the afternoon, mid 60s san francisco to mid 70s inland. next two days pretty mild. the rain picks up for friday into saturday. we ll talk about the storm systems on the way. rob, still looking at the backup over there. the rest of the bay looks great. lighter flow of traffic. some folks got the day off, not many. traffic was light yesterday and looking like today as well. we ll take you out to some slowing for the tri-valley, south 680 through pleasanton and hayward for southbound 880, typical spots. but lighter than typical for this time on a wednesday. we re still watching for this on-ramp at hacienda to reopen. should be about 6:45 getting on to eastbound 580. the bay bridge toll plaza has backups, all lanes are filled but no problems out of the maze. back to you. flames erupt along a popular hiking trail and fire investigators want to know if it s connected to a string of suspicious fires in the east bay. today in the bay s bob redell is live where arson investigat
once that starts we re headed back to school. it s like everything winds dow down. seemed like the fun kind of ends. summer fun feeling, and it s like back to business. it is, back to school shopping and back to school and before football season beginning, all of these that s something to look forward to. that is it manuel avilay .eople excited about that many people are skate excited about that. humidity and temperatures fell into the 60s overnight. 57 reagan national and 67 out at dulles international and bwi, marshall coming in 68. so, we actually despite the hot day yesterday had a comfortable overnight. elsewhere, temperatures in the 6 0s and 70s. 65 virginia. nice morning for exercise or just taking the dog for a walk. satellite and radar clear. we re looking at a bright, sunny day. still a hot one, though, we re in the same pattern of the jet stream far off to the north. this sunday the setup remains the same. warm with temperatures in the 9 0s. still humidit
boris sanchez joins me from palm beach, florida, near trump s mar-a-lago resort. boris a lot going on this morning. reporter: yes. certainly a rapid fire series of responses from both trump, his team and russian leader vladimir putin. just in the past hour or so a look at the letter vladimir putin sent to donald trump today expressing a deep desire for bilateral work to be done between the united states and russia when it came to a series of diplomatic issues around the world. trump then put out his response and he writes in part, a very nice letter from vladimir putin. his thoughts are so correct. i hope both sides are able to live up to these thoughts and we do not have to travel an ultimate path. the language at the end there, fascinating. especially when you consider the rhetoric from trump just about 24 hours ago in that tweet you mentioned that he put out, specifically talking about expanding american nuclear capabilities. initially the trump camp came out and said
veteran ralph nadally says he would do can. he says america should not refuse his offer. america s news headquarters starts right now. arthel: and we begin with a fox news alert. three u.s. army rangers are killed and one wound inside an attack in eastern afghanistan. the taliban claiming credit after an afghan soldier reportedly targeted the u.s. service members in the shooting. john huddy is live from our mideast bureau with more. john? reporter: yeah. and, arthel, this is just another attack in which u.s. troops were targeted. in this case, an afghan soldier that turned his gun on the troops that he was training with, and so far we haven t heard anything from president trump about it, but we know that he has been briefed about this situation. now, it happened as we take a look at a map during a joint afghan/u.s. military operation in the achin district in eastern afghanistan, that s east of kabul. it s close to the pakistan border. and afghan officials say the shoote
and clearly the administration would love to get consensus on what to do about pongyang. consensus, frankly, arthel, talking to white house officials, an understanding that the u.s. will need to do what it needs to do but consult with partners here in the region before making any move on pongyang. the president is coming to apjanuary, part of an active trip to the asian peninsula. what a great day for him to be here and opportunity for the u.s. administration. after japan, off to south korea. the president will be in search after united front in north korea before making his way to beijing, where he is expected to pressure chinese president xi xinping and get tough on north korea. he will delay his trip at least a day before heading home. we are talking about another major agenda item on the table and that is trade. much talk about china but keep in mind the u.s. has a trade imbalance with japan as well. $51 billion, through the latest figures in august, the last month availa