Activists gathering to talk Climate Change and chanting to let more peoplein the Party Debates whether they should hold an entire debate dedicated to Climate Change that les. The te could come today. President ial candidates make their way to the meeting and senator Bernie Sanders just tour the town of paradise and is hosting a rally in downtown sacramento this evening Bernard Sanders and a dozen other candidates will attend the threeday event. Former Vice President joe biden will not be making an appearance. The event wraps up saturday. Im emily turner at the news desk and we have the fbi investigating with what they call the largest scam, online scam, and u. S. History. Tragic in sonyses. A 145 page i charges for 80 people participating in the conspiracy to steal millions through a range of fraud schemes, as well as wandering the funds through a los angeles network. Most of the defendants are nigerian suspects and they hacked email accounts and businesses and romance scams targeted t
Background checks. This legislation with desperately needed Immigration Reform. Still not clear what all of that means. Thats why were waiting to hear more from the president. Whats your sense . What are you hearing from white house officials about what does the president mean when he says strong background checks are needed . Reporter they are not going to answer that right now because the president will have to answer that for himself. Aids aren aides arent clear what he means by that. He has mentioned this in the past. Democrats have treed to strengthen the checks before. Lengthening the time of review from tree to ten days and requiring the checks for every firearm that is sold. The president seems to present a new idea of marrying legislation on gun reform with immigration refo reform. Two extremely difficult issues. We should mention this isnt the first time hes made a call for stronger controls like this. After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman douglas high school, he said the sa
Forecast coming up. Lets check in on our main travel times. If you are hitting the roadways here bright and early or i should say dark and early. A 31 minutes ride. No problems there. You are smooth sailing. As well as this morning. Hopefully thats going to hold out for as long as we can. Not so great on the nimmets freeway. That lane closure is going to be in place until 6 00 and all this week weve really been seeing some significant slowing. Youre going need to give yourself about 10 extra minutes regardless of these lane closures. Off to the bridges where there is nobody and no back up at the bay bridge and the Richmond San Rafael bridge as well. We are keeping an eye on that bridge in lake county. At this point it is only 30 contained. Were hoping for an update in cal fire for hours. This is just northwest of clear lake. 19 acres have burned. So thats not huge. You can see the terrain theyre dealing with. It is very steep and a lot of brush and trees there. This fire still threaten
The camera and you can see that marine layer out er aremid upp we head through the afternoon, most of us will see the sunshine. Temperatures slightly cooler compared to yesterday. So cooling to seasonal for this time year. 88 for a high in concord. 89 fairfield. 85 livermore. 82 in san jose. 73 in oakland. 67 for daytime high in San Francisco. And mid60s in pacifica. Its going to be another breezy day along the coast from parts of the bay. I will show outfuturecast winds as we go through today. In a few minutes. Emily. Lets start with a look at our main travel times here at 5 01. For the most part you look good to go. A little slowing traditional areas. Thats the altamonte pass that. Drive time creeping up two minutes at 35 minutes to getthrough the all the mont passstill green highway 4 and 101 no problems there to report. The Golden Gate Bridge its foggy. Chp issued a fog advisory. You can see why. You will need to take your time as you cross the Golden Gate Bridge and make sure you
So you can see 20mileanhour winds in fairfield. 14 in oakland as well as for berkeley. What you can expect through the day, temperatures will be cooler compared to yesterday afternoon. Average daytime highs a great weekend ahead staying seasonal for this time of year. Well talk about what you can expect. Were going to warm up. Details on that, coming up. Great news for those headed into work at 6 01. Your travel times mostly in the green with the exception of the alt at. That is a 39 minute ride. You are creeping toward the red but still in the yellow. Else where drive times still in the green. That is good news. At the bay bridge, the metering lights are on. Youre starting to stack up, but not too terribly. The east shore freeway is still moving along at a good rate of speed. For those there is an accident. In headed into San Francisco that has been moved to the right side, but slowing you down if youre going into San Francisco. The richmondsan rafael bridge. Fast track lanes are look