mike garcia. -- wing man was? mike garcia. -- who was a navy seal. normally you only go for about three days. they got stuck there for 30 days. these are people, you have navy seals. you have crew on the others of the aisle. we have people who have such expertise who were on the ground and knowing. i would take it from armed services to foreign affairs to intel. i would change into committee back to the purpose of what their response ability was. they have -- their responsibility was. they had the responsibility to look within. impeachment has never gone through the intel committee into the democrats made a political. how much time had adam schiff spent looking around the world? when you're on the intel committee, you learn things that other members do not know. he spent all of his time on politics. i would look at that and what failure he created too. >> you said that you were discouraging members from going to afghanistan. you also said he understand the frustration of congressmen. that is part of the just vacation they are giving. that they are fr

including car bombings, that pattern is for multiple attacks, we bringng in california congressman mike garciatired u.s. army lieutenant colonel, first you congressman. reaction pour in addition to president's remarks, we are looking at critics saying, he is fatally out of touch. he avoid accountability and blamed trump for the disaster and the evacuation crises in afghanistan. he iss not handcuffed to trump's deals, u.k. and nato are sayingmp that, he said not a mistake to have taliban taliban control the airport, and saying that americans may be left behind and used a tell prompt -- teleprompter statement. republicans say he created your take on this press conference. >> absolutely infuriated and beside myself, he said bagram airfield add little value to the situation, and spend 10 seconds to talk about fallen marines and soldiers who lostst their lives because of his mistakes, i am pissed off, i want our president to be pissed off as all of us are, he is living in his ownan world, he needs to shifta t mind set of commander in chief rather than a chief diplomat. elizabeth: helo seemed detach

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joining us now, an afghan interpreter, california congressman and navy veteran mike garcia.st to you, zack. thank you both for joining us. your reaction to the president today. a lot of rhetoric that doesn't match the action on the ground. what did you think? [audio difficulty] elizabeth: okay, we're going to -- we're having trouble with your sound. we're going to come back to you as soon as we fix that technical difficulty. congressman, we've abandoned american allies to terrorists. this is worst than saigon. it doesn't make sense to take out military personnel when you need them to take them out, now we're putting military possessor until back in, but the president saying we will not do special force evacuations like france and the u.k. is doing. what do you say to that? >> it's amazing, liz. you must have an amazing intelligence committee working for you to come to those conclusions. this is something we could see coming for months, and unfortunately, our commander in chief could not. i don't know why. look, these aren't just contradictions, and this isn't just rhetoric t

newest member of congress, this guy flew f-18's, not just those, you know who his wingmen was, mike garcia. he also went into afghanistan as a targeting person. he did it with morgan luttrell who happens to be running for congress, and morgan was a navy seal. normally you go for three days. they got stuck there for 30 days, ran out of food and sex. these are people who have -- ran out of food in six. there been navy seals, you have crow on the others of the aisle. we have people who have expertise. i will take it through all commercial -- committees from armed firm -- armed services in foreign affairs and i would change until committee back to the purpose of what the responsibility was. they have a responsibility of overseeing the agencies, but what did they do? they turned it to look with them and they spend it as a political arm. impeachment never went through the intel committee before the democrats made it political. how much time had adam schiff spent of looking around the world? and when you are on the intel committee, you learn things that other members do not know. but, he spent al

bring in california congressman mike garcia ski yaw, retired lieutenant arm colonel james carafano.o you, colonel. reaction pouring in to the president's remarks. critics saying he is totally out of touch. the president said moments ago, avoided accountability and blamed trump for the evacuation and evacuation crisis in afghanistan when he not handcuffed to trump's deal. uk and nato are saying that. he is is saying not a mistake to have the taliban to have control of the airport. he saying americans may be left behind. he used a scripted, teleprompter statement and list of reporters he had to call on. touted evacuation success in the crisis that europe, nato and uk. democrats say, republicans say he created. your take on this press conference? >> i'm absolutely infuriated and beside myself. he also said bagram airfield added little value to the situation early on. he spent an entire 10 seconds, only 10 seconds to talk about the fallen marines and our soldiers who literally lost their lives because of his mistakes. i'm pissed off, i want my president, our president to be pissed off a

yes a switch in the winds, definitely doing it to us good afternoon to you mike garcia to all of youut there you may have noticed. early on. it wasn't so bad and now this afternoon even a spare the air issued late today will last through part of the weekend hopefully see some improvement on sunday as our pattern begins to switch once again but here's a look at sfo where you can see the haze out there. my i could see a little bit of haze and orange tinge to the sky am i right in so you're likely to see some of that as well? in addition to the haze it's a hotter day especially inland livermore already 91 degrees 77 san francisco 84 in santa rosa, mid seventies right now in oakland san jose reporting 84 degrees, so. it's going to be warm not only for today but into tomorrow with some of our inland cities reaching triple digit heat so the heat will be on, especially for the inner east bay, and i'll show you those numbers in just a moment. we are good to moderate across the bay area right now, you can see as you get. into areas over the sacramento valley switches from moderate to slightly

