Wrong coming up. We are so tracking the commute and see how the road are doing this morning. All roads that lead to the bay bridge are pretty jammed up this morning. We have been back to put the bay bridge for two hours now for the westbound commute. Allied drive to the bay bridge on the east shore freeway start here at howard 24 here and 4880 here you have to start in oakland. It is easy over 1 hour commute time on all of the approaches to the bay. Look at how the traffic is building up on highway 880 in the northbound direction. We continue sick to see traffic move more slowly as the drive times are now up to 15 to 18 minutes for how we 92, an alternate for the bay bridge. Now we have kron4 real trend mountain the situation at 20th and grant perry ac transit they are doing a hot lot of heavy lifting you can see about to ac transit buses on standby and along lines. As is 30 this morning it only took about four of five buses to make a dent in that about three minutes ago james there wa
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Typhoon of the year bears down. Theyre fighting a controversial new law that calls on young men and women to live separately in College Dorms and even private student homes. Good morning, and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. We begin with a story first reported exclusively here on al jazeera. New evidence supports the theory that Yasser Arafat was murdered. They say they found excessive amounts of a radioactive substance called polonium in his body. His body was exhumed one year ago in response to the al jazeera investigation. The report supports years of suspicion that arafats widow thought foul play was involved. Im full of anger. This is a crime. This is an assassination of an elected Palestinian Leader by his people. Its a political assassination, and you cant imagine how my daughter and myself are in a very sad situation. We are mourning the father and the husband again. We have complete coverage of how israelis and palestinians are reacting to this news. Mike hanna
In the north, as a meeting was underway. Others, including his brother, are also reported to have died in the attack. Richard galpin is following developments from islamabad. I spoke with him just a short time ago. Richard, what has been the reactions to the death . Certainly amongst politicians here in islamabad, particularly the opposition, there has been real dismay about what has happened. Some of them describing it as a deliberate attempt by the United States to try to sabotage the hopes of some kind of talks taking place between the Pakistan Government and the Pakistan Taliban to bring a ceasefire and hopefully some kind of peace settlement between the two sides. Indeed, we heard today that a delegation from the government was traveling to the north to meet the Pakistan Taliban for theip with talks peace negotiations underway quite soon. Now, that has been dealt a very severe blow. We dont know how the Pakistan Taliban is going to react. If there are is any chance of the peace ta