we met cordelia func in hamburg the last stop on her tour of germany to promote the book she lives here with her family for a long time before moving to los angeles in 2005 hamburg is also where her career as a writer began. we 1st met her nearly a phone call in hamburg 12 years ago just after the publication of the 3rd volume of her in car trilogy that was the series that launched her international career she's meanwhile written more than 70 books they've been translated into 50 languages and have sold more than 26000000 copies. in cart was turned into a hollywood film the chico produced another unusual experience for the author. recently she fulfilled a long cherished dream and bought an avocado farm in malibu today cordelia funk is one of the most successful fantasy writers in the world she has fans everywhere and not all of them are children and young people. express not in any amount but i remember going to india and all of a sudden all these people between the age of 24 and 30 were asking if they could have me up to you know and they sang to me saying that i was their child you ca

recently she fulfilled a long cherished dream and bought an avocado farm in malibu today cordelia funk is one of the most successful fantasy writers in the world she has fans everywhere and not all of them are children and young people. if i saw it in any amount but i remember going to india and all of a sudden all these people between the age of 24 and 30 were asking if they could have me up to now and they thanked me saying that i was their child you can type in in out in there i have the same thing in germany of a venue how can that be in the city the reality is. india is so different because and yet my books are in fact shaped by german reality or american reality and not by reality in india it's for me it's a question that's still a big mystery how he was when i was in guadalajara mexico how i found myself weeping and one of the and in fact the reader is there understood exactly what i was writing about every question they asked me would build a depth of understanding that i've rarely encountered anywhere else on the land to me it seems like that in places or countries where life

no issues from cordelia all the way past the venetia bridge. live picture here looks good and at the toll plaza it is light. 4:31. let's go back to the desk. >>> now, take a look at this. on the left you see a photo of a suspect in a robbery on monday morning. sent to us by residents in oakland's diamond district just hours later. and, then, on the right a man who neighbors believe is the same person. ktvu's rob roth talked to neighbors who want that man captured. >> new surveillance video sent to ktvu by an oakland resident. it shows one man walking up to a house. one man displays what appears to be a gun in ace waistband. moments later a contractor was robbed at gun point. two hours later two men, one man with red pants attacked a man at gun point while he was vacuuming his car. he took his phone, jewelry and keys. the young man's father is replacing the locks on his door thursday. we showed the latest video to him. the father asked us not to show his face. >> they need to be caught. who knows what else they're going to do. >> police say two

area including solano county and parts of the benicia and carquinez bridge, and looking at even cordelia and fairfield is looking pretty good. i'm not saying a lot of slow traffic, not even highway 4 or even petaluma to novato. i like what i see at the start of the commute. this is a look at the richmond bridge with one car here. it's empty and that is good, very light. here comes a car. if you are getting on the road, it should be a nice drive to san rafael and the bay bridge, it's nice. this is why people get up early and this morning, no surprises that will sometimes happen early in the morning. let's bring steve in. >>> it was a warm monday and will be a warm tuesday but the breeze won't be as pronounced with the north wind helping santa rosa and napa and out to fairfield. 79 yesterday in santa rosa with napa 76. 74 in concord and hayward, 74. other official records including sfo at 72 and the oakland airport and downtown oakland, 74. the santa rosa airport and santa rosa proper are two different records. santa rosa doesn't go back as far. i digress. a pretty good system in southern

you can see 680 from cordelia to martin it looks all right, little slowing in pittsburgh going west on four. these commutes are not too slow and you can see the east bay commute is doing all right on 580 and 883 oakland in here at the richmond bridge we do see that traffic is looking good into marin county. the bay bridge is backed up for a 10 to 15 minute wait if you're at the end of the line but once you make it onto the span it looks all right. now let's bring steve with today's weather.>> we will get to it and what should be one of the wettest months it is looking very, very dry and a lot of the models took out any chance of rain sunday and it is drive for the next 10 days. not even a .01, santa rosa and san francisco and san jose should be getting some pretty good rain this month but that is not the case. it is very dry and it will be dry until at least saturday and i think sunday will be as well and after that i have not seen anything on the way out to the 27th. if it works for you it works but i will tell you it is not good, we went to bank on miracle march, santa rosa 80 yester

cordelia rowson can tell us. she joins us now from her home in bromley.it of a sore throat so he felt it was his obligation to contact nhs 111 and they immediately said we all had to come in to the hospital to be tested in case we were carrying or incubating the virus. how did you get there? so we all got in the car, we we re get there? so we all got in the car, we were told we had to bring my mother as well because you came on holiday with us and we'll got in the carand holiday with us and we'll got in the car and drove to amd and we were given a special number we had to call. -- given a special number we had to call. —— a&e. we were given a special number which we called and someone told us to go around the back. we basically had to stay in our car back. we basically had to stay in ourcarand an a&e back. we basically had to stay in our car and an a&e doctor came out asked questions about where we had been an basically swabbed our nose, cheeks and took a temperature. all this time you're staying in the car and are the medics, they wearing protective suit