Whether we would based on a standard allow women to serve in infantry artillery tanks light armory reconnaissance, we formed a task force of volunteers. And we put them together as a unit. They trained up and went to 29 palms and the Warfare Center and did a series of tests. And the tests are complete and it will provide information to inform about whether or not he will request the waiver. And i have not seen all the data. I have seen some of it. And when we first sent volunteer female marines inligsed to determine their ability to complete that course. The number that went they had an about a 36 Completion Rate and again, we are still looking at this. We are we have not made any sort of predecision. So again whatever we do, it is about individual standards. It is about the capableeableility of the unit and that unit becoming better, or at least as good as it is now. So that decision is is going to come. I believe we have ainformation, we are working with the army. And im sure i know
Well tape they are down to scattered at noon. Well taper it even more to scattered sprinkles at 4 00. 59 to 64. And more widespread rain develops at 7 00. 57 to 60. So make sure you have patience this morning and an umbrella during the evening hours. Heres sue with that traffic alert. We do have a traffic alert. It looks like traffic in walnut creek is slow and go. First the good news, this earlier accident westbound 580 to eastbound 80 in the maze as you can see traffic is moving nicely. This is a sig alert southbound spencer. A couple of cars got into it. One of them overturned. No estimated time of opening. This is the third accident on the waldo grade this morning. The other two have cleared but it is slick out there. I dont think we can emphasize enough. A look at our 3d shot with the slow and go. This is a virtual look at the exact Road Conditions and volume on the roadways. Heads up there. Well check back in a few minutes. Thank you, sue. This morning the change in the weather i
Well along with napa going to see some showers there this morning. Look at this band coming through looks like just heading towards st. Helena and along the mountains there so those north bay hills are the area of concern of course with the burn areas and right now, it looks to be fairly light at this earlymorning hour but later on tonight is when the cold front will be coming in bringing down more rain for those north bay hills. Well keep tracking it throughout the morning on our hidef doppler and take a look at our futurecast as well coming up. And we are tracking an accident. This is along westbound 80 as you approach powell. Actually its just past powell but we are getting conflicting reports. This may be on the 580 section. So we are going to continue to follow this. Chp is having a difficult time locating this crash. Oh, there it is. Okay. We found it. This is right on that berkeley curve as you make your way towards the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see those emergency lights o
Gop tax plan. We are only a day in and at least four republicans said they want to vote against the bill as it stands right now. Many prominent trade associations have already said they dont like what they are looking at. President trump headed to asia to meet with state leaders from china, south korea, japan and others. Lets get the latest on bloombergs Kevin Cirilli, our chief washington correspondent. Also joining us is marty shanker, chief content officer. Lets start with marty. The conversation is moving forward towards what happened in congress. People are vetoing this. What is it going to look like at the end . Marty in advance of the release of the bill we set it would be really hard to craft the bill. Now comes the harder part, selling it to legislators who interestsarticular and the provisions of the bill that affect their constituency. With midterms coming up, they have to be able to defend a yes vote, especially the republicans because they will try to do this without any d
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