hello again. thank you for joining me again. i m fredricka whitfield. russia said it will suspend its participation in the grain export deal with ukraine. ukraine s foreign minister telling russia to stop its hunger games . nic robertson is in kyiv. nic, what s the significance of this move? reporter: this is very significant. russia says it has suspended the deal for an indefinite period. this was a deal that was struck by the u.n., two parallel deals, one with ukraine and one with russia, at the end of july. and it was struck because, since russia invaded ukraine, all the grain that ukraine produces, and it produces a lot for the world, was stuck in its ports on the black sea, piling up, nowhere to go. and the third world countries this grain was destined for desperately short of food. the prices were going up. after the deal was struck, the anticipation was about 20 million tons of grain could be shipped out of ukraine to these third world and other countries. now, wh
There. Fierce winds along with rain. San Francisco Police have Market Street closed. This tree used to be in someones back yard before it came crashing down overnight. No one was hurt. City crews say theyre trying to get everything cleaned up as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, a downed tree was making a all lanes on park street closed. Were told crew also be there working to clean it up until after noon. There are downed trees in mill valley as well. Abc News Reporter Amy Holyfield is there also with the high tide problems today. Amy . We are getting a little break in the action right now. There is still some standing water here on miller avenue in mill valley. The tide is receding. It has improved here. At one point you couldnt get through and they had to close down the street. The situation is getting better. Is one of several troubled spots from this mornings storm. With gusts of wind up to 40 Miles Per Hour in novato this morning, it was more than some trees could handle. A huge tr
Critically and tonight a new report out shows the company had an unfavorable Safety Record and had hired unqualified drivers. Cbs5s andria borba is at the bus companys offices there in San Francisco the andria . Reporter after the chp inspected the entire city sight seeing flight 20 of the city sight seeing buses were pulled off the road for service problems. Now problems included emergency exits on two of the buses that did not work. Two bucks had broken wheel fasteners near the axles. 1 bus had a leaky fuel tank and one bus had passenger seats not properly secured to the floorboards. The attorney for the union says he is not surprised at all by this report. Lots of laws are in place to protect the public. Unfortunately we have to depend upon these companies to self regulate and to follow the law and to take their buses in and properly license them, properly inspect them, get the chp inspections done each year, have the drivers properly licensed and trained, follow the rules regarding
Were going to try to get her back on the line. Lets head to bill martin who has been tracking the weather all day long. The weather a big factor in the search. Theyre searching for some four hours, bill. Most of that hampered by the rain and fog. Yeah, and really overnight rain made the situation tough. We heard about searchers out in this area east of fremont. Searchers in this area having trouble getting trucks through. Helicopters having issues because of the fog and low cloud. Were still seeing cloud cover out there now. You see all the cloud cover, still some showers and sprinkles coming down. Weve got a lot of rain. This is over the last couple of days. I roughed the numbers out. Theyre evolving, changing. Mount tam about over 6 inches of rain. Thats a half foot of rain in parts of the north bay. Santa cruz mountains, half of foot of rain there. Were looking for livermore with 2 and a half inches of rain coming up to about 80 of rainfall average. San jose an inch and a half over
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Donald trump has again complained of electoral fraud in tuesdays president ial poll as his lead in two key states georgia and pennsylvania continues to shrink as postal votes are counted. At a News Conference at the white house, he said the system was corrupt but offered no evidence to back up his claims. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late were looking at them very strongly, but a lot of votes came in late i have already decisively won many critical states, including massive victories in florida, iowa, indiana, ohio, to name just a few. We won these and many other victories, despite historic election interference from big media, big money and big tech. As everyone saw, we won by historic numbers and the pollsters got it knowingly wrong. They got it knowingly wrong. We had polls that were so ridiculou