Roads and a couple of slow spots already. Fog is a factor, causing some of that slowing, kari. Were over here, the san mateo bridge shot and when its clear, you may wonder why were zoomed in so close, but as the low clouds again roll in, thats why. We can at least see the volume of traffic traveling west and east, both affected of course by the fog across that span, and that will creep across many spots around the bay. Look at that coming across San Francisco and down the peninsula, for highway 1, over at the bay bridge. Ive circled an outage, fallen power lines affect highway 9, if that is part of your drive, note youll find some Traffic Control redirecting. A crash out of the altamont at north flynn slowing things down. Pack to you. Thanks, mike. In parts of the bay area, voters head to the polls today. San francisco in particular has some important issues hanging in the balance. Even if you dont live there, you might be impacted. Pete suratos is live in San Francisco with the detail
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This hour President Trump leaves the white house, making way a Campaign Rally in mississippi. Well bring you the president s comment if he makes any. Stop to speak to reporters on the south lawn. Melissa what are odds he passes up that opportunity . Connell pretty low. Melissa fox business deem coverage. Blake burman live at white house. Gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Edward lawrence in d. C. Why dont you kick it off. Reporter lets do that. The number of jobs created beat expectations. 128,000 jobs in october. The Unemployment Rate still near a 50year low, 3. 6. That is exactly what the market wanted to hear in conjunction with the chinese trade talks phase one moving nicely. Revisions are story in itself. Job totals for august, september were revised up. Total of 95,000 jobs. That shows continued strength in the foundation of the economy. Then wage growth. Wages are growing at 3 offer the past 12 months. That number low enough where there is no pressure on i
House here. Now, bolton was very vocal about the president s policies specifically related to north korea. Hes concerned about that strategy there. He also according to sources had a phone call with the president about afghanistan, that became heated in that phone call last night. Regardless, bolton is out. The way it played out is kind of like a soap opera here. Now the president tweeting out this, saying i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. I disagree strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration, and therefore, i asked him to resign. Now, minutes later, bolton tweeted a response saying that i offered to resign and the president says lets talk about it tomorrow. But no mention of being fired. Now, bolton was even scheduled to be at a briefing today. Instead, he offered a very frosty and direct resignation letter, just two sentences. Thanking the president. Now, in that briefing today, secretary of sta
House here. Now, bolton was very vocal about the president s policies specifically related to north korea. Hes concerned about that strategy there. He also according to sources had a phone call with the president about afghanistan, that became heated in that phone call last night. Regardless, bolton is out. The way it played out is kind of like a soap opera here. Now the president tweeting out this, saying i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. I disagree strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration, and therefore, i asked him to resign. Now, minutes later, bolton tweeted a response saying that i offered to resign and the president says lets talk about it tomorrow. But no mention of being fired. Now, bolton was even scheduled to be at a briefing today. Instead, he offered a very frosty and direct resignation letter, just two sentences. Thanking the president. Now, in that briefing today, secretary of sta