Of five fires that night, all within a mile, all set within an hour. Its definitely considered arson at this point. Right now, actively searching for anyone involved. We refer it to a hot set, a flick of the bic. Reporter the fires quickly let, and a crime more frequent than i realize. In any of the bay area counties there are fires being started every day. Reporter two other fires were next to a middle school, another behind an apartment complex, another alongside the fairgrounds. They were put out quickly, which may be part of the fire setters psychology. Many feel i set it in a place where it wouldnt hurt anybody, or i set it in a way that it wont spread very fast, but thats something, thats a mind game they play with themselves, and re halt is, once the fires set, you cant control it. Reporter which is why this tiny fire alongside highway 4, one of two, is as serious as any other arson, because of its potential. Remembering the flames, and how close they representative, members of
We also have people joining us online. Thats what youre hearing. Again, to everyone in the room, welcome and thank you for coming. It is a privilege for me to be here today in my capacity as cohost along with josh wright of the antitrust and Consumer Protection working Group Transparency project. This project was launched in 2016 to foster a National Conversation around the regular excess and the harms it causes. It consists of 12 working groups. Policy ranging from Environmental Energy to race and sex. In june of this year, each of the working groups started to release various issue papers, podcasts and short video crows which among other things can be found on our website which is regproduct. Org. Todays spaniel the first of these conversations for the antitrust and Consumer Protection working group and it is devoted to occupational licensing and other restraints on competitions. Im going to turn it over to my comoderator and our hosts were today, lisa kimmel. Thank you very much, ko
Sessions says he will recuse himself should the Justice Department investigate contacts between the Trump Campaign and russian officials. Reporter sessions now admits he did meet with the Russian Ambassador twice, but there was nothing unethical about the meetings, still, there is a growing call for congress to very long the ties with investigate the ties with russia russia. Reporter democrats say he directly contradicted the facts that he met at least twice with the Russian Ambassador while serving at Foreign Policy advisor to the Trump Campaign. My staff recommended they said since i had involvement with the campaign, i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. Reporter sessions will no longer getting briefing into the probes of hacking into the Campaign Email account. Democrats say he lied under oath during the confirmation hearing. I have been called a surrogate a time or two, and i did not have communications with the russians russians. Reporter sessions said he never
30s, upper 30s for stanford and others. Bell mont, pacifica a warm 45. At the surface we are getting the offshore breeze and even towards the northern part of the state, theyre getting increasing clouds. This is a cold system sweeping in. You will really notice it sunday and monday if you are on spring training or down there now, you will get a lot of cloud cover. It looks dry. There is moisture streaming up. For us, increasing clouds, highs in the 50s and 60s today. Good morning. Good morning, steve. We have a couple things to watch for. First, we will look at solano county. The traffic is doing very well. If you are on 80 from vac ville to fairfield, no major problems, a lot of truck traffic through the junction but it looks good as you drive through. South bound 101, obviously a couple lanes are closed. We have been talking about it. If you are driving down the peninsula right now it is not that slow because traffic is light. This will be a major problem getting into the silicone va
More sun. Santa rosa is at 36, liver more 36, Half Moon Bay 39. These are much warmer than when we started the week. Thats for sure. 39 glenn ellen, 30s for mill valley as well as napa. Easterly breeze, northeasterly, upper air starting to change direction but not at the surface yet. Still clouds are on the move. Even on the north coast we are waiting on the rain. You see the system out of the gulf of alaska. It will be noticeably colder sunday into monday. Get ready. Well have rain late saturday and into sunday morning. 60s on the temps and a few upper 50s. Here he is on a friday morning. Traffic is mostly good. There are a couple spots, steve, on this friday morning to watch for. Good morning. Lets start with 580 west in the tracy area. Traffic is a little bit busy as you drive through. You can see traffic is slow but gets better by liver more and dublin. No trouble in the east bay so far. Traffic is light. We have a problem highway 101 at embarcadero with two lanes taken away by a t