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hello, garcia, mike to all of you. we do have a spare the air day as mentioned at the top of the hour. do see the possibility of some improving whether coming our way when it comes to cooler conditions and cleaner air live. look here at sfo, where it's not happening today. today is going to be a hazy one. and we've already seen that out the gate this morning, and there's a look there where air quality is moderate. for most of us here is a current check. just updated these numbers here and the index reading again showing moderate for most, if not the entire bay area. even a little bit of a good air quality reported over areas closer to santa cruz for the forecast into the afternoon is expected to be slightly unhealthy for sensitive groups. we heard james mentioned this at the top if you have asthma, respiratory issues, if you're very sensitive to the haze and smoke a good idea to be out of it, and if you smell smoke for any of us, a good idea to be out of it, because those particles, of course very bad for your lungs. 6

california republican congressman mike garcia. how did you fight back? >> good morning, bill.ork for people. we started getting word about the illegal grows in the high desert of southern california. suburbs of los angeles. about six months ago. we took a tour, saw just how bad it was. heartbreaking to see what these cartels are doing to our lands. they are pillaging our land. these groves are being staffed by illegal immigrants. stealing our water and killing our wild lands and threatening our local community members and the local community members didn't just roll over and play dead in this case. they fought back. they let us know. we got the attention of the local sheriff from los angeles county and over the course of 10 days with the help of the dea and multiple levels of federal government and four counties we seized 1.2 billion of illegal marijuana grows, arrested some 33 individuals, 27 firearms confiscated and about 16 tons of marijuana which was consuming about 9 million gallons of water a day in a time where california is in the middle of one of our worst droughts. >

i'm jana katsuyama, mike and garcia have the afternoon off the dixie fire officially became the third largest wildfire in california t exploded in size overnight. now, too small towns have been destroyed. ktvu jesse gary has the latest on the fire and the efforts to contain. paint it. friday the dixie fire swelled in size growing more than 71,000 acres overnight and now stands at over 432,008. that's more than half the size of the state of rhode island. part of that was driven by the fuel and the topography. but the most the most, uh, impressive changes because of the weather conditions. captain mitch matt lowe says high winds and pyro cumulus clouds combined to cause erratic and unpredictable fire behavior. thursday the small town of kenyan near the south end of lake alma, nor was reduced to ash and earlier in the week, greenville saw history repeated. gold rush town burned 140 years ago and went up in flames again. we lost greenville there's. just not words for help. us and government haven't been able to get the job doing cal fire officials say 5200 firefighters have been able to g

news at noon starts now this is ktvu fox two news at noon and good afternoon, everyone i'm mike mibach garcia is on assignment. we continue to follow the latest developments right now out of afghanistan within the hour. president biden is scheduled to address the nation about the developing situation. this will be the president's first public remarks since the taliban entered and took control of kabul yesterday will bring you the president's address. live once it gets underway. meantime one of america's top military commanders met face to face with senior leaders of the taliban, urging them not to interfere. what the masses of massive evacuation at the kabul airport by. caroline shively has the story from washington. the flag of afghanistan lowered in kabul monday following a tense weekend helicopters racing to evacuate personnel from the u. s embassy and afghanistan's president fled the country. certainly when it comes to the world jihadist movement itself. this is their major victory. the fall of the afghan capital to taliban fighters coming more quickly, the u. s officials projected just 1

mike and garcia have the afternoon off, a cdc advisory panel says they will recommend a third covid vaccine shot for people who were vaccinated with the two dose moderna or fighter shots. for now. this will only be offered to those with weakened immune systems. ktvu james torres is live in the newsroom. now, after listening in on the panel's discussion in james. how soon are they saying that these shots will be available? well jen as soon as the cdc formally accepts the recommendation, these booster shots can be made and administered immediately, and it's something with great interest among americans, according to the cdc, the agency says about one million people have already gone to get at the time. unauthorized third shots of the mrna vaccines in today's news would only affect about 3% of the american population. but these immuno compromised people make up for about 44% of hot. hospitalized breakthrough cases nationwide again, according to the cdc. the panel, which includes a doctor from stanford university, voted unanimously saying the pros outweigh the cons. even during the panel's publ

