Throughout the day today. Temperatures right now in the 50s up to 59 in redwood city. Hey, santa rosa your visibility down to a quarter mile due to patchy dense fog. Later today temperatures close to where they should be into the 60s. Well see probably one 70 in the morgan hill area although 71 should be the outside number in gilroy. 67 los altos. Cloud cover into the 60s in the eastern portion of our bay area, 70 brentwood. North bay could see a few sprinkles today. Showers in lakeport and windsor. Rain on the forecast. More coming up. Good morning. We have some good news for mass transit throughout the bay area. All mass transit is on time. The bad news is the Altamont Pass. Lets take a look at traffic coming off 205. Youre moving at 7 Miles Per Hour. You are inching your way through into north flynn road where speeds pick up to 30 Miles Per Hour. It frees up through livermore on to the dublin interchange. Altamont pass to 680 will take 15 minutes. Nimitz freeway, looking good in bot
Phase one had three goals gain air superiority, destroy saddams stroo teategic capabil, namely scuds, and disrupt his command and control. The allies estimated the first phase would last 20 to 25 days. Phase two would be short. The allies planned on taking one day to suppress mobile air defenses in the kto or kuwaiti theatre of operations. During phase three, allied air power would continue to hit the targets of phase one, but they would shift their attack to the iraqi field army and the kto, totaling close to half a million men, over 4,000 tanks, and 3,000 artillery pieces. One of the Main Missions was preparing the battlefield. He called it shaping the battlefield. He had to defeat those elements of his Ground Forces capable of mass casualties, artillery, armor. An important part was the Republican Guard. Saddam was depending on them to drive back the coalition Ground Forces if they attacked his dugin army. One of the centers of gravity, we were told, is destroy the Republican Guard
Washington journal begins live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern tuesday morning. On september 14, 1986, president and mrs. Reagan made a rare joint address from the white house residence carried live on national television. Their message was on drug abuse. First lady nancy reagan, who died on march 6 at the age of 94, urged young people to just say no to drugs, an antidrug abuse strategy she had been promoting since 1982. Good evening. Usually, i talk with you from my office in the west wing of the white house. But tonight, theres Something Special to talk about and ive asked someone very special to skroin me. Nancy and i are here in the west hall of the white house and around us are the rooms in which we live. Its the home you have provided for us of which we merely have temporary custody. Nancy is joining me because the message this evening is not my message but ours. And we speak to you not simply as fellow citizens but as fellow parents and grandparents and as concerned neighbors. It is back
Within days, five u. S. Air force squadrons and two u. S. Carriers arrived in the gulf. The commander recalls the deployment. Initially we had to get people over here rapt rapidly because of the threat of an iraqi invasion. So we brought over those kinds of airplanes you need to depend and deter such air defense, aircraft awacs, f16s and a10s through ground attack missions. And also the f15 e for capability at night. In just five weeks, the Coalition Air force outnumbered the Iraqi Air Force. When it became apparent we were successful in that initial effort, we then fleshed the force out with more aircraft, primarily aircraft such as b52s, more a10s, more f16s. The coalition organized its air power for wartime with general horner as the single air commander or air boss. We created four air divisions. One handled the tankers and bomber aircraft. The second one handled the fighters and attack aircraft. Glen profitt, warfare and another for air lift operations. We were able to define each
And dirty play . The shocker in the infield. Mets shortstop ruben tejada upended in this takeout slide. Wow, did chase utley go in hard at second. Breaking his leg at the Division Series game. Could the dodgers player face disciplinary action now . And good morning, america, on a sunday where so many people are waking up still talking about that baseball play. Was it dirty . Yeah, ouch. We know the mets player. Ruben tejada. Ouch. Hes out for the season with a broken leg. We also know Major League Baseball is investigating whether to come down on chase utley. Were covering all of the bases on the story a little later on the show. At the very lest, utley is off the Christmas Card list for tejada for sure. Forever. Forever, probably. We start on a different note. The urgent investigation into who is behind this attack at a peace rally. The moment, as you can see, captured on video. Terrorists killing nearly 100 people right there in the heart of ankara in the country of turkey. A country