the skis, cnn, breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m proud rica whitfield, and we re tracking two major breaking news stories this afternoon, next hour, president biden is set to attend a state dinner in france. i will bring that to you live as it happens, you the is there in paris with the first aid dr. jill biden, plus the french president and first lady. and dramatic new developments in the middle east for israeli hostages rescued from gaza the israeli military launching that daring rescue mission in broad daylight, the government media office in gaza says the operation left more than 200 people dead in central gaza with hundreds more injured. the mission ultimately freeing four hostages from the clutches of hamas, all of them were abducted from the nova music festival on october 7, all right, now, back in israel for the first time in eight months making emotional reunions with family members who never gave up hope. president
think some of the adversaries potentially, let s say china russia, other nations. how do you think they will view and understand what the president united states? we re saying today what i think firstly, allies will be incredibly grateful because he recommitted america. that s the only remaining superpower. and the leader of the nato alliance to committing to protect that alliance. and europe, this is, this is crucial and it s a incredibly differentiating point between him and the way donald trump talks about nato and the commitment to the alliance so it s very differentiating, of course, allies are incredibly worried about what might happen on november 5th or whenever the election is, they re very concerned about what happens in terms of the survival of the alliance and the, and the survival of europe frankie, when they face right now with a great threat to the survival of europe in putin s invasion of ukraine. so i think that s, that s on that part. and then on the other
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We still have hefty gusts, 38 Miles Per Hour blowing offshore right now at halfmoon bay but only at 12 at oakland and 10 at mountain view. Up in our mountains the gusts are around 20 to 25, that is definitely less than what we dealt with yesterday. Lets talk about whats going on with your roof camera. You can see the flags sitting a little calmer this morning. Adds we look at your 12 hour accuweather planner. 36 to 49, near 60 at noon, low 60s at 4 00 and then upper 40s to mid 50s at 7 00. Still going to be a little bit warmer than average today. Were going to san rafael, southbound 101, if your travels take you from novato down towards the civic center, pretty light, those tail leads southbound past the civic center all the way through marin county looking great. No problems on the Golden Gate Bridge. Typical slowing out of the Central Valley up and over the altamonte where there is a high wind advisory. 45 minutes tracy into tub listen westbound 580. Highway 4 is looking great, antio
61, at 4 00, 61 to 62, back at 7 00 we will cool a little quicker, 49 to 54. The breezes will taper even more today. We are going to walnut creek where we have an accident this is southbound 680 near north main, a solo car vehicle partially blocking the left lane. Chp and Walnut Creek Police are on scene there, but you can see for yourself they are slow and go from the 242 slit in pleasant hill. Vacaville eastbound 80 before leisure town road, a car flipped over, landed back on its wheels but is off on the righthand side in the ditch. Chp has to get on scene so we will get an update when they get there. Im not seeing any slow traffic in the eastbound direction as of yet. We will follow that and check back with your bay bridge toll plaza where we are still down a tollbooth this morning. We are still monitoring that breaking news out of Southern California where a Massive Wildfire is burning out of control. This is the thomas fire, its now scorched more than 31,000 acres in Ventura Count