50s. How are the roads . Glad to be back the happen new career. Starting with the bay bridge toll plaza it is busy. We have metering lights turned on on and a continue minute drive from the maze to San Francisco. The tail lights are thicker out of Pleasant Hill to highway 24. We do have protecting news this morning a fatal accident in pacifica that has one area one secret blocked off and matt keller is in pacifica with information at the scene. Matt . We are talking about a cliff rescue, a man did not fall down the cliff but was trapped below because of the rising high tide. The video firefighters and Police Rescue the man last might and they pulled him in a rescue ballot and the woman who called 911 said she was on a walk in the neighbor at 9 00 last night and she stopped to watch the waves and she heard a man screaming for help. She got out the flashlight but could not see anything and called 911. Police and fires arrived to find a man on the side of the cliff. They put him in the re
Little later. Heres a look at the top story this morning. Iran Nuclear Talks are entering and crucial phage today crucial phase today. Tomorrow is a selfimposed deadline for a deal to stop iran from building atomic weapons. The white house said it is time for iran to bend if it wants stations listed. We have been negotiated for over a year. Time for them to decide whether or not to make the serious decision required. Betty the ultimate deadline is the end of june. Airstrikes are targeting shiite rebels. Iran is backing the rebels. The apple ceo tim cook is denouncing the indiana law. He says the law is biased and dangerous and it would let businesses refused to serve gays on business grounds. Indiana governor mike pence says the law is to stop government overreach. Mike pence it is very simply to empower individuals when they believe that actions of government in page on their constitutional First Amendment freedom of religion. Betty the law is already prompting reaction from angies le
But definitely look forward to engage in discussions around policy with regard to Financial Education, which is a term that we prefer at pace as opposed to Financial Literacy. Because oftentimes implies that people are illiterate. Perhaps Financial Empowerment might be a better term. I was born in, on a pineapple plantation in hawaii where the common term today is in farm worker housing. We were poor but didnt know it because we thought everybody lived like that. I dont member very much in having any choice. But we had the ocean as our playground. And so we would chop down some bamboo and use it for fishing poles, or use of force beers to catch fish spears. In spite of the fact that hawaii is paradise, and because its paradise the rich people in the world by property as a result, the cost of living gets driven up. To local residents that use laborers service to these rich people, that are coming to know why. So were hawaii is paradise with the aloha spirit, a lifestyle, sharing and rec
Were there . Reporter yes, fbi agents right now are interviewing leland yee here. He was one of about 30 people arrested in what is called a massive fbi sting. I was one of the only journalists on the scene. As you mentioned, they led him out in handcuffs after spending about an hour and a half inside interviewing him. He was arrested for his work and campaign work. Yee is a democrat that served in the assembly as a San Francisco supervisor and school board back to the 1980s. One of the promises he just received an award for was to increase transparency in government. It was part of a larger operation. Here is what the fbi told us a couple hours ago. This morning the fbi is currently executing multible search and arrest warrants throughout the bay area. I have no more comments at the time because of on going investigations. Also arrested was raymond chow, a chinese gangster. Since his release he says he has reformed. Keith jackson was also arrested. He is a well known political consult
Fire season yet. Cooler temperatures in san diego have helped crews there subdue the fires. Sense last week, fire has consumed at least 26,000 acres. So far this year, cal fire responded to over 1500 wildfires, more than twice as many fires as average. The governor appeared on abc news today expressing his concern about the prolonged drought and wildfire activity. Weve got to gear up. Were going to deal with nature as best we can. But humanity is on a collision course with nature, and were just going to have toe adapt to it in the best way we can. Brown says the state has 5,000 firefighters and 600 million appropriated to battling wildfires. But he warns that may not be enough. He said thousands of additional firefighters could be needed in the future, saying california is on the front lines of climate change, which is making our weather hotter. Coming up tonight at 6 00, well hear from a local fire captain ant specific conditions in the bay area. Kimberly terry, nbc bay area news. Kim