denuclearization is a fundamental element of a lasting peace on the korean peninsula. thus, as we endeavor to engage the north before, during and perhaps beyond pyeongchang, we do so in clear sight of the denuclearization imperative. the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of north korea remains the unwavering goal of the korean government and the international community, and as long as north korea continues down the path of nuclear development sanctions will remain in place and korea will continue to work closely with the international community to force a change of course on north korea. the fundamental resolution of the korean peninsula-related issues cannot be achieved without the denuclearization of north korea and we will continue to seek realistic and effective ways to resume denuclearization talks at the earliest possible date. friends and colleagues, almost 70 years ago members of the international community sent troops and humanitarian aid to help defend a fledgling democracy in the southern half of the korean peninsula. we, the korean peop

involving the korean peninsula.tical moment where relations are kind of improving on the korean peninsula, this kind of gesture is not welcomed. and maybe very, very destructive of the fragile situation on the korean peninsula. there are concerns that china is not holding up concerns that china is not holding up on its end of the agreement on sanctions on north korea. and that is why they were excluded from these talks. are these justified? is why they were excluded from these talks. are these justified ?|j personally talks. are these justified?” personally don't think these concerns 01’ personally don't think these concerns or allegations are justified. i think china is doing everything necessary to do. under the united nations security council resolutions. anything above the resolutions. anything above the resolutions needs to be discussed and approved by the united nations security council. further, i think, philosophically speaking, sanctions themselves are necessary, but may not be sufficient to achieve the goa

easement of tensions on the korean peninsula and hopefully a resolution to the nuclear issue that hasbeen rising in this region which is affecting the world mr pat is this purely an attempt by the north korean koreans to test waters or do you think that this could be a genuine attempt to move forward and solve the long disputes between all the parties well i think. it is genuine. of course it really depends on the nation. if. this is going to be. was asian or north koreans policy you know it's not going to happen but it is they are a genuine attempt i think to his work in chains and trying to bring on some degree of normalcy situation mr chum the reason why i was asking the question about the real reasons behind the of virtue is because it brings back memories of from one nine hundred eighty eight during the winter olympics in salt north korean stepped in the said they would like to. join a unified team then they said they wanted to co-host the games with the south korea's then they pulled out in created an international crisis back then is there any political agenda here. i think it'

trying to improve relations on the peninsula may actually be futile at least.t falling of relations between north and south korea and both sides agreeing to participate in the upcoming winter olympics under one unified flag? the current direct dialogue and negotiations between the dprk and ask, especially focusing on the participation in the 0lympics, focusing on the participation in the olympics, is very important and positive. however it is also important to note that the dprk has made no gesture at all towards denuclearisation on the korean peninsula and a strictly limit discussions with us, their bilateral relations involving the winter 0lympics, relations involving the winter olympics, and there is no indication at all that as far as the nuclear weapons are concerned on the korean peninsula, there is any positive step forward. of course, the rok has insisted peaceful dialogue for the winter olympics will be helpful for the eventual effort at denuclearisation but dprk has taken a very, very different view of this. we need to do everything not to disrupt the

official talks with its southern neighbor for the first time in two years as tensions run high on the peninsula there are signs the spot is easing now with some progress already made at the start of the year has already seen the reopening of a cross border phone line the next day trump the laid on your military drills with salt until after south korea holds the winter olympics next month face to face negotiations with the north set for tuesday and we. have more to shed some more light on this caleb you've been across the story people optimistic about these talks what can we really expect. well it's hard to tell exactly what's going to be discussed one thing that certainly will be on the agenda is the upcoming olympic games but folks are rather optimistic the simple fact that these talks are happening is rather exciting and surprising at this point we've heard from the unification minister in south korea and he has called for the talks to be kind of an opportunity to ease tensions now you wonder how much worse the tensions could get over the last few months we've seen a real intensification with

can get out of the way finally and we can stop having the korean peninsula be an old cold war pawn and that they could finally have peace for all their people it's interesting you mention the u.s. being out that way because unlike in previous discussions the u.s. isn't going to be at the negotiating table lists do you see that effect in the process i mean is it actually say anything about the you know the south koreans view on the trump administration. well what it says are a few things first of all when they did direct negotiations back in two thousand in two thousand and five actually they actually went ahead and were able to at that time reach agreements and the u.s. was not at the table now in this scenario what you're looking at is a situation where the six party talks which was the only circumstance in which the u.s. was at the table those never really got going in a way that was highly effective and even when we set up the agreed framework under the clinton administration bill clinton's administration there was a situation in which promises were made for fuel and otherwise and a

