traffic flow, slowing from fremont through newark and the east bay, facebook a band mark over there, nice light drive through palo alto. the south bay shows a little build as well and i want to show you the quick look at the golden gate bridge, lower clouds hovering around the area. kari, i saw the zipper truck it went across there, that s about 50 minutes late so we have lanes prepared for the morning commute. friday light maybe? here is an update on hurricane florence. we continue to give you more updates oen this as it has just made landfall this morning, as a category 1 hurricane, in wilmington, north carolina. here is a look at the storm right now, we ve deployed our storm ranger from our philadelphia station, and we are getting live updates of what the rain bands are looking like, as this storm continues to make its way inland, and it s producing a very high storm surge. we can see the rain bands and so far, as we are getting the winds shifting, we are getting some ca
they re running a little behind schedule but i did speak to the owner beforehand and they re telling me they re going to be getting some good news as far as when it comes to this bidding process as the state parks department has decided to put a hold on the bid at least for the moment. so that s good news for the angel island ferry. at least moving forward. now, remember just last year there was a request for proposals for a new operator. there was this bidding proposal war i guess you could say going on and the family that owns this company actually declined to submit a proposal because it would have required some of the new operators to spend millions of dollars in upgrades. the state parks department wanted to get a 20-year lease for this new operator but the only bidder we were able to confirm was the blue and gold fleet. the community did step in to help out. you had two state law marksz steppi lawmakers stepping in calling the process unfair saying it tilted to larger p
theest eastern city of dnipro and zaporizhzhia as well. officials say at least five people have been killed, at least 12 injured. we re still waiting for more numbers on that. video here, this is a pedestrian bridge in kyiv, a nearby strike damaging it with this explosion here. a missile also hit a children s playground. you can see the crater that it left here. the mayor of kyiv is warning people to shelter in place. this morning the russian president, vladimir putin, held a national security council meeting after accusing ukraine of carrying out a terror attack that damaged that bridge that links russia and russian occupied crimea. take a listen. translator: we have no doubt that this is a terrorist attack aimed at the destruction of the critical infrastructure of the russian federation. and authors, executors and master minds are the secret service of ukraine. ukrainian officials have not claimed responsibility. meanwhile, there is growing concern that russia is gear
it s 6:00 in london. let s talk about one of the big stories of the morning twitter. let s bring you the share price. you can see it on the screen beside me. dick costolo is out as ceo, back comes jack dossey. the man who sent the first ever tweet back in 2006 can he dragged more revenue out of the business? let s put this in the long-term perspective and show you how the share prices are over a longer time. . a longer time period. the expectation was built up around this since november, 2013. the stock closed at 35.84. let s move on to talk about something else that is greece . it seems that the diplomatic niceties have once of again evaporated in brussels. greece has been told to stop fighting its creditors demands, and the imf is talking about major differences between them and the greek delegation. we have some great guests who will be able to add to the conversation about greece. we are also going to be talking about tennis, because it is friday. how can that s
tribute to the former tribute to the former england manager, graham taylor, who has died aged 72. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. just eight days before he takes office as president there is still no sign to an end to the strained relations between donald trump and the chiefs of america s intelligence. james clapper has rejected suggestions that official agencies may have leaked the claims that russia had compromising material about donald trump. in a statement, james clapper said he had called the president elect to say the leak had not come from the intelligence services. christian fraser reports. eight days from now, donald trump goes into battle as the next commander in chief. never before has an incoming president been warring on so many fronts. not you, not you. your organisation is terrible. let s go. go ahead. quiet. he is in conflict with the press, the ethics committee, pharmaceutical and defence industries, some of his own senators, and of course the inte