charging that transamerica had violated the clayton antitrust act. but the fed is never been stymied by the limitations of the law passed by congress so that ed and his supporters set out to change the law. 1956 congress gave the federal reserve power dampen federal competition but passing the bank holding company act. circa 1960 the u.s. had nearly 13,000 independent banks are the largest 10 of which held about 22% of all u.s. deposits. in the early 1960s but ranking business began to change. change was slow at first but the pace accelerated in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. today the bank industry looks a lot different than it did in 1960. there are far fewer small community banks and a relative handful of very large institutions that don't commercial banks investment banks and other financial operations, so-called supermarket financial institutions. at the end of 2018 there were less than 4700 banks in the u.s. and as of december 2017th forbes calculated the 5 largest banks held almost 42% of all u.s. deposits. the system has gotten much more concentrate

you can make out the top of the transamerica tower. the clouds are fairly low. it doesn't have everybody, but the closer to the bay, the more likely you will notice the low- grade clouds. i mentioned earlier this would be the start of a gradual cooling trend to get us into the weekend. i want to give you the comparison on how that will play out. i am going to use concord as the example. i am going to use you because you are the best examples for how much warmer it can get inland. the average daytime high for right now for concord would be 72. we hit 86 yesterday. today going to 82. a little bit cooler. just enough that maybe you notice a difference. but look what happened the next few days. working our way back down into the mid-70s. we never really quite get back down to that 72, which would be average, but we get a lot closer by the time we get to the early part of this coming week. and we're going to start pulling ourselves away from those mid and upper 80s. and if we look at how we are doing this, a little bit of marine layer stuck along the coast, maybe eve

continuing...this is a different look, turning, looking up towards the transamerica building on the left side, up two blocks, and there you see the mid-block fire station site with the corner location. and we've also carved out an area of the rooftop access pursuant to the requests from the fire department so that training, which is a vital part of that station operation, will continue. so they'll have direct access for ladder training up to the rooftop. and so we've actually combined that with the amenity of rooftop space that will be something for hotel and club members to also enjoy. this is just really at a programatic level, but i wanted to indicate to you, in the middle of the pic is really the -- here, showing the fire station's first floor design and incorporating all of the important elements that need to be on that first floor, and not on any levels near the living quarters. we've got the public lobby entrance that is necessary, the public restroom that is necessary on the first level. room for the fueling station. and, of course, for the apparatus as well. i know that was a qu

with the formation of large regional banking groups and innovative holding companies like the transamerica corporation that invented legal ways to assemble large interstate banking conglomerates potentially having new source of pressure for small-town banks fears only deepened when the federal reserve lawsuit in 1948 to break up transamerica charging they violated the antitrust act. but the fed was never stymied by the limitations of the law that was passed so the fed set out to change the law. in 1956 congress gave the fed power to dampen competition by passing the bank holding company act. the us had nearly 13000 independent banks the largest ten held about 22 percent of all us deposits. in the early sixties the banking business began to change but the pace accelerated in the seventies eighties and nineties. today the industry looks a lot different than it did in 1960. there are far fewer small community makes and a relative handful of large institutions that own commercial banks and financial operations called supermarket financial institutions. at the end of 2018 less than 4700 banks i

albatross, we look a high atop transamerica and in this case come out towards the fold in the earth's crust at mount diablo, the will speak at about 500 feet, or about 300 feet less than the main p, 3849 feet of mount diablo. about 60 miles away from diablo, and yet, from this vantage point, you can see diablo as well from extreme right center of your screen. front and center, the numbers right now 67 in concord. livermore has a 64 and santa rosa 65. futurecast shows that we have a few buildups around the area that will immediately dissipate and, for tomorrow, a time-lapse showing that we have transparent skies and plenty of sun on the way. high-pressure to the south will continue over the bay area and it will battle with the low in the pacific northwest it will be breezy through friday. the hot red colors show you the strongest winds and most of them are offshore where gale warnings are posted tonight and inland, we are still 10 to 20 miles an hour, so breezy out there for tomorrow morning. we will begin with temperatures in the mid-40s to low 50s and son up 18 minutes before 7 o'clo

safe haven for terrorist organizations iran and pakistan have both had strained relations with transamerica but even still prime minister khan's bold and public embrace of iran is likely to raise concerns and the white house is a must rob the old jazeera defra. human rights groups in the us are going to the supreme court to stop changes to the national census they say plans to add a question asking whether someone is an american citizen is a deliberate attempt to intimidate immigrants elizondo now with more from new york the question seems straightforward enough are you a u.s. citizen and for the first time ever the u.s. government wants to force everyone to answer that question on the two thousand and twenty u.s. census but yet siri tovar is not a citizen and is worried about answering at the time when the station has showed me not to trust the twenty six year old was brought to the u.s. illegally by her parents when she was just two years old and even though she's lived in new york all of her life since then she's worried a no answer could make her a target for deportation. it's happened

