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united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i m christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden s aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration s decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now from cnn s phil mattingly. reporter: president biden and his top economic officials have for several months made trying to do something, anything to dampen skyrocketing gas prices a central priority, if not the top priority both politically and economically for the administration. over the course of the summer they had a pretty good run, three months of consecutive drops. a run that was put i ....
We begin with a visit by pope francis to cuba. First a message for those that attended the mass. First, meetings with raul castro and former leader fidel castro. David ariosto is live for us. The visit comes on the heels of a major historic announcement from the u. S. Departments. How the u. S. Companies will do business. Hiring cuban employees. Feddism, ups taking the practice of whether or not the announcement was and put into play here. The person behind a lot of that is the man visiting, pope francis. Who showed up before an audience of several hundred thousands, touching on a variety of topics, it was clearly an historic moment. Its early on sunday morning in havana. What usually is a quiet relaxed time in the capital is filled with music and celebration. The reason pope francis is here in cuba to preside over mass for the faithful and those hoping to hear more from the man who helped form relations with their old enemy, the Unite ....
Background checks. Reporter parents arrived with grim faces. The school opened just a month ago promising to ignite students imagination. But the story that a 8yearold was molested by a teacher. The school board mostly said was silent for legal issues. All of our staff were background checked last friday. And were making sure that were following procedure. Reporter Santa Clara County office of Education Center are representative. It could revoke sparks charter but for now is ordering its closed until background records on staff are current. If its one day great, but if its five or longer its going to affect all these kids education. And that is wrong. Please lets keep this going. Reporter parents who worked hard to get the school open want this to be a bump in the road not the end of the end of the road. I want to make this clear that i want whatever failed be remedied. ....
Its a beautiful monday morning, though. Its clear or is that fog . Its out there. It will be here tomorrow. It will kick up later. Well start off very warm for most. Not all. There are a few 50s out there. But theres lot of 60s to near 70 degrees including many locations in San Francisco. Nicole, enough already, steve. My family has not slept in two nights, even the kids. Were in sf. We cant hang. Hang there one more day, nicole. This is karen in the marina. Good morning. 69 degrees in the marina, hanging there it is again cant wait for the cooldown. It will be here, 20degree drop. 50s, 60s to near 70. Tropical clouds. We talked about those last week. They are staying where we thought they would in Southern California. Could be a lot of rain from l. A. To phoenix again. This system to the north will sweep in. That will enhance the fog. That will cool us down but not until ....
So, the northeast wind is going to help keep things cloudy and cool, only low 70s by 2 00 this afternoon. Thats about as high as its going to get. Well see if its going to warm up later in the week with the sevenday in a few minutes. Glenn, right now were on the schuylkill expressway where we have an accident scene around glad win on the westbound side. So we can see this Police Activity in here. Not allowing traffic to move by. So we have a backup in there and now 35 minutes on the westbound side from the vine street expressway up to the blue route and thats about a 13 minute trip or so. Were adding on a good amount of time. This is the backup behind that accident on 95 south bound around cottman avenue. A little ways around around academy, slow going, traffic barely moving. We do have two lanes open on the right side of that accident so they are allowing traffic to get by but we have a huge backup and this drive time is also ab ....