Hi, don. Hi, suzanne. Thank you very much. Im don lemon. Brooke is off today. The eyes of the world are focusing now on the white house. Within the next hour, congressional leaders will begin to arrive for what is likely to be a very tense meeting with the president. This is perhaps the final effort to avert the tax increase that is expected to cost the average family several thousand dollars a year. Four days remain to reach an agreement, get it passed by the house and the senate and signed into law by the president. Were talking a long shot here. Now, want to show you the players. President , there in the middle, democrats nancy pelosi and harry reid. Republicans Mitch Mcconnell and john boehner. Those four members of congress are expected to make the drive from the capital, which you see on the right, down pennsylvania avenue, to the white house, there on the left. And we expect them to enter through a side door on the west side of the mansion. Thats the entrance right there. And th
There is a president leaving hawaii and now he and congress have to figure out what to do about the upcoming fiscal cliff. We are taking it outside, this is the roof cam from downtown San Francisco. We are still lit up over this and its as the skyline. We are enjoying clear skies and the mergers are in the 40s. Dry, sunny conditions into the afternoon. We will continue to see mostly clear skies as we head into tonight. It is kind of cold out there, out 40 in vallejo and fairfield. Oakland and San Francisco coming in at 47 degrees. Were expecting mainly low 50s today well talk about how much rain we are expecting coming up in my next report. We continue to look at light traffic at bay area bridges. We have just a bit of a delay in the lefthand cassoulet and likely associated with the shift change with toll takers. The east bay and south bay peninsula still have light traffic on the freeways. The time is 6 01 a. M. And one person is that after an officer involved shooting in walnut creek
male announcer live from the bay area this is the kron 4 morning news. Quern for his act 4 a. M. Stats now. Beatty as take a look gallant can solicit the flightcosting think it this morning erica. The we are now of julyb could get mid to upper 30s and some of the protective Valley Spirit temperatures could hit the freezing mark. The frost could certainly develop and manage to scrape your windshield wipers. Satellite and radar shows High Pressure building in over the area. That will last briefly because we have more wet weather heading our way. Futurecast 4 shows into a a. M. Tomorrow morning really not too much to contend with a blow to cloudy skies. As we set the clock into motion a stray showers for santa rosa. The rain off shore is pushing its way close to ocean beach and San Francisco. The shower activity will develop later tomorrow nigh you can see by 5 00 p. M. A lot of folks heading home from work. Could become a moderate to heavy rain over the Richmond San Raphael bay bridge ju
It is not a secret an injustice has been done. Now, Governor Perdue has an opportunity to right the wrong. We cannot go back to 1980. This is 2012. The North Carolina governor is being urged to pardon a group of civil rights activists were falsely convicted and imprisoned 40 years ago for the firebombing of a white owned Grocery Store. The conviction wic overturned in 1980, but the state has never pardon them. We will speak with one of the wilmington 10 who served eight years behind bars and it became head of the naacp. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is set to meet with congressional leaders at the white house just three days before a year in deadline to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. Some 600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases will take effect if no agreement is reached. Obama and the rest of republicans remain of the impasse over the republican refusal to allow ta
It is not a secret an injustice has been done. Now, Governor Perdue has an opportunity to right the wrong. We cannot go back to 1980. This is 2012. The North Carolina governor is being urged to pardon a group of civil rights activists were falsely convicted and imprisoned 40 years ago for the firebombing of a white owned Grocery Store. The conviction was overturned in 1980, but the state has never pardon them. We will speak with one of the wilmington 10 who served eight years behind bars and it became head of the naacp. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is set to meet with congressional leaders at the white house just three days before a year in deadline to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. Some 600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases will take effect if no agreement is reached. Obama and the rest of republicans remain of the impasse over the republican refusal to allow ta