Implication. Today in sacramento Business Leaders met for a roundtable discussion on the adult use of marijuana act. Organizers say they obtained the required signatures in the measure is expected the november valid. Business leaders say legalization would give a much needed jolt employment in the california economy. Youre going to have a lot of jobs created competition really up and down the coast where you have both the production, cultivation and sales. There is no question about the jobs. Some employers are worried that employees will show up for work high. They want to be sure the regulations and penalties are in place to prevent that without them getting sued. In the meantime organizers of a ballot measure that would triple the cigarette tax say they have enough signatures to put the issue before voters. Billionaire environmentalist led the campaign for a 2 increase on a pack of cigarettes. If verified it will go before voters in november. Right now the taxes . 87. It would be us
A second. What about that forecast . Lets talk about the heat. Maybe you are getting ready to head out the door or getting ready to wake the kids up to send them out the door. First, the stun is up. We have clear skies out there. It is a bit warm in some spots. We just barely dropped out of the 90s in sun valley city. Phoenix down to 87 though. It is going to be dry as we are heading into work with those sunny skies. Temperatures will heat up pretty quickly. We are going to be back into the hundreds by 1 00 with 102 by lunchtime. And by the time you are heading hom temperature up to 109. So hotter than it was yesterday. We do have a chance for some mountain storms. Ill show you what to look out for here in the valley. Next. In just the past couple of minutes, things have started to pick up on i10 and i17. The rest of the valley is very quiet. Your i can lays on i10 in the west valley. They start near 75th back to 83rd and eases up to 19th avenue or so. And on i17, your desert drive tim
The strength of an update as soon as we have information. Wrals laura leslie showing what she knows about the job cuts over a cisco. Reporter multiple Media Outlets are reporting the tech giant is expected to cut the 40,000 jobs over the next couple of months. They employ 71,000 people around the world amounting to 20 . The Industry Analysts say the reduction is response for the changing demand for networking as more and more businesses turn to Cloud Computing and other webbased servic servers is falling. That isnt expected to change anytime soon. A Company Insider say they are transferring to a less hardware heavy business model. Cisco has not yet confirmed the reported cuts and it is unclear how many will be cut at the rtp site. It is not just cisco. Other giants has also announced cuts. Iker soft is laying off about this summer we learned a should be would be cutting 3000 jobs. The production at cisco is by far the largest. Laura leslie reporting. Jack robbins took over as ceo last
Stranded since july. And there is still some life left in these rusting old georgian cable cars. Welcome to the program. Prime minister modi is in pakistan, the first visit by an indian leader in over ten years. This surprise visit comes after a long period of bad relations between the two countries. Those relations have been strained over a series of cross border exchanges of fire by each side blames on the other. There were talks scheduled for august. Those talks were canceled who said what to whom to get them from that point to what were seeing today . Reporter well, you are absolutely right. The two sides were not talking to each other. However, after that, there was intense pressure from friendly countries like the United States on india to come back to the negotiating table. And there was an ice breaker when both of the Prime Ministers met in paris on the sidelines of the climate conference. After that the National Security advisors of the two countries met bangkok, there was pro
40s and 50s on the temps, and mostly cloudy in the morning and partly sunny in the afternoon. A lot of cloud cover in there and just moments of sun and very light rain. This is a weak system so 50s and very low 60s. Hello, we havent seen you much in a while. This is sal cast and he has an update on the traffic. Lets begin to take a look at what we have. Things are getting more crowded. Traffic is still looking good on i880. No major problems if youre driving at the bay bridge toll plaza. Usually at 5 30 is when we see a backup and the metering lights come on. Well see if that happens. And in san jose, all the freeways are doing well. And getting there from the east bay is a breeze so far. Back to the desk. A gunman still on the loose this morning after he shot and killed a man on a crowded bart train saturday night. It happened as that train pulled into the west oakland bart station. Allie rasmus is in oakland now. Whats the latest on the investigation. Reporter bart spokespersons have