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44 manlo park. San mateo 47. For some where its calm its a cool start. As we get into your afternoon everybody expected to go into the 70s, at least most of us from the coast or on the bay and inland. Heres a look at santa rosa, a quick rebound by 9 00, 10 00 feeling fairly comfortable. Mid to upper 50s in the forecast by lunchtime. Upper 60s under partly cloudy skies. And for the second half of your day, low to mid70s between 1 00, 4 00, even when sun sets about 5 40, still 70 degrees. Pretty fabulous day when it comes to the mild weather. When i come back ill have a look at the numbers for your area, well talk about how long this dry spell is expected to last. Good morning, sal. Good morning. Right now traffic is doing very well. Were going to look at one of the busiest freeways in the region, interstate 80 from the car teens a bridge to the mcarthur. Heading away from the Fishermans Wharf area toward downtown still detours through the financial district. When you get to the bay brid
Say. Agreessident of burundi to inclusive dialogue to end the bloodshed over his reelection. This during a visit by the u. N. Chief, banking on. Ban kimoon. And they have written a letter calling for the u. K. To stay in the eu. More in the business update. The brexit battle dominating the headlines today. Midnight on saturday, thats when the partial ceasefire that the u. S. And russia have agreed upon for syria comes into effect. The announcement came after scores of people were killed in attacks claimed by them Islamic State group. The city extremists and Al Qaeda Linked fronts have not been included by the truce. Oliver farry reports. Oliver a twoweek ceasefire that has the Syrian Government and the rebels on board. Groups on either side will have to put down their weapons by saturday, allowing for humanitarian access to the areas that they control, committing to releasing prisoners. Russian and American Military personnel will jointly define the areas on the map where such future a
Im bill ritter. A wild start to the president ial primary season and a wild start to the mosquito season in latin, central, and south america and the caribbean. Were gonna begin this morning by talking to u. S. Senator Charles Schumer of new york on a wide range of issues why Hillary Clinton is having a tough challenge for the democratic president ial nomination, to the angry electorate. But i started by asking the senator about the zika virus. He is now calling for a zika czar. So how is the government doing in trying to stop this virus . Well, the good news is we have a window of about three, four months before these mosquitoes that bear zika come here, but we have to move quickly. And there are two things we have to do. We have to go to these countries and prevent the mosquito from coming here. Were pretty good at that. Theres no yellow fever or malaria, which are carried by mosquitoes, here in america. Mosquito eradication has to be done early and strongly, and you need to cooperat
A mild winter. It was very warm. Now it feels like every day were getting hit with another blizzard. Reporter this time its not a blizzard but conditions havent made getting around easy. Fallen lines and icy roads created dangerous driving. Put the wire back up if we can. If not, we backfeed it to pick up the outages. They do a permanent repair. Theyre trying to repair outages as they come in snead of waiting for the snow to stop. This lineman tells us the wind isnt as big of an issue as the ice. Weighs the wires down, trees come down. Reporter its a tough job during big storms. Crews can work 16 on, eight off. Homeowners can help by pruning trees throughout the year. When the trees come down, it makes everything more complicated because it can take the wire, poles down. Its more work. Reporter people may not like the snow, but at the end of the day, its winter in the the snow here, im from connecticut, this doesnt bother us at all. You cant do nothing. Cant wait for spring. Reporter 4