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Nice to open up the windows yesterday i agree. And it looks nice today. Theres very little fog though. Only a few patches of it. So were clear. Ready to go. Santa rosa airport. But i dont think downtown does. Has a slight northerly breeze, which is why there are 55 but upper 40s low 50s. And were all set for what looks to be a sunny day, but cool and cooler, i should say. And breezy with temperatures 60, 70, 80. Have that north wind holds in santa rosa. Will get to 80s of a dozen and turns southerly. Theyll probably be about 77. All right. Sals here. Anything are quiet . Its mostly quiet. However for steve, we have a yeah. However, we have a pretty serious crash out there right now on 580, heading over to harbor way, we do have a fatal accident involving a pedestrian, and we do have some video taken a little earlier of the scene. This happened at about 130 in the morning, and at one point they did block all the lanes. But then a little bit later, they did open some lanes. Now this happ
Your front row seat to washington anytime, anywhere. The share of the syrian Senate Foreign Relations Committee spoke from the floor in support of israel in a bipartisan resolution condemning the hamas attack spread he said he will be leading his colleagues to make sure israel gets everything it needs to defend itself and its people he also talked about the president s nominee for u. S. Ambassador to israel who has a confirmation hearing later this week. I come to the floor today to express my shock and horror at what hamas has done and its terrorist attack on israel. It is difficult to comprehend the evil we witnessed last week. Before saturday, october 7, 2023 over 1000 innocent jewish people going about their lives in southern israel. There were young people at a music festival. Grandparents outside of their homes. Children celebrating birthdays. Mothers with little babies in their arms. Hamas massacred them all. We have not seen this kind of atrocity since the early days of the isi
Madeline albright. Black stones president , tone know james, and well cap it off with dpaer white along with Actor Matt Damon. So we have a lot to do today. Lets talking about breaking news overnight. American fighter jets going into syria and bombing isis targets. The u. S. Did warn american fighters in advance. Five arab partners are involved. The pentagon confirms they went after 20 targets. Fuel depots, weapons spots and traini ining sites. Israel shot down a fighter jet after it entered air space. Oil prices are rising. Joining us now, retires u. S. Army current jack jacob is here. On the set with us, chief washington correspondent john harwood. Colonel, i will start with you. The implications of this coming much kicker than i think some people expected, no . Yes. Its developing relatively quickly. The problem with syria is the entire armed force system has been under pressure that it is totally incorporate nated. It is possible the syrian aircraft lost its way. It doesnt make a l
Target, 1,500 more american servicemen and women are going back to iraq in numbers that will double those already on post. They are not intended as combat troops, but theyll be serving in an area surrounded by it. Their stated mission is to train up and stand up the Iraqi Armed Forces so that they can fight isis and other groups. And, yes, many of them are military advisers. And back in vietnam many of our advisers were quickly drawn into combat. It is where we begin tonight with our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. Reporter many headed back to iraq on a new everexpanding mission. The Obama Administration announced today it was more than doubling the number of u. S. Military forces now on the ground in iraq from 1,400 to nearly 3,000. Their mission, to train, advise and assist the Iraqi Military in its fight against isis militants. For more than three months u. S. Air strikes have pounded isis forces with limited success while untrained iraqi forces have been unable to halt the