ideological stuff. it was the way they worked. sitting inside that bubble realizing what an incredible bubble you were in. the complete unawareness of real consequences just in the few cases i thought i had some sense of what they were. i didn t come out of the court it took me a long time to get to the views. we were in law school at the same time. he was a year behind me. we had this argument at the time. i was a staunch defender of judicial supremacy at the time. he was not then. i m still not. well you know, took a long time to come around. a lot of it was because of the kinds of arguments urwin makes. which i don t dismiss. there is a really hard judgment obviously there are benefits from having the unaccountability as part of the mix. the question is how much do we need? we ve gone way further than we need to with my view. there is some notion that the court is anything other than aal hundred pound political gorilla and always has been. we don t need to be afrai
ethanol use is one of the contributing factors and at least allow them the tphreubgsability to make that decision. fuel use has always been an issue in considering how to meet ozone standards and the agency and the states have balanced the various requirements that congress has laid out on fuel use against other options they have. it will be an on going conversation and i take your point. appreciate that. and the other issue deals with the foreign importation of some of the fuels coming in. some senators have brought it up before and it s a concern folks have to ask the question if this was about protecting the environment and american energy options was the intent and that was clear in the statute as well, the more we allow foreign implementation of the fuels, how that affects the amounts and targets, if a target is going to be set and a third of it is going to be fulfilled by foreign, should that be included? is the target number for domestically produced or all that is
we will start in where we have the flooding in and around napa and sonoma. saint helena. the napa river is expected to go above flood stage by nine this morning. expected to reach almost 19 feet. flood stage is 16. you can expect flooding. going through today. it s expected to go down tonight. for the napa area it s expected to reach just above flood stage about noontime today. minor flooding expected in the napa river in the lower areas. be careful. a widespread flash flood watch until four this afternoon for ponding on the water. mudslides and we are seeing it. rapid rises on the streams, creeks and rivers. here is where we are experiencing flooding for today. sonoma. our creeks are flooded. here is a look at where we are seeing more along the creeks. sonoma and shellville. we are seeing some flooding again with areas along river and the napa creek. north bay being hit hard by this system. also a flood advisory in the east bay. be prepared for the flooded roadways. we know
we do have a flood warning already in place. especially for areas oaf the north bay. the napa river at saint hel ena is at 14 feet expected to reach almost 19 feet by nine this morning. that s above flood stage. expect minor to moderate flooding especially fort lower end of saint helena. expect it to go to 25.3 feet by noontime. flood stage is 25 feet. expect minor flooding later today in and around the napa river in napa. the flash flood watch for the north bay as well as the coast can and in to the santa cruz mountains goes until four this afternoon. that means expect ponding of water on the roadways. expect the minor flooding. expect the slides and of course the rise in our streams and creeks and rivers. here is a look at what we are talking about just a moment ago. the napa river and creek going to be flooding. this is where the flood warning goes from saint helena to american canyon and we are seeing good flooding this morning. take it easy. when it s dark it s really ha
already causing problems up north of the golden gate bridge and we have strong winds and possible mudslides that could impact your morning drive. and the big legal showdown later today over the president s travel ban. we will tell you about the very important federal appeals court hearing in san francisco. mornings on 2 continues. this is ktvu mornings on 2. we are already see age lot of problems on the bay area. look at that. that s a huge tree down this morning. this is a live look in redwood city. our photographer keith crook captured this right now showing this this is on skyline boulevard at elk tree way. elk tree road that is. huge tree block the road there. there are mudslides. yeah. closing nine and 152 in santa cruz. flood warnings. up along the napa river. strong winds. yeah. wind across the bridges in particular. a lot of standing water. that is our top story this morning on tuesday february 7th. him the bay area has storms again. we are watch