Efficiently, effectively, and understanding how you can do that what you balance that with security challenges at the border and that is of fundamental importance for border communities and our economies as a whole. However, i do not think that is enough. Not enough for u. S. Border communities or for Mexican Border communities to really have the vibrant communities that we want and the quality of life that people in the Border Regions aspire to. This requires strategies for Economic Development that leverage the unique position of those communities along the border as a way to attract companies to do business in the region. There is a unique Value Proposition there. The combination of the competitive advantages of the two countries sidebyside that makes working and producing in the border region particularly attractive and interesting. If we look back over time and go border say the Industrialization Program of the 1960s, the beginning of free trade between the countries, andsed on th
Aspects of security. Security at the ports of entry is just as important as security between the ports of entry. And, you know, since then weve seen efforts and i think trade community has responded. Congress has responded. Weve seen bills to add more officers. We need other resources at the border. I think at first the only resource were being drawn from southern ports of entry and our first point was what about the airports . What about the seaport . What about the northern ports . You cant pick just one area and say well thats the only area that will get hurt. So beyond that weve seen may 7th, tomato duties went into effect. Now duties on mexican tomatoes. When tariff threat came up, that would have equalled 25 tariffs, 3 billion in tariffs just on what we eat and that constitutes a food tax. In the meantime we had these issues. Thats a glimpse into what we see at the border but we cant stop and think that we cant move forward because theres a lot of things we can move forward on. I
The officials we have a warning from them about the heaviest rain. Thats on the way. Find. And then ransacked oakland. Deli owner says he got served with another setback this week. Plus, San Francisco mayor london breed says the citys fight against homelessness is working and shes using a new report as proof. News station. Hes calling news 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 2. Im justine waldman. We have Live Team Coverage tracking this latest winter storm kron. 4 Charles Clifford is in the north bay finding out how people there are handling this next round of wet weather. But we will begin with a check on the conditions all across the bay area with meteorologist kyla grogan. Hows it look out there . Hey, theres been a bit of a wild ride so far. Weve got downpours that we have sunshine were getting cooler temperatures rolling in. The wind is picking up. You can see all that moisture kind of rolling across as we take a live look here. You can see all those clouds that a
Continues across the bay area this morning when the next round of rain is expected. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. Its good to have you. Im stephanie lin. Its saturday march the second and youre likely waking up to some wet weather outdoors. Lets check in now with dave the morning dave. Well, good morning, stephanie. Good morning, everybody. Were being treated to a bay area winter. Finally, this is the real feel for what weve got going on. Weve got some cold winds at work here. We have some rain thats going to be spotty through the day. But it will pounce at times. Kind of coming and going throughout the day. Cant rule out. A couple of flashes are clashes of lightning in there. Potentially some hail those snow levels have really dropped, though. So you might start to see some snow collect in our local mountains. Heres the shot from a radar you can see in th
Fire Officials Say we need to stay away from the water this weekend. Thanks so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 3. Im Justine Waldman are also tracking all the local weather conditions, including whats going on in the sierra where there is a blizzard warning and ski resorts have already decided to close. So were taking a live look now at both the bay area and south lake tahoe. Were going begin now with a check of our conditions. Kron 4 meteorologist kyla grogan in the Weather Center with a look at whats going on and that our radar is lit up this afternoon. Yes, it is. Weve got rain coming in the bay area. Were about to see the next push of some of these showers rolling in and they will be heavy at times. So. Get ready for it. And obviously we also see that sierra snow. It is turned on and cranking right now that snow machine and thats going to be happening all throughout the night tonight, too. So lets zoom in and take a look at our current current temperatures. Im sorry. I