we've talked about russia gate in terms of the damage it's done to. american russian relations dreadful danger it lands us in and so forth already. we've talked about it in terms of. it's it's use. as a hammer to attack president trump but it started to occur to me with this new election coming this thing this this thing has poisoned our society in ways that nobody's quite reckoned up with the i'm a practitioner my entire professional life but that doesn't matter the to me the oem the most consequential. outcomes of this is the self destruction of the american press i mean it's we're living without a proper press except for independent media and i don't remember whether i mentioned it in the piece this is the moment for independent media great. use of brilliant phrase how liberals have become so illiberal in the in the media hype danio let me let me go to you i mean you and i have known each other for many many years and we discuss of course regime change the united states is backed all around the world but who would have thought that they would have

park. >> a wheel is spinning at san francisco's golden gate park. a long awaited opening delayed by the pandemic. it's here to separate their anniversary. it will provide a spectacular view of the city and bay from inside what they are calling temperature-controlled gondolas. riders need to book times to limit lines. >>> the dodgers really have the upper hand in the fall classic. the dodgers and rays will be back at it tonight in the world series. game one of the world series last night, not too much of a contest. the dodgers won the game 8-3. but the big story looking best delivering on the deal everyone can get behind. taco bell steal a base and steal a taco promotion. the night had some intrigue because one inning early, america thought chris taylor stole second until score keeper called it a wild pitch and kept america waiting until betts eventually stole second in the fifth inning. there he goes to win free taco for everyone. nice to see. about lunch time! back to you. >> we get our tacos and then get on zoom or something and have a virtual lun

is in that you see the little gates that with the entrances to the stables. so then stolen one of the many rings on the wall and there that's where they tied up the horses. in the center of the courtyard is the horse trough where the horses were washed. we continued to the oldest gate of the fortress from 1482 it shows the 3 monks. colman and thought no 3 stars are for it's burke. i don't know why are they so important and why do they have these funny names they came from our islands they were irish scottish months and christianized this area and unfortunately they died a martyr's death here before the inner courtyard is behind the gate most of the buildings state from the renaissance. and i'll show you the very oldest part of the fortress that you can still see that's the castle keep the fortified tower from the middle ages would serve the ruling family as a refuge if attackers happened to breach the main gate. there today the tower has 2 entrances. they weren't there in the middle ages of course you could only get in through one door about 10 metres up from

let's check some more bridges i believe we have the golden gate. yes, skycast a bright one oh one looks good. and at the limit so far in both directions, no problems in or out of san francisco that over to the richmond sandra fell bridge west bound 5.80 wide open here at the pay gates and coming across the wires right now i'm just getting word of a new problem in san jose. northbound 2.80 and bird avenue there's a car fire that sparked a grass fire. so emergency crews are on scene they may have all lanes blocked at the bird avenue on-ramp to northbound 2.80 in san jose so i'll be monitoring that for you will have more details on that coming up in just a bit. an l to southern california federal authorities have seized more than 2000 pounds of meth this month making it the largest domestic sees of methamphetamine and the u.s. drug enforcement history. jeanne cain has more on this historic truck bus. >>look at this a pilot drugs which stands at more than 10 feet high bases 2,224 pounds of methamphetamine 893 pounds of cocaine and 13 pounds of heroin n

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and i was appreciated well it's going to patrick in norfolk i read your article the damage russia gate has done with great pleasure because you numerate very clearly in a very well written article the damage this is done to our political discourse as i said in my introduction it seems to be part and parcel of our political discourse now because if you're angry with someone or against an idea you certainly know what to invoke the russians did it even though the hoax was shown to be actually a conspiracy to overthrow. and democratically rightfully elected president but here we are here we are. i mean. look the idea for the piece came up when i started thinking about this we've talked about russia gate in terms of the damage it's done to. american russian relations dreadful danger it lands us in so forth already. we've talked about it in terms of. it's it's use. as a hammer to attack president trump but it started to occur to me with this new election coming this thing this this thing has poisoned our society in ways that nobody's quite reckoned up with the i'm a practitioner my entire pr

