He heeion, s the nba postponi and overnight athletes in other leagues also walking out. What happens next. Pence in. The Vice President s message to america at the Republican National convention making his case for four more years. This as the Trump Administration comes under scrutiny accused of pressuring the cdc to change coronavirus testing guidelines. Dr. Anthony fauci not signing off. The new details this morning. Good thursday morning, everyone. Catastrophic, thats the word authorities are using to describe the storm surge pounding the gulf coast right now. Hurricane laura made landfall around 1 00 a. M. Eastern standard time as a strong category 4 storm packing winds up to 150 Miles Per Hour. One of the strongest storms to ever make landfall in the united states. This video overnight from lake charles, the power of the storm on full display as it made landfall as the eye wall came ashore in nearby cameron, louisiana. And now the hurricane is lashing parts of texas. This video ta
Officials here. First of all, it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night but we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage and we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down because their businesses and or their homes have been damaged and we have lots of challenges around the state to say the least with a variety of things whether electrical power, Water Service or you name it and we have a lot of work to do but we are in better shape today than might have been the case and so we have a lot to be thankful for as well. As you know by now im sure hurricane laura made landfall as predicted last night or i should say this morning at 1 00 a. M. As a very strong category four hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. This was most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana and it is still a powerful storm that is in the state of lou
Governor John Bell Edward said the storm is the strongest to hit his statement did not sustain the catastrophic damage that had been forecast parties joined at the briefing by other state officials. Good afternoon and thank you for being here this afternoon. We have our usual lineup today the officials here today with m me. Chip klein is going to speak in just a moment. He is of course chairman of the cpra he will talk about coastal flooding we have secretary of department of transportation and development, shawn wilson who will speak in a little bit on roadways. And then we have fire Marshal Butch browning who is here to answer questions that you might have about the fire at the Chemical Plant and west lake. And obviously you can ask questions of any of the officials here. First of all it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night. But, we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage.
This week is cool, cool, cool. We are looking for a lot of low clouds and fog and drizzle will pick up over the next couple of days. 50s on the temperatures and 60 in san jose. If you enjoyed yesterday, it will probably be better today because it wont be as windy. It will be breezy but we were rolling on that wind yesterday. Napa and concord and oakland and santa rosa in between 510 miles per hour. It will be sunny and breezy with thunderstorms erupting over the sierra but we are all below average on the temperatures present cisco and oakland and especially in the areas. Over to sell now. The area there is the slowest traffic. Lets go right to and show the the macarthur maze leading to the bay bridge and you will see that traffic is okay at the maze. But when you get to the bay bridge, there is a backup for 1015 minutes. This is normal and it should start going away after 7 30 am and by 8 am it should be completely gone. This is interstate 880 n. And south moving well. No slow traffic
Everything else not having the best of days pete, i come to you first. You get the first crack at this. The bar was high and they got over it. They did. Youre obviously talking about apple. And amazon and facebook that was high for the whole entire group, pete theres no doubt about it facebook being probably one of the ones watched most closely, i think. When it comes down to apple, the reason that stands out is they had a record q3. You look across every part of their business model, their eco system and it phenomenal the growth is there. The double digit growth is there. I think the big surprise coming in iphone because people were looking at a number far less. The real key is service, not only the growth but look at that revenue. Add that with wearables and you get almost to 20 billion youre getting the other side of the equation and far better margins. Thats why i think apple still has plenty of room to the upper side because they have room in the wearables, the services. The servi