictments against him. Jim, certainly this memo shows that any notion that the collusion investigation is over and that man no fort isnt facing russiarelated charges clearly is not true. Sure to disappoint the president. President trump tweeting about immigration policy
Practices that steal american jobs. The first year in office, he did not make any major trade moves. However, the exodus of a number of people from the white house like gary cohn and Rex Tillerson may pave the way for the president to move on the tariffs. Joining us this morning is Washington Examiner and writer phil wegmann. Good morning. Lets start off with trade. What does this do . We are seeing the United States made a move and overnight china has made a move slapping the tariffs. What does this do to the relationship with the two countri countries . They both need each other. You look at china. The u. S. Needs them with north korea to denuke. What does this do for the relationship . It shows the casualties on trade are more widespread than industries here and there. Like you said a moment ago, this will have Significant Impact on markets here in the United States here in the United States, but international relations. China is our best friend when it comes to getting north korea
We begin with President Trump who leveled some factually inaccurate charges this weekend. After a week of more turnover in his administration, during which trump sought the advice of former Campaign Operatives and hard core supporters, the Washington Post reports meeting with his political soldiers, Corey Lewandowski and david bossy, strategist brad and soninlaw and Senior Advisor jared kushner. White house chief of staff john kelly did not travel with the president to maralago this weekend, but senior policy advisor stephen miller, a proponent of hard line immigration policies, has been at trumps side. And the president reportedly dined with fox news host sean hannity friday night who was later spotted at the president s golf club. All right. So, yesterday President Trump began the 16th calendar month of his administration by blaming democrats for the border, lack thereof. A, quote, Border Patrol agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the border because of ridiculous liber