you can see that fog on the golden gate bridge. what you can expect through the day on future cast coming up. . >> and it's already getting crowded for that ride into the pass. plus getting reports of a new crash along 680. details coming up. >> and here is a live look at the bay bridge this morning and the city as well. you can see that is a pretty shot as you start the day. this is from the treasure island our home was burned to the ground in the tubbs fire. the flames, the ash, it was terrifying. thousands of family homes are destroyed in wildfires. families are forced to move and higher property taxes are a huge problem. prop 19 limits taxes on wildfire victims so families can move without a tax penalty. nineteen will help rebuild lives. vote 'yes' on 19. in business you have to be then do it all over again. comcast business gives you fast, reliable internet on the nation's largest gig-speed network. and now for a limited time, you can also get fast shipping- with amazon business prime essentials. so no matter what comes next,

and then they went through gate. there is been a lot of great care to make sure everybody stays safe. and the situation is not something you see every day. >> when we arrive to the unincorporated community of black hawk, which has its own share of substation, we saw law enforcement leaving the area. you see that right there. employees at the walgreens confirmed fous there was a robbery inside around 2:00 in the afternoon. a short time after that, there were reports that someone tried to hit at leaf two officers with their car inside the black hawk gated community. also, reports of gun shots fired near blackhawks sheriff's office substation within that gated community. residents we talked with believe the case is connected to what happened inside the community. detectives have not yet confirmed connection between incidents. here's what it sounded like on the police dispatch scanner this afternoon. >> shots fired. shots fired. he tried run us over. >> company. >> so questions out there this evening. was anyone shot? wa

the board of directors in golden gate highway and transportation district is short two members of the board of supervisors so i hope you employ your colleagues to step up and fill those positions because san francisco's economic recovery depends on having a workforce that is ready to transport the commuters back into san francisco and there's the pollution, liveability and traffic and parking issue that goes along with that and mass trance sit a part of the solution for climate change. many city employees who are disaster workers live in petaluma and novato and many police, fire and nurses and district attorneys live in those areas and use the transit and win of my first jobs was in telegraph hill and i used to look down and see the sea of parking lots before golden gate transit was started to bring commuters from the north bay. so i really believe that this is a have isa very important measun francisco on many levels and including vision zero. so thank you so much and hopefully we can all get through this together. >> thank you for your comments, next speaker, please. >> caller: my n

this was outside of golden gate fortune cookie factory.is video you will only see on abc7. >> the guy just pushed like this real quick. he did the first push. >> this brazen daytime assault happened saturday afternoon outside chinatown's iconic fortune cookie factory. the man in the black sweatshirt singles out one of a dozen tourists and attacks. we blurred his face because he's not been arrested. >> he said why are you pushing me? because you're staring at me. >> reporter: what makes this story remarkable is what unfolds next. the co-owner of the factory seen in the gray sweatshirt with green sleeves immediately steps in and lifts up his shirt to reveal -- >> i need to protect my business. >> reporter: just the sight of it is enough for the black in the black sweatshirt to leave. >> i guess he's kind of scared, too. he doesn't want to go further. >> reporter: tourism in chinatown was down 35% before the pandemic. once covid hit, business went down for some as much as 90%. while some tourists are coming back as we witnessed sunday night -

not at the pay gates, but as you approach the pay gates, it's unclear what it is, but it's causing heavy traffic from the maze so 80 west, it's backed up to the 5 8024 slid, and it's backing up onto the west 24 connector. to 8580 as well so keep that in mind but once you make it up to the pay gates who are 5 we're taking a live look at the richmond sandra fell with no delays leading up to the toll plaza so traffic is looking good so far and then when you make it up to the bay bridge toll plaza we're at 9 minutes off to fremont street but once again there's something 80 west at west grand that's backing you up into the maze, here's 92 a little busy a little sluggish as it's been for the last hour. no problems heading to the peninsula and the traffic tracker showing you some drive times a look at their picking up they're not bad at all dublin to fremont for 6 8014 minutes than nimitz rolling south 24 minutes from to 38 to 2.37 back to you thanks a lot rob and 5.49 and and you're not going to get a roller coaster in the bay area any time soon. >>it is not ready for that the updated guidance

