Anna a very good morning, everybody. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Lets talk about what is in catalonia and what impact that is happening on the markets. The euro down a little bit. Catalan separatist parties taking back control of the regional parliament. A very bad performance by the peoples party. Night for the local opposition. This doesnt necessarily take us any closer to independence, but the spanish Political Drama into used to unfold. Continues to unfold. We will watch for the yields on catalan bonds. The broader equity picture looks positive. A little bit in the asian session. We had some pretty threatened trading. Friday before christmas, fairly thin trading in the asian market. The 10 year yield is unchanged. Recovery. E treasury a little weakness in the yields. Billion, the strongest demand there since august 2012. Some people in the markets looking to protect their portfolio from inflation and perhaps to dual to do with the tax deal. At bitcoin. Oking it has fallen si
In the south bay, you can see it is headed through palo alto with some showers and it will be raining a little bit down there, as well. It will be pretty much on and off all day with a cloudy start and light showers and more showers later today. Dont put your umbrellas away and keep your rain boots out. Rain off and on this week. You might as well keep them out all week. Jaclyn . Slowdowns for drivers along the east shore freeway. This is a motorcycle crash that just came in a couple of minutes ago and quickly backed up traffic almost two highway 37. You are in for a slow ride and we are looking at delays of about 11 minutes from the parkway to the cartagenes bridge , a 17 minute ride with emergency crews on the bridge. East bound, if you are going that way, be prepared. When you get past that on the east for on the east shore freeway, you are in the green to the bay bridge toll plaza. Quite the backup is developing due to the shift change with cash lanes backed up. In the green to San
The afternoon hours. Off and on rain and dont put away your umbrellas. That is the long and short of it. It will be a rainy week. Rain is making its way to the bay area and there are concerns in the north bay with neighborhoods hitting hard and now they are in danger was sinkholes, flooding and mudslides. Jessica flores is in santa rosa with a warning. Reporter good morning. We are in the fountaingrove community that was devastated by the fire. You can see a lot of homes are left with rubble and ash. A lot of homes are standing and the residents living inside those homes, but officials are telling those folks to be prepared to evacuate over concerns about sinkholes, mudslides and possible flooding as we go to the rainy season. The rain is expected to pick up later today. Wildfires melted underground plastic pipes running through fountaingrove and that left a void underground. 14 footwide sinkhole is already in the community. This could lead to more sinkholes and officials are keeping t
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Thats my first point. My second point is its going to be relatively easy to field. Again, we discussed this in email before the panel. Most Autonomous Systems today are still stationary, both. Why . Because movement for Autonomous Systems is complex. Its difficult. You have object avoidance. You have lots of different types of capability. Now the most oldest autonomous Weapon System on the planet is the land mine. Now some people would say its semiautonomous because of the way it works, but if you want to go into detail, if you take the acoustic land mines deployed in the 1950s and 1960s, there were Small Computers on board on enemy ships and they would only target enemy vessels with a particular acoustic signature. They were actually, i think, the first really solid autonomous Weapon Systems in the world. Those have been around for a long time. However, they dont actually go around and try to find targets. That adds a level of complexity, which is huge. So the autonomous machine guns