Longer commute. Yes, were talking about folks driving in for stockton and tracy and everything is moving smoothly. The live shot a good amount of traffic coming through the area. On a very early commute like we have now, before 6 00 in the morning, you may see a little more traffic on the roads, some folks try to edge in, get in early, get out early if youre looking at perhaps shorter hours this week. A lot of vacations floating around. South bay along the peninsula no problems but slowing as they clear through derek and menlapark, no problems for the bay bridge. Back to you, laura. Thanks, mike. 5 01, breaking in afghanistan, dozens are feared dead after a powerful explosion and military assault. You can see the huge plume of smoke from kabul. A car bomb exploded outside a Defense Ministry building. Militants then fired on that same building following the blast. So far theres no official announcement on the number of dead but the New York Times spoke to one source who says at least 40
More increases to report this morning if you re taking mass transit around the bay starting today fares are going up if you don t use a clipper card. For muni riders who pay cash. A single fare now costs 3dollars instead of 2. 75. That s in part to speed up service. Clipper card users still pay 2. 50. The same thing for ac transit local single rides for cash payers will go up 25cents to 2. 50. Single ride fares for clipper card holders will stay at 2. 25. Happening today it s going to cost you more to drive across the golden gate bridge. Here s a live look fastrak fees will go up by 35 cents and payasyougo will be 20 cents more the toll rate is still the lowest for fastrak drivers. So you ll want to use that pass. The tolls will continue to increase each year by the same amount until 2024. It s part of a five year plan o improve public transportation. In Alameda County leaders in piedmont are expected to decide tonight on a plan to add more license plate readers. If approved. The devic
Private tenants in england will no longer have to pay letting agents fees when they sign up to rent a property. The new rules have been described as the biggest change to the renting industry in decades. But there are warnings rents are already being pushed up as rental businesses try to claw back income. Our business correspondent, katy austin, reports. Todays changes affect letting agents, landlords and millions of private renters like kirsty. This is what she had to pay on top of her first months rent. Application fee was 300, deposit was 895, i think, so £120 to renew the contract to stay for another 12 months here. The fees charged were fairly typical but for years there have been complaints that some agents have been charging far more and that some of what renters have had to pay simply has not been justified. There is already a ban on fees charged to scotlands tenants and now in england. Charges including application and referencing fees are banned and deposits are capped at fi
Programme. Could you hazard a guess as to why Ocean Temperatures are so vastly greater at the moment than they ordinarily would be . Vastly greater at the moment than they ordinarily would be . There are a number of they ordinarily would be . There are a number of theories they ordinarily would be . There are a number of theories being they ordinarily would be . There are| a number of theories being explored at the moment by climate scientists. The first, youve already mentioned, is this transition from La Nina To El Nino. The three years prior to 2023, el nino in the tropical pacific, with cooler surface waters, a rapid transition from La Nina To El Nino in 2023, and that tends to push up temperatures. What we saw was Sea Surface Temperatures in other parts of the world were rising even before el nino kicked in, so there are other potential theories, including things like changes in the amounts of sulphur in shipping fuel over the past few years, influence from the tonga eruption. And
[reading of land acknowledgment] as well as all people who reside in traditional territory. As guest we recognize that we benefit from bobingering and living on their homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the relative of the ramaytush ohlone. Thank you, the xhex item is approval of minutes from february 20, 2024 and there may be some corrections. Yes, first of all i apologize these are all clerical errors on my part, i usually cut and paste the Public Comment on page 11, under patrick last full line i added an l to make the hh make sense, so its llhh correction. Next page, under resolution honoring holly hammer commissioner guillermo comments, i added an e to make her here. Under that commissioner chung comments, the last line, the last word should be endeavors and that is the last im sorry, on page 3 under resolution honoring greg wagoner, third line, there is a w was missing from the word was, thank you for sending the corrections, my apologies. Thank you very much,