If i zoom in a little more towards the bay area you can see a few struggling showers. So spotty rain is expected to linger at least through about 8 00, 9 00, we might see another round of showers around that time, but as far as your temperatures, well, overall comfortable, 40s and 50s today, we are expecting cooler temperatures. I will go more into detail on that, first lets check in with mike. The timing of that if you drop the kids off at school it might be raining right about that time or maybe as you drive to work if that is what you do after youve dropped the kids off. Here fremont we have the leftovers from yesterday, slick roadways in many spots around the bay, water on the lens, sometimes you see a spirke spar. The lower the speeds the on and off ramps will be an issue. Later on in the morning commute, right now we have one small crash 580 just pass the warren freeway. Now to our continuing coverage of the looming Government Shutdown. Congress has until 9 00 tonight, our time,
You. There will no government challenge to the decision to release the serial sex attacker, john worboys. The former black cab driver was jailed in 2009 for attacking 12 women, but he is suspected of assaulting many more. Thejustice secretary david gauke admitted he shares the concerns of worboys victims, but that it would not be appropriate to seekjudicial review of the parole boards ruling to free him. Two of his victims are mounting their own challenge to try to keep worboys behind bars. Our Home Affairs Correspondent june kelly has more. He is one of the countrys most notorious serial sex offenders. In his black cab, john worboys cruised for victims, not fares. He was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women, one of them he raped. But its feared he may have attacked more than 100 in total. The decision to release him after less than a decade in prison provoked astonishment, including at the top of government. At the start of this week, it emerged that the justice secr
The economics editor at the independent and ruth lea, whos an economics adviser for the Arbuthnot Banking group. Thats the papers at 11 30. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Turkey is being urged to show restraint as it continues an offensive into Northern Syria that its feared will further de stabilise a war torn region. Turkish troops crossed the border with syria, as part of a military effort to target a Kurdish Militia in the province of afrin. The Kurdish Group has been backed by the United States in the fight against so called Islamic State. But turkey regards it as a terrorist organisation. From the border, mark lowen reports on a potential new front in the syrian war. As if syria needed more of this. Artillery fire from turkey, launching a new ground and air offensive. Its called operation olive branch, though its anything but a gesture of peace. From the air, turkish f 16s struck yesterday. Their target the syrian Kurdish Militia, or ypg. Turkey sees them as terrorists, li
Grand slam quarter final, where hell take on the third seed, bulgarian grigor dimitrov. And in a bbc news special, the french president Emmanuel Macron talks to andrew marr about brexit and frances relationship with the uk. Thats at half past eight. Good evening. The authorities in afghanistan now say that m foreigners and four Afghan Nationals were killed in an attack on an International Hotel in the capital kabul. After heavy fighting that lasted 12 hours, Afghan Special forces took control of the intercontinental hotel, killing the gunmen who stormed it yesterday evening. More than 150 people managed to escape, or were rescued. The taliban says it carried out the attack. Our correspondent Zia Shahreyar reports from kabul. Explosion. The final moments of a fight that had lasted all night. Gunfire. Gunfire and explosions, as Afghan Special forces battle to regain control of the intercontinental hotel. One soldier throws a grenade. He moves away, then the explosion. Explosion. The room
Welcome to the programme. The us senate has agreed to postpone a vote on ending the Us Government shutdown to noon on monday thats i7oogmt. The vote will be on a stopgap spending measure. But in the meantime, the federal government will remain closed as the working week begins. The failure of the majority republicans and minority democrats to Reach Agreement on friday meant that much of the federal government shut up shop, with hundreds of thousands of federal employees facing uncertainty as monday morning approaches. Both sides are blaming each other with divisions over military spending and immigration policy. Our correspondent david willis gave me the latest from washington. There was to have been a vote in the early hours of monday morning, duncan, which has now been postponed. Members of the senate are heading home and they come back onto the floor of the Senate Chamber at 10am, and there will be a vote at midday. Basically, the republicans are offering funding of an olive branch