take a look at this long line of traffic along sixth straight at brannen. this is where one of the entrances to southbound 280 has been closed. and you can see that folks are re-routing traffic. and with the giants game-set to start in just about an hour from now, things aren't going to be getting any better. >> it's crazy how it has been hours here. one block. >> i'm heading down just to seventh street, ancan't get there just to make a right on

tell me five on and off ramps are now out of commission, including fourth and canyon and sixth and brannen and it comes at a time when the giants start a six-day homestand and also carnaval in the city and students coming home from school and the result is you're just going to have a busy, busy weekend. people urged to take public transportation and other options including the busy 101 and whatever option they choose, they do plan to wait. >> pretty jammed up at that time of the day to add another 45 minutes or an hour, especially going through the city. >> now, it may seem really inconvenient but caltrans said they were trying to notify drivers for weeks. but it's easier to impact a weekend than a busy week day. southbound lanes closed until tuesday morning. also, we may see this, again, on the fourth of july and then labor day weekend. that's when the northbound lanes will close for exactly the same thing. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, "today in the bay." >> a lot of cars out there on the road for that closure. all right, christie, thank you. >>> happening today a woma

they got the road blocks up on the ramps at fourth and also sixth and brannen and now just out of commission. this is the giant start a six-day homestand and also carnaval happening in the city. people urged to use public transportation why this is going on the alternate ramps and options like the already crowded 101 really sound like a challenge to drivers. >> if you can't get on here, you're stuck. takes you another half hour, 45 minutes to get on somewhere else. >> now, southbound lanes are expected to be closed until about 5:00 a.m. tuesday morning. then, also on the fourth of july and labor day, that's when the northbound lanes will be closed so work can continue on those lanes for the same reason. and, mike, in a wyou have ideas folks to get around this this holiday weekend. >> we talked about 101 an easy alternate. closure stretched in red and peninsula, pennsylvania, i should say, is a surface street that takes you basically from the full closure is all the way down past the on ramp there. depends the on ramp is the next one you can take getting back on to southbound 280. 101 as chri

take a look at this long line of traffic along sixth straight at brannen. this is where one of the entrances to southbound 280 has been closed. and you can see that folks are re-routing traffic. and with the giants game-set to start in just about an hour from now, things aren't going to be getting any better. >> it's crazy how it has been hours here. one block. >> i'm heading down just to seventh street, ancan't get there just to make a right on seventh. >> reporter: getting around san francisco is painful tonight as drivers deal with detours. cal trans has closed a stretch of 280 to replace a hinge in an effort to make the highway seismically sound. >> pour new concrete, and hopefully everything will be ready to go by tuesday morning. >> reporter: that means getting around this weekend will be trick eye, with four giants games scheduled and people driving in and out for the holiday weekend, it's a mess. these folks are realizing it will take longer than they bargained for to get out of town. >> it probably means it will take us two or three hours to get to

greg brannen, the face of the tea party candidate, tillis beats him.kennen endorse tillis as they face kay hagin. how do the tea party republicans and the tea party members coalesce behind these establishment candidates? >> that's the tricky part. the guys at the top will always endorse. there is endorsements and there is endorsements. it depends on how enthusiastic they're going to be at the top. but it's also the case that the tea party is not one solid voting bloc controlled by the likes of richard daley. you've got individual activists who even if rand paul says now all good republicans must unite, will say why do we need two democratic parties? we might as well have the legitimate one if you're going to have two. it's a tricky proposition. and just getting an endorsement is no guarantee that you get thes at the core of the group. >> you mentioned rand paul. what do you see happening over the next few months as we head into the mid terms in terms of his strength, what he can represent and the future of the republican party and the tea party coming

his closest competition for the seat is greg brannen, whose campaign with ran paul this week.hey'll look at how the tea party fairs in this vote. any pass to a g.o.p. majority would likely include north carolina. susan roberts is an associate professor of political science at davis college and said democratic incumbent who supported the affordable care act is extremely valuerible vul. >> once considered a true swing state in recent years north carolina has shift to the right. electing pat macquarie it's first republican governor in 20 years. they now control the legislature which passed voting rights, same-sex marriage and abortion. it today they show president obama's approval rating at 44%. >> everything in north carolina politics is aimed towards defeating--well, he can't be defeated because he's not running. >> reporter: a recent "new york times" kaiser family foundation poll shows many don't approve the way the president is handling healthcare. six months before the general election healthcare has become the focus of attack ads on both sides. >> hagin thinks obamacare's t

morgan brannen live at cnbc headquarters with a look at the margens. good morning, morgan. >> hi, scott. futures are higher as we come back from the holiday weekend. the markets are coming off their best week in more than a month. the s&p 500 index is at a new high. above the 1900 mark for the first time. we get data today on demand for durable goods, home prices and consumer confidence. the dow closing up 63 points on friday to 16606 the nasdaq rising 31 points to 4185. back to you. >> all right, morgan, thank you much. >>> at 5:15, a string of strange weather hitting across the country this morning. at least nine people were hurt, one of them critically after this tornado hit an oil workers' camp in north dakota. it happened a few miles south near the montana border. eight trailers were also destroyed. >>> in houston, texas, flash flooding continues to cause problems for drivers. these cars got stuck in high water while other parts of texas high winds including funnel cloud damaged a lot of buildings. >>> meanwhile, let's check in with rob mayeda who

i'm sam brannen, a senior fellow at the ces iso program and i'm privileged to be joined by three of my favorite foreign policy and security experts, the people whose opinions i want to hear on this issue. we are going to turn to them today to discuss the ukraine crisis and its implications for u.s. security. before i turn it over, i want to provide a little framing and i will take it from there and we will open it to questions from you at the end of the session. events over the past several days in eastern ukraine have underscored the growing danger of a prolonged civil and sectarian conflict. as high as the stakes are within ukraine, they are potentially greater for the united states, not just in europe and eurasia, but globally. fundamental questions about u.s. security strategies are being asked not just in washington and op-ed pages but in capitals from the world. considering this framing of the crisis by un-american two days after the crimea referendum vote. he said like a mirror, the situation in ukraine reflects what is going on and what has been happening in the world over the