that president carter gave in naming a building in texas after congressman brooks. in one of the things that the president said at the time was he is a new president, thought well if i just have one congressman that disagrees with me, i am the president of the united states. that is no big deal. and they found out that that one congressman was jack brooks. [laughter]. and that was a big deal. it talks about how president and congress work together and i think at this time, it is very important that we hear that message about how they work together. pleasedspecially tonight to ask congressman jack brooks son, jeff and his work in hethe financial industry and all size companies for more than three decades. he started his career at citibank until one and rose to vice president of citigroup s international securities and then he is currently the managing partner of pinewood trading fund. and he is the chairman of the jack brooks foundation which provided wonderful reception for n
coming up on the on-ramp north of there is where the crash blocks all lanes of northbound 17 and this is a problem coming out of the santa cruz mountains. on the maps, kris sanchez is there getting more information and north 17 is fine out of the summit and highway 85 approaching hamilton. that is where the freeway is closed. you have to use baskom or winchester and meridian will take you toward the area and slowing on 280 and more folks skr jumping in. keep that in mind. and keep your waze on for the closure. the south bay and the bay moving well. i have little bits showing up on the radar but calmer this morning. much calmer this morning. a big storm coming in in the near term and the rain during the overnight hours starting to taper off and of moving out of the bay area. so we are going to see mostly clear skies. very cold temperatures behind that front that moves through yesterday. looking at san jose and the trend for the rest of the day, temperatures dipping into th
it is about to be loaded up and taken away. so for the time being, one lane of traffic northbound on highway 17 is open. the rest of the lanes are still closed. we have heard reports of drivers going through the where they are not supposed to. be aware if you do that you put yourself in danger and law enforcement in danger and because the freeway is closed because they are trying to clear the scene. this all happened around 3:15, 3:30 this morning. but, again, one more instance of somebody getting on to the freeway going in the wrong direction. we don t know why. at this point chp telling us they don t believe that alcohol or drugs were a factor. so we don t know, again, where this driver got on in the wrong direction in the first place. we will let you know. we re in communication with mike inouye to make sure you know when the roadway is open and your commute could get back to normal. in campbell, kris sanchez, today in the bay. tragic start to the day there. let s
wrong way on a wrong side of the freeway. think about that as you are driving on the roads this morning. five miles potentially. the rest of the bay showing a nice smooth drive out of the tri-valley. no major problems. late traffic flow including at the bay bridge toll plaza so that is your friday treat right now. back to you. thanks, mike. looking good. all right. a deluge of rain yesterday. dry but cold this morning. it is dry and cold but yesterday was crazy, wasn t it. we had snow and hail and heavy rain and lightning and all of that. so now we have a quiet morning. but it is very chilly. let s get a look at current temperatures right now. and we have some mid to upper 30s around the bay area as you head out on this friday morning. stepping out of the door in concord, we have upper 30s for you and there will be peaks of sunshine as we reach the lower 50s. todays high temperature reaching into the mid-50s for some areas like santa rosa, but most of us in the lower 50s.
donovan, his book, shoot for the moon, the extraordinary voyage of apollo 11, mr. donovan before we get to july of 1969, let s start 1957, 1958, what was the effect on this country? the first artificial satellite created a sensation in this country. people went crazy. they somehow out science to us. we were stunned. people started wondering what was next, bombs coming down, nuclear bombs from the next larger satellite? space stations with nuclear missiles. it created nasa a year later, we had to respond somehow. it was the height of the cold war, which a lot of people now do not understand how tense everything was. a lot of people thought world war iii was starting. to the fact that sputnik happened, did we have a space program at all at that point? space might be stretching it. we had a satellite program. you may of heard burner from ground, that was a nazi in charge of the v2 program for germany. we scooped him up and a lot of other scientists and engineers and brough