Counting the cost of the Government Shutdown, the human cost. The lost productivity and the damaged reputations. Tonight well look at the toll it has taken on the country. And with federal employees back to work, congress and the white house face major challenges. They have just three months to find a solution. At a moment when our economic recovery demands more jobs, more momentum, weve got yet another selfinflicted crisis thats set our economy back and for what . While the 800,000 government workers affected by the shutdown will be getting back pay, there is still the question of a long term budget solution. Last nights deal left the u. S. Borrow through february 7th and funds the government and its workers through january 15th of next year. Libby casey looks forward to capitol hill. Capitol hill quiet this day if in dramatic contrast to washington, d. C, workers got back on the job and the restaurants and cafes with a lot of energy. Not so much capitol hill. The energy has pretty mu
Time traffic maps you can see southbound 101 is gridlocked. Taking a look at highway 24, interstate 880, theyre also backed up now. These are trouble spots during the evening commute the storms slowed down traffic early. So its actually a bit worse than usual now. Here is what its like on interstate 580 today. This is a picture i sent out on twitter account. Carolyn, its not easy getting around today. Reporter that is right. Because this was the first significant rainfall of the season. As has been noted so gutters and drains have been clogged. That caused flooding and the roads have been slick. Were off of hillsdale boulevard and 101. Yes, its been crazy. There is no denying it was a mess getting around today we headed northbound from the peninsula towards San Francisco. On both sides of the freeway there were gushers. Not only stop and go, but slip, and slide if you drove into a pool like this. There were rain related accidents but chp wont have totals until tomorrow if i tried to st
Highway 87 at taylor drive the biggest problems, though, farther north. Take a look at this mess on highway 101 in San Francisco that have the noon. Its flooded with water spilling over the banks. Here is when its like driving through oakland today you can see spencer chischin tracking the stoernl. Lets focus where storms are falling near gilroy. We have between fairfield and martinez. A trail of light rainfall there over highway 680 as a matter of fact. And in the north bay an area of rain east of santa rosa. Again, isolate scattered showers at the moment. Over tahoe, light snow, but chains are required right now. There is a Winter Weather advisory in effect for central sierra. So snow levels will be dropping and more snow is expected overnight. Rainfall totals from this storm here in the bay area well over an inch over much of the bay area, especially north bay, San Francisco an inch and quarter, nearly an inch at sfo. Concord 1. 9 inches of rain. So its wet we have more on the way s
Lighttomoderate rain has moved across danville and it will be wet for the kids. Hopefully you will not venture into the mud that is waiting. 680, the san ramon boulevard is wet with lighttomoderate rain stretching to skyline boulevard and down to hayward and headed through the dublin grade to castro valley. We have rain on top of sfo with our best rain South San Francisco headed to burlingame and this will continue sliding down to san mateo and the san mateo bridge. We have steady rain in some areas and scattered in others which is the case today. Our best chance of steady rain is this morning. Then we will move to scattered showers in the afternoon. Upper 50 and low 60s from the coast to San Francisco and legal 60s for the rest of us. Leyla gulen . You were saying this is heavy rain falling where we have a solo spinout blocking the intersection, the transition road, from westbound 80 to 680. Lots grown behind my indicating where the rain is affecting the commute. The blue is where it
And ukraine must not. And in america, economics domination and a weakening of the process of finance minister wong is the you against washingtons quote gas stall. My nation pointing out that imported liquefied natural gas from the us cost 4. 00 times more than it does on americans domestic with. Well, its been a busy day here at all to internationally in moscow, but its looking like an increasingly busy evening to with your boss coming worldwide headlines. Welcome to her. So key of forces are portly shelled a sub station in the russian region of belgrade. Its very close to the ukranian border. The attack left around 2000 people without power after a transformer was hit. Although authorities now say the power has just been restored. We understand no reports of any casualties either, but we certainly have more detail with a correspondent, Legal Recourse dang after go dental, isnt practical to nail cosines that t of is sort of trying to bite back as for the 2nd consecutive days. Its a maj