Sackur. Germany is yours rhian and power, but how will early in use that power over the next few years . Europes. The make up of the next governing coalition has yet to be decided and there are strategic uncertainties as well. How far does berlin will to push eu integration, and how wide could transatlantic differences become . My guest is david mcallister, a political ally of ms merkel, and chairman of the european pa rliaments of ms merkel, and chairman of the European Parliaments foreign affa i rs European Parliaments Foreign Affairs committee. How bold is berlin prepared to be . David mcallister at the European Parliament in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lets begin with the notion that the European Union has been wrestling with some ofan union has been wrestling with some of an existential crisis for the few yea rs. Of an existential crisis for the few years. Do you think the European Union has now emerged from that crisis, or is it still in the middle of it . Well, the
Power, but how will berlin use that power over the next few years . The make up of the next governing coalition has yet to be decided and there are strategic uncertainties as well. How far does berlin want to push eu integration, and how wide could tra ns atla ntic differences become . My guest is david mcallister, a political ally of ms merkel, and chairman of the European Parliaments Foreign Affairs committee. How bold is berlin prepared to be . David mcallister at the European Parliament in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lets begin with the notion that the European Union has been wrestling with something of an existential crisis for a few years. Do you think the European Union has now emerged from that crisis, or is it still in the middle of it . Well, the last years were not easy for the European Union. Thats obvious. But i think brexit and other incidents were a wake up call for the 27 Member States, and i believe the European Union is now facing towards a better future
50s and some 60s. San jose, 63. San francisco in the upper 50s. Heres the overall weather story for today. Starting out the day with clouds and into the afternoon hours, the clouds will clear back to near the shoreline for your wednesday afternoon. You can see all the bright colors here. Not here, but here out toward fairfield, concord and livermore. Coast, never warming up too much for today. Mainly in the lower 60s. Most areas on average about 3 to 5 degrees warm early than yesterdays readings. Well take a look at your 5day forecast in a few minutes, but sal standing by and he has an update on the roadways and crowded on the roads. is that right, sal . More crowded, mark. Thank you very much as we look at interstate 80, youll see more people on it. Its going to be slow in some areas. 18 minute drive between the carkenus bridge. Westbound 24 is getting busier on the way toward oakland. And this is a look at the commute now at the bay bridge. That is backed up for about a tenminute
Right now our best estimate is we will be working through later this around. Crews have mobilized and have begun to make repairs. They will replace that section of broken main and do significant road rehabilitation. Reporter crews still hard at work here. That cleanup work and repaving is expected to take hours. It could cause problems for the evening commute and Holiday Shoppers as well. Were next to the fifth and Mission Garage and shopping is close by. If your commute takes you through this area or if you are shopping in the area, be aware that there could be significant delays. In San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. Nine hours and going. Avoid that area on a friday night or even right now. Rosemary orozco joining us right now. Looking outside, sunshine trying to break through. Its nice. A few breaks in the clouds. That is good news for the evening drive home. More wet weather on the way. For today, we are pretty much wrapping it up. We may see a few isolated showers.
Small serious issues to deal with. Brittney our main concern right now. A flash flood stage. At 13 ft. We are almost a foot above that stage. The creek runs right through downtown san of romo. So this whole area stretching down is a major concern. And we have already had evacuations in place. So, what that means is that you need to move to the second story or at least Higher Ground. We do have reports that the sirens are being fired off. So you want to be careful with this situation. Stay very alert with reports of flash flooding. A special, in this area and it will go until a thirty. Brittney 8 30 brittney we are monitoring the situation carefully. And one of the reasons of why we are dealing with this flash flooding is because we have seen an enormous amount of rainfall. In the last 24 hours. And we will talk with lawrence. Reporter the rain showers this one right into the creeks. This is a tremendous amount of rain showers. Canfield had over 6 in. Of rain. That is 10 in. Of rain sho