My story actually began was about 50 years ago when my father, barack obama, sr. , went to hawaii and thats where he met sally ann dunham, the president s mother, and they fell in love and got married. Shortly after that, barack was conceived, my brother, barack. My big brother, barack. After that they divorced as you know, and barack obama, sr. Went to harvard to pursue his doctorate in economics. At that time he met my mother in boston where she was teaching, and they fell in love. Love is a powerful thing because in 1964 there were all across current that were very, very difficult to maneuver and to deal with in terms of black and white and racial relations in the United States. Anyway, my father went back to kenya later that year and invited my mother to follow him, to get married, which she did. She tells me she remembers, you know, mark, when i decided to go to kenya, my grandma said you cant go there. They are all black. [laughter] but love was a powerful thing and they went and
Now. Were live in San Francisco. President obama arrived last night in the bay area. Alex savidge is near the president s hotel right now. Coming up in two minutes, he will explain the president s plans and the traffic issues you may encounter if you are headed up or down the peninsula today. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steves off. We have mark tamayo. A lot of cloud cover out there. Even a few drizzles and sprinkles. Our live camera out towards mt. Diablo. Skies becoming partly cloudy this afternoon. It will be warmer for your thursday. Warm to hot weather pattern expected for friday. That will carry over into the weekend. Right now, we have the overcast out there over the bay area over San Francisco, oakland. San jose reporting partly cloudy skies. But santa rosa in the gray as well. As far as the radar, theres not a lot of coverage out there. But just a little bit as you can see approaching South San F
Tonight. 21 at be bethesda. 20 in sterling and 17 out toward leesburg. This is why we are concerned with some massive refreezing. It is frozen, thats black ice, you got to slow down and not only driving, be careful watching the kids to the bus stop and walking to get your paper tomorrow as well. Well come back and talk about the rest of the week and look ahead to another possible storm over the weekend. Top, frederic county was one of the hardest hit in our area. Scott broom reports, it was not a knockout blow. Four inches of heavy, stick to the road signs kind of snow. It was all on major highways, incidents like this one. A car sent to the ditch when tire grabbing slush sent the driver out of control. The storm struck heaviest during rush hour, but thanks to closed schools and government offices, there was room for plows to keep up. Efforts to keep the road clear, were mostly affected. No packed rural roads and side streets were the norm. One result was closed schools here. These kid
If you look at the shot now, maybe a e couple lanes are 11 miles per hour. C66u others are just at a stand still. We are hearing its taking more than two hours to get between oakland and San Francisco now. Two hours in either direction. Its rough. Its rougher than it was yesterday. Lets dmek now with the latest. Lail yeah . Good afternoon, everybody, we started off on a quiet note this morning. People anticipating taking Labor Day Weekend but now, everyone is heading out to the road for get away friday. Heavy traffic. At Golden Gate Bridge the traffic is moving along slowly f youre traveling out of San Francisco youre running at two, three, four miles per hour. It will take ab an hour, already, its only 4 00. Now, we can see across san mateo bridge heading into eastbound direction headlights coming out of foster city into hayward. Its a little bit slow now. 30 minutes its going to take you. So already, lots of Traffic Building up. Now going back to sky 7 hd, taking a look at i 80 into
Higher taxes. Were breaking it down ahead. Fox and friends begins right now. I forgot to do my vocal warm up this morning. See sells seashells by the seashore. Anyone can mess it up. Can you get yourself back together . Yes, we can. Four hours of fun this morning weve got a lot of news. The ice is back as well. The ice skating rink. We have more of that outside. And a curling demonstration and a tribute to our friends to the north the canadians. There we go. All right. We need to get to the fox news alert. Over overgathering outdoors for the megamass. The pontiff dedicating the mass to the deadly typhoon that killed millions of people. He made the plea to save the millions of poor hung bring, and Homeless Children. We need to care for our young people not allowing them to be living on the streets. The pontiff left the mass in the famed popemobile and stopping to kiss babies and greet worshippers personally. He met with Homeless Children overnight at the biggest Catholic University in a