the artist is so creative and i'm looking forward to seeing this in golden gate park.e to approve. >> president buell: thank you. moved and seconded. all those in favor? so moved. thank you very much. >> thank you, okay. we're on item 9, general public comment. continued from item 4. at this time, members of the public who were not able to address the commission on item 4, may address the commission on items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the recreation and park commission and that do not appear on the agenda. i know we have at least one caller from before in the queue. >> hello? am i on? >> yes, you are. state your name, please. >> hi, my name is tom. i'm a resident and as i mentioned earlier, friends and i have been working on a -- underused streets over there recently. we started putting in planters and were building a few skate ramps and we were getting good reception from the community, albeit without permits. everybody seemed to love it. it was a really cool thing. the other week, caltrain came by without warning or notice and tore out all the

the gates foundation had io invested in polio in nigeria in terms of trying to wipe out polio for many years and so everything from the vaccines and the scientific, the gates foundation and others have invested in this reduction of those vaccines and their therapeutics and parts of the science that we're using, philanthropy does that. places like the nih does that and i think your question of how you bring it all together is an important one. one of the things that asthe who moves forward as he said , there were things that were challenging and things that they did right. one of the places the who needs to continue to improve his the willingness to think about partners that are broader than governments that are those that mainly fund them although philanthropy also contributes, the bill and melinda gates foundation has historically also supported the world health organization and making sure it does have capacity to do things so i think what we need is we need places where those conversations can occur with the private sector, with philanthropy and with governments at the table importa

deputy rick gates. >> rick gates. >> former trump aid rick gates. >> and rick gates joins us now.ok "wicked game" is now out. everyone remembers hearing your name that many times. thank you for joining us. now we get to hear from you, sir. >> ari, thanks very much for having me this evening. >> absolutely. you went through a lot, obviously, that affects you and your family as a human being. you're writing this book. what do you want to share and what do you want people to know, many who followed the mueller probe what you saw up close and personal. >> absolutely. there were two themes in the book we wanteded to cov to cove. the political process, the unique process because donald trump up ended the entire republican party system in ordinary tore win the election and ultimately beating hillary clinton. the second part of the book is really focussing on the mueller investigation and just how broken the justice system was looking at it from the inside out, which i wouldn't wish on anybody moving forward. >> you talk about that system. you ultimately, as mentioned, cooperated and that

as we look north across the golden gate bridge.t is a foggy start along the coast and right around the bay. with that onshore flow, temperatures in the upper 50s from concord and oakland as well as san francisco and san jose. 50s and livermore and a cool 47 degrees for santa rosa. that ridge of high pressure is retreating to the west and that means onshore flow and temperatures up it cooler as we take you hour by hour. we will see that sunshine inland and a mix of sun to clouds around the bay with cloud cover that could be hanging out on the coast. for tomorrow, a little bit more sunshine and temperatures are warming up your tuesday. it is all because of this onshore winds flow. tuesday, a big concern with extreme fire danger back in the forecast. especially up in the higher elevations. a fire weather watch will be in effect for the areas highlighted in yellow from 8:00 tonight until 8:00 wednesday. that is a big focus for those gusty winds. low relative humidity values. extreme fire danger with critical conditions as we look to to

there is some fog streaming continuously through the golden gate.all the way out to portions of the east bay so do watch out for some lower visibility, especially on the golden gate bridge, 50's and 60's are current temperatures clinton i 64 double in nevado in petaluma among some of our cooler spots right now in the 50's later today that 70's for san francisco and oakland while low 80's and san jose. rob. >>thank you john checking in on a very busy and crowded bay bridge. it's going to be slow commute this morning into san francisco. thanks to all th

we have a red flag warning golden gate up for tomorrow morning. under a fire weather watch in two counties but our conditions will deteriorate with the possibility of any fires that develop could spread rapidly under these conditions, due to the heat and the winds picking up and we are going to see the winds in our upper elevations up to 1,000 feet and possibly gusting up to 50 miles per hour. so windy and hot and not the conditions we need. now is the time to prepare and get ready for the important papers and have your emergency kit ready and be ready to case in you get the order to evacuate. make sure you have food and medication ready and you know how to open your garage if you don't have power. we know that pg&e put out your that watch in a lot of parts infant north bay and especially in the hills. we will have more updates as well as temperatures in the forecast and when this all ends coming up. >>> after weeks of fire threats and evacuation, many people in the north bay are still representing for the worse and what pg&e is warning of because

