Wind cranking up all night. The sun will pop out later. Everybody says cloudy. 64 in santa rosa. Theres a dip in the jet stream. That equals cooler temperatures today from everywhere. Livermore will be 75. I would like to start with the east bay commute and show you what we have. This is the time when things get a little more severe for some commutes. In fact, lets see if i can dial up the bay bridge. I dont know if i can. The bay bridge toll plaza commute is backed up all the way out to the macarthur maze. The metering lights are on and many people wonder why its slow here. My answer is that a lot of people would normally be taking this is a look at interstate 880 in oakland. That traffic seems light and major delays into downtown. An hours long standoff in san jose with a man at the Santa Clara County jail is over now after he surrendered peacefully. What we have learned over the past few hours. Reporter good morning. We know the Santa Clara Countys Sheriffs Office will start a News
Gold prices is up 1. 3 . It is currently 2,382. If you are watching bitcoin, it is pulling back a bit. Yesterday, bitcoin was above 72,000. It is 70,452 right now. Oil prices have been picking up steam as well. In the nmeantime, we talk about a. I. Every 20 minutes on this show . More frequently. It could be a drinking game. We will continue the game in a different way. Elon musk speaking out on x saying his guess is we will have a. I. That is smarter than any one human, probably, by the end of next year. He said within the next five years, the capabilities of a. I. Will exceed that of all humans. I dont know if that is com commentary on the intelligence of a. I. Or humans. Oh, burn. A year from now if it could be that smart that quickly, sam altman talked about chatgpt 4. 0 as a competent helper. They always do something that is a little wrong. The answer is not always exactly the way it is supposed to be. Ight. Are we a year away from the competent helper being a super competent huma
Ban should be upheld. We start this hour in turkey, where Turkeys Parliament has voted in favor of a threemonth state of emergency following last weeks failed coup. The countrys Justice Minister says it is aimed at averting a possible second attempt by military. European convention on human rights is also being suspended. Eu officials have voiced concern about the developments. Syrian president Bashar Alassad is critical, saying president erdogan is trying to impose a harsh islamist agenda that endangers both turkey and its neighbors. For more on this, we go live now to ankara. Jasper, what is the state of emergency going to mean for the people of turkey . Jasper it means that the cabinet can rule by decree. It does not have to get votes in parliament to pass a law. The decree will have the force of law. Parliament can still debate the decree, but they wont be able to cancel them. Emma for the people of turkey themselves, will they see a difference . I imagine the situation may be quit
Later a look at the International Response to the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. Wednesday the Senate Banking Committee Held a hearing on freddie mac, fannie mae and the state of the Housing Mortgage industry. Congressman mel watt took the updated members on new efforts to assist homeowners. This is 90 minutes. I call this hearing, your honor, welcome back to the committee. Since this is likely my last hearing regarding gses i would like to encourage my colleagues to for the past three years, we and our staff have spent count less hours wrestling with the possible solutions and pittal falls. Some options are not practical, while others are too it logical, yet we still need to find a solution. The enterprises remain trapped today. Fhfa continues to perform the dual role of both regulating and rating the business of the largest entities in the Mortgage Market. This is not sustainable. And there is no consensus in Congress Regarding how to move forward. All the while, the credit box remai
Like you were at some of these meetings where some of these things were discussed no, the nsa was there, i just got the tapes. Im sorry. So we dont have a public listing, per se, but in the first phase of power africa, we did very carefully, through a rigorous interagency process, discuss which would be the six focus countries. And the factors that you describe are, indeed, many of the things that we looked at, to try to assess who would be the good partners. And we will go through a similar process as we think about the expansion. One of the ones that i theres plenty to say about all of them, but one of the ones that ill just spend a moment on is the host countrys commitment. Because as some of the other testimony alluded to, if youre trying to have viable electric utilities, if youre trying to solve some of the problems that are private sector, investors have encountered, in trying to do viable deals, youve got to have a commitment to do things differently. So that was a very one of