Maloney, Deputy Director of Brookings Foreign Policy Program and following the conversation theyll take questions from the audience. Live coverage is here on cspan2. Cspan2. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for braving the aftermath of cyclone bomb and polar vortex. Im the director for middle east policy and welcome to everyone in the room and everyone joining us on the brookings webcast and via cspan at home. We have an extremely important topic this morning and an excellent panel to discuss it. We often have debates on middle east policy on interests and what the u. S. Should do in terms of immediate policy and pursuing its interest and we often have debates what the u. S. Should do in terms of its values promoting its vision of the good life, its vision of what the world should look like and once in a while an issue that very clearly encapsulates both and this is one of them. It pertains directly to some of the most important policy issues regarding the middle east in recent years
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Its tapping into moisture so we have something to work with and its on track for some rain in the north. Maybe about a halfinch and after that a quarter inch and a third of an inch. As a move south, it should listen a little bit. If we can hold on to rain tonight down through the santa cruz mountains, that would be a victory for everyone. Low clouds and drizzle are making a push. Most people are in the 50s for the temperatures. Wind west and southwest at 20. Low clouds and fog. The tropical clouds, a major train if you may train into this. We are looking for a mostly cloudy day and rain later on. 60s and 70s. Good morning. I thought of you yesterday when i did not wash my car. Im going to wait until the rain passes through. By saturday i can wash it, right . Absolutely. Thank you. Here is a look at 580 westbound. 580 is a little slow and so is 205 at the altamont pass. If youre driving to livermore and pleasanton it is a nice drive with no problems up to the castro valley. Interstate 8
Increase in the people driving from tracy to the bay area to the jobs. We certainly always had the traffic but now we have a lot more traffic on 205 and 580, slow driving through with low speeds. A look at the livermore area, i want to say hello to Richard Meyer who says he needs more highway 4 love. I am happy to oblige. If you want to get out to highway 4 it is a little bit slow at the west end of antioch driving into pittsburg. Not slow yet and conquered, 680 looks good down to walnut creek. The highway 4 commute is an early commute we see quite a bit. San jose looking okay. At the corner of the story road and white road is a good area to avoid because there is a two alarm structure fire in that area. 880 in oakland traffic looking good in both directions. At the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is light, a few slowdowns but nothing major. 5 01 am. In Contra Costa County, the armed standoff with the police is happening right now at the home on nottingham drive near the San Pablo Dam ro
As we take a look at the numbers, 58 in San Francisco, and inside the bay into the upper 70s and low 80s. Pointing to the east bay, concord at 90, livermore is 97. Concord was one of those areas that benefited from the seabreeze early on in the morning but it has since pulled back to be another hot day. For many of us around the bay, along the coast and inland not as hot as yesterday. Antioch at 102, no relief for you today. They are already hot and looking at temperatures above 100. Looking at the 24 hour temperature change, around the bay down by 11 degrees in oakland, the northbay down by 12, and fairfield and concord down by five or 8 degrees. Livermore is warmer than yesterday, and the heat advisory goes through thursday, through thursday evening. The National Weather service is addicting this heat will not let up and that includes inland, but not the coast or bayside communities, but everybody else will be hot throughout the next few days. Temperatures leveling off today and tomo