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tom baker isn't international law enforcement consultant. fbi special agent for 30 years in a variety of investigative and management positions facing the challenge of crime and terrorism. he has expense -- extensive experience with management and training issues having served as a management instructor at the quantico,y in virginia. he has been published in many professional journals nationally and internationally and as i just said, the wall street journal. his international experience is extensive. inserved as a legal attache australia where he was responsible for maintaining u.s. law enforcement interests in a large part of the asia-pacific area. he has been assigned as the legal attache in paris where he developed expertise not only in western europe it also much of africa as well. he has been closely involved in the planning and management of major events worldwide. he was the american representative to the security task force for the calgary winter olympics. in paris, he was the senior u.s. law enforcement advisor to the planning and

commentary writer for the wall street -- for the washington examiner and he will do an interview with tom baker. welcome. [applause] >> well, time is short so i guess we'll just get started. bakerafter looking at mr. peak -- can you hear me now? oh, i am on. after listening to agents baker speak, i'm grateful for your remarks because for anyone who has been following the news for the last year and a half and anything elated to the fbi or russia can definitely make your head spin. this has been more than helpful. take you much. mr. baker: i'm particularly honored by being interviewed by an award winner. first interview in your new position. [applause] philip: because of your experience in the fbi and working with congress, i wanted to ask you about their relationship with congress post-9/11 and after the sort of culture shift put in place by mueller. do you think the fbi is starting to see themselves as a distinct agency that is, for whatever reason, needs to be beyond the purview of congress? do you think that is a new sort of culture that is emerging? mr. baker: to be on the purview of congres

tom baker has more where schools are undergoing a major cleaning. >> reporter: from lakeport, there is -- there is a clear view through the mountains above. all too often, it's like trying to look through a glass of milk. >> we first encountered smoke 30 miles south of lakeport and as we got closer, the smoke became thicker and smell your. the lakeport school district has 1500 students spread over five sites. >> the past four years of fire, we are used to some of the negative effects of the fire. >>the school districts around here came up with the wildfire equivalent of snow days. >> we sat down and said at what point do we allow students to come to school and not go outside and what point do we have to call off school? the mac with so much dust and ash, school officials decided on smoke weeks. >> when we took a look at all this and put a timeline together of what has to happen before it is safe for children to come to school, it was looking like a minimum of about two weeks. >> the district called on the franchise because of their experience. >> we got all the public schools in santa

coming up in a moment on the 9's, tom baker looks at the numbers on how this fire season compares tor company tesla may be going private. the historic amount the company could pay to take it back into the private sector. . >>> taking tesla private. the ceo elon musk says taking the company off wall street may be the right thing to do for the company to succeed. >> let's go to pam cook with more on dollars and cents. pam, good morning. >> good morning. elon musk tweeted he is considering taking tesla private and the board of directors has confirmed it is evaluating the possibility. when investors got word of elon musk's tweet, the stock went on a roller coaster ride. nasdaq halted trading on tesla for about 90 minutes. the shares ended the day yesterday up 11%. it is down today, though. musk says he has secured funding to buy back shares at $420 each. right now, though, they're trading at $372 a share. his price would put tesla's market value at $72 billion. that compares to the current value of 64 billion. musk says the final decision has not been made. analysts say taking tesla priv

we sent tom baker out to find out. for mac the american society of civil engineers says of california's 25,431 bridges and overpasses, 1388, 5.5% are structurally deficient. world renowned engineer says that in bridges and buildings, deficient me the whole range of possibilities. >> something that makes you not perform as well as it should. that's what it means. in some cases, it could be disastrous. it encompasses all of that. >> what guards against the ultimate disaster, collapse, is a well executed of inspections and repairs. >> california, compared to most of the word -- world, we have done much better. >> went maintenance and repairs are no longer advisable, california has the willingness to spend money on essentials. >> with structures, old structures, with the kind of traffic and load we at things and replace them. >> the ballot initiative campaign to resend the gas tax says 79 area bridge repairs and a few replacement projects would lose funding. 554 projects statewide. in the bay area, loss of the 12 cents per

. >>> ktvu's tom baker looks the fire season and why it may be even worse than the numbers say. >>> the growing fires mean smoky skies and poor air quality across much of the bay area. >>> a movie designed for students in middle school that most of them will not be allowed to see. >>> well, all right. welcome to the 9, it is august 8th, 2018. mike is off. he is off in california somewhere and gasia and i are here looking at the smoke and wondering, i was thinking of taking a trip. we'll ask mark tamayo if the smoke is everywhere in california. we know it is showing up here. >> it is here in livermore. we had a sort of smoky, weirdly orange sunrise. a lot of us have been seeing similar sunsets. smoke is in the air, most of us see it. many of us smell it. we'll talk with alyssa harrington later on today with what is happening with air quality. >>> let's start with the newest information we have on the terrible wildfires raging across the is it a. we have new numbers to share with you. they show that firefighters are gaining ground against the largest combined fire in california history. c

. >>> we want to go now to tom baker who joins us live from kelseyville where residents are finally returning home. >> reporter: look down the street. yesterday there was only one civilian car here. that person got arrested because they were not supposed to be here. kelseyville and finley, they have their evacuations over. many residents here plagued by years and years of wild buyers wonder how long this will last. if you want to know what's going on all you have to do is come to a place like this. a historical place. the brick tavern. >> i found out we were going to be open today and i have gotten a lot of phone calls asking if we were open. just a gathering place for this small community. very scary. very, very scary. i was on the roof where i live and i was squirting it down with the hose, squirting the tree down because that what was scaring the most. >> it was really scary. you don't know. you don't know whether to leave or stay. when they say mandatory get out. you don't really know how close the fire is to you. >> reporter: location bill and family are now not in an evacuation situatio

tom: thank you, mike. thank you for joining us mike baker, the nation's college campuses are overrun snowflake but triggerlitically correct winter wonderland? kevin phillips of campus a form joins us next to explain. (phone ping) gentlemen, i have just received word! the louisiana purchase, is complete! instant purchase notifications from capital one . technology this helpful... could make history. what's in your wallet? tom: surprise, surprise. trigger warnings are probably responsible for turning millennial into the snowflake generation. harvard researchers looked at what happens when students are given a trigger warning before reading the passage thicket "-right-double-quote, disturbing content. they found that when given a trigger warning some students reported being more offended than if there was no to the warning it offered basically, trigger warnings prime students to be sensitive and less resilient. more than half of college professors report using trigger warnings but is that just leading to a generation of adults who act like delicate flowers? this guy is no flour. i left campus before media di

mike baker has a question for you. >> yeah, tom, i'm going to throw geo politics back into the mix.iew when assessing potential impact of the sanctions on iran? >> well, i think china, china will continue to import more oil from iran. and that means they're going to import less oil from the. united states. that's going to be collateral damage, so-to-speak. i can't imagine under any circumstances where we would have a detante with china where they're not going to bring in iranian oil to. a certain extent they'll be a beneficiary of that because price will have to be discounted. oil can be moved around different places. we'll see how hard we really impose the sanctions and if oil production gets cut by a million barrels a day, and the economy, the global economy keeps chugging, we could have much, much higher prices in 2019. that's the worry year. it's an off election year but that's the year i worry about. dagen: real quick, before you go, last week president trump proposed a plan to roll back the obama era gas fuel efficiency standards on automatics. -- automobiles. what's the impac