And france declares monday a national day of mourning following the death of former president , Jacques Chirac. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7 in the evening in washington where white house officials stand accused of trying to bury evidence that President Trump abused his power by asking a foreign leader to help him smear a political rival. The allegations came in a letter from a whistleblower, which lawmakers had been asking to see for weeks. They called mr trumps top intelligence officialJoseph Maguire to explain to them why he had initially refused to share the information with them. Our north america editor jon sopel reports. Joseph maguire is a man whos spent his career living in the shadows. Not any more. The evidence that the acting director of National Intelligence is giving today could have a critical bearing on the future of Donald Trumps presidency following that contested call with ukrainian leader. I have a feeling that your country is going t
Following the death of former president , Jacques Chirac. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1 in the morning in london and 8 in the evening in washington where white house officials stand accused of trying to bury evidence that President Trump abused his power by asking a foreign leader to help him smear a political rival. The allegations came in a letter from a whistleblower, which lawmakers had been asking to see for weeks. They called mr trumps top intelligence officialJoseph Maguire to explain to them why he had initially refused to share the information with them. Our north america editor jon sopel reports. Joseph maguire is a man whos spent his career living in the shadows. Not any more. The evidence that the acting director of National Intelligence is giving today could have a critical bearing on the future of Donald Trumps presidency following that contested call with ukrainian leader. I have a feeling that your country is going to do fantastically well. Donald trump, who met
Gilroy at 40 degrees. There are 50s, including saratoga at 55. Los gatos at 57. San jose is at 53. There is enough of an off shore breeze and northerly breeze to keep this pattern going, which means probably another sixth day of record highs for many. There is a lot of fog in Southern California. Coastal variety. Not june bloom. Heading towards Santa Barbara and san luis obispo. Then it will run into resistance. Napa airport says 60. Fairfield is 59. Livermore is 57. One observation in oakland is 60. Berkeley lab is 63. City now 61 officially. I mean, the record is 77. They may get close to that if that continues. I dont see any reason why it wont. High pressure is here and not doing anything except getting us near record highs. 70s for just about everybody. 7 01. Sal, do you have good news, bad news, or what . I would say it is about the same. Traffic is beginning to normalize a little bit. I want to show you the traffic at the toll plaza will be backed up all the way to the maze whic
On a larger scale, there is measured concern about the snowpack in the sierra which provides about 35 of the states need. 13. 6 inches was the depth recorded. Thats 14 of the historic average. We have half a winter to go. So theres still time to see one or two atmospheric rivers. We do have some storms coming in a couple weeks. They might be warmer storms, subtropical storms. The storm levels may be high, we may not see much improvement with those storms. The water Valley District does have reserves. And imported water stored in southern california. The uncertainty of rain and snow has consumers mindful that another drought can never be ruled out. I think its just going to be an ongoing problem. Were definitely going to have to keep the conservation up no matter what, even if we do have a great winter. In san jose, david louie. In just the last hour, Homeland Security rated 77 Northern California businesses this week, searching for illegal workers. Department officials confirmed inspec
Thanks for joining us, im kristin zee in for ama daetz. Im dan ashley. For the first time in months, three california counties fall into the severe drought category, shown on this map in orange. And todays snow survey found the Sierra Snowpack at 14 of average while statewide its 27 of average. David louie is live with a look at the big picture and a glimpse of what we can expect this year. Theres no question people have been enjoying a string of warm and sunny days, heading out to trails and parks like this one. But there is concern that ha significant dry spell could imperil our water supply. However, the Water District says its a bit early to use word drought. The reservoirs owned and operated bit valley Water District. Theyre primed to capture runoff. But stretchesf sun and warm temperatures have some people wondering about another drought. A trodrought means theres a wa supply shortage. We dont have a water shortage because of the good work our communitys done to conserve water. O