there's the transamerica tower. and as far as the temperatures. it's relatively warm.e thing about the low clouds we were seeing on treasure island, all the low clouds are look a blanket. 56 in oakland right now. 56 in san jose and san francisco. and santa rosa, 54. two weeks ago you were in the mid- and upper 30s for morning lows. it's in the mid-50s. it's going to feel a lot nicer when you step outside. just a few scattered showers working across the bay. i'll track the rest of the day. it's going to stay cloudy. and don't expect light rain to last all day. i'll be back with more in the complete forecast. >>> president trump spent the night in las vegas after making a couple of stops in southern california. one of the stops was in the imperial county of the town of caress, calexico. >> it's better than the previous wall. >> the president toured a 2- mile stretch of new fencing in the area. it's a long planned replacement for an older barrier. the president headed to a fundraiser in beverly hills. protesters criticized what they call dangerous policies. the president

politico and coauthor of the new book, "the hill to die on, the battle of congress in the future of transamericaet's start with io, anna. frank has its privilege. your thoughts about trumps rollout today, the fact that his first event is a big ticket fund-raiser tonight in philadelphia, $2800 per pop. and some left-leaning regressive groups are already saying he's old guard. >> i think he is playing by the old playbook here, for he knows he needs to raise money. that's the big weakness. i think the question is going to be, can he ignite the liberal beast. and so far joe biden has not made the case. >> >> chris: that's really going to be one of his first challenges, 24-hour fund-raising number, isn't it? >> that the strange thing is, we will report this tomorrow morning but i might as well just say it now. he's not welcome. it's nothing for bernie to say that, he's got this army of young people that are excited about him but joe biden doesn't have that. >> more people like paying $2800. >> i think the real interesting thing about biden is the gap between people like us, and opinion who basically,

here is the live camera looking at transamerica pyramid. clear skies. just a little haze. and from the south lake tahoe camera right now, i just checked on the temperature in truckee, they are reporting a temperature of 70 degrees. amazing when you look at all that snow. it is kind of coolish weather. it is actually 70 toward truckee right now. we have the warm temperatures as well, matching our coastal temperatures from truckee to the coast, 70. around the bay lower 80s. the warmest locations inland will be in the lower 90s this afternoon. here is satellite. clouds just offshore and that is about it. the cloud bank is well offshore. clear skies from basically point earn to the bay area and closer to monterey bay. patchy fog will be forming later on this evening, tonight to early thursday morning especially. take a look at the current numbers. once again we are in the 80s. expect lower 90s toward walnut creek, livermore. san jose 85 degrees and santa rosa 81. san francisco a very warm 74 degrees. we are sunny and warm, well above average. most areas about 15 to 20 degrees

a gorgeous live look outside at the sun shining over the transamerica pyramid. clouds and fog just behind it in the bay as we look at san francisco this saturday morning, the last saturday of april. 60s and 70s today. the break down of your forecast momentarily. >> the future of the 49ers arrived at headquarters yesterday but its his past getting the most attention and his paper trail is all over social media. he was on damage control because of what many people are calling insensitive tweets. and his decision to like an instagram post that included racist and homophobic slurs. those happened in 2015. and in 2016 bosss tweeted that colin kaepernick was a clown. bosa took the mike and addressed those concerns. >> i definitely made some insensitive decisions throughout my life, and i'm just excite today be here with a clean slate. i'm sorry if i hurt anybody. i definitely didn't intend for that to be the case. >> nick bosa also admits in the weeks leading up to the draft his agent also removed many controversial posts from his social media accounts. >>> more signs

hemingway, and anna palmer, also the coauthor of a new book, "a hill to die on," the future of transamericawe'll talk about that in just a bit. what do you think about this case now? >> i agree with the argument that was just made by congresswoman gabbert from hawaii. this is a case about free speech, a case about punishing journalists. a journalist who revealed information devastating to what the united states had been saying and lying about. it was truthful information that the people in a free democracy have a right to know. it was a crime committed? yes! the crime was committed by chelsea manning. it was charge , until president obama decided to commute her sentence. that was the crime. the crime is the theft of the information, not the receipt of it by a generalist and its publication. can you help the thief get the information to you? of course you can. like "the new york times" did with daniel ellsberg and the washington court did with daniel ellsberg in the supreme court upheld the privilege. >> bret: this is the secretary of state and the >> it's time to call out wikileaks for what

