Off and there will be some late sun, cooler and breezy and it doesnt change much. 80s mainly inland, here is brian. I didnt get the memo either and i am wearing purple by the way. Lets look at the san mateo bridge, looking gold at the majority of traffic heads towards the highrise, looking great once you get off the bridge as well. Highway 4 in the pittsburgh bay area, there is a disabled vehicle on southbound 680 before walnut creek so the right lane is closed there. Still early on, looking great on interstate 880 and east shore freeway from the carquinez back to the desk. They corn firmed isis video showing the be heading of an american journalist is authentic. He killed another american journalist two weeks ago. The executioner is british and targets iraq. President barack obama said isis is not intimidating the united states. They failed because americans are repullsed by repulsed by their barbarianism. In that video another captive is brought out wearing the same orange jumpsuit a
School want to do,. Mistaken i. D. Identity. The firefighter is black and is filing a complaint about what happened. He explained why his children are traumatized by the incident. Hand on the hip the whole time. Keith jones is fuming. I think it had to be racially motivated. The story starts august 15th. Disbatch gets a call from. At the same time, i went through the kitchen and the dorm. Keith jones arrived at the kitchen, he came out front. He yelled freeze. And was confronted by a White Oakland police officer. I said i work here. Im a firefighter, these are my kids, can you tell them its okay. He informed me again, dont move, keep your hands up. The officer kept one hand on his gun saying hands up dont move for three minutes before checking his identification. My kids are crying, shaking. Oakland police said an officer observed a man with his two children. Once his identity was confirmed he was released. Jones thought he might get shot and filed a complaint about the treatment of hi
Car accident which is traveling in both directions. I have the maps up here and this is the santa cruz mountains, just north of laurel drive. You can see multiple Car Accidents affecting highway 35 and we are hearing up to 9 cars are affected. We just got off the phone which is in route and as you can see it is affecting traffic in both directions this morning mainly northbound on highway 17. Taking a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is starting to pick up and metering lights picked up starting into the back of the mace getting you across the span this morning. And not looking too bad on 680 heading to the concord area, 601 lets go back to the desk. And this morning from estonia, president barack obama made comments about another brutal execution about an american journalist. Reporter he describe is the journalist as a devoted journalist and he cannot imagine the agony that everybody who loves him right now he also promised justice. Those who make the mistake of harming ameri
Thank you all for being here. And heather, we honor you today. You were there all along guiding and ack anying tom across all the peaks and the valleys right to the end. E thank you for your spirit, your generosity and your example as h enlivened this house well as your own for many years. Welcome back. Inempty it ismous ironic he ran for congress in the first place. He actually did it in a moment of anger. The day was july 16, 1964. The beetles had just returned to liverpool after their first u. S. Tour. President johnson had recently signed the Civil Rights Act and was on his way to a landslide victory that november. And a 35yearold tom foley was having lunch in downtown spo can. A gifted lawyer from a prominent local family and trusted aid to Scoop Jackson. Some mentioned to the guys he was eating lunch with he was thinking seriously about running for congress, not this time but the next time around. At which point one of his lynch companions bluntly dismissed the idea out of hand a
So he and friends hitchhiked to a service station to get it fixed. As they approached the outskirts of the city, they ran out of gas. So they pushed the car up the hill, coasting into town just before the deadline. Tom went on to win the race by a resounding 54 votes. There is no question there may have been some luck of the irish operating when it came to tom foley, as well as incredible stamina. What led him to make history as the first speaker of the house from west of the rockies was not luck. It was his hard work. His deep integrity. And is powerful intellect. As michael so eloquently and movingly stated, his ability to find Common Ground with his colleagues across the aisle. It was his personal decency that helped him bring stability and order to a congress that demanded most both, and still does. It brings me to a final point. At a time when our political system can seem more polarized and more divided than ever before, it can be tempting to see the possibility of bipartisan pro