50s to start and 78 at noon. Mike, youre taking us back to the altamont. I am, 580 westbound we have your typical volume of traffic from this shot from dublin. We had early problems getting here out of the altamont pass. The first crash cleared at north flynn road and the paving work down to just one lane but the crash at grant line road involving two trucks are the only issue. Back to you, marcus. Just in to our newsroom, theres one less contender in the race for president , in the last few minutes new york city mayor bill de blasio announcing is he dropping out of the race. De blasio actually made that announcement live onmans morning joe. Hes shown badly in the polls and taking a lot of heat from new yorkers about dividing his attention between the needs of the city and the race many believed he just could not win. Now to the explosive whistleblower complaint from inside the Trump Administration and the controversy is only getting bigger this morning. So its about a phone call betwe
Blocking right now your left two lanes, the fast lane travel south to the Golden Gate Bridge. We see slowing, no major injuries so we hope that clears quickly. Visibility is just fine in the area as well. A crash over there San Pablo Dam road onramp to westbound 80 is the issue. Small crash not affecting the upper east shore as well. Highway 4 moves smoothly, a slowing through bay point and slow west 580 the crash blocks one lane as you approach airway. West 580s aa big rig blocking the slow lane, maybe up to another half hour before they get the tow truck there. I hope its the right sized rig. The south bay starts slowing, ill check on 280 for the crash. Thanks, mike. To the explosive whistleblower complaint from inside the Trump Administration and the troefrcontroversy is ge bigger, about a phone call between the president and thor. The Washington Post reports the Complaint Centers on ukraine as House Democrats are investigating the role of trumps personal lawyer rudy giuliani. Theyr
Annville builders were digging when they cut through a 12,000 volt line. No one was hurt but 22,000 customers were thrown into the dark. The outage extended west of here to the twin peaks neighborhood and up toward the ballpark. Trafficna out in number of places. Drivers had to treat intersections as fourway stops which slowed things down and in places officers directing traffic. Above ground muni was not impacted but the subway between west portal was shut down because the computers lost power. Those trains are now back up and running. Here is a live look at the pg e outage map. 330 customers still without power. It is in the small sliver in the Mission Bay Neighborhood north of where im at. It is not estimated when they expect to get the lights back on and given the fact this is going on for three hours and getting rapidly getting customers restored. But out here pg e is still here trying to fix the problem. The utility tells us that annville builders did call 811 to locate undergrou
Biographer talk about president ial politics. Go and to cspan. Org for the complete schedule. Next, the impact of the 2016 campaign. This roundtable with analysts was held at the Steamboat Institute freedom conference. Im going to introduce my wonderful candidates. They are very brave to participate in this conversation. This is a very divisive electionyear. Strong feelings about both candidates. So we have a diversity of opinions. The goal is not to change who to let your, it is understand the discussion that is going on right now. Ted of ahat, we have National Consulting company. He serves on the board of a ton of nonprofits. The third way Citizen Engagement board. And i hear he is an incredible rooftop garden or and has a knack for crawling things that dont normally grow in colorado. Next to him we have james toronto. An editor of the editorial board. Read his bestave of the web column. His entire living based on Critical Thinking and he has a taste in cigars and probably is singleh
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. We are here today to discuss afghanistan, as you know. In one sense, it is still a time of year. Hopeful. L 15 years into the afghanistan 9 11,n and 15 years after we know there is an ongoing very struggle throughout the broader middle east and in. Fghanistan is itself we are glad you came to join in this discussion. There are couple of words i want to say before introducing the panelists. The approach here is to have a broad discussion framed by each of them. We will talk amidst ourselves and then go to you for our question. All want to commemorate and and the victims of 9 11, this the families, soldiers and marines. In the and everyone else Intelligence Community who have worked so hard, offered a great sacrifice. It is just a day and moment to reflect and honor them since we are approaching 9 11. Second, in the way of commemorating big event, i want my colleague who has been the Communications Director who is leaving brookings after toda