all right, let's check some believe we have a look at the golden gate yet. there you go you can see why that dense fog advisory was issued by chp one of those mornings where we can not see the towers so take it easy out there, but no problems from the north bay to san francisco and then between the north and the east bay checking the richmond sandra fell. that's a good looking trip so far with no problems, no crashes no stalls all is well across the span. well as more businesses are reopening and california theme parks are being left behind on saturday demonstrators marched outside of disneyland calling for state leaders to give the green light to reopen the park alter 7 months erin myers reports that former employees say the park can open safely with proper precautions. dozens of employees and disneyland supporters rallied outside of the amusement park urging governor gavin newsome to allow the park to open and get people back to work and hoping we can generate awareness so maybe the governor can see we are humans like cast members guess the city people's l

you see the little gates that with the entrances to the stables.then stolen one time the many rings on the wall and that's where they tied up the horses. in the center of the courtyard is the horse trough where the horses were washed. we continued to the oldest gate of the fortress from 1482 it shows the 3 monks. coleman and thought no 3 stars are for it's burke. i don't know why are they so important and why did they have these funny names the make a man from our island they were irish scottish monks and christianized this area and unfortunately they died a martyr's death here before the inner courtyard is behind the gate. most of the buildings date from the renaissance. i'll show you the very oldest part of the fortress that you can still see that's the castle keep the fortified tower from the middle ages would serve the ruling family as a refuge if attackers happen to breach the main gate. today the tower has 2 entrances. they weren't there in the middle ages of course you could only get in through one door about 10 meters up from here. that i'm

we continued to the oldest gate of the fortress from 1482 it shows the 3 monks.colman and taught them 3 stars off for its bourke. i don't know why are they so important and why do they have these funny names they came from islands and they were irish scottish months and christianized this area and unfortunately they died a martyr's death here before in the inner courtyard just behind the gate most of the buildings state from the renaissance. and i'll show you the very oldest part of the fortress that you can still see that's because. the fortified tower from the middle ages would serve the ruling family as a refuge if attackers happened to breach the main gate. there today the tower has 2 entrances. they weren't there in the middle ages of course you could only get in through one door about 10 meters up from here. that i may tell you reached it by a ladder that could be pulled up or 3 and what did they do with the 1st 10 meters. snatch was a dungeon. it was a bottle dungeon the prisoners were let down through a hole on a rope letter with unexpected difficulties.

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it's mostly hovering around san francisco, the golden gate. >>and then on over into portions of the east bay are are right along the bay itself to watch visibility spots that will be lowered to below a mile that times in areas like san francisco. so if you're crossing into the city or on the peninsula anywhere on some of our bridges do watch out for the spots where visibility will be an issue as for air quality the further south in the bay you get well the greener and the better it becomes now for the north bay we are in moderate for most areas and then the red indicating very pour conditions as you head out to eastern portions of napa lake counties and eventually into the central valley. this is still a big improvement from where we once were and will be pretty similar all in all to where we were yesterday right now temperature

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she is in that you see the little gates that with the entrances to the stables.to them stolen one time the many rings on the wall and that's where they tied up the horses. in the center of the courtyard is the horse trough where the horses were washed. we continued to the oldest gate of the fortress from 1482 it shows the 3 monks. coleman and top 3 stars off for its burke. i don't know why are they so important and why do they have these funny name is they came from our island they were irish scottish months and christianized this area and unfortunately they died a martyr's death here before the in a courtyard just behind the gate. most of the buildings state from the renaissance . and i'll show you the very oldest part of the fortress that you can still see that's because. the fortified tower from the middle ages would serve the ruling family as a refuge if attackers happened to breach the main gate. there today the tower has 2 entrances. they weren't there in the middle ages of course you could only get in through one door about 10 meters up from here. that i m

