Toward the north end of San Francisco, nice, clear and beautiful. The temperatures dipping to the 30s in some parts. 37 in concord, 35 in santa rosa and San Francisco is at 49 degrees. Our headlines for the day, clear start and chilly temperatures. Sunny today, cool to mild temperatures, although there is a chance of rain by midweek. I will tell you about the changes in a little bit. In the meantime the highs today in the low 60s. 62 in santa rosa, 6 in fairfield, warmer in livermore at 64 and the southbound is 65. And 61 in pacifica and San Francisco is 62 degrees. Again, i will tell you about those rain chances coming up just after this. Kpix fives Jessica Flores has the latest, live after a pair of sealion attacks on human swimmers, a Bay Area Park is at the time to reopen. Kpix 5 news Jessica Flores has the latest from the aquatic park in San Francisco. Jessica . Reporter good morning, michelle. There are still signs up here on the beach that say danger, stay out. National park off
Guest 1 i think it is unlikely daca protection protections for dreamers make it into the bill this week. Policy forum trip report from a trip that i, my three colleagues, and 50 members of the Washington Institutes board of trustees undertook just about a week ago completing it to the gulf. Let me just briefly introduce my colleagues appear. On my immediate left, kate brower, former u. S. Treasury official who is our Family Fellow at the institute and she will speak after me offering impressions specifically about our visit to abu dhabi. Ri, a formeris lo u. S. Government Intelligence Analyst who will be prepared in our q a to talk about issues from counterterrorism and counter radicalization and social change in the gulf. At the far end of the table is mike, the institutes managing director call former National Security director, former National Security director who. Ill participate in our q a again, this was an unusual trip that we took in the sense that it was a large delegation an
New high speed route this morning. You may remember philadelphia was the scene of a major amtrak crash two years ago, in may of 2015, 8 people were killed and 200 injured after amtrak train 188 derailed in port richmond. It was traveling 106 Miles Per Hour in a 50mile an hour speed zone. Investigators determinedded that the engineer was determined that the engineer was distracted by an incident with a nearby train. The criminal charges were dismissed in december. You can see see more on the derailment at 6abc. Com. Turning to accuweather, we have a mild change, were expecting temperatures in the mid 50s, its not so bad out there today, either as we look at the ben franklin bridge. Its a big change when we ended the workweek on friday when snow brought the evening commute to are a grinding halt. Lets go over to david murphy. Reporter sarah its nice to talk about a positive change in the forecast. We have clouds digging down out of the northwest it will be a clouds and sun mix the rest o
There are a lot of other materials on the table, as well. As your impressions the year began, did either of you expect that the week before christmas, there would be so much to get done . Sarah westwood . Guest certainly not. This years started with a lot of hope about what they would be able to get done. There was hope for an infrastructure package, Health Care Reform, tax, and we see they are just barely going to get one of those things over the finish the end of the year. So i do not think republicans have correctly assessed how challenging it would be. The nd or adjutant in Anna Edgerton, were you expecting to be reporting from the capital in the last week before christmas . Guest i think because they were not able to get some of those other things done, passing tax reform goes all the more important. They have to have something to show for their first year of united government, and the tax bill is top of a lot of conservative priorities, and they would get the talking point to say
Lets bind them to these international institutions. That in turn will help us get what we need. The administration is saying these things did not work. We see Vice President mike pence speaking in the Ronald Reagan building in the International Trade center, which is just a few blocks away from the white house. Staying with you, net. In terms of people wanting to see something out of china why is the white house choosing to call china a strategic competitor at this moment . To push beijing to do more north korea . Nick they are mandated on the strategy. China is the perfect perfect example of the approach they want to take, that confrontational approach signaling the past administrations. The challenge there is reflective of bigger challenges that the administration faces, which is the Administration Needs china, particularly in dealing with north korea. We will really have to wait and response to this, because the administration has said china is crucial to eliminating the north Korea