All u. N. Sanctions against iran. Defiance in the face of a crackdown that other museums strength and calls for you elections despite the governments scare tactics. A former white house chief strategist is in custody in the u. S. Charged with fraud by federal prosecutors steve benen who was one of us president Donald Trumps most influential advisors in the 2016 Election Campaign the Justice Department is accusing him of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to a Fund Raising Campaign to support the building of trumps a Us Mexico Border wall well our White House Correspondent kimberly healthy joins us now live from washington d. C. Kimberly what more can you tell us about these charges. Well just to give you a sense of the scale of according to the indictment that has been laid out what this was was it a lab or its team that defrauded potentially hundreds of thousands of those who dont need it in the crowd funding approach that was odd. A line that was put together not just by ste
Most mysterious first lady we have ever had in modern times. You think that is true. I certainly do pretty so i set out to do this because i thought there was this strange void of facts and information. In keeping immigrants out. It was just shocking how little is known about basic biographical information. Donald trump has been in the public eye forever it seems like. Why do we know so little about melania . There are a lot of reasons. One is she only arrived in america at 26. So i had to travel to her native country, its a small country carved out of the former yugoslavia. When she was there was a socialist country. They did not have great archive archives. The bosnian war, that whole area was engulfed in conflict. Also, she once it that way. When i was going around, it was very interesting how many people said oh ive got a call that said dont talk to anybody. She really shes really made a brand out of being the mysterious milani f. I think one aspect of that is people make a lot of
Were up to 40. Overnight were going to gust 45 to 50 miles per hour. That will continue through the morning hours. Then it will pull back to about 40 miles per hour. So winds will be worse tomorrow. Here is a look at our accuweather 12hour planner. You can see 35 to 46 this morning. Well be in the upper 50s at noon with clean sunshine. Not a spare the air day. Low 60s at 4 00. About 47 to 52 at 7 00. Heres sue. All right. If you are planning on traveling to the Southern California area we are monitoring i5 over the grapevine because the fires are very close to that so keep it right here and well be checking on that in a few. Across the san mateo bridge, no highwind advisory today. You are in better shape than yesterday. Traffic is flowing nicely, a 15 to 16 minute drive from 880 over to 101. Some road work just cleared out of lanes. This is good because eastbound 380 to southbound 101 is a major route to get to sfo. Fully shut down overnight. Thats been picked up 30 minutes now. Sue, t
Freeway making the curve past university and into the mcarthur maze, busy. No stalls or accidents. Metering lights are on, pardon me, not the san mateo. Thats the bay bridge. Metering lights on at 5 20. You can carpool, both the carpool lanes. Breaking news the Southern California fires, this is the new wildfire that just erupted within the last hour in west los angeles. Sky map 7 is showing you how close it is to 405. Its concerning because its a populated area, getty center, ucla all nearby. Right now the northbound lanes of interstate 405 are closed and crews are racing to save many homes in the area. We want to show you a water dropping helicopter trying to save one of those homes. Here is the video and narration by the choppers pilot. There was a drop by the 109 by city fire. Thats a really cool thing in the dark making that drop. They know where the fires are. The flames are very close. We dont know about any official evacuations in the area although you have to assume people are
For you on that. And rolling out the red carpet, denver one of a dozen u. S. Cities now battling to be amazons hq2 were going to go live to the mile high city with the governor of colorado. Power lunch starts right now Rocky Mountain high colorado Rocky Mountain high welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Tech leading todays record breaking chart the s p 500 topping 2,700 for the First Time Ever. Commodities on the move as well. Crude above 61 for the First Time Since june 2015 platinum by the way highest level in more than five weeks. And gold is trying for nine Straight Days of gains nat gas taking a hit today with prices up 10 in the past week as tyler mentioned this record breaking cold really causing people to stay inside. Shares of scana up South Carolina residential customers will get an average of 1,000 within 90 days of the deal being completed, brian. Melissa, thank you im Brian Sullivan as much as the world focuses on trumps tweets, lets stay focused on your money. And can