Afternoon. Your rainmaker for the weekend is getting its act together and it will be here over the weekend. Increasing clouds today. A lot of 60s but slightly cooler. Happy friday. Happy friday to you, steve. Thank you, sir. I want to mention that the commute is off to a nice start. Traffic does look good on 580 as you drive into livermore from the passand beyond that. Lets go to the bay bridge toll plaza now. Traffic is light coming into San Francisco. There have been no major problems as you drive through. The morning commute doesnt look bad on the east bay. Light on i880 and oakland. Both directions of the freeway are looking very good. At 401, lets go back to the desk. All rightings thank you, salin palo alto two lanes are closed this morning after a dump truck slammed into an overpass last night causing a very big mess. The chp says the truck hit the embarcadero road overpass about 11 00 last night. Apparently the dump trucks bed was in the up position and collided with the overpa
More sun. Santa rosa is at 36, liver more 36, Half Moon Bay 39. These are much warmer than when we started the week. Thats for sure. 39 glenn ellen, 30s for mill valley as well as napa. Easterly breeze, northeasterly, upper air starting to change direction but not at the surface yet. Still clouds are on the move. Even on the north coast we are waiting on the rain. You see the system out of the gulf of alaska. It will be noticeably colder sunday into monday. Get ready. Well have rain late saturday and into sunday morning. 60s on the temps and a few upper 50s. Here he is on a friday morning. Traffic is mostly good. There are a couple spots, steve, on this friday morning to watch for. Good morning. Lets start with 580 west in the tracy area. Traffic is a little bit busy as you drive through. You can see traffic is slow but gets better by liver more and dublin. No trouble in the east bay so far. Traffic is light. We have a problem highway 101 at embarcadero with two lanes taken away by a t
The fed chair said. Thanks, brian. Janet yellen reinforcing her cautious for the u. S. Economy and emphasized the uncertainty of the brexit vote this thursday and the recent slowdown in u. S. Job growth and Global Economic weakness. A uk vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions. For all of these reasons the committee is closely monitoring Global Economic and financial developments and their implications for domestic Economic Activity, labor markets and inflation. She said the fed is prepared to act depending upon the Economic Impact they assess. Longer term they are optimistic the u. S. Economy will overcome the challenges. Scott wapner asked Senate Bank Committee chairman if yellen is doing a good job . Shes cautious and she should be cautious, but she should know what shes doing. Im not sure the fed knows what they are doing. As for what they seem to be doing now, the big takeaway from yellens testimony, it suggests a chair thats fine with the mar
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