Peggy, i can tell you that highway 17 is open in both directions. It has been open all day today. You can see behind me southbound traffic coming towards us, its flowing a little bit faster than northbound traffic. And the other side of that center divider, nothing is happening over there. The mud slide remains. If this is any indication of how things are going to go, it will be a very slow commute come monday. For the First Time Since friday morning, traffic flowed northbound on highway 17. But caltrans says cal osha has suspended work to reopen the remaining lanes, pending its investigation into last weeks deadly construction accident. Farther north, highway 35, known as skyline boulevard, has a 200footwide chasm that broke loose friday amp, north of bear creek road. The whole Mountain Community has been affected, just trying to get kids to school from lexington, my younger son goes to lexington elementary, so theres been a few days its taken several hours from downtown los gatos to
Youre watching al jazeera coming to you live from our headquarters here in doha. I have the world news here. Also ahead. Diplomatic disagreement about whether a pause in syrias civil war will work as turkey now targets kurdish fighters. Plus reporter faking his message taking his messages to the masses. Pope francis is hoping to see the hard lives that millions of people are living in here in mexico our top story today is one of the u. S. Supreme courts most conservative members Justice Scalia has died at the age of 79. His death has the potential to shift the balance of power within the Supreme Court should the president mag to appoint a more liberal justice. Reporter as the flag dropped to half staff over the u. S. Supreme court, the death of Justice Scalia could setoff a battle between the white house and the congress. He was a larger than life president on the bench. A brilliant legal mind, an energetic style, decisive wit and colorful opinions reporter he was a consistent conserva
More than 100,000 homes from damaged. Thousands of businesses were destroyed nearly threequarters of gazaens are unemployed. They rely on humanitarian help to get by. Im a student and today my visa ends. I used to have a residency in turkey but it ended all of this was of the rafa crossing closing. What can i do. It was sealed after the Egyptian Military took control in 2013. Gaza has been under an economic blockade by egypt and israel since 2007. Thats when hamas took control of the strip from fattah. They both consider hamas a terrorist organization and caught between the political wrangling are tens of thousands just trying to get by. Ive been trying to go since last year. For eight months. I almost lost my job because i havent been able to go back. They will have to renew their permits and passports and wait for their chance to escape this open air prison. Al jazeera. However in the occupied west bank dozens of people have been demonstrating in ramallah in support of palestinian jo
Keen to get rid of another Invasive Species. Inside and outside syria they are saying the pause in fighting agreed by world powers this week will actually happen and Russian Foreign minister says the deal is more likely to fail than succeed, on the ground govement forces supported by air raids are trying to encircle rebels in the largest city of aleppo and captured strategic high ground and forcing opposition fighters out of the small town on the road down into aleppo. And now in a position to move further towards the city to the next rebel heldtown. On friday they captured the village as they attempt to close the circle around aleppo city and also took the town from the rebels. Government forces have now essentially captured most of the rebel supply roots into aleppo and zaina has more from the turkeysyria border. Reporter this high ground gives the syrian army and allies an advantage. The main rebel supply line from the west to the northern countryside of aleppo is now within their r
Regionally, we are seeing stocks. Ome off threeyear lows thailand, just coming online, up by 9 10 of 1 . Its a bit of a combination of two things to disappointing gdp. Oming out of tokyo also the topics in particular, the automakers. We are seeing strong gains in the energy space. We had that 11 surge on friday, which drove gains across u. S. And european markets. We are also seeing milk producers, the likes of frontera, joining games after those numbers out of china came in better than expected. We have had the really disappointing read on china trade numbers. About 0. 5 . Down by this as valuations continue to be high, in particular in comparison to the rest of the emerging markets, and also the divergence between hong kong and widesti stocks, the since about 2009. That is driving gains in hong kong and the selloff on the mainland. Shery a day of dramatic headlines with china dominating the news. We are going to take a look at the pbocs comments on the yuan. First, i want to bring in