For this hour of the morning but when you get through that backup, its regular speeds to the maze this morning. Im anne makovec at the live news desk and we go to hong kong airport. For the second day, crippled by protesters who canceled most of their departing flights because the check and counters are being blocked by protesters. These are people continuing to protest and it began last month with a prodemocracy protest. They are concerned about extradition to Mainland China and theyve really blown up their protests over the last few days. This is some video taken earlier where you can see them blocking those check encounters and there are some flights still arriving at the hong kong airport and i checked them from sfo and they are planning to take off today but this is what you find when you get there for some of those protesters blocking customs and immigration counters, as well. The u. N. Is urging the protesters and the police, accused of overambitious tactics, to settle this peac
Network Dagen Mcdowell as always, pwc partner and cfr Mitch Roschelle and lindsey bell maria markets this morning, quiet situation going do what could be fireworks in next 2 days, dow industrials down 71 points, nasdaq down 27, Federal Reserve jay powell testifying before the House Financial Services Committee Later this morning, markets are watching specifically to see if powells comments indicate signs of a future rate cut, a lot of people yesterday, Jon Hilsenrath said, well, if its not july, itll be september, lindsey, you have a lot of thoughts on this. Yeah from the testimony today and tomorrow, im not speaking anything new out of fed chairman, he will stick to the language that we heard in june that hes here to support the Economic Growth that weve seen so far, i dont think we will hear anything about the change of Monetary Policy or any type of rate cut, how much it will be if there is one to come, and the thing i think that the investors in the market are really going to look
Traffic. Ill take you to the centra valley and check on speeds on 205 and 580. So seeing red fillin, 35 Miles Per Hour on 205 and it is not terrible and nothing blocking but expect the usual crawl and as mike mentions we have fog. Golden gate is looking socked in. The zipper truck has been through so you have plenty of room on the southbound side and chp did issue a dense fog advisory around midnight. So want to drive for conditions. We have breaking news just into the abc 7 newsroom, the Britain Ambassador to the u. S. Has just resigned. That announcement coming from the u. K. Foreign office. His resignation come after diplomatic cables were leaked and published in a british newspaper showing that he called trump insecure and incompetent and described his administration as dysfunctional and inept. The President Trump responded saying he wouldnt work with him and a resignation later today and he said his departure is the responsible course. New details on the viral video that shows a S
101. So at 7 00, 57 to 34i6. Milder temperatures that will spring board us to 71 to 75 more brighter skies by noon except for the coast where we stay in the low to mid60s. A warmer afternoon seeing us push into the mid70s to low 80 frs the bay and inland neighborhoods but a comfortable evening on the way in the 70s. Got a little bit of a heat wave this weekend. Well talk about that coming up next. First over to alexis. Good morning, mike. Were looking at bay bridge toll plaza slowly starting to fill in. So that is the norm. Well see if the metering lights flip on early but most likely making it to 5 20 and the car pool is open and cash lanes not too bad, better than the last couple of days. So maybe they have a few more cash booths open. Drive times lookin good, southbound 101 santa rosa to petaluma 13 minutes and from Castro Valley to the maze and northbound 101 through downtown san jose, 280, 680 split to highway 85 in the green at about 11 minutes. Might have a new problem in richmo
Avenue offramp and they are still getting one or two more vehicles off the hillside involved but very quickly everything was pushed to the shoulder. However, we do have stop and go traffic from highway 4. So well check that out in a few. And San Francisco police are looking for two burglars accused of a hitandrun. The investigators say they purposely ran down a tourist outside of the legion of honor museum in front of his son. Jobina fortson is live and what led up to all of this. Reporter natasha and reggie there is glass all over the ground here and in other areas of the parking lot. It is not clear if it is from the incident from yesterday, but police tell us a father and his son had their car burglarized here. And then the father started to take pictures of the thieves and this is when police say the thieves rammed the getaway car into the father in front of his son. At last check, the father was in stable condition at the hospital. There is an sfpd sergeant and officer with him an