[laughter] cal: and now steve hayward with a negative rebuttal. steve: thank you. -- there is a reason that the generation of liberal historians called him silent cal. the accident i want you to no way thoughtful person he was and why his claims to statesmanship are very large. another reason not to do so, was because it would dishonor reagan's admiration for coolidge. right? it has been mentioned that reagan but the portrait of coolidge out of storage and into the cabinet room of the white house. he had to take down thomas jefferson's portrait to put it there which outraged liberals everywhere. the irony is, today, it would be democrats were likely to take jefferson's portrait down from the white house. therein lies the first clue as to the crisis of our time and why ronald reagan was the better model for matching up to it. one of the things that coolidge said was the following "great men are the ambassadors of providence. since revealed to their fellow men their unknown selves. when the reverence of this nation for great man dies, the glory of th

let me bring in steve hayward.e university professor, this market drop largely due to the sell-off in oil, there are problems in china and elsewhere but in your opinion do we not see market stability until we can rebalance the oil market? >> the thing to bear in mind is a long-term view. we now go through our third significant cycle of oil prices in the last 20 years. yesterday i just off an old cover from economist magazine from 1999 that said we are drowning in oil. yesterday bloomberg put out a story with the same headline, we are drowning in oil. people can remember when goldman sachs was telling us oil was headed to $200 a barrel and do was going to be scarcity as far as the eye can see and now a lot of market analysts are saying oilers 5ing to $10 a barrel which is possible. i think the best evidence has always suggested higher oil prices and especially price spikes to the upside that are major contributing factors in the beginnings of the recession that correlate closely over the last 40 years. now suddenly

hayward on 880 down to free month. let's go to steve. >>> the first of many systems coming in. one here now but not doing much. it's opening the door for a system on tuesday and another one on wednesday. and those will have a lot more energy. an inch and a half to 6 inches. and this pattern may go on for a while. there's rain in southern california and in the north and it's running into a little bit of resistance. and the system behind it will not have as much of a problem. light rain today and heavier rain tuesday and wednesday. the next four days, take your pick. you can go from eureka to san diego. l.a. will have two and a half. and maybe five to six for the usual suspects. santa cruz mountains marin county northward. the first system is producing light rain. i would favor areas closer to the coast and the bay. a little bit of the southeast breeze means mild conditions. we are much warmer than a couple days ago. the rain is not that heavy. there are pockets with a burst of heavier rain. right now san leandro and hayward, some rain. you can see there's a little bit of enhance

hayward. most of the slow traffic is heading south. let's go to stevethere's two football games on sunday and the weather may play a huge role in both of those. more in just a second. if you follow twitter and you're -- if you're into weather, you should. it's full of stuff you can't find anywhere else. they are going to ballistic. the possibility of 2 feet in washington, d.c. 2inches of snow cripples them and 2 feet would be mind boggling. in south carolina and north carolina there could be an ice storm. and arizona plays carolina, and there could be a lot of ice around there. so big system here. and everything has to come together but it sure looks that way. and all the blizzard warnings are out from washington, d.c. to new york city. our system is on the way. and it's crawling along. that's because multiple systems within the system are forming and slowing it down. high clouds in advance. and there's fog out there. and the breeze out of the east has picked up. around vallejo and the higher elevations and marin county. about 15 to 24 miles per hour. t

and 17, 101 are slow trying to get into that west valley. 880 is slow from hayward south down to fremont. 8:19. let's go to steventer. >>> sal, thank you. let's get right to it. it is coming down for some. breaks for others. and low snow levels up in lake county. about four reports now of snow on cobb mountain. so this is a colder system. kelsey cox was right to the point. it's the pouring in concord. let's take a look at it. i believe it. right there. pacheco, pleasant hill, martinez, bay point, highway 4. yeah, i'd say that's pouring. mark in pleasant hill said, hey, steve, yes, it's pouring in pleasant hill. dogs said no way we are going out. i have had many, many pictures of that, cats, dogs say are you nuts? there is the snow in cobb and parts of lake county right there. right there, steve. also very heavy rain, looks like it's letting up a little bit for some. still very steady. try to take a wide shot. you can see this is the bands that we are going to get. you get one. it pours. then lightens up a little bit. each one of these tracking right behind the other. and within those you can get more thunderstor

steve, we have problems on bart. i just found out that bart has equipment problems. here's the issue. i can show you on the map. bart has a track problem between hayward and south hayward. i just found out from a bart person that the track where i've circled is without power. that means the trains cannot get anywhere south past bay fair unless you're going to dublin. the blue line is working but all the lines to fremont and back are not. you cannot get on a bart train in fremont, union city, south hayward or hayward. that's not an option for you. you have to go up to the bay fair station or find another way to get to work. you can get to the dublin station, those trains are running. and this is a major problem for bart and we'll keep following it. we have a reporter on the bay by the way. let's go to the bay bridge toll plaza. and our camera is showing the traffic will be backed up here but not major yet. if you're on the san mateo bridge any time soon, this commute looks good to the peninsula. >>> we have breaking news in the south bay. police are investigating reports of a home invasion in sunnyvale just before 2:00 this morning. you're looking at v

on -- slow traffic 101, 880 and 85 and 280. 880 from hayward heading down is going to be slow just after 238 on down to fremont. as we mentioned, steve and i were talking about it, there are a lot of street closure because of super bowl festivities. allie rasmus is live in the city with all of the activity going on. allie. >> reporter: hi, sal. we are at washington and embarcadero. this is the cut-off point for southbound traffic at embarcadero. not sure if you can see across the street from us. northbound lanes traffic moving through just fine. but the southbound lanes is where traffic is being diverted. it's called super bowl city. that's going to be taking place at justin herman plaza. and the street closure here at embarcadero go from washington street over to don cheat way. also market street from embarcadero over to beal. we haven't seen much of a backup yet this morning, but it is expected to get more congested here. and also over by the mosconi center for the next three weeks where some of the super bowl attractions in town. they are playing host to the nfl experience. the san francisco municipal transportation agency estimat