He was compelled to appear by a lawful congressional subpoena. Just within the last few days, of course, the District Court has ruled that the impeachment inquiry is perfectly valid. Witnesses like dr. Kupperman need to do their duty and show up. I want to compliment the nine other witnesses who met similar opposition from the white house who were instructed by the white house not to appear but honored their lawful obligations and came forward. Did their lawful duty. We greatly appreciate the courage that they have shown. And that other witnesses will show who are scheduled to appear. The lawsuit that dr. Kupperman filed in District Court has no basis in law. A private citizen cannot sue the congress to try to avoid coming in when they are served with a lawful subpoena. We expect the court will make short shrift of that argument but nonetheless we move forward. Dr. Kupperman had testimony we believe would corroborate the allegations of miss conduct that other witnesses have made. But w
The market is taking it is a positive sign, i am not sure it is entirely such a big step forward. David as you suggested, it depends on what is going on inside the white house and inside the president s mind. He has been adamant he wants a full loaf, not half a loaf. Is there any evidence you might not he might back off on that . Under a lot of pressure from the midwestern farmers, the base he has. Pledges of chinese purchases of soybeans and pork and other farm commodities might go a long way toward calming some of those concerns that make up a lot of his base. Like you said, we have not heard anything very solid that would suggest he is going to soften his stance at all. David Brendan Murray reporting from london on trade. Now we go to washington. Now we get if we had any doubt on what the white house strategy was dealing with the impeachment think, we got that question answered. Anna we got a letter from the white House Counsel to nancy pelosi saying there will be no cooperation wit
Way though in case you are just watching at home. Okay, this is what i usually expect and this is what we are getting. Interstate 880 to downto oakland still is a pretty decent drive with some crowding along the way. If you see highway 4 slow through pittsburg and paypoint no major problems here. As we look at the east bay, there is some slowing in hayward. 680 looks pretty good. South bay commute, we are off to a good start. 6 01, lets go back to the desk. A woman in San Francisco died in a house fire. Ktvu there on the scene. Neighbors say a woman and her father were trapped. The home around 2 00 this morning. Firefighters have now run there that scene. They have several to bring out of the home allowing that there on the front porch. You can see that they put a tarp in front of that front window. Above it, you can see all the smoke damage. A woman who neighbors say was in her early 20s, her father, and their family dog were all trapped inside when this fire broke out. Firefighters w
Commonly none at all for some. Light rain, but stopped for the moment, thank you ferguson. I appreciate you taking the time to tweet me. Another system in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, this one doesnt have the punch of the one monday had, but still, quite an active pattern and it looks like its going to continue here in the foreseeable future. We will get a warmup on friday and saturday but today will be on the cool side. Now moving more, picking up a little bit in marin county towards sonoma and napa. It is very mild due to a south wind in advance, they are very warm compared to this time. Napa airport is 17 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. South wind, we are just about everybody, give us a very light rain drizzle here in the morning and the cool air will spill in. 60s, 70s and the wind will pick up as well another day with below average temperatures. What you have going for us here . The same, South San Francisco easy way to get into San Francisco to avoid
Downtown oakland about 8 00 you can see a lot of people with umbrellas. There is a matinee at the coliseum today. Playing a getaway game here. A little rain for that . I think it will be done. Bad hair day weather. Thats what we have very light rain moving through and there is not a lot to this system but it is holding together. On the peninsula light rain hitting highway 92 right now and slowly moving south. You can see through the county picking up some intensity there off of San Francisco. The san mateo coast. We are not done yet. The system continues to work its way south and holding together. There wasnt a lot of rain with this motive is that Mendocino County but sausalito picked up 13 100. Point raised. 4. Napa valley a bunch of. 2. Most of that has gone through to the north. There is a line stretching across san pablo bay. 80. Hercules, rodeo, vallejo, american canyon. There is still a little bit and thats another low dropping in at the september pattern saying ralph. Ralph. Mil