the best area is along the peninsula. this will be moving around just under a mile for concord, over a mile for livermore and we're looking at numbers around 50 degrees this morning from santa clara. elsewhere, 52 in the city. 48 in sebastopol. so mild in napa. the average highs in the 50s. we'll get a couple chances of some rain. so 60 today near the water in richmond as well as vallejo. 62 in san jose and with the low cloud deck really confined to the sacramento valley much better navigating tonight as well as tomorrow. the extended outlook, look at the chance of rain coming our way late on the holiday. more rain next thursday. sue? >>> we are limited on our live camera shots this morning due to the fog so we're going to show you that because that's where it's affecting your drive as well. this is emeryville. heading westbound to the bay bridge toll plaza, it is thick out there represented by the orange on our traffic map. we do have a new accident, this on the dumbarton in the eastbound direction and is just before the

a live look across the bay area from the peninsula to the east bay. commuters, you're going to want to take your time on the roadways this morning. and then guess what washes out the fog, the next storm. it is lingering in the north bay right now. thanks for joining us. i'm in for laura garcia. >> kari, you warned us this stuff was coming. it's been a weekend. we're seeing it in the south bay. it's a lot more widespread than we've seen recently and then as we go through the day we're going to start to see this rain moving in as this storm approaches. this is not a really strong one but it will bring us some wet weather as we go through the day. as we get a close look at the radar now, not a whole lot going on. we'll start to see some of the showers coming down in san francisco and then working its way into the south bay by late morning and early afternoon. mike, you have a traffic alert. we're looking over here because two lanes are blocked by debris from an earlier crash just shy of spencer. folks are heading down to the robin williams tunnel causing

for the peninsula, we got more rain that's lining up and down the peninsula as we get a closer look. of the showers that's moving through half-moon bay right now will be moving towards heyward and moving into foster city within the next 20 minutes. the morning commute along the peninsula will be wet off and on and other times the sun will be out and it will be a cool day. if you are going to sierra, i will have a look at that forecast. mike, now you will have more details going through richmond. >> that's right. >> that's right across san mateo bridge, we'll track the effect of that as well. we'll talk about that in a second. we'll start with richmond and westbound 180, reports of a bus and another vehicle blocking your fast lane. it is a distraction at the very least. it may not be a crash, it may just be a disabled vehicle. north 880, that'll be an issue and slowing down through heyward which we would expect. >>> 6:10 right now, coming up next of an unthinkable crime on today in the bay. >> they post no threat to anyone unless you do something incredibly stupid. a little river sea

we felt it in the peninsula. here is the peninsula. the purple zone from the north bay past san jose into santa cruz in is solin an county. here is the epicenter there in berkeley process. the clairemont hotel in the green zone. where most reports came in right there. moments after the quake people turned to social media to report it. thousands of people commenting on our various posts on twitter and facebook. many sharing their experience where they felt it from. one of our viewers, brian in redwood city sent thus video here. says he was sleeping on his couch at the time. no shaking but you can see both he and his dog wake up during the quake. if you have any earthquake related video send them as ic nbcbayarea.com. >> let's talk about rain. yesterday's rainstorm moved out but there is another one right behind it. we are showing you the life cameras in san jose and sand rafael. earlier today it was sunny and clear. but in the north bay a different story. you can see it there dreary and raining again. our chief meteorologist is tracking

which is to say ensuring the safety and stability of the korean peninsula. i appreciate that my colleagues came to her for this meeting which. is to show our solidarity against the dangerous and illegal actions of north korea has also enabled us to discuss ways of increasing the effectiveness of the international sanctions regime. to support a rules based international approach to the united states and specifically my colleague counterpart secretary rex tillerson for co-hosting this foreign ministerial on security and stability in the korean peninsula. for more than two decades the international community has advanced a range of initiatives to limit or dismantle north korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs and related activities in response and in direct contravention of its international obligations north korea has engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to develop and it has its capabilities nowhere else in the world do we see the proliferation of weapons and materials of mass destruction on the scale of north korea's program we cannot stand

