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coast and bay. wood enjoying breakfast this morning in inverness. 58 and overcast. it is overcast on blossom hill and warmer at 62. yesterday was 78 degrees. i don t expect it to be much different today. maybe 79. low clouds in place and filling in nicely. in fact, temperatures starting off in the 40s, 50s, 60s. average 67 in san francisco. so above on both but not too much. 50s and 60s have been the norm all morning long due to the cloud cover. woodside at 49 degrees. 55 seems popular. hillsborough in there. atherton. menlo park. stanford, los altos hills. pacifica, 54. west, west, west. you get the idea. the west wind is in place. the low clouds will burn back and we will have 60s, 70s and 80s. these are below average, the inland temps. 7:01. sal, how is the traffic. let s talk about the east shore freeway and talk about the traffic time. 31 minute drive between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. not a bad one. slowing in richmond and el cerrito. gets be ....
announcer: this week on q&a, author simon sebag montefiore. he discusses his book, the romanovs. about the dynasty that ruled russia for over 300 years. brian: simon sebag montefiore, the book is called the romanovs: 1613-1918. i want to read your headline in the london daily mail. you wrote this back in january. simon: [chuckles] i did not actually wrote that. that s the headline by the daily mail headline writer. would say, it is the most outrageous and most explicit correspondence ever written by a head of state. i have to say the correspondence is so outrageous that they edited the daily mail. they rang me up. they said, we re a tabloid newspaper. we can t print this stuff. we re a family newspaper. brian: who was it? who was the head of state? simon: the head of state was tsar emperor alexander the ii. the emperor who liberated the serbs the slaves of russia. at exactly at the same time 1861 as your president lincoln was about to liberate the slaves o ....
it is a sextant. i thought i heard an answer. navigation, shooting the stars. professors here remember, but i doubt anybody else does. that was my first ship. i got to be navigator. it was the coolest job in the navy. you got to tell the captain where to go. gps or satellite navigation. what you learned as navigator is that you look at all of the evidence, you look at everything. you do not log on. one thing use any 100%, but you look at everything. is where we are and where we are going. 30 years after i had, driving that around and being navigator during the cold war, the head of the navy asked me to inform the task force on climate change. it was basically, i do not know if there anything to this climate change or not. bunch of another people that say, don t worry about it. you have other things that you should do. you tell me. you are supposed to be the admiral. figured out and let me know what to do. marching hours. i had two weeks between the time i was told, you ....
the public. the intent is to have law enforcement and victims relax and assume it s a toy firearm and in reality it s a real weapon. reporter: and then there are the fake guns that have been modified. there s a nerf gun transformed into a shotgun that shoots live rounds. reporter: there is no legislation that keeps real looking guns looking real. brady campaign says there hasn t been a tragedy or enough tragedies from this to get the attention it requires. it s reasonable to expect real guns aren t allowed to look like toys. police officers say they have only one option. any gun it doesn t matter what it is, we re just going to have to assume it s real. reporter: livermore police are also concerned that children who are allowed to play with toy guns are not also being taught to drop it when approached by a police officer. don t try to prove it s safe. just drop it. the police officer says all guns are real. reporter: they say they have to. and they have ....
the pentagon is looking to shrink the army to preworld war ii level. getting rid of a complete unit of attack jets. lisa stark, what kind of levels are we talking about? chuck hagel said this is the first away things will look like after years of war. the smallest since world war ii, particularly land forces. the army up to 570 tow troops in the army the president promised to end the wars in afghanistan and iraq of course and reduces to levels back to 490,000. defense secretary hagel is talking about more cuts down to 440 to 450,000 in the army. he s not only talking about changing personnel, it is a change in weapons systems and a whole new way of doing business. here is what the secretary had to say. after iraq and afghanistan we are no longer sizing the military for long sessions. we must retain our edge over technical adversaries. the military must be able to respond quickly to all contingency anies and be able to respond should any possible emergency occur. ....