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Wind as well. I think its going to thin itself out. Patchy low clouds and few high clouds overall. Isolated thunderstorms. 50s on temps or 60s for some peninsula and low 50s. Thats cool. 52 menalow park over on the coast there. Sort of a westerly breeze. Even off to the delta all the way out to davis and sacramento. So temperatures not going very far today. 50s and 60s to start. 60s and 70s to end up. Look for highs today to stay below average especially inland and that breeze will be with us. Temperatures 60s and 70s for a few days. 5 01 and sals here and he will tell you. That were kind of easing in to a wednesday steve. Okay. Theres a little bit of slow traffic on the altamonte pass. We do have some slow traffic just because i have the computers and back in the day you would never be able to do this. You just put your thing here and see how 14 miles an hour 205 is 13 miles an hour. See how cool that is. Its not that cool if youre sitting in it. Slow traffic once you get into livermo
Assuring some cooler air aloft. It did produce some high clouds but it looks like it washed out, mostly sunny today, hitting some patchy fog, then itll get chewed up. The temperatures on the cool side, the breeze is out of the west, southwest, even out to the delta and sacramento, there is an onshore breeze. Itll be mostly sunny, and on the cool side as you can see the system digging in and not going anywhere anytime soon. Itll slowly lift out on the weekend in the temperatures will climb. But today and tomorrow, we are looking for unseasonably cool temperatures, we have 60s and 70s. 7 01, he is here on a wednesday tell you the traffic is doing okay. If you are driving in most areas, we havent had any major problems, traffic insee it on t monitor, and you can see it on the commute here on the map, you can see all of the red hitting into the valley, it is still not as bad as i have seen it, but it is definitely slow. As you look at the santa cruz mountains, the glenwood stop has become
Also get some very interesting comments. The chancellor, jeremy hunt has made to gb news his Liam Halligan don trump is due to appear in court in washington , dc at 9 pm. Uk time facing four serious charges. And four serious charges. And joining me tonight on talking pints, star of radio and tv pat sharp will be here. But before all of that, lets get the news with polly middlehurst. With polly middlehurst. Nigel, thank you. Good evening. The top story tonight from the gb news room is that the bank of england has raised its Interest Rate for the 14th time row. Its increasing time in a row. Its increasing from 5 to 5. 25. Thats the highest base rate since 2008. The bank says it expects inflation to be halved by the end of the year. Thats one of the governments key targets. The increase puts pressure on borrowers , mortgage holders and borrowers, mortgage holders and households struggling with budgets. The chancellor, jeremy hunt , told the hunt, told gb news the governments plan, though,
With a soft landing and we can avoid a recession. Avoid a recession. Well, the shadow chancellor rachel reeves, says the government needs to do something. A family thats looking to remortgage their property is going to be paying on average more than £200 extra every single month. And for some people its much more than that. The government need to take responsibility for the fact that inflation in the uk is much higher than it is in comparable countries. Countries. Now the developing news this houris now the developing news this hour is that donald trump is currently making his way to washington dc. As youve been hearing, hes going to appear in court there. The former president is charged with plotting to overturn the 2020 us president ial election result. President ial election result. Hes due in court at 9 00 pm. Thats uk time and well keep you up to date with the very latest on that as it happens. Latest on that as it happens. Now, five activists that scaled the Prime Ministers home