Joining us tonight. Two former Stanford University students are multibillionaires. This morning, snap cofoun r cofounders rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange as their company went publ public. The company had even more to celebrate after the closing bell. Snap finished its first day of trading at 24. 48. It managed to rise on a day the rest of the market dropped. The dow fell more than 100 points, the nasdaq dropped by 42. This is the biggest and most expensive American Tech Company to go public since facebook in 2012. Snap isnt a bay area company, its based in venice beach. Kate larson is live to explain how it has an influence on our local tech industry, kate . Even though snap is based in los angeles, it still feels like a Silicon Valley startup, a lot of the investors and people who work there are from the bay area. Which has people wondering if snap may be the end of a years long ipo dry spell. Snap chats Parent Company goes public. Everybody here in the bay area
Donald trumps Election Campaign after questions about his contact with the russians. There are new calls now from California Democrats for sessions to step down because he did not disclose that he had met twice with the Russian Ambassador to the u. S. During the campaign. Tonight, President Trump tweeted Jeff Sessions is an honest man, he did not say anything wrong, he could have stated his response more accurately but it was clearly not intentional. Abc News Reporter e lolona zack in washington. Reporter the latest revelation, the president s own soninlaw, jared kusnyer met with the russian official at trump tower in december. Meanwhi meanwhile. I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. Reporter nonetheless, attorney general Jeff Sessions denies he did anything wrong. I never had meetings with russian operatives or russian entintermediaries about the tru campaign. Reporter but he did meet with the Russian Ambassador twice. Session says his meetings were a
The afternoon, mid 60s San Francisco to mid 70s inland. Next two days pretty mild. The rain picks up for friday into saturday. Well talk about the storm systems on the way. Rob, still looking at the backup over there. The rest of the bay looks great. Lighter flow of traffic. Some folks got the day off, not many. Traffic was light yesterday and looking like today as well. Well take you out to some slowing for the trivalley, south 680 through pleasanton and hayward for southbound 880, typical spots. But lighter than typical for this time on a wednesday. Were still watching for this onramp at hacienda to reopen. Should be about 6 45 getting on to eastbound 580. The bay bridge toll plaza has backups, all lanes are filled but no problems out of the maze. Back to you. Flames erupt along a popular hiking trail and fire investigators want to know if its connected to a string of suspicious fires in the east bay. Today in the bays bob redell is live where arson investigators are taking a closer
The afternoon, mid 60s San Francisco to mid 70s inland. Next two days pretty mild. The rain picks up for friday into saturday. Well talk about the storm systems on the way. Rob, still looking at the backup over there. The rest of the bay looks great. Lighter flow of traffic. Some folks got the day off, not many. Traffic was light yesterday and looking like today as well. Well take you out to some slowing for the trivalley, south 680 through pleasanton and hayward for southbound 880, typical spots. But lighter than typical for this time on a wednesday. Were still watching for this onramp at hacienda to reopen. Should be about 6 45 getting on to eastbound 580. The bay bridge toll plaza has backups, all lanes are filled but no problems out of the maze. Back to you. Flames erupt along a popular hiking trail and fire investigators want to know if its connected to a string of suspicious fires in the east bay. Today in the bays bob redell is live where arson investigators are taking a closer
The afternoon, mid 60s San Francisco to mid 70s inland. Next two days pretty mild. The rain picks up for friday into saturday. Well talk about the storm systems on the way. Rob, still looking at the backup over there. The rest of the bay looks great. Lighter flow of traffic. Some folks got the day off, not many. Traffic was light yesterday and looking like today as well. Well take you out to some slowing for the trivalley, south 680 through pleasanton and hayward for southbound 880, typical spots. But lighter than typical for this time on a wednesday. Were still watching for this onramp at hacienda to reopen. Should be about 6 45 getting on to eastbound 580. The bay bridge toll plaza has backups, all lanes are filled but no problems out of the maze. Back to you. Flames erupt along a popular hiking trail and fire investigators want to know if its connected to a string of suspicious fires in the east bay. Today in the bays bob redell is live where arson investigators are taking a closer