true. i am not the new guy any more. here is a look at nbc three hours, nothing is falling from the high clouds outside. we have calm conditions, we are waking up warmer this morning a lost mid-50s to low 60s and a beat enough day you will want the sun glances. 64 to 72 and by 4:00, 64 to 78, warmer this afternoon. i thought you were confused, mike, with the squinting. just kidding. good morning, at 5:00, we are look at the picture of the bay bridge toll plaza with a few cars waiting to pay cash and the rest of the lanes are moving fine. mass transit is fine with no delays for barts muni or ace train one is a couple of minutes early. on the altamont pass, we have slow-and-go traffic from tracy at 29 miles per hour, 32 when you are closer to greenville and beyond it and out of the pass, we are looking at top speeds to the dublin interchange. develop news, three drifters are arrested in portland for the murder of a well-known yoga instructor are in jail, 24-year-o
if somebody is a law abiding citizen who is going about their business and working in a job and obeying the traffic signs and doing all the other things good citizens are supposed to do, and not harming anybody, the idea that they are going to be treated differently or abused because of who they love is wrong. meantime president uhuru kenyatta offered a reply to president obama s remarks. emselves do not accept. this is why i say for kenyans today the issue of gay rights is really a nonissue. we want to focus on other areas that are day to day living for our people. cnn s jim accosta is with the president. jim, the president made the remarks because a reporter asked him a question as it pertained to sexual orientation and fwa right gay rights. was this an awkward moment for the president knowing the history of kenya as far as how it treats gay people? i don t know if it was an awkward moment but it was a moment where you saw big timpbs differences between president ob
for other gop candidates to do the same. why? so that the voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive conservative alternative to the current front runner. a not so veiled jab at donald trump. will others follow suit? plus the price of a drug that helps aids patients rises by 5,000%. there have been much larger incareer increases by bigger drug companies. a move hillary clinton calls outrageous. let s talk live in the cnn newsroom. good morning. i m carol costello. thank you for joining me. next hour republican ben carson takes to the stage and tries to step out of the shadow of his controversial vow that he could never support a muslim for president. first he doubled down. now he s backing off, at least a little. and his republican opponents are forced to go on record. first carson s latest comments on fox news. absolutely i stand by the comments. if, for instance, you believe in a thetheocracy, i don t care ifu are a christian.
the health care vote just got even tighter. two more republican defections and this sucker is done again. how is health care coming, folks? all right, we re moving along? plus the peacemaker, president trump, meeting with the palestinian leader today after saying this about the middle east peace. there is no reason there s not peace between israel and the palestinians, none whatsoever. we are going to begin this morning with fbi director james comey on the hill in just one hour. you know he is going to get questions about how russia may have meddled in our election but what about his own influence on the outcome? we ve got a great team to help me break it down this morning and i want to take you first to nbc s mike vicara like on capitol hill. michael, what are we expecting today? reporter: i m just outside the senate judiciary committee. folks are lining up waiting for this much-anticipated testimony. fbi director james comey for the first time testifying before he
wiretapped him. two months ago over trump s baseless allegation of obama and the times going a step fert. further. a source close to the president says the presidentexp. it made me nauseous to think we had an impact on the election. other sources say the president ultimately concluded that comey was quote his own man. fiercely independent. ultimately firing him for never providing personal loyalty and the russian investigation was k acceleratin accelerating. he looked for more resources from the justice department a week before. this as the white house continues to change the narrative on how the president reached his decision. initially touting deputy attorney general rod ro rosenstein s letter as the reason comey should be fired. the president took the advice of the deputy attorney general who oversees the director of the fbi. brought the concerns to the attorney general who brought them to the president. reporter: the president s explanation changes yesterday.