one of them right there in california where mike garcia, for example, got north los angeles and flippedanic vote is up for grabs and it is caring for all american issues. will: we have it on screen. california districts that flipped red. you see the districts and percentage of the hispanic population in those districts that flipped red. lily, i'm fascinated by this, what you laid out there, motivating late teen another voters is sort of a broad political agenda republicans hold. i'm curious what the past 12 months, what role the last 12 months might have played, when it comes clearly to racial politics and pandemic politics have shoved everything -- that is what has taken the front seat in everybody's minds and i'm curious how the latino population in california has responded to for example, crt in school or making everything racial, largely black and white, or lockdowns and mask mandates and vaccine politics, how all of that is playing with latinos? >> well you just saw the numbers, will. we analyzed over 700,000 digital discussions in the last 30 days and hispanics in california actua

garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. mike, keeping an eye on the roads, we'll get to that in just a bit. but we are in for some more smoke and haze as the wildfires burn north of us. meteorologist kari hall tracking that for us. >> the air quality alert continuing today and temperatures quite warm in some spots. check out brentwood in the upper 60s and it's 62 in san jose, upper 50s in oakland and in san francisco. but as we go into this afternoon, very much like yesterday, with some high clouds moving by, the tropical clouds and also we'll be watching out for a chance of showers as our highs inland reach into the low 90s. we'll see still the 60s for highs near the coast. we'll talk more about the weekend coming up. mike you're starting with a highway closure. >> i am. it's not unexpected or shouldn't be. we talked about this, eastbound 37. part of that continuing improvement project. right now possibly until 6:00 a.m. you'll have to uses the reroute. we have outlined toward highway 29, slowing shows up, there may be something going on 121 as well. so far no problems for your longer driv

garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. mike, keeping an eye on the roads, we'll get to that in just a bit.

garcia. we'll check in with mike in a moment. want to check in with meteorologist kari hall tracking the really dangerous conditions out there. >> we have the winds starting to kick up in that area as well as some of the smoke coming in, so as you're heading out the door this morning, looking a little smoky, these dots show our air quality sensors and the yellow shows some moderate air quality and around the area of the fire, of course, very unhealthy air quality right now. we're going to monitor that smoke as our temperatures actually cool off. we will have a stronger westerly wind coming off the ocean helping to cool us off around the bay area. mostly 70s and 80s for a lot of our inland areas. we'll talk more about what's ahead coming up in a few minutes. how is it looking for the early morning commuters. >> pretty calm overall. not really a lot of traffic out there. green sensors for the most part. a crash reported west 80. your commute direction around powell may affect the off ramp, no slowing. crews heading out there and i'

yes i garcia and mike we are looking at better weather for us here at home. let's take a look at what is going on over areas of the south because ida a tropical storm now right over jackson, mississippi. and you can see it is moving north northeast at nine mph so not moving too quickly, but the winds right now at 40 mph, so nothing like when it came ashore yesterday. the stretch of that band of rain goes out 250 miles. so even though it's over mississippi, it is included over areas of alabama as we heard the reporter talking about. and somof those rainfall amounts are coming down anywhere from 3/10 of an inch per hour to half inch over some areas. the darker shades of yellows and reds can't seem to pick one up there. there's 3/10, so this is going to continue to move out of mississippi, it will ma path towards a tennessee it will continue to weaken. done ad it could take weeks. it could take months. it could take longer to recover from all that is left behind back to you, rosemary oroczo. oak was seen rising near kabul's international airport today. multiple

laura garcia has the morning off. mikeat traffic for us and might surge a little bit because folks are going back to school and that's what kari is talking about. >> yeah. >> the back-to-school forecast. and also the kids going outside for rese and it's hazy and smoky at times. we're getting you out the door in the east bay as we're going to see some of those temperatures in antioch in the upper 60s a little bit of a warm start. it's going to be another hot day. looking at our temperatures heading toward the low 90s0s in2 in raphael. we'll talk more about the air quality, that back-to-school forecast and alls the changes we'll have this week. mike, you're still seeing the one highway closure. >> highway 37 eastbound continues with the closure. another half hour at most. usually pick that up early. the alternate getting up and over 121. a smooth drive for your commute direction in westbound highway 4 out of antioch. eastbound through pittsburgh to antioch there is an overnight crash and sounds like the lane is bhokds. a lot

