buz at the desk. >> want to take you now to the thick of the traffic. driving in the area it and looks mighty slow there. my goodness that is northbound. that was just -- . >> cheryl it's horrible. it's horrible out here, your get away drive is stop and go as soon as you walk out of the office in san francisco. it's been bad here it's taking me an hour to get from wald yes tunnel. swlai to look forward to is a mess a one exit connector that connects highway 580 to go over richmond bridge. you know, we're doing morning drive this morning talking about how rela live of tiffly light it was this morning. i'm wondering what happened during the day here? it's a mess now. >> all right. thank you very much for that update. and we feel for you out there. now, caltrans says work on the new span is going well during a media briefing about 20 minutes ago. the project still on schedule expected to open on time. here is what crews have planned for the weekend. >> paving should be done tonight at the tunnel. and over the next 4 hours is going to focus on lighting and

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. >> (laughter) >> ... and lots of fancy buz words. >> family values, speding, liberty, economic freedomhard-working moms, crushing debt, cute little puppies. if wayne lapierre can make up stuff that sounds logical while making no sense... hey, so can i. once again friends, this is live tv and sometimes these things happen. >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. >> we're back on "the young turks." well, where can the president explain his foreign policy, but obviously on the tonight show? he went up to talk to jay leno and here's the first thing that happened. >> this intelligence gathering that we do is a critical component to counter terrorism, and obviously, with mr. snowden and the disclosures of classified information, it's raised questions. a lot of these programs were put in place before i came in. i had skepticism and we should about what government's doing. i had the programs reviewed. we put in some additional safeguards to make sure that there's federal court oversight as well as congressional oversight, that there is no spying on americans. we don't have a domestic spying

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