bridges a little bit lower we saw last week when we're so fog free so bay bridge as well as golden gate bridge to have an impact their air quality is good all across the board across the bay if you head out to the central valley, couple of moderate pockets to know this morning. but all in all a pretty solid start to this morning, we're back in the 40's and 50's for current temperatures, doubling your at 53 right now oakland and concord 58 few 40's up in the north bay, especially cool up there. and later on today 70's and 80's for almost all of our daytime highs, i'll get to that still to come robin all right, thank you john we're checking in on traffic. we want to update your commute into san francisco. >>and it is packed right now at the bay bridge toll plaza so if you need to get into san francisco. you got to have to sit in this line so make sure you get out there early it's already crawling from west grand through the tolls up the incline approaching treasure island, your average is still pretty decent. it's 12 minutes and growing off to fremont street. but we don't have any hot spo

ukraine gate even go further back with saddam and weapons of mass destruction the there's plenty of official conspiracy theories that have been thoroughly debunked but many of the conspiracy theories that i consider can vary the theories in the official discourse are there's no even attempt to acknowledge that they can be debunked go ahead oh well you're absolutely right 2 because look just starting from july facebook. even due to the shut down hundreds of thousands of accounts of people connected to what these companies declared to be conspiracy theories organizations and all i won't name them not to give as a dozen to them but everyone knows these names you know the mainstream media reports about them every day and if you look at their theories for which these groups were paralyzed are biased basically every one of them has some. kind of shadow in really good like ok it's a conspiracy theory that the western rule or world is ruled by paedophiles who are iranian you know child safety child sex trade yes that's a conspiracy theory but jeffrey epstein exists that and he is circle exi

at the top of the golden gate bridge towers. our temperatures are in the upper 40s. santa rosa. 50s for oakland, livermore, san francisco and san jose. looking at low 60s for concord. watching that fog along the coast and right around the bay. near zero for the visibility so dense fog along the coast at half moon bay and some of that is billing right to the golden gate gap this morning. so we are looking at temperatures a bit cooler for today because of that onshore flow. with it, we take you hour by hour on futurecast and you will see that sunshine inland. looking at a mix of sun to clouds right around the bay and those clouds along the coast. as we look to tomorrow, we are going to see more sunshine and temperatures a little bit warmer. also, a return of that offshore wind flow. a big concern with that higher fire danger as we look to tonight into tomorrow and wednesday morning. as that ridge of high pressure builds back in, we have a high fire danger for tuesday with northerly to northeasterly winds and really watching the north a mountain for that elevated and ex

set in the bay area and skies are staying nice and clear you can see all the way toward the golden gate bridge, no fog to speak of and that's what it's going to stay we'll talk about the red flag warning wind advisories also going up in the north bay we'll see some gusty winds, 3540 miles per hour even down in some of the valley so yea um i want to tie things down it is going to blow pretty hard through tomorrow and then looks like those winds subside by at least friday afternoon but high pressure now building in overhead we're starting to see some low winds wrapping up in the north bay and that is going to bring with it high fire danger but boy down below just gorgeous temperatures even in the sunset tomorrow to about 72 degrees right out near the coast, 71 in pacifica 78 al gore some downslope winds there 79 and a half moon bay you get inside the bay. these numbers up in the 70's and the 80's while the hot 90's in redwood city about 90 palo alto plenty of 90's in the south bay tomorrow and the east bay cranking up in the mid 90, so those temperatures staying on the hot side inside the

a fog advisory in effect for the golden gate bridge. drive times from the richmond, san rafael bridge heading into the city, only 15 minutes. things might slow down a bit because of all of the fog we are dealing with this morning. >> it is all because of that strong ocean breeze kicking in for us. >>> we have better air quality for sure and cooler temperatures. tracking that for you, you can see through our salesforce camera, that rolling in. temperatures are cooler. we are in the 40s and 50s to start off our day. 86 in concord and oakland. 53 in san francisco a cool 45 in santa rosa with that fog. checking current visibility, we are down to a half-mile in santa rosa. three quarters of a mile in napa. a half-mile at sfo and a quarter mile for half moon bay. because of that seabreeze kicking in for us, good to moderate air quality for most of the bay area today with the air-quality forecast. for portions of the north bay, looking at unhealthy air for sensitive groups closer to the glass fire. that will be the case for tomorrow. a stronge

