For us. Political analysts predicted President Trump would announce an increase in the number of troops in afghanistan from the current level of 8,000 to 12,000. Instead the president said its time to take drastic measures in our strategy with afghanistan and shift the focus from creating democracy to killing terrorists. Terrorists, take heed. America will never let up until you are dealt a lasting defeat. Trump said tonight the middle east policies of past president s didnt work and its time for a change. We will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities. His focus will be on stopping terrorists and abandoning the idea of nation building in the middle east. He said pakistan is turning a blind eye to terrorist hideouts and its time to hold the countrys feet to fire through whatever means necessary. Pakistan often gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence and terror. We watched the president s address with retired marine corps colonel brendan kern
For us. Political analysts predicted President Trump would announce an increase in the number of troops in afghanistan from the current level of 8,000 to 12,000. Instead the president said its time to take drastic measures in our strategy with afghanistan and shift the focus from creating democracy to killing terrorists. Terrorists, take heed. America will never let up until you are dealt a lasting defeat. Trump said tonight the middle east policies of past president s didnt work and its time for a change. We will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities. His focus will be on stopping terrorists and abandoning the idea of nation building in the middle east. He said pakistan is turning a blind eye to terrorist hideouts and its time to hold the countrys feet to fire through whatever means necessary. Pakistan often gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence and terror. We watched the president s address with retired marine corps colonel brendan kern
Bridge. That will change before sunrise. Temperatures in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Warmer today than yesterday. Earlier burnoff. And we have ourselves a warming trend. Well talk about that but first, lets say hi to sandra. Good morning. All right. As were starting off our tuesday overall, we have some good news. But lets take a look at the Altamont Pass right now. Just our typical slowdowns. 22 miles an hour approaching 205. 205 to 680 will take 26 minutes. From time to time we are seeing a little bit of a stackup there in the cash lanes on the bay bridge. Overall in the green. Two lanes blocked eastbound 80 near ashby avenue. However, notice the sensors there. We are still seeing things up to speed so this is not causing any slowdowns for us. Lets send things back to michelle. President trump has unveiled a new strategy for the u. S. War in afghanistan that calls for an increase in troops but erases anytime table. The president says its time to shift the focus from creating democracy to k
Miles per hour and one to two inches of rainfall for most areas and two to five inches may fall in the hills and coastal areas and possibly flooding and wind damage with us as well. Notice after midnight up until about 6 00 a. M. Well see areas of large heavy rainfall spreading across the entire north bay and down into San Francisco, so its going to be a challenging morning commute, but it gets even worse as we go into the midday hours and into midafternoon. Well see areas of heavy rain over the entire area. The areas of orange represent the heavier rainfall and red represents the heaviest rains so you can see the evening commute tomorrow is just going to be a mess. We also have a high wind watch in effect from 11 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. And gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour and downed trees and power lines are possible and a Flash Flood Watch is in effect for the burn scar areas in the santa cruz money tabs and coastal areas south of monterrey and flash flooding possible. Ill give you a cl
This is going to take a while to work itself out so that is the concern. If you are about to leave the house, you might want to brace yourself for still having a slowdown, but it is going to be opening up and picking up. So were happy to tell you that. This is livermore. This is at the Altamont Pass. This is headed into oakland and San Francisco so people coming from tracy, from the Central Valley, its because of potholes that they had to repair. They started working on this at noon yesterday, so thats how long this has been in place. But of course the concern was this morning commute but look at this. Light at the end of the tunnel if youre in that backup. It is going to open up. Traffic starting to move again. Happy to report that for you this morning. Happy tuesday, everyone. Reporting live in livermore, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Lets go over to select. Amy reports that things are Getting Better but that doesnt mean that people are going to have a great time coming up. If youre in