a lovely shot of the fog and the transamerica pyramid popping up above the fog. really cool view.peratures are running in the mid to upper 50s at this hour. so concord, oakland at 58, san francisco at 57. we are dealing with areas of fog along the coast and parts of the bay and parts of inland locations. look at half moon bay, the visibility down to zero. so dense fog along the coast, about a mile and a half in santa rosa. so if you're about to hit the roadways use extra caution with the fog as we start off. here is the ridge of high pressure that brought the beautiful sunny and warm weather yesterday. that will push to the east and that will open the door for the next weather system to move in. it is a cold front that will bring light scattered showers later today. let's time it out. taking you hour by hour, let's docket stop at 3:00 and this will arrive for the northbay. and then as we go through the evening, scattered showers and here we are at 7:00 and a few showers for 11:00. ance seeifu morning er bue bigger the story tomorrow will be the wind. breezy to windy conditions, th

and we're taking a live look outside from our abc 7 exploratoryum camera and the transamerica pyramidorning. the low cloud cover down there. we will get a check of the full accu-weather report from our meteorologist coming up to let us know when all of the fog will lift. >>> in sports, both the a's and giants are hoping to bounce back from losses yesterday. the giants take on the pirates this afternoon. first pitch is at 1:05 at pnc park. the a's battle the toronto blue jays, first pitch at 1:07 at the coliseum. the warriors are getting ready for game four of their series against the clippers tomorrow. abc 7 sports director larry beel has a preview in this morning's sports. >> good morning, everybody. upon further review, the nba has rescinded the technical foul given to kevin durant in the win against the clippers. that is a big deal. search technicals in the playoffs before the nba hits you with a one game suspension. kd had three and now it goes back to two. and they were trash talking, kind of laughing, when they were teed up. >> and we were conversing about the play that happened

is it possible that we could return to the slide, slide three, that shows the transamerica building in the background? also, john, i didn't catch your last name. >> jonathan shum. >> and you are the vice president of -- >> related california. >> thank you very much, mr. shum, and thank you for your presentation. i do really appreciate the comprehensive nature of your presentation. i appreciate the background reminders, the dates in terms of the supervisors original public land housing date of june 2015, ratified by the voters in k in 2015. i think it's really important for you to recite the resolution in 2017 and talk about the may 2018 resolution to take us to this particular point. because the context and gist of this whole proposal is important. as you can hear from commissioner covington, our real estate is on vacation, commissioner cleaveland, he would be asking many, many questions, but i think, again, you can tell by the content of the commissioners all of the value comments, and i think that was your purpose this morning to do that. so for me to be able to hear this presentatio

if you take a look at the live cameras, like the one on top of the transamerica tower, you see what'sme, a few drops of rain having already shown up. but i haven't seen anything significant on the radar coming into the city. look how low the clouds are. this is from our camera on the roof looking out over the bay with the bridge. the clouds are already a presence. but if we look inside them on high def doppler we are not seeing a lot for much of the bay, except the north bay. it is been pretty consistent so far from panel loma all the way down to marin, this is where we have had spotty showers so far for the morning. the roads will be a little slick here, but it hasn't been heavy rain. i want to stress that is the theme with today's rain, it's not a major storm. it's just enough we are all going to get rained on in a pretty steady. from about 7 am through one. let's watch it on future caste, 8 am here comes the better rain. look how organized that is. you can clearly see why the late part of the commute today is when they better rain gets here. i will stop at 11 am because i way to se

safe haven for terrorist organizations iran and pakistan have both had strained relations with transamerica but even still prime minister hans bolt and public embrace of iran is likely to raise concerns in the white house same basra al-jazeera different. after a campaign of stunts jokes and viral video as things are now getting serious for ukraine's new president for me as a lenski the t.v. comedian one sunday is a vote for the resoundingly seventy three percent on a promise to end the war in eastern ukraine and russia and corruption from kiev robin forestay walker report from the challenges that entity now faces. there's no sign of the political protest kiev's independence square is famous for. but rebellion is in the air now that ukrainians have elected a comedian to be the president. election observers praised what they called a colorful and competitive campaign i would really for the hearts of the lights to come directly relate to the citizens of ukraine for their deep commitment to democracy demonstrated in competitive elections in which they had free of the free choice given ukraine's

transamerica pyramid right there looking beautiful in the sunshine today as far as here with the forecast trees and then a little bit there it's almost like bo bug's life the image that hint of a breeze in but him the breeze will have bit of a breeze going on all pay a portions of the bay looks like this afternoon that's the cool thing friend helping us out. >>high pressure starting to break down a little bit that the weiland pm the sun rising there this nice blue skies but we're starting to see some patches of those high clouds going on here. we do of an inversion going on this morning that set low level moisture in around the bay. and what that basically means is if you go up say 5,000 feet in the atmosphere discussion. temperatures are much warmer in much drier than the surface, so therefore get the sun out mix things out take care of that surfac moisture is what the name of the game that is mid-fifties we have upper 50's like oakland going on here concord 61 for antioch the chilly spot santa rosa, but we're remedying that as you can see 50 starting to take over half moon bay, not that