Making that commute from pleasanton down through sunol grade we have some major backups because of an earlier crash involving an overturned vehicle. They are trying to clear everything out that all lanes are still stopped temporarily. Caltrans tumors have been sweeping up some gravel. We have the maps. If you are taking 680 from 580 to 237 that will take you 52 minutes for we have more cards using 84 as an alternate. Traffic is heavy. If you want to use westbound 580 words at 238 or 880, you will see delays to the dublin interchange with a broken down vehicle at san ramon road. This just in from indiana, a federal execution has just been carried out. It is the first in nearly 2 decades. The inmate put to death was convicted of killing arkansas family and the 1990s and a plot to build a white only nation in the pacific northwest. The execution faced a series of legal challenges related to the pandemic. We are continuing to follow the huge fire burning in san diego on the baby warship ca
Doppler you can see the showers are pushing across parts of the south bay as well as the east bay this morning and as we go through our day, a few more showers are definitely possible through the rest of our tuesday. Mostly cloudy skies and some light showers pushing through. There are more showers today and it is a little cooler compared to yesterday. Some of the weather will continue through midweek and were looking at catching a bit of a break later on in the week by thursday and friday and then tracking our next weather system with the return of the rain for the weekend. I will talk all about this on future cast coming up in a few minutes. I am at the live news desk. A spokesperson for russian president put an has been tested positive for coronavirus and he is in the hospital. He has a pretty bad case. His name is dimitri and his announcement on his hospitalization comes after he came out and said the country was making a lot of progress in containing the coronavirus and about usin
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 mr. Willis, as a project thatle will have a ripple effect, can you speak to the impacts gateway will have on your members as well as the importance of having federal engagement on transportation projects that have an Economic Impact . Thank you, senator. What i can add is a couple things. When you talk to our members who have to operate the trains through the tunnels, maintain the signal systems, electrical systems, tracks themselves, they tell horror stories. We have a problem on our hands. You know the economic consequences of shutting down the tunnel, reduce capacity by 75 , but our members will tell you there is a real problem right now going on in there that needs to be addressed. We were hardened the administration changed the rating for portal bridge north, disappointed they did not do the same for the tunnel itself. The costs recently has been reduced by 1. 4 billion. Amtrak is kicking in several hundred extra million
16 billion in trade a year for both countries. Jobs rely on this network of transportation 150,000 jobs rely on this network. It is a part of our history and has been since precivil war. During prohibition, detroit is responsible for bringing in 75 of the illegal alcohol. For the 14 years of prohibition. Tocourse, that comes windsor, and canada. Trade in the 1800s in detroit, a city we know now is the motor city, was cigar capital of america. We were not only transporting in raw material, but out finish material. There were days in the 1860s we knew had 700010,000 Railroad Cars waiting to be transported that could knock it across the river because they would come into detroit via train, and wait for fairies to take them to canada. That backlog made the conversation about a tunnel or bridge take the national forefront by 1870. Something had to be done because we had storehouses filling up, waiting for this transportation that was very slow because fairies can only transport 5075 cars at
Past 12 months, helping us learn the history and literary life of cities around the country. For eight years we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the literary scene to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits itiestour. Org c many think the selma to montgomery march just started up overnight and was a oneoff idea, but a Voting Rights movement had been brewing in selma since the 1930s. [gospel singer performing] here in selma and in many places throughout the south, africanamericans were done night were denied the right to vote, not because it wasnt their right, but because there were folks in position of power who did not want these folks to have the right to vote. That way they could be considered secondclass citizens. Andes and literary literacy tests were used to prevent americans from getting the vote. Poll taxes was a price you had to paper year forgetting on the voter rolls. Lets say i live in a rural area and i am making 60 a year, but poll taxes are one dollar a year