Good evening. Welcome to this week in Northern California. Joining me for insight and analysis of the news are mina kim, kqed news reporter. Michelle quinn, politico Silicon Valley reporter. And scott detrow, kqeds Sacramento Bureau chief. In sacramento, the legislative session wrapped up this week after a flurry of bills and some 11th hour wrangling. Lawmakers reached a deal that broke an impasse over a federal court order on prison overcrowding. Some other measures debates, increasing the minimum wage, regulating fracking, tightening restrictions on guns. Scott, you spent some late nights there this week. What were some of the biggest winners. One of the Biggest Surprise was allowing undocumented immigrants to have drivers licenses. They thought that would stall but leaders got on board with that and it passed. A bill got passed regulating hydraulic fracturing that can cause a big oil boom here in california. Another bill increased the minimum wage to ten bucks, it could be the highe
Were flooding our station with calls about the fire. There was a smoke advisory because of the fire. Taking a look at what is happening over the oakland estuary. We are about 50 miles a i way from the sasson fire. You see some hay there in the background. See whatted like just two hours ago. We took these pictures when we were looking east back toward the oakland hills. You sea an awful lot of haze and smoke in the air. It comes around here all the time. I have never seen this much smoke. It makes it not pretty. Thats for sure. Its a Beautiful Day and it is just not that beautiful. I was just wondering what was going on. I actually had to take off my sunglasses. I didnt know what it was. I was just hoping it is not the city or something. That smoke advisory means people should try to stay indoors with windows and doors closed. And of course, the fire danger we have been talking a lot about red flag warnings. The key has been the wind. The wind has really picked up over the bay area for
Good evening. Welcome to this week in Northern California. Joining me for insight and analysis of the news are mina kim, kqed news reporter. Michelle quinn, politico Silicon Valley reporter. And scott detrow, kqeds Sacramento Bureau chief. In sacramento, the legislative session wrapped up this week after a flurry of bills and some 11th hour wrangling. Lawmakers reached a deal that broke an impasse over a federal court order on prison overcrowding. Some other measures debates, increasing the minimum wage, regulating fracking, tightening restrictions on guns. Scott, you spent some late nights there this week. What were some of the biggest winners. One of the Biggest Surprise was allowing undocumented immigrants to have drivers licenses. They thought that would stall but leaders got on board with that and it passed. A bill got passed regulating hydraulic fracturing that can cause a big oil boom here in california. Another bill increased the minimum wage to ten bucks, it could be the highe
Good evening. Welcome to this week in Northern California. Joining me for insight and analysis of the news are mina kim, kqed news reporter. Michelle quinn, politico Silicon Valley reporter. And scott detrow, kqeds Sacramento Bureau chief. In sacramento, the legislative session wrapped up this week after a flurry of bills and some 11th hour wrangling. Lawmakers reached a deal that broke an impasse over a federal court order on prison overcrowding. Some other measures debates, increasing the minimum wage, regulating fracking, tightening restrictions on guns. Scott, you spent some late nights there this week. What were some of the biggest winners. One of the Biggest Surprise was allowing undocumented immigrants to have drivers licenses. They thought that would stall but leaders got on board with that and it passed. A bill got passed regulating hydraulic fracturing that can cause a big oil boom here in california. Another bill increased the minimum wage to ten bucks, it could be the highe
Good evening. Welcome to this week in Northern California. Joining me for insight and analysis of the news are mina kim, kqed news reporter. Michelle quinn, politico Silicon Valley reporter. And scott detrow, kqeds Sacramento Bureau chief. In sacramento, the legislative session wrapped up this week after a flurry of bills and some 11th hour wrangling. Lawmakers reached a deal that broke an impasse over a federal court order on prison overcrowding. Some other measures debates, increasing the minimum wage, regulating fracking, tightening restrictions on guns. Scott, you spent some late nights there this week. What were some of the biggest winners. One of the Biggest Surprise was allowing undocumented immigrants to have drivers licenses. They thought that would stall but leaders got on board with that and it passed. A bill got passed regulating hydraulic fracturing that can cause a big oil boom here in california. Another bill increased the minimum wage to ten bucks, it could be the highe