Themselves. The mood remains festive hours after castros brother, raul, cubas current president made that announcement. Listen in. Listen in. [speaking spanish] alcides raul castro said his brothers remains will be cremated today. Nine days of National Mourning are under way right now. Tampa, as many strong ties to cuba. We will have more on the local reaction a little bit later on requesting good day tampa bay. First foxs brett bahr takes a look back on his life. Reporter the man born as Fidel Alejandro castro ruiz came to power leaving a ragtag band of bearded rebels to overthrow a dictator. He ended up becoming one himself. He stood defiantly against ten u. S. President s. Influence and power called castro a hero. But for the u. S. , he was the alltooclose face of the bitter cold war. And while the world could never completely dismiss castro politically, over time to some critics, he seemed more like a caricature with his wiry beard, faded fatigues and sixinch cigars. The most signi
After castros brother, raul, made in announcement. [speaking spanish] alcides raul castro said his brothers remains will be cremated today. Nine days of National Mourning are under way in cuba. Tampa, as many of you know, has strong ties to cuba. Stations kellie cowan is on brett bahr takes a look at the rise and fall of the dictator. Reporter the man born Fidel Castro Ruz came to power league a ragtag band of bearded rebels to overthrow a dictator. He ended up one himself. Castro stood defiantly against ten u. S. President s. Around the world leftists who hated americas influence and but for the u. S. , he was the alltooclose face of the bitter cold war. And while the world could never completely dismiss castro politically, over time for some critics he seemed like a char cature with his wiry beard, faded fatigues and 6inch ci cigars. The response to castros communist regime came in 1961 when president john f. Kennedy backed the failed where cuban exile were captured and sent to priso
Steve is here with the forecast. We have rain up at the north bay. South of that it is clear. That seems to be the theme. The system is lifting north but it is keeping the north bay and napa county and Sonoma County in the mix. South it will be clear and a southeast wind yesterday warmed things up. The line continues to be to the north so a variable breeze. Temperatures all over the place. Water temperatures upper 50s. 50s for some and 60s for others. The system will lift northwards. Rain north and son to the south. Happy friday, sir. Lets look at what we have with traffic. The traffic is going to be okay on the tracy triangle, the 580 westbound if you are driving lets say from the tracy area through altamont pass, it is a nicelooking drive. Not a lot of traffic going on but we will take it and it will be lighter than usual on this friday. Looking at the live picture of i80, a nice start. Traffic in both directions looking nice. At the bay bridge toll plaza, it is light so far. Lets ta
Temperatures are running up there because of the cloud cover mbyte rain for a few. The line is about San Francisco northward. Clouds south of that, more sunshine. If you upper 70s here. 6 01 am. Things are getting busier that we have a little bit of a break at least for now. On this friday commute. This is will be have on 880. The traffic at the toll plaza, the traffic is moving along well as you drive through here. No major problems driving. This is i80 and it is nice. The ramp on the left is moving along from the area. This is a look at 880 and you can see that traffic is going to be okay as you drive through the area. We look at 580 and the Altamont Pass area because we do have a lot of slow traffic coming over the past and by the time you reach livermore its not too bad. A nice drive to the dublin interchange. Lets go back to the desk. The warriors record breaking season has now come down to a game seven in the nba finals. They got off with a slow start in game six last night. 11 p
A secluded area and shot them. The killing appears to have been gang related and it doesnt appear as though the attack was connected to the alleged rape. It was a close call for one south bay family. A car and a light pole crashed right into their home just missing a fiveyearold boy inside. Reporter the family is grateful to be alive, but the father is upset with the driver. They said when they came out of the house, he was stumbling around and appeared to be intoxicated. The pole came crashing into the family room. It was taken out and you can see it is now sitting here in the yard. This happened just before 11 00 last night at lafayette and lewis. A husband, wife, fiveyearold son and a friend were sitting on the couch talking when they heard a crash. Then suddenly, they saw bright lights coming toward them. The front window started breaking and a light pole came crashing through. It narrowly missed hitting their fiveyearold son. The family friend grabbed the boy and jumped out of the