I appreciate all of you coming out. Thank you. I particularly want to think russell and Global Taiwan Institute for partnering with us on this program today. Im glad we could work this out. There was a little election over the weekend and i dont know if everyone noticed but judging by the turnout perhaps you did. At the outset here i want to say a couple words about the election of taiwan on saturday and just a couple and turn it over to our guests and Panel Speakers to offer advice and insight. First of all, i think that the election says more about taiwan than it says about anything else. I only highlight that because i think we are immediately moving to what this means for china. For all practical purposes, all practical purposes, taiwan is not a part of china. Why do we move immediately to talk about what this means for china . What it means most is that taiwan values the same things that the rest of the free world values, its conducted its southern president ial election and major
40s and 50s for your current temperatures Hayward Alameda in oakland temperatures on the rise under that sign. Concord youre at 50 right now santa rosa say holy name petaluma also seeing temperatures are rising with petaluma and santa rosa now back into the low 40s 50s for todays daytime highs all across the bay mostly the midfifties ive got more on your forecast. Still ahead robin all right, thank you john checking in on 92 your drive time has dipped to 28 minutes now to make it from hayward. Over to the peninsula. We never had any problems on the bridge we had an accident leading up to the toll plaza so thats out of the way its going to be crowded on the nimitz as well through hayward and then again here on west 92, but overall not bad its under 30 minutes, heres the bay bridge, 80 west your drive to San Francisco has dipped 2. 14 minutes. So thats not bad for your average in well take a look at some more drive times coming up in a bit james darya thanks robin. So lets get to our bre
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