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Keeping it cool. But some of our inland areas will start to heat up starting today. Tomorrow we continue with the cool coast and hot valleys. The weekend, the dangerous heat continues with highs over 100 degrees. There will be spots hitting 100 today. 103 in fairfield, 100 in san martin. More widespread 90s in the inland areas. Mike, you were looking at a backup at the bay bridge. It did kick in a little earlier today. We talked about the Holiday Weekend coming in, an early escape for some folks. Its backing up about 10, 15 minutes earlier. The metering lights were turned on the regular time, maybe three minutes early. Not a big deal, but a change in the morning commute. Slowing on highway 4, highway 37. The disabled vehicle may be a distraction for that westbound 84 drive. The side of the freeway where the disabled vehicle is coming into sunol, we have slowing and maybe another crash. Im tracking it. 6 01. Moving you forward on the new covid19 booster shot. The centers for Disease Con
Next, from 18 to help texas book festival in austin, discussion went off there is Ricardo Ainslie and Alfredo Corchado on mexico. This is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming tonight. We are happy to be here at the texas book will. They asked me to tell everyone, please turn off cell phones to rejoin her of the conversations. With that, let me get dirty. I am shannon oneil. I work at the council on Foreign Relations very focused on next month america more broadly unedited and pleasure tonight at talking with two wonderful gentleman, who have written wonderful books are really impressive impressive books about mexico. The first one on my right is Ricardo Ainslie. His book is called the fight to save juarez. This book tells the story of the border city, which many of you know ive had the unfortunate tension in recent years of being not only the most violent place in mexico, but by some accounts the most spineless in the world. He tells the story of this descent into dar
Its certainly not how i would refer to the effort. Ashely despite the fact that the administration is planning to expand airstrikes to a rack and the coalition of nations ultimately destroys the islamic state. Shocking intelligence estimates has more than 30,000 fighters across iraq and syria and that has tripled the number of fighters that had in june, close to the estimated five of the taliban back in 2001. The administrations reviews refusal to use the term more sparked a lot of criticism. But Administration Officials are okay with using the war label, but only if it includes al qaeda. The United States is at war with isis. This is not the iraq war of 2002. But make no mistake, we know that we are at war with them in the same way we are at war and continue to be at war with al qaeda and its affiliates. We are at war with them around the world. Ashely semantics aside, there are some very real concerns about the administrations actuals gravity. For tackling the islamic state. Crick sa
Its certainly not how i would refer to the effort. Ashely despite the fact that the administration is planning to expand airstrikes to a rack and the coalition of nations ultimately destroys the islamic state. Shocking intelligence estimates has more than 30,000 fighters across iraq and syria and that has tripled the number of fighters that had in june, close to the estimated five of the taliban back in 2001. The administrations reviews refusal to use the term more sparked a lot of criticism. But Administration Officials are okay with using the war label, but only if it includes al qaeda. The United States is at war with isis. This is not the iraq war of 2002. But make no mistake, we know that we are at war with them in the same way we are at war and continue to be at war with al qaeda and its affiliates. We are at war with them around the world. Ashely semantics aside, there are some very real concerns about the administrations actuals gravity. For tackling the islamic state. Crick sa