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Here, nice and clear no fog out there and guess what good air quality on top of it too so do venture out there and enjoy what will be some pleasant weather yet again for this wednesday. Temperatures are a little cooler this morning for many of us oakland dublin, livermore up into the north bay all down into the 50s specially know where the the north bay. I am talking what to expect later today and a much hotter and drier weekend just around the corner and the rest of your forecast. Robin all right. Thank you john for checking in on the bridges because they are quite busy. We have lots of crowding on the san mateo bridge. Westbound 92 is packed right now rolling out a hayward you see all the taillights going west here are urging about 13 minutes so just a small stretch of slow traffic on the flat section. We also have a long line at the bay bridge toll plaza its packed in cash lanes of fast track lanes spilling all the way back to west grand so 11 minutes and growing. Weve got several m
Im delighted to be home. Host all told, how many years of your reporting career or percentage have you spent overseas . Pamela i guess,close to half. First with the boston globe, i worked for a number of years in latin america. That was close to a decade. Then, off and on with the washington post, it comes out to be close to a decade. Host when you decided on journalism, how did you gravitate toward a foreign reporting . Pamela well, my earliest interest in journalism was more about domestic issues. Poverty, drug addiction, social ills, you might say. I did a lot of work on that in the early years. Then i guess, i dont know, i traveled overseas as a tourist, to unusual places, and i began to think some of these same issues were definitely there and more and the struggles and problems were deeper and broader. And i just wanted to try that. Host what special skills does it take to be a Foreign Affairs journalist, as opposed to someone working domestically . Pamela i mean, there is a numb