Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe has confirmed he intends to delay a planned consumption tax hike by another two and a half years, and he vowed to do it without dissolving the lower house for a snap election. Abe told his plans to senior members of his liberal Democratic Party and its Coalition Partner komeito on monday. The tax is supposed to rise from 8 to 10 in april, but the government will need to pass another bill to approve the delay. He also met with finance minister taro aso, who had until now taken a cautious stance on the idea, and had called for an election to get the approval of voters. But he eventually accepted abes plan. Abe will hold a News Conference on wednesday at the earliest to explain his decision. The leaders of four opposition parties, though, charge the pushback means abes Economic Policy dubbed abenomics has failed. They say he bears the responsibility. They plan to jointly submit a no confidence motion against abes cabinet to the lower house on tuesday and
Afternoon is wanted change here is a live look at the bay bridge to see the cloud skies it is called a pretty much all across the bay area after the mid70s by the afternoon under mostly sunny conditions will cool down into low seven is that even ride home at 6 00 what time of the speech cast coming up a little bit later. George we been mounting delays on 6 is out to bomb the sole grade and also the ride through fremont and union city on 880 southbound part of the reason for the slowing to two car accident in the Center Divider south about 880 and maori and that is why the trip time continues to climb the we already have 54 minutes for the southbound ride on highway 880 from 238 down to 237 here at the bay bridge the gap reaches into the macarthur maze. George the drive times have just jumped over 20 minutes now 21 from highway 24 and on 90 to the san mateo bridge 26 to 28 minute trip times as the backed up on the approach to the toll plaza continues to grow for york east bay ride out o
Life. And a major crash in fremont. The latest news now on what has closed a major street in fremont and why it just opened. Mornings on 2 starts now. Were live at the chevron refinery in richmond where an earlymorning fire put a community on edge. Alex savidge has been on scene all morning. Coming up in two minutes, he will tell us how refinery handled the situation especially in light of heavy criticism after that huge fire there two years ago. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Stev steve, any weather surprises . A little bit of rain. It looks like thats ended. The tropical clouds continue to stream off the sierra going east to west. The low clouds are definitely picking up in intensity. For some it will be cooler. It looks like one more day of high humidity. The lows are just really warm because of all of the cloud cover and some amazing cloud formations later in the day. Especially in the afternoon, you get
Forecast for today. Good morning, michelle. Good morning, james. Were starting off with breezy conditioned like you mentioned. It will stay breezy to the afternoon. Heres what were talking about for today. Breezy conditions. Followed by sunshine and a cooler day. That was just yesterday so we will do it again today. And we also have rain chances in your Storm Tracker sevenday forecast. We will talk about that coming up at 4 15. But again, clear skies, breezy conditions. Be prepared. It will be very similar to yesterday. A ridge of High Pressure in place giving much of california some clear skies. But we are watching and waiting for a few more clouds to move in. That wont happen until later this week. Enjoy the clear skies and cooler temperatures. Wednesdays right now, light for oakland. Redwood city, 7 miles an hour. But along the coast, steakmile perhour. Half moon bay, 18 miles per hour. And concord waking up to winds from the west at 6 miles an hour. These temperatures are much cool
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