And will bring you live updates throughout the newscast. More people who were forced to evacuate by the wildfires and napa and Sonoma County are being allowed back to their neighborhoods. It is one of several indications that firefighters are beginning to get a handle on these fires. Evacuation orders were lifted last night for two neighborhoods in santa rosa. People living in geysers geyserville and healdsburg have been told they can return. These fires have claimed the lives of 41 people across four counties. Sonoma had more than half of the the terms. 102 people are still unaccounted for and sonoma and napa county. The latest person killed was the driver of the water truck that crashed in napa county yesterday morning. Heres the latest on the four major fires. The largest is now the nuns fire. 51,512 acres. Containment is at 53 . This fire is a few Hundred Acres bigger than the atlas fire south of Lake Berryessa which is 70 contained. Tubbs fire in the calistoga area has burned more
Well, good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome you all today. I am peter russo, i am the director of Congressional Affairs at the Cato Institute and i want to thank you all for coming. You were at a capitol Hill Briefing entitled major tax reform in 2017. Before we begin, if youre watching via cspan or the live stream and would like to join the conversation, wed love to hear from you, so please tweet comments and questions to us and our panel at catoevents. Catoevents. This spring the Mercatus Center released this, if youd like additional copies, please contact me after the program, ill be happy to hook you guys up. Mean while, fully searchable pdfs are available at cato. Org. There is a chapter in here on federal tax reform and the tax treatment of health care and as well as the importance of preserving global tax competition. With that i want to introduce catos Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies and editor of www. Governmentdownsizing. Org, before joining cato, senior
Bringing a breeze another day with below average temperatures. Low clouds Faber Santa Cruz coast and Santa Clara Valley and we will have mostly sunny conditions to the north. The breeze will be in place and another system drops in tomorrow and it looks like a pattern change of warm weather on the way toward the end of the week. Tonight dodgers are in town clear and a good breeze , 56 degrees at game time. Bundle up. Thomas smith blossom hill san jose, cool 44, my son is chasing naders in oklahoma. Focusing on Oklahoma City in the texas panhandle and Severe Weather watch paints oklahoma and texas were possible naders and Severe Weather. San Mateo Santa Cruz, northwest breeze should send this to the south and theres low clouds. Temperatures is called Ocean Temperatures are key, very cold bodega bay San Francisco buoy 40 and Half Moon Bay 52. That means chilly lows and in the city west southwest out of the delta so theres a breeze in place, 40s were some most locations are cool, 36 kelsey
80s with low 90s instead of 100s. What do we have . It is a nice early start if you are getting on the road in solano county, and so far looking pretty good with a little bit of roadwork, but off to a nice start if youre driving from fairfield in vallejo and continuing to the carquinez bridge. If youre driving on the east shore freeway down to the maccarthur maze this commute will take you 17 minutes and traffic is moving along okay with no major issues driving through. Looking at the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is moving along nicely. We have a couple of people in the cash lane lining up but for the most part a nicelooking drive. It is 4 31 am. Firefighters battling the wildfires, hot temperatures and dry conditions across the state and the alamo fire has burned almost 24,000 acres and one structure was destroyed with 100 others being threatened. The fire began thursday afternoon and is 15 contained. Mandatory evacuations have an issue and the red cross has set up a release shelter.
Morning . Still pretty quiet which is nice, just the way we like it. Looking at the tracy commute the traffic just a little bit better than normal on 580 through tracy. Getting a little bit suspicious with no real slow traffic which is good. Maybe we are beginning to get some vacations in july because the traffic is slow but not as slow as generally is. From livermore to pleasanton it continues to look good out to hayward. 880 oakland in both directions traffic moving well. Here is a cool shot. Lets move along to the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic moving well in both directions. Looking good from San Francisco to oakland as well. It is 5 01 am. Breaking news out of San Francisco this morning, the police are at the scene of a deadly shooting and the officers are investigating what was happening and while doing so a police car was attacked and we talk about the shooting in vandalism that occurred afterward. Reporter good morning. We are at 24th street and mission, a San Francisco me bitt