in the midst of a very hectic day on the peninsula today. we are here near page mill road where a man died in a crash

on the peninsula we don't usually see this. the road weather index, the orange over here highlighting 280 and 101 is an unexpectedly tough drive through the area as far as the conditions go. you come up on the fog, and bob gave us the great words of advice, more spacing, slow down speeds, and keep the regular beams on unless you have fog lamps and then turn those on. a crash on the east shore freeway and south 101 just before you get to the robin williams tunnel. clear from the roadway but, again, we can't see much past university. low clouds and fog. >> that tragic crash that took the lives of three peninsula teenagers who were part of the explore program. >> they tell us that a positive change is coming out of this tragic loss. they died on halloween night after their car plunged 50 feet off skyline boulevard. their father found them the next day. this is in unincorporated san mateo county. they managed to get a guardrail in the spot where the boys went over so no one else has to lose their life there. the guardrail is expect

we may see -- it's not highly probable, but never rule it out, is an incident on the korean peninsula. particularly the north korean military, sort of a doctrine to lash out if provoked. it has been that way as long as i have been working. and therefore, whether it starts with an incident between the north and south, whether it starts between -- with an incident between north korea and the united states, there's always a possibility there, and as you know, that is a war the likes of which hasn't been seen since the last korean war, or even world war ii. >> we're also seeing reports of live fire and para trooper exercises happening, to sort of maybe potentially prepare for a war. we're hearing about a bloody nose strategy whereby the united states might decide to take some kind of action. on the other hand we see that north and south korea seem to be getting together over the olympic games, and they're both going to, you know, put their athletes under a common flag, et cetera. where are we here? are we on the brink of war? or is tension deflating a little bit? >> i don't think tension

after the politicians tried and failed it's taken to figure skaters to break the ice on the korean peninsula that's all that makes up the modest north korean winter olympic team that will likely no participate in pyongyang the news went down well with south korea's major ally the us with president donald trump saying he hoped it was a sign of things to come i would love to see them take it beyond the olympics we have a very good relationship with south korea i would love to see it go far beyond the olympics absolutely just probably time will get involved but i like the idea to dealing with the olympics that should be between those two countries trump statement echoed comments made on friday by north korea's main ally china the chinese will surely be delighted that their hopes of korean olympic cooperation are likely to be fulfilled we hope that all relevant parties on the korean peninsula issue will seize upon the opportunity of the winter olympics to meet each other halfway to the correct path of peacefully solving problems through dialogue and make realistic efforts to alleviate tensions o

and get in and do an deflect the peninsula from the from the fairly awful trajectory on which it has been moving towards for the last possible near their time to be positive that sort of got to asia pacific strategists and economic policy specialists there and you're getting right in here thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you. assassins of people have marched through the streets of tel aviv demanding the resignation of israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu due to allegations of corruption radagast year for ports. for six weeks now its release have been demonstrating against the prime minister the prime minister as they've affectionately nicknamed him not just in tel aviv the capital but now growing but israel proper always been here for the last three years everybody is talking about it all the time to the media. there is a feeling that the government is corrupt and puts its interests before the citizens . government is corrupt. they're tired i think is going to get elected again. there are two publicly known cases against netanyahu in the first his wife and he

was announced that for the first time there will be a joint team representing all of the korean peninsula at the upcoming winter olympic games will be a women's ice hockey team competing under a joint unification flag representing all of the korean peninsula furthermore the north will be sending two hundred thirty people to the south as kind of a cheering section to oversee and participate in the games so these are certainly big breakthroughs let's take a look at what has gone on on the korean peninsula as we've seen the two koreas in gaging in dialogue with each other in recent weeks. to sound much together in the opening ceremony under the korean. female ice hockey team. now furthermore i it's important to note that in trump's rhetoric he didn't just lash out in north korea he said that while he praised china for some of their efforts he said that they hadn't gone far enough in helping to economically isolate north korea and from there he actually criticized russia and said that they were not helping at all now russia has many times stated that they are a signatory to the international

