Sure to join the conversation with your calls, texts, and tweets. Announcer as the Republican National Convention Gets Underway tonight, we will hear from prominent speakers from past conventions. Senator howard baker from 1984. Then pat buchanan in 1992. , retired general colin powell in 1996. And former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2012. Howard baker had already been Senate Majority leader for three years when he addressed the 1984 Republican Convention. He became 18 years, known as the great negotiator, including passage of the Clean Air Act and the clean water act. Senator baker was vice chair of the committee that investigated whitewater, president nixon, and members of his administration. 35 years later during the impeachment trials of president trump, intelligence chair adam schiff asked, where is howard baker . Where the people willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty . Senator baker spoke to delegates in dallas. Sen. Baker thank you very much. Late is a
Several streets drove through standing water. 20 years ago they read did some work here on the drains, and it havent worked right since. Reporter this man is taking personal responsibility for the grade at the end of his block. I live here. If the water gets too high, it floods. I clean out the drain. I make sure ims out here sweeping. Reporter public utility crews scramble throughout the city. The Public Utilities commission had prestaged flood barriers. They were saying at this point it appears the preparation paid off. We were very strategic about going to these lowlying neighborhoods. And making sure we did pre sweeps, and making sure there wasnt any surface level debris out there. Hopefully all these efforts are paying off. Reporter even with preparation, there was only so much water the city could take. The great highway south bound, was closed because of water in the roadway at lawton. Vulnerable commuters like this man, rides a motorcycle, says when the rain comes, the streets
To manage the ability to launch and land flights, the airports major carriers have been trying to steer passengers on other hubs and have been paring down domestic flights to sfo, but passengers are still feeling the pinch. Dozens of flights have been cancelled and even more are delayed. I saw that my flight got cancelled and i had nothing to do. I live in oregon and the closest airport to me is eugene, oregon. It was cancel. I had to travel two hours north of where i live and then that flight was delayed and i just landed and now im hoping my next flight will make it to chicago. Reporter now, united, Alaska Airlines and air canada have been waving flight change fees so passengers can rebook to avoid sfo and theyve been stocking gates and planes with extra snacks to help ease tensions as delays stack up. According to sfo they picked this stretch of 20 days because it comes at the end of the busy Summer Travel season and before the busy Holiday Travel season. But still it is going to me
Browns short time in the bay area was filled with drama. He missed practice with frostbitten feet and multiple grievances with the nfl over his helmet. After being fined almost 54,000 by the team, he got into a verbal altercation with general manager mike mayot. Friday, the team said he would play in their opener on monday night against denver, but fined him all of his bonus money voiding his contract. And brown asked to be released. So Antonio Brown moves to boston. Bill belichick will be the ring master there. Im Katie Nielsen at raider headquarters. It has been a trying 24 hour. Antonio brown never wanted to come to oakland. He was actually acquired as part of a trade. Thats why some experts say he created all of this drama on his own to get exactly what he wanted to get cut from oakland. Do you want to be a raider . Reporter this is part of the Youtube Video he shared that reportedly a phone call with the head coach questioning browns commitment to the team. But Sports Marketing ex
Is live for us at s. F. O. With the test. Sergio . Reporter yeah, tough travel day. 250 flights delayed, about another 100 canceled today. We usually dont see numbers like this unless there is a pretty strong storm thats hitting the airport. And unfortunately were going to be likely seeing this the next three weeks or so as this construction project continues. On the runway tonight, you can see lots of flashing amber lights. Thats because there is a major repair operation going on right now. The base layer of a 1900foot stretch of runway 280 is being reinstalled. Because at s. F. O. s unique cross run ways configuration, only two of the airports four run ways are in use. The result is the leaderboard chockful of cancellations and delays. I think we had about half an hour delay, which was okay because weve got plenty of time for our next flight. Reporter esther is in good spirits as they head to their new zealand flight. Hes feeling run down. Hes been traveling from pakistan to seattle.