Good morning and welcome to this Commonwealth Club online program. I am Gloria Duffey president and ceo of the Commonwealth Fund and was honored to serve as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s. Peer are many issues today surrounding National Defense in our military and to the military be used to quell domestic unrest such as the recent protests and should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and contemplating resuming nuclear testing. Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and their statues be removed from our public places. To address these questions and many more today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretary of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. The bipartisan secretary of defense secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book exercise of power american failures, successes and a new path forw
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To have the secretary of defense in the 19 nineties there are many issues today surrounding National Defense and our military. Should they be used to quell domestic unrest like the recent protest or should they be terminating arms control treaties . And even contemplating resuming nuclear testing. Should the names of leaders be removed from bases and statues be removed from Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james matus. As secretary of defense secretary gates served under george w. Bush and barack obama and author of new book exercise of power. Doctor gates was an officer in the was therefore spending 27 years at in the cia and served as cia director to become the first career officer in history to move from entrylevel employee to head of the agency serving as a matter of the National Security staff in four different generations and each president of
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now, we are looking live to loss crews this as we look south you can even see the bay in that chat. Good morning. It is wednesday, 6. Good morning. It is wednesday. We are glad to start things off with you. First off is mary lee with what is happening in the day ahead. Good morning. We are looking at a warmup as we go through are afternoon. That will continue as we look to the rest the week. Heres a live look without Treasure Island camera. Temperatures are in the low to mid 50s to start our wednesday. As we had through the afternoon, daytime highs will be on the rise. 73 in San Francisco and 79 in oakland. 81 ocn 85 for concord. Hyzaar nine to 12 degrees above average for this time of year. This is just the start. I will let you know how warm it will get as we had through the week. Now lets look at traffic. Good morning. Take a look at the roadways right now. Not bad right now. A live look at the bay bridge shows no delays
Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Right now we want to talk about the weather today. You say were in the clear this morning. We are. But it is cold and weve seen the teams in the north bay dip below freezing but because were expecting the rain in the next 24 hours, today is your day to get out there and make sure everything in the yard is secure for the high wind and youre ready for the rain. Right now storm ranger giving us the all clear but as we zoom out we see it apoaching the pacific northwestern coach and some of the rain reaching the north coast just to the bay, north of the bay area. Well see the rain moving into the north bay around midnight and then spreading into the rest of the bay area tomorrow morning. Mike said listen up if youre headed toward a bridge. And that is a lot people. Westbound across the bridges would be your commute direction. And looking toward the bay bridge west from oakland and we see the lanes are starting to fill in now. So i think there may h