san francisco, the peninsula and a lot has moved to the east bay.tro valley, the richmond -- the bridge under light to moderate showers, 101, san rafael went into san francisco, the golden gate bridge under rain activity. parts of downtown san francisco as well. 101 and 280 all the way through san mateo getting a little soaking. a lot of that is headed toward the bridge. if you're going to be taking 92, expected to be under light to moderate showers shortly. san francisco international airport, here are life conditions, we are seeing a lot of cloud cover and fog. a lot of cloud cover around the bay area. we do have just under half hour delays for inbound flights because of the cloud cover at sfo. keep that in mind if you're heading to the airport. oakland and san jose, so far we are delay free as far as major delays. that is good news. here's how your day is going to shape up. the scattered showers stick with us through much of today into the afternoon, then tonight, that's what were going to get hit with another round of heavy rain, i will talk mor

welcome back across the uk where all things are considered mind you discussing the korean peninsula. ok we left the first part of the program with michael talking about the possibility of a mistake and i think that's the that's one area here that is the what is the known unknowns if i could quote a famous former secretary of defense i think you work for him how michael but. yeah yeah yeah. charles. you know there's not a lot of discussion in the mainstream or hartley's of zero is the the russian chinese plan of freeze for freeze freeze in the program for freezing of the exercises and if we go back i think it was the penultimate round of sanctions against north korea it was televised i watched the whole thing i saw the western nations you know again the sanctimonious nonsense ok. but then the chinese in the in the russians put out a plan and it was actually quite lengthy it was quite detailed and it's still on the table and that is the way forward and that that table the u.s. can still sit if it so wishes go ahead charles. he has very interesting you mention this is the if you like th

ask the south koreans, do you think you need the americans on the peninsula for your security? they are the greatest threat to security on the korean peninsula. >> we have referenced china a few times in the conversation. what is the current influence that china can exert on north korea? we always see from policymakers that we are looking to them to have a bigger footprint, to help stabilize the regime. what kind of influence do they have? tremendousese have influence, but it is a blunt weapon. the chinese can put pressure on the korean regime, they could cut oil exports, imports into china. theoing so, they will risk collapse of the north korean regime. if it collapses, most of those people are not going to go south, they will go north into china. the border between china and north korea is not militarized. it is not even marked. that is the chosen route by detectors. this is not what the chinese want. they could lose a buffer between themselves and the americans in the south. on the other hand, there is a tremendous number of ethnic koreans who are chinese citizens, who live

you can see through the peninsula, we are looking at this heavier zone of rain on the peninsula, continuing into hayward at 6:46, pleasanton 7:08, south bay also. heavier rainfall throughout the santa cruz mountains, continuing into sunnyvale at 6:43. san jose, 7:00. heavier rainfall in milpitas at 7:07. if you want to track the rainfall like this, it is super easy. just head to nbcbayarea.com. i've got the home page up back here behind me. click the weather tab at the top. once you get there, on the app or on nbcbayarea.com, we have this really cool zoomable radar just like the one that i use. you can also get the storm tracks, find out how fast the storm is moving and which direction it's heading. you've got to check this out. there's going to be this little widget in the corner. that's the layers that the radar has. there's multiple layers. you click the storm track layer, and as you're going to be able to see here, you can see all these dots that show up. those are the different storms. and they give you different properties about the storms. this storm in particular moving off to the n

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the big problem we have is the peninsula. southbound highway 1, they are clearing a crash at manor drive. they are clearing a crash now. traffic is recovering. >>> it is 6:04, back to the desk. >> today is day three of a government shutdown. we could see a deal later this morning. we have more on the negotiations and the impact of the closure. >> reporter: the closures have started here and there around the country. here in washington, congress is not making much headway with another vote scheduled for today. >> let's step back, stop victimizing the american people and get back to work on their behalf. >> reporter: democrats, most of whom are holding out for protection for illegal immigrants who came to the country as children sought to blame the president. >> this is the trump shutdown, only president trump can end it. we democrats are at the table, ready to negotiate. the president needs to pull up a chair and end this shutdown. >> reporter: the president has been relatively quiet over the weekend but he did tweet out suppo

i think these discussions can lead to peace foreigners see the korean peninsula as a dangerous place under constant threat of war i hope those concerns don't become reality is that. despite the hopes for improving ties north korea has made it clear it is not willing to discuss its nuclear weapons program and that program is the main cause of the tensions so it's unclear how there can be any real deescalation in the region. it is an important question does this have to do with more than just the olympics the talk about that tonight i'm joined here at the big table by on his most there he is with the graduate school of east asian studies at the university here in berlin and kirsten phenomena joins us. from washington gentlemen to both of you it's good to have you on the show let me start with you these talks of course the first one. in two years but we're talking about the olympics we're not talking about the nuclear weapons program so do they really do these talks mean anything oh yes i would say that's really a breakthrough i mean in particular measured against what has been happenin