a live look at the golden gate bridge where the chp issued a fog advisory. if i'm looking at major slow downs around the bay area at the moment it's coming out of tracy and everything else is moving and you can expect low viz ablt t at the golden gate bridge. >> thank you, jobina. >>> a celebration of life is going to be held for san francisco fallen police officer. they escorted his body to, he was killed in a training accident earlier this month and the private celebration for the 42-year-old starts this morning at 11:00 at oracle park. >>> coming up on abc7 mornings, new details about the moments leading up to a deadly police shooting in san francisco. the new body camera video and 911 calls from witnesses. >>> also ahead this morning, a tv that costs nearly $90,000. >> what? >> features on this high-price screen. >>> near 5:11. you're waking up to 58 degrees right now in the city. pretty much cooler across the bay area. meteorologist mike nicco coming ♪ if i could, baby i'd ♪ how can i, when you won't take it from me ♪ ♪ you can go your own way ♪ ♪ go yo

what they can count on golden gate forward. >>> looking forward to the holidays. black friday will be very different for one of the nation's biggest retailers. >>> tonight is the 2020 billboard music awards and the theme is music unites us all. the award show is happening about six months late in los angeles and instead of las vegas and with no audience. artists like alicia keys and bts will perform and kelly clarkson is hosting for the third time. >> i feel every year i have a personal challenge every year, and this year is everyone's challenge and we will navigate in in a new way but we will do it. >> you can watch it tonight on nbc bay area at 8:00. taking california for a ride. companies like uber, lyft, doordash. breaking state employment laws for years. now these multi-billion-dollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. to deny drivers the rights they deserve. no sick leave. no workers' comp. no unemployment benefits. vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. one ride california doesn't want to take. >>> like everything

here's a look at the golden gate bridge. you can see it's definitely getting foggy across the mid-span as we have a west-northwest wind drawing in some of the marine layer moisture that developed during the overnight hours. that's where the clouds will stay back at the coast. even there they'll open up for a little sunshine. upper 50s to low 60s there. the rest of us are hitting 65 to 70 at noon. 72 to 78 at 4:00. definitely jacket weather, especially if you're eating outside once the sun sets we'll be dropping into the 50s and 60s. we still have smoke in the san joaquin valley and some of that drifted to san rafael yesterday. i think the upper level winds are less likely to steer that smoke towards us today. reggie? >> thanks. >>> this is the way to vote in style. this powerful image of brianna noble getting on her horse, dapper dan, and calling out others to join her. they were headed to the alameda county courthouse yesterday to drop off their ballots using any transportation they had. that means by car, by bike, by skate

>>at the pay gates see have some girls right there. been out there for about 30 minutes a lot of folks are thinking there's a way like these folks back here. if you stop waiting. >>cellphone unfortunately mike having some trouble we'll reconnect with robin here in a little bit. on the news now we've got twitter blocking a post from an advisor to president trump who suggested that masks do not work to stop the spread of coronavirus scott atlas is his name there's his picture he joined the white house in august as a science adviser. he tweeted yesterday though quote masks work. no unquote, a twitter spokesperson says the tweet violated the company's policy that prohibits sharing false or misleading information about covid-19. well it's been 7 months since congress passed the first round of covid relief and despite the house passing another relief bill a few months ago no further aid has been given to american since the pandemic began. house speaker nancy pelosi says that she and treasury secretary steve mnuchin must reach an agreement by

gates. but this is the rules there.e, does it basically mean the vaccine is our only hope of getting back to normal? >> yes, society should be able to have things like schooling that get a priority versus certain more entertainment-related things. and i guess politicians will show whatey're value system is there. the only way we will get completely back to normal is by having maybe not the first generation of vaccines but eventually a vaccine that is super effective and a lot of people take and that we get the disease eliminated on a global basis. that is where we can finally start taking all of the problems that have been created in education, mental health, and start to build back in a positive way. >> bill gates, obviously, founder of microsoft, one of the biggest philanthropists around the world these days, thank you for coming on. i appreciate your perspective, sir. >> great to talk to you. >>> when we come after my heart attack, everything changed. but i got a second chance to be there for the people i love. when

