going forward, and it s noting that the special counsel isn t technically up and running yet. this has a number of steps to go and is very much a live process. we learned yesterday you and kaitlan collins reported the chief of staff is going to be stepping down and going to be replaced by jeff zients. he s very well known in washington and also very well known in the building behind me. he was president biden s covid response coordinator when he first came into office when the pandemic was raging throughout the country. he was the co-chair of his transition team as well. before that he served in a number of high-ranking positions inside the obama administration. ron klain is obviously a powerful chief of staff and has his hands in everything that comes across the president s desk, across the administration. his departure is significant, someone who has known and worked with the president for decades and has been integral to the operations in the building. it was something
A downpour in oakland. Weve now seen heavy rain four days in a row. We should get a break tomorrow, though. You can credit el nino to this wet start. In sonoma county, a woman was trapped in her pickup truck. She was pulled free after being stuck for about an hour and a half. Rescuers said her head was above water in the truck, but her ankle was stuck. This happened in sebastabul. This was the scene at Lafayette Park at Pacific Heights in traffic. A tree fell on several weeks, crewing a porsha, and jeep, and a volvo. The wind caused the tree to topple over. The steady rain is helping with the drought, but bay area water managers say we still have a long way to go. Ktvus Azenith Smith is live now in san jose, along the Guadalupe River with the rains impact on reservoirs. Reporter i wanted to mention, it just started to rain pretty good here in downtown san jose. All of this river, helping to fill the Guadalupe River. The problem is this water is not going into reservoirs, its going stra
the attorney general ed leavy, he is a republican, one of my heroes, and he focused on putting the justice department back on its feet and put it in the appropriate place. the justice department always gets into trouble when it forgets those forms. when it somehow gets itself involved in politics, when it does things on a political basis. and for those people who, for a short-term political gain think it s okay to demonize, to somehow come up with this weaponization committee to look at the conduct of the justice department and the men and the women at the fbi, they are doing long-term damage, most specifically to the law enforcement component of our government. but that will have ripple effects. it will have collateral impacts on how the american people view government more generally. and that is not a good thing. that is not a good thing. this nation is exceptional because the american people believe that at some level, and in some way, the government that