Finally letting up for drivers getting out of San Francisco. Here is a live look at the San Francisco sky way whereas you can see the the headlights are moving quickly. About 9 35 the sky way was still crawling with some drivers reporting it took nearly an hour to get to the bay bridge let alone to cross it. And here is a live look from our yerba buena camera. The cars are on the right and the taillights are making their way toward oakland. Things have thinned up there as well. The chp says people are slowing down to take a look at the new eastern span, but once they are past it, the traffic does pick up. Good evening, everyone. Im carolyn johnson. Dan ashley is off tonight. The back up on city streets in San Francisco approaching the onramp to the bay bridge has been frustrating who expected a return to normalcy after the bridge reopened on monday. Transportation reporter heather ishimaru is at first and harrison for us. Heather . The congestion did clear up markedly around 9 00. Up u
Same have all been up against the same enemy, the same opponent, threatening everyone in much the same way but members of the un have still waged 193 separate campaigns as if every country somehow contains as if every country somehow contains a different species of human being. Across the world there has been an infinite variety of curfews and restrictions and closures and we thought in a spirit of, the pace has been so intense that each national government, democracy 01 been so intense that each national government, democracy or otherwise, has decided entirely understandably to put the interests of its domestic population first. We have seen borders spring up between friends and allies, sometimes without consultation. We have seen the destruction of Global Supply chains with cheque book was on airport tarmac as nations by with nations
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Compelling american interest. This will come down to the house gop. Hearing testimony from john kerry and chuck hagel. The administrations policy doesnt build confidence. This is beyond republican and democrat. I have yet to hear concrete things of what the world is doing. I do, however, have serious concerns. I have many questions. What are our interests there . First of all, the world set a red line, i did not set a red line. President obama says he retains the right to use force. Well talk about red line, at this critical moment for u. S. Foreign policy. The resolution authorizing military action in syria was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today by a vote of 107, with one senator voting present. The resolution would limit any military strikes to 60 days with the possibility of a 30day extension. I would expressly ban the use of ground troops. The resolution also includes wording offered by john mccain that would explicitly change the policy as to making the condi
He did not buy a zune . We want to begin on a serious note. A lot to cover when it comes to syria. President obama on a collision course with putin. The president says he will continue to engage his russian counterpart at the g20 summit on syria, though they have, quote, hit a wall. The group will have working sessions and even dinner later tonight. The pleasantries as you might imagine have already begun. Putin yesterday called out secretary kerry accusing him of, quote, lying and he knows that hes lying. This is sad. Putin was referring to testimony where secretary kerry down played al qaedas role within the syrian opposition. But its called for an International Strike against syria, president obama is nding the claims the red lines are his alone. First of all, i didnt set a red line. The world set a red line. The world saet a red line when governments representing 98 of the worlds population said the use a of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty informati forbidding th
Congressman asked mr. Kerry, is there al qaeda, people say they have gotten stronger. He said, no, i say officially they arent there. The main combat unit, alnusra, is a unit of al qaeda. They know about this. This is not pleasant for me to see this. While we communicate them and assume they are decent people he lies openly and knows that he lies. This is sad. Bill chief white who is correspondent ed henry on the north lawn starts our coverage. You wonder how comfortable whether it will be for the president today. Is white house reacting to putins accusation there . Reporter they are. To raise doubts whether the assad regime which he is close to was really behind the horrible chemical weapons attack on august 21st. Raising doubt about the al qaeda in the rebel groups and maybe the rebels would behind the chemical weapons attack. White house says they believe there are moderate elements of the rebels, Syrian Rebels and they think putin is flatout wrong. It will get awkward. June, presid