Ever since the 1st 88 has soared through the air day devil time that set the sights on crossing the Atlantic Ocean nonstop. The small and they were conquerors of Long Distances they fought against wind and weather they were in complete control of airplane technology if they were true heroes on that wish to share it. Without todays navigational aids they flew into the unknown battling the forces of nature and their own exhaustion weather conditions in the atlantic or a horrific story sometimes because as Everybody Knows even today the atlantic is is. Actually i say unpredictable. Several pioneering aviators lost their lives attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane. In. New york a city that was the destination of countless migrants and adventurous. For centuries it was only possible to reach america by ship. Until 100 years ago when the age of transatlantic flight and modern travel and. The money is of the sky began competing for the aviation equivalent of the blue ribbon and they
Departure from the European Union on the slst ofjanuary. Also on the programme. The one year countdown to an eu uk trade deal both sides have already sounded their warnings. Will the eu turn to protectionism . Plus, how this airplane passenger made an 88 year olds dream come true thanks to a heart warming act of generosity. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and James Reynolds is in london. We dont know, the day after, exactly what impact the impeachment of President Trump will have on the election next year. It could help him or it could hurt him. We do know one thing though impeachment is doing nothing to bring the country together. In the hours since mr trump became the third american president to face the sanction of impeachment, the anger, on both sides has only increased. Republicans today are denouncing what they call a sham, toxic, embarassing process. By contrast, democrats say that the president and Top Republicans have gone rogue. Mr trump himself is back in the wh
On friday. So more rain at times everywhere today. Also lots of dry weather, its mild, and its rather windy as well. So ill start to the morning, the initial rain is pushing its way northwards. Lots of cloud, but lots of dry weather as well, particularly through the mid to late morning into the first part of the afternoon, before further pulses of rain just afternoon, before further pulses of rainjust put in afternoon, before further pulses of rain just put in from the south. But turning dry again towards the end of the day, probably, top temperatures of 12 or 13 celsius. So feeling mild but also some strong gusts of wind around at times as well. For the first half of the night its looking dry, then its going to be wet again through the early hours and into the start of the day tomorrow. But a mild night to come stop temperatures dropping to between seven and nine celsius. Its a wet start to the day tomorrow, but it should brighten up into the afternoon. Some further showers on saturda
Okay. Good evening thank you for being here tonight, bookseller here its my pleasure to introduce peter who presents his new book a place outside the law it is a remarkable and important work in the literature showing human stories behind life at guantanamo as a professor at the university of San Francisco school of law and founder and director of witness to guantanamo please welcome him back. [applause] thank you for organizing this we are grateful that you all showed up. I appreciate it. This book is of a decadelong project starting back in 2008 and i did it when john mccain and barack obama were running for president both said they would shut down guantanamo if elected i was fine with that i had done a lot of work on post 9 11 issues after the 2001 attacks but the problem was i was afraid it would fade away and be forgotten my father is a refugee from not see austria and in the 1980s you may know steel one Steven Spielberg went to document the stories of people who escaped or surviv
Between vallejo and fairfield and over toward the sacramento valley. That is going to change later today when we get the bay area rain. Sierra snow begins to fall, lasting saturday into sunday. We have advisories to talk about. A flash flood for the north bay and the winter storm warnings for the sierra. Details on this, coming up in just a few moments. Time now is 6 01. Lets check the highways this morning with sal. We do see that we have slow traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza, which is not unusual, but it was slower than usual. A crash just west of the span has been cleared up, and affect is moving again. I think we are going to be okay. I dont think it is going to be a huge delay. Still if you want to use a decent route. Coming up in a bit, well check out the south bay commute. Thank you, sal. We have an update to the breaking news from florida. We have an active shooter situation on the military base has apparentthe county sheriff announced a gunman has been killed in that situa