going to go to a short break and after a short break we'll continue our discussion on the korean peninsula state with our team. welcome back across the uk where all things considered on people about to mind you discussing the korean peninsula. ok we left the first part of the program with michael talking about the possibility of a mistake and i think that's the that's one area here that is the what is the known unknowns if i could quote a famous former secretary of defense i think you work for him how michael but. yeah yeah yeah. charles. you know there's not a lot of discussion in the mainstream or hardly use of a zero is the the russian chinese plan of a freeze for freeze freezing the program for freezing of the exercises and if we go back i think it was the penultimate round of sanctions against north korea it was televised i watched the whole thing i saw the western nations the you know again the sanctimonious nonsense. but then the chinese in the russians put out a plan and it was actually quite lengthy it was quite detailed and and it's still on the table and that is the way forward

-korea relations, and the current political situation on the korean peninsula and between the u.s. and north korea. this was recorded at the american historical association's annual meeting and washington, d.c. it is about 15 minutes. historianields is a who specializes in a timely field, u.s.-korea relations. what is the most important thing that anyone watching the news right now and worrying about the state of things should know about korea and u.s./korea relations? >> i think the most important thing to understand is that the division of korea was originally a u.s. idea. this division was never supposed to be permanent. the hope was korea would eventually result in a unified state. that did not happen. the division became permanent. there is no doubt whose idea it was originally. the reason this matters is the koreans see themselves as one people, one nation and one race. and would like to be reunified, especially the elder generation of koreans who still have family in the north, some of whom have not spoken in decades. this matters because in many ways koreans hold the united

fifteen south korea has also proposed to the two sides hold military talks to reduce tension on the peninsula. but is a number. we came to this meeting today with the serious and sincere attitude and with the thought of giving our brother and who have high hopes for this dialogue invaluable results of the first president of the year when the going to do so is our talks resume after the north and south korean ties have been severed for a long time but i believe the first step is half the journey i would like to hold this meeting with tenacity and perseverance we're joining us now from seoul is our correspondent kathy novak who exactly is in these delegations and what's been happening so far. well those men we are hearing from there are the men in charge of into korean relations on both sides of the border so you have the south korean unification minister and his north korean counterpart accompanied by their deputies and also representatives of the sports and culture ministries and in charge of the olympics and as you mentioned one of the news lines that we're hearing coming out of this meeting

talks, a high—level south korean delegation travels to the north, after months of tension on the peninsulafears of an environmental disaster in the east china sea. china says a tanker leaking oil after a collision is in danger of exploding. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: after the protests against sexual harassment at the golden globes, we hear from women taking a stand on the other side of the planet, in bollywood. and tying the knot. the first gay weddings take place in australia, a month after historic marriage equality laws are passed. good morning. it is 9:00am in singapore, 1:00am in london, and 10:00am in seoul, where south korean government negotiators are meeting for talks with their north korean counterparts for the first time in more than two years. the two sides are expected to discuss the possibility of pyongyang sending a delegation to the winter olympics being held in south korea next month. it is hoped it could reduce tensions on the korean peninsula, which have reached their highest point in decades. let's go live now to the bbc‘s sophie long, in seoul.

because on on on peninsula issues because when you're completely aligned with the u.s. on peninsula issues sometimes things just go down the wrong way track all the military route the wrong with sensually you know one of the very important factors about kim jong un's rest of procreation in his new year's speech was actually that many of those points were laid out many of the many of the points richey which he talked about were points which were listed by president in a speech in berlin in july in the hood saying please come and see and participate in the olympics and let's try to have exchanges starting with during the korean new years and have family family exchanges let's reduce tensions on the demarcation line i mean each of these has received in response from kim jong un in a positive response yeah we can talk literally as you know graham has a serious announcement it's an important it's interesting because if you look at the north korean leader of north korea his new year's speech michael let me go to you here i didn't see really much coverage in the mainstream it