he was strand near the golden gate overlook at about 1:30 this morning. the battery crosby cliffs are hard to get to. about three hours later, a water rescue team was able to swim out to him and eventually got him to safety. >>> well, bay area weather, i think everybody october we always look forward to an early start of the rainy season, but that's not happening this time around, and as a consequence, we have fire danger to talk about for an extended period of time. so multiple red flag warnings this week as we take a look at the paragraphics for you. the first one expired earlier today. next one is cued up. that moves in tonight and into thursday and friday. and an event late sunday into early monday morning, and that could possibly be the strongest offshore wind event of the fire season, at least so far. showing you this in the short term. we are expecting those winds to pick up a bit. here we are into your thursday. this is thursday morning 8:00 for just a few sampled sights. calistoga, that's a wind gusting to 22 miles an hour, relative humidity 1%.

watch the fog issue across the golden gate and throughout the north bay. back to you. >>> all right, good to know. thank you, mike am happening today the supreme court resumes its 2020 term. this as justices still continue to mourn the death of their colleague ruth bader ginsburg. they will carry on their work along with her likely successor amy coney barrett. barrett's nomination to the seat held for 27 years by ginsburg marks a potential turning point for the nation's judicial system. today the justices will also face a flurry of emergency petitions from democrats and republicans over the way mail-in ballots are distributed, delivered and counted. >>> a southern california man is saying remdesivir saved his life. back in april he was one of the first people to test positive for covid-19 in san diego county. his symptoms were a high fever and difficulty breathing. when he got to the hospital doctors treated him with hydroxychloroquine but then immediately pulled him off to participate in a remdesivir iv trial. the president's physician says president trum

thomas brough that about some lights protest at the brandenburg gate at the center of. we're getting closer to president stand by as speech now. we can bring you live pictures now from the venue in stomachs the. top of his holiday in the bubble splash section of the city famous film studio that has a long history of germany's hollywood still film studio today right film is yes and in production let's go back to nina who is standing by in front of that venue let me ask you again what can we expect from standby as the speech today is certainly not lacking for topics is it. and i i would strongly support thomas barrass point i think it's more important than ever to stress. that many is still seeing division and it is still seeing differences and some gaps are why didn't they are not necessarily along the east and west frontier is more along political conviction and they're often people don't. you believe because it is starting his speech from . the side to do it. i mean is this verse 3 of german unity in a very different ways with packed halls with big public open and fest

i would say that bob gates and george h.w. bush had a very good relationship. leon panetta and barack obama had a very good relationship. john brennan and obama certainly. a spoiler alert. for those who know that i wrote another book called the gatekeepers about the white house chiefs of staff, some of the attributes that make a great white house chief of staff also serves cia directors well. it's no coincidence, in my view, that leon panetta was the gold standard at both. there were certainly other great white house chiefs and other great cia directors, but panetta was right up there with the best, and both jobs, and that's partly because has a lot to do with the fact that panetta when he became cia director for obama he was 70. you been around the block. he served in congress. he was comfortable. you knew the white house and he could walk into the oval office, close the door and tell barack obama what he didn't want to hear. and that is essential in both jobs. >> one of the great stories i felt in the chapter is about the time the director of national intelli

there is some fog streaming continuously through the golden gate. all the way out to portions of the east bay so do watch out for some lower visibility, especially on the golden gate bridge, 50's and 60's are current temperatures clinton i 64 double in nevado in petaluma among some of our cooler spots right now in the 50's later today that 70's for san francisco and oakland while low 80's and san jose. rob. >>thank you john checking in on a very busy and crowded bay bridge. it's going to be slow commute this morning into san francisco. thanks to all the problems that we've had out there this morning, nothing active in blocking right now, but we had a crash that was lingering at the pay gates for over an hour. we've had several stalls on the bay bridge and the skyway and traffic has not recovered the drive time looks a little better because it was 30 minutes. now we're down to 60 minutes, but it's still crawling from west grand all the way up to the suspension span so get out there early and be prepared for that we had a crash here at the san mateo b