Valkyries, i think of power. I think of community. I think of achieving the impossible together. Born from the bay and gilded in gold, it is the beginning of a brand new era in the wnba. The golden state valkyries prepare for battle on the basketball court. The announcement of the team name and brand identity, coupled with an invitation for fans to join the ascent. Welcome everyone to the four this afternoon. Im Heather Holmes and im alex savage. The golden state valkyries are now the 13th team to join the wnba. Ktvu Christien Kafton joining us now live from chase center in San Francisco, where Team Merchandise is already drawing a lot of fans and christian. There was a whole lot of excitement. Yeah, youre going to see a whole lot of lavender guys. We are actually just outside chase center in the team store, and you can see that the team store, the dub nation, in fact, has rolled out the welcome wagon to the valkyries. Maybe the chase center is ushering in the age of the valkyries, the
Well, just students here usf are asked to get off of welsh field here on campus by 03 00pm, which is right now. But as you can see behind doing the opposite, they decided to rally and protest. So theyre not removing their tents and theyre not leaving. But theyre here calling for a ceasefire in gaza. And theyre saying right now that students will never be defeated, that the chant happening right now around them have come about 60 tents here on outfield in this area. Been here for 15 days now. And they started the encampment after seeing other universities such as uc berkeley protest the war in gaza. The students are calling on us divest all money from israel. The university has been in talks with protesters and says that theyve been working to keep it open. Dialogue with protesters were asked to be off of welsh field here by 03 00pm. Theyre clearly not doing that. School usf said in a statement saying, quote, the 03 00pm may 14th deadline in which we asked students to voluntarily vacate
Great to have you with us this evening my name is neil harvey ten pm here in moscow this is r. T. International. President donald trump or threaten to cut aid to un members who vote for a resolution that condemns the u. S. Decision recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while were watching those votes let a vote against us will save a lot. Lets get more on the story now from our correspondent kelly morgan joins us from new york whats been happening there and or stolen from but to this start. Well we hear these words from u. S. President donald trump essentially threatening to cut aid to countries that vote for the upcoming u. N. General Assembly Resolution now will recall recently how there was a vote at the United Nations Security Council regarding this issue there was a resolution presented by egypt that would have essentially rendered the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusale
Hi, happy new year plus the countdown to 2018, thousands in San Francisco getting ready to ring in the new year, but crowds in times square in santa rosa have already said goodbye to 2017. Well, weve got less than an hour to go until the clock strikes midnight. Well go outside, take a live look over the embarcadero. Chopper 5 is above the big crowds ahead of tonights Fireworks Show. Its a partly cloudy night to ring in 2018. We have Live Team Coverage on new years eve and start with kpix5s joe vazquez with the crowd getting ready for the fireworks on the embarcadero. Joe. Reporter they are getting ready, juliette. They are gathering here along the embarcadero as the fireworks will start about an hour from now on pier 14. If you look closely, you can see a lot of gaps in there, a lot of space between people, a really small crowd compared to years past, much milder and Law Enforcement hopes it stays that way. [ drums ] reporter all along the embarcadero folks are ringing in the new year
This tropical moisture will work around us and until then it is all systems go for the big warm up. It is 70s, 80s, 90s and 100, and tomorrow we could see 110 for some. Okay, sal, even at your castle it is going to be hot. That is the way it goes. Lets take a look at the commute from vacaville, fairfield and cordelia area, not a bad commute. Traffic is light. We do have some areas of road work so be careful driving by them, but not a lot of slow traffic. Here is a look at the east shore freeway with 18 minutes the ideal time it takes to get from the carquinez bridge to the maccarthur maze. It is light at the toll plaza so right now you can take advantage of this light commute. We are following a couple of wildfires burning out of control in california, the sierra foothills fire in novato county off of hwy 49 near grass valley. It is burned 200 acres with mandatory evacuations issue for the area. The fire is only 10 contain and it his burned several homes, threatening 200 buildings and