garcia. we're going to check in with mike because things start to pick up. first we want to check in with kari hall because we're going to start waking those kids up. >> first day of school, san francisco, west contra costa county, a lot of school districts. we're still dealing with the hazy sky and the smoky conditions we've seen from over the weekend. even though we are starting out with moderate air quality we are expecting improvement today as our temperatures will be heating up for some of the inland spots. 70s for the inner bay and some 60s near the coast. what are you watching for the commute? >> the bay bridge starting to slow down. the metering lights were turned on before 6:00 like last week. the metering lights may be slower a bit because there's an incident as you enter the treasure island tunnel. see slowing there. recovery may have started already. they may have cleared that. the rest of your commute westbound look at that, highway 37 just a little slowing toward mare island. been there ten minutes. the rest of the bay, an easier start. it's cl

mike reporting from puerto rico. >> for the past 40 years, ruben garcia has served as the director of the annunciation house.n organization that works th people on both sides of the u.s. civil border to help people immigrate or determine their next steps after deportation. tonight he shares his brief but spectacular take on how embracing refugees builds stronger societies. >> i believe many of us in the united states and to lk at the refugee, the immigrant as someone who is simply a matter of charity, so many of our industries are interwoven with the immigrant and the refugee. when we protect the refugee, the immigrant, we are protecting ourselves. i was fortunate to have been born here in el paso, a border city, a border committee. my family lived on both sides of the border. i had family that lived in juarez and el paso. i grew up going back and forth. it was a daily event as normal as crossing the street in any neighborhood in the united states. this is an organization that operates houses of hospitality for refugees and immigrants right on the border in el paso, texas or mexico. we have been doing this f

garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. kari has that forecast ready to go, but we want to start with mike inouye with some of the traffic news. >> tragic news on highway 101 to start with. a head's up driving south 101 through san jose. just passing mckee. by our camera north of 680. you see the lights. the taillights going north they are traveling north past the scene. it's southbound 101, only one lane is open south of mckee. i don't see any traffic flow coming through right now. they may have done a teamry stop. there was a deadly crash here early in the morning and slowing, light traffic flow. this is a problem toward 280 and 680 coming off of olds the only for the south bay and issue for the freeways. we're going to track this, the death of any sort at any time of day tragic, but complicated by the darkness. >> we are starting out nice and quiet in the east bay getting ready to head out the door in walnut creek. it is 63 degrees. we had warm temperatures yesterday and it's going to be very much like that today. in some spots a little bit hotter as we reach into the upper 90s in concord. some upper 80s for santa rosa and

garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. okay. more schools will go in session today. back to school this morning for oakland unified schools. mike is going to give a look at the commute. but we want to start out with the forecast. >> we were watching the air quality over the weekend got hazy at times and air quality is looking much better. we are starting out this morning with a mostly clear sky, fog near the coast. in oakland reaching 72 degrees. really nice and comfortable and for the coastline we're going to see at times fog and hazy sky, temperatures in the mid 60s and for the inland areas, you'll feel the heat crank back up. we'll talk about that coming up. mike, not clear in san francisco. >> i don't know about the cloud cover, we'll take a look at that, but i'm talking about van ness over at the closure since last week, it's not supposed to reopen until 6:00 a.m. keep that in mind. if you head out there right now you have the intersection closed and crews in the area, getting off the bay bridge westbound around fremont a disabled vehicle which may be in lanes. no slowing showed up over the last 15 minutes. it's still ther

to be our rower and mike, because i know you well back to our days in mountainview, here you go, break dancing for you in 2024. >> are we missing anyone? >> laura. >> oh. laura garcia> 2042 the summer olympics live from union square or santana row and there's going to be laura garcia just like this. >> this girl is on fire. >> laura has it. >> i thought you were going to say like synchronized swimming, gymnastics. >> synchronized shopping. >> oh. >> i love that. but in high school i ran track and i love watching track but being from kentucky i love the equestrian games, dressage is beautiful. that would be fun. you take the platinum for shopping. >> i can see you doing gymnastics, something like that. you would be great at that. let's get a look at our forecast for today. we have some upper 80s for today, for our inland valleys. >> watch out for that, the improvement project van ness and mission backing up 101. van ness is 101 cutting through the city and a tough drive off that central freeway. >> that's what's happening "today in the bay." we'll be back with a local news update and so fun having raj as part of the morning. >> throughout the olympics raj has done a