the north and south will march together in the opening ceremony under the korean peninsula flag from a single north south female ice hockey team. south and north korean officials met for a third time in the space of just a few days to discuss peace efforts meanwhile western allies of the one nine hundred fifty s. korean war have gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis with a seemingly different approach. the pressure campaign will continue until north korea takes decides to do nuclear i think. is to send out a very clear message that we want to intensify that pressure it is not the time to pressure or to career the surest path to peace is to keep threatening north korea into submission after a long and challenging meeting that's the best the value of a group could come up with the purpose of our meetings today is to improve the effectiveness of the maximum pressure campaign and combat north korea's attempts to evade sanctions the united states looks forward to hearing from our protest votes on how we can best do that more sanctions toughest sanctions though one mi

the most important parties involved in the korean peninsula nuclear issue you are taking part in the meeting but we don't know what the goal of this meeting is so i don't think this meeting is legal or representative from the very beginning china has been opposed to this meeting ok so you invited a bunch of countries that have little to do with the crisis and came up with all the tried tested and failed solutions they went a step further refusing any advice russia and china have long stood by a double freeze meaning north korea stops doing this. and south korea and the united states stop sending nuclear bombers to harass the north and poor's with the war games. no said rex tillerson when the north does it it's a provocation when we do it it's deterrents have a jew away but couldn't you wait i. at long last after years north korea and south korea holding direct face to face negotiations the olympics around the corner and everyone with any sense once things settle down so what does the vancouver group do while it gathers all of north korea's former enemies and declares it intends to ti

military officials in order to deescalate tensions at long last alternately to denuclearize the peninsula it's a long shorts but it's a start with number one i think we should be engaged in these talks in an earnest sincere moment to give a new year's gift namely the results of the talks to the korean nation so. that as you mentioned earlier we hope to bring a precious gift to your people but matches the expectations of our people it is been a chaotic year from escalation to escalation saber rattling and childish rhetoric near enough every month the u.s. and south korea would stage war games on the north's borders send a message. they even send nuclear bombers to the north's borders north korea was no less provocative and it tested increasingly advanced ballistic missiles stage suspected nuclear weapons tests and. it now reportedly has the capacity to hit mainland united states and his boast that he has his own button and his desk is part of who is button is big contest with trump which is why these talks were so important they allow for a pause for hotheads to cool off and for titan fing

the phenomena of the korean peninsula you look really really unification process. the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees has slammed america's decision to freeze more than half of its planned funding for the organization the agency calls it the worst funding crisis in its history white house spokesperson announced the decision a little earlier we committed a voluntary contribution of sixty million dollars for twenty eight thousand so far sixty five million dollars that is money that will be held for future consideration it's money that's been frozen at this time it's not being canceled it's just being held for future consideration this is not aimed at punishing anyone. the move sparked massive protests in gaza with many venting their anger at the united states decision you can see people holding banners and chanting slogans they were demanding further assistance for refugees but it started out of the world europe the arabs and everyone who has a connection to the palestinian course is responsible for this we are the palestinian people who were evicted from our homes towns

better news on the peninsula. we had a head-on collision near manor.hat's been cleared out of lanes. traffic is recovering quite nicely. we have an accident on 580 near hassen da. look at 680 near so knoll grade, also a grind. >> the rain is falling apart in the north bay. scattered showers from highway 1 through san rafael. 580, the richmond-san rafael bridge. more moderate rain from pleasanton to livermore. union city, 880 in fremont and through san francisco, the peninsula, 580, san mateo in redwood city, wiper weather for you. further south, not raining in san jose, but showers in your forecast throughout the mid-morning hours as well as sunnyvale. it's a milder start with low 50s around the bay. bring the rain gear for the morning hours. by the afternoon upper 50s, >>> thank you, next at 6:00, the local impact on the shut dugovernment shutdown. >> it's a big day for two schools damaged from the wildfires. >>> breaking news in south san jose. a barricade situation at a hotel. hotel. police there do you want to do a monster check? yes. no monsters.

