Area. How it could impact your morning commute. I learned to not be afraid to speak up. And the major victory for an east bay woman fighting to stay in the country to receive life saving medical treatment. Now at 11 00, a major financial blow for San Francisco. Good evening, im veronica de la cruz. And im ken bastida. The city just lost its biggest tech conference of the year. Kpix 5s joe zquells t les ting reporter conventions bring thousands of people into San Francisco at a time. Tens of millions of dollars of economic impact. But today we learned one of the largest conventions in the city is leaving for las vegas. Oracles open world, which for years has brought in Software Developers from all over the globe, will no longer be held in San Francisco. The citys tourism bureau, the San Francisco travel association, sent out an email telling members the move of the convention would mean a loss of 64 million to San Francisco. Thats according to a report by cnbc which says oracles convent
Plans. And as a global summit gets underway on the surging migration crisis well report from one of the worlds biggest refugee camps in kenya. Doubtless never meant to be a long Term Solution yet to come less people live as a refugee camp and the camps as they know. Im told me a logical welcome we begin with a growing spat between germany and the us over energy the us senate has backed sanctions against companies building a pipeline which will carry russian gas to germany nord stream 2 is due to Begin Operating in the coming months but u. S. Lawmakers want President Donald Trump to sign the sanctions into law later this week as part of a push to counter russian influence in europe. U. S. Government move is the latest episode in a gathering geopolitical storm the buildings to hold further construction of nearly 10000000000 euro pipeline under the baltic sea. The pipeline will double undersea shipments of russian natural gas to germany. U. S. Lawmakers say nord stream too will channel bi
For sex abusers. Pope francis has removed the cover of papal secrecy, meaning victims of sexual abuse will be able to go to the police to report a crime without fear of exmmunicatation from the church. And tea gas onn the s streets of france as unions take their protest against Pension Reforms into a 13th day, but president macron seems determined to press ahead with the plan. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and all around the world, welcome. We start with problems in the pipeline between germany and the United States. The u. S. Senate has backed sanctions on the nordstrom to gas pipeline by a huge majority, meaning the bill has passed both houses of conongress, a and president tru s says he will sign it into law. The sanctions targeted pipeline is being built under the baltic sea to transport russian natural gas to germany. It is supposed to start operating as early as next month. The u. S. Opposes the project, saying it will increase russias political influe
Have drizzle and some fog looking south on 680 driving into the abyss as you head towards 24. My accuweather 12hour planner, low to mid 50s. Its mild out there. Showers will become more scattered to random. Theyll pick up in coverage and intensity as we head into the evening hours. Still very mild, mid to upper 50s. Lets see what its doing to our commute. Heres jobina. Good morning. Good morning. Were starting off with a sigalert in pittsburg. This car has flipped over. Just one car involved in this crash and it ran into a light pole and destroyed it. This is eastbound 4 before bailey road. Two lanes are blocked right now. As you can see, its not causing a major backup. This is in the counter commute direction. Moving over to emeryville, that twocar crash on westbound 80 to the eastbound 80 connector has been cleared. Live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Metering lights came on at 5 18. You can see its raining, so take your time out there. Reggie and kumasi . The San Jose City counc
As we head through the afternoon and mostly cloudy skies, of the spotty showers are possible and we will see increasing showers as we head to tonight. Will time it out for you going hourbyhour coming up but in the meantime highs in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s but we have some slick roads out there. Be careful as you hit the roads. You might want to leave early. Taking a live look at the bay bridge and you can see we have raindrops on the camera. A slow ride as you work right out of the east bay into San Francisco this morning. No crashes at the toll plaza and it gets better as you pass this portion heading into the city on the upper deck of the bay bridge. The metering lights are on a were seeing traffic slowing. Not quite westbound 580 just yet but there are some slick roadways this morning. Taking a look at traffic westbound 80 the mcbride ramp to the east shore freeway, we have an accident. Typically when it rains we see a lot of spin outs on the on and off ramps so take it slow