Those outdoor plans. Heres our visibility map. You can see the fog increasing throughout the bay. Santa rosa is down to 1 mile down from 3 miles of visibility a five minutes ago. There is a dense fog advisory in the San Joaquin Valley affecting stockton, modesto, manteca, all the way through bakersfield, through 11 a. M. Thick at daybreak through 11 a. M. So no high beams heading that way and keep your distance between you and the other car. Wind does make a difference. If we had a little breeze this morning, some of the fog would move out. But as you see its calm and we are only seeing winds up to 6 miles. Variable coming in all kinds of directions. Well, we have quite the backup developing and this is over at the triangle at 580 westbound. A big rig was pulling over to the side of the road. It tipped over down the embankment so they are waiting for a tow truck to arrive and it l. A. X. Like its going to cause those slowdowns until they get that cleared. In the meantime if you are hea
We have the very latest from washington. Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn arrived in court this morning, pleading guilty after being charged with lying the fbi. The special counsel charged former trumps Senior Adviser with knowingly lying to the fbi about the nature of the infamous phone calls and texts between himself and sergey kislyak. One happened the same day the administration placed sanctions. Thats the same call flynn was fired for lying the president about just one month into the job. The december 2016 calls raised red flags for the Obama Administration and advised trump against having things were said, things that were promised. But even after his firing, the president still supported flynn. I dont think he did anything wrong. If anything he did something right. And former fbi director james comey said the president in private asked him to let the Flynn Investigation go. Flynn faces up to five years in prison and is key in the investigation. There appears to be
He fired the gun. We will explore the verdict and talk about what is next in a moment, but first we are following a Major Development in washington dc involving the white house, russia and the election. Michael flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the fbi about conversations he had with the russian ambassador. As part of the plea deal flynn said a Senior Member of the Trump Transition Team directed him to make contact with russian officials in december 2016. The judge said flynn is now cooperating with the government in the investigation into the potential coordination between russia and the come campaign for trump to out influence the outcome of the election. The guilty play is a way for him to set things right. The only reaction from the white house so far is a white house lawyer who said nothing about this guilty plea implicates anyone in the trump white house. The Justice Department is considering bringing federal charges against Jose Ines Garcia zarate. He was found
Michael flynn arrived at federal court this morning in d. C. Flynn served as National Security adviser until he was forced to resign in february after lying to the Vice President about meeting with a russian ambassador. Flynn today admitting his actions were wrong, saying in a statement, my guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the special counsels office reflect a decision i made in the best interests of my family and of our country. I accept full responsibility for my actions. I like general flynn. He served this country for a long time, but honor and effectiveness, its a sad day, but this is the way the system works. Reporter flynn is now the forth person charged in special counsel Robert Muellers sweeping investigation into Russian Election meddling and any possible ties to the trump campaign. That includes former Campaign Manager paul manafort, rick gates and george papadopoulos, a campaign aide. But this new charge against flynn represents the first direct tie to the trump
Need it for most of the day. Visibility has improved over the north bay but this time in the morning it will fluctuate. Not to long ago i saw over one mile in the napa airport and down through areas near novato and American Canyon where we have this dark Gray Crossing into highway 101 and you could have some in san rafael with this darker shade indicating dense fog with visibility down to 1 4 mile. That could be dangerous. Afternoon highs for today in the 60s in pacifica, 64 San Francisco with 60s for the inner east bay and 60s for the south bay. We have a cool down as we get into your weekend with a chance for sprinkles. I will look at your extended forecast coming up. Lets get to the highways with sal. We are looking at a bunch of stuff. I wouldnt call the commute light, i would call it moderate. We will go to the photo of one of our units driving on 680 southbound. This is one of our crews approaching the sonoma grade. Traffic is moderate with a lot of people. On the left we have th