after careful preparation, the continental soldiers moved on to the peninsula on march 4. as i said, the general already wanted to leave. but when he saw a canon pointing down at him, he left earlier than he land. washington expressed in a letter home the disappointment he felt that there was no major fighting. but he accepted congratulations and this metal from the continental congress for pushing the british out. he realized the attack would have been very difficult. washington recognized the war was not over to them he quickly moved resources down to new york and he followed in april. he left this house in early april 1776. the massachusetts government confiscated the house. as far as we know, general washington never went back there. cambridge that he did not even stop you and the sold 1790's, the house was to the chief pharmaceutical supplier to the army. mansion, addede porches, and started painting at yellow. he hosted parties, invested in local development. he went bankrupt. after his death, his wife had to take in borders. one was jared sparks, who worked on the f

you for spending time with us we appreciate it and we want to shift our focus now to the korean peninsula where north and south korea have agreed to hold their first formal talks in more than two years the discussions scheduled for thursday for tuesday excuse me will pave the way for north korean athletes to attend the upcoming winter olympics in south korea on the announcement came hours after the u.s. agreed to delay joint military exercises with south korea until after the winter games the meeting is expected to take place on january ninth in the demilitarized zone it's the same venue of past talks and earlier i spoke to josh smith he is a senior correspondent with borders in seoul and asked if the north korean team's presence at the winter olympic games is likely to help defuse tensions on the korean peninsula. well many observers. say that it's important to remember that their participation in the games there won't likely solve any problems on its own. however many people even the most cynical observers now say that you know this may provide some kind of opening that could lead to mo

because on on on peninsula issues because when you are completely aligned with the u.s. on peninsula issues sometimes things just go down the wrong way track of the military route the wrong with sensually you know one of the very important factors about kim jong un's rest of procreation in his new year's speech was actually that many of those points were laid out many of the many of the points richey which he talked about were points which were listed by president in a speech in berlin in july when you're in the hood saying please come and see and participate in the olympics let's try to have exchanges starting with during the korean new years and have family family exchanges let's reduce tensions on the demarcation line i mean each of these has received in response from kim jong un in a positive response yeah we can talk literally as you know graham as it's serious enough but it's an important it's interesting because if you look at the north korean leader of north korea his new year's speech michael let me go to you here i didn't see really much coverage in the mainstr

on the peninsula and marin county into alameda and oakland. it is stormy and the wind is not here yet but it will be by tonight. some of the heaviest rain will be late tonight and tomorrow, san mateo and redwood city are at .6 inches palo alto .45 inches. sfo 2/3 inch, danville, 1/2 inch and brent phil 1.44. the heaviest rain is over the peninsula and everybody to the north even into the santa cruz mountains just be patient everybody is in on some decent totals. the wind advisory starts at noon for the severe winter weather advisory but it is mainly rain into late tonight. over four inches are certainly in the forecast. we have steady relight rain and when the first system moves through it will drop off but the front comes tonight and the rainfall will pick up. and does not matter if you are northeast or west everybody near the coast everybody is a -- in on the system. this is the best system by far this season. we have not had anything like this since june. mendocino and lake county will be included. the burn areas, if they get too much rain

most of the peninsula covered by the 5:00 hour. it is going to continue to be off and on through the entire morning commute tomorrow, and then it will get to scattered showers as we get into the afternoon. and then into tomorrow night, we're probably going to see some scattered showers on and off into early saturday morning. and then once we get into saturday afternoon, things should finally start to dry out around the bay area. here is a quick look at rain totals on average over the last 24 hours. we're seeing the bulk of it in our south bay zone and our east bay zone. look at that, both spots almost getting an inch of rain, the lightest of which are going to be mostly in the north bay. alameda county almost a little bit over three-quarters of an inch there. but san mateo county definitely one of the heaviest with exactly three-quarters of an inch of rain. so we're looking at live conditions right now. lots of gray, cloud cover, skies that we're seeing is across the entire bay area. we are going to see that for much of the day tod

watch out on the peninsula. the rest of the bay moving relatively smoothly, i have a new crash on the east bay, redwood city, northbound 101 as kris sanchez reported not two, but only one lane open near whipple avenue or just before you get to whipple. if you can slow down just a bit before you get to woodside, exit woodside, get over to veterans boulevard. there's also broadway, head over toward el camino and jump back on after whipple. the coroner is on scene, but no update from chp. they thought 5:00, clearly that has not cleared yet. looking at southbound 880 a car fire at winton. may be a distraction but looks like there are no flames anymore. no slowing toward the san mateo bridge and the bay bridge approach we do see a backup on the right approach. fast track lanes showing -- i'm sorry, approaching toward the fash track lane not showing a slow down. >>> coming up next on "today in the bay," tragic stories emerging amid a deadly flu epidemic sweeping the nation. >> he can't walk. he can't sit on his own. h