oh robin, robin, can you come here just a second?bin, i told you so many people wanted to say that they love you and what they think about watching you and the things that you have meant to them. this could take a while. we may need a couple days to do it but here's a start. >> congratulations and i love you, love you, love you and 30 more years of doing whatever it is you want to do. >> you have always been a light and you've always been an inspiration and you have helped me kick my day off and get it going for years and years. >> hi, ms. robin, it's coco. i want to congratulate you on 30 years at disney. >> it's you and mickey mouse. she started when she was 1. >> congrats, robin, on 30 years. we love you. >> you're an inspiration, my hero. keep doing your thing. celebrate this. >> i can't believe it's been 30 years. you ain't looking like you're 30. >> i read something not long ago that said you would be surprise who is watching your journey and being inspired by it. never stop. i thought of you. you've inspired us in so many ways

robin. all right. thank you very much john we'll get to robin here just a moment take a look at this though, here's something you generally don't see causing traffic problems. yeah that's tumble weed. a lot clogging up a washington state highway on new year's eve look at this. they had to uncover and barry cars. state police reported hundreds along this particular stretch of highway in terms of tumble. weed. according to department transportation the road was closed for about 10 hours because it took that long to clear out all the tumble weed cars as you saw buried in this is video and you can see again crews doing what they can to untangle and uncover cars and trucks. pretty incredible. a quick break, it is 7.56 coming up in the next hour of the kron 4 morning news, an earthquake rattles the south bay while details coming up in a live report. and breaking news we're following from overnight. the bomb squad called to an apartment complex in the south bay after a fire breaks out and forces evacuations o

nor did robin. she had that's details about her brother's marriage.rideout been separated for? >> about two years. >> and it hadn't been a good separation? >> it hadn't been. >> the reason? laura has a new man in her life and it was well awkward would be an understatement. her boyfriend was craig's old buddy pj tucci. >> palm tucci go es from craig rideouts best friend to craig rideouts estranged wife's boyfriend? >> yes. >> so that doesn't always work out well for relationships? >> certainly not between the two of them. >> craig and laura had been close friends with pj and jennifer for many years. >> all of the kids really grew up together. they would go out together. they had parties together. >> but around the same time that laura and craig's marriage was falling apart, pj's wife died from liver disease. j says he leaned on laura for support and laura began confiding in pj. his best friend. >> his former best friend, yes. >> in a romantic relationship now? >> at first craig didn't want to believe that there was a romantic relationship going on betw

thank you robin. >>a california man visiting arizona was caught on a homeowner's ring camera begging for help. he had been carjacked and shot we've got zach crenshaw with a closer look at what happened. >>that shot i not. the shot before anthony desperately pleaded for help. he told his sister he thought he would take his last breath in this dirt lot tell them to keep backing up an. >>got a hand on them that they started it so he said just take me >>start shooting gunshots that sounded like. >>5 or the 32 year-old was in town for the fiesta bowl so higher she he was still is buckeye sweatshirt when he hobbled to scott sanders house. pounding on our front door. >>then after the gentleman ran anthony bleeding hopping fences hoping for help. >>when he hit jerry's ring doorbell just as the phoenix fire fighter was waking up guy that got got. >>i took a very pessimistic approach jerry though immediately calling 911 and watching anthony closely i can tell he's hurt in some way shape or form. >>couldn't see

robin l right.hank you john back to our hot spot in livermore keep in mind you will not be able to exit at airway if you're taking the east boun 5.80 there is an ongoi police investigation that's happening rit there on the rampand down below on city streets near kitty hawk, so the lanes of the freeway are open to offer it remains close. no major delays gettin through. but you may just want to hop off or drop off an airway are up ahead at isbel 84, maybe even north livermore avenue, it depends on your final destination, here's a peek at the westbound ril troops, good it was slow in the activity first popped up. now it's smooth sailing from the dublin interchange we're putting it at minutes for the drive times so not bad at all, here's e bay bridge. we have a full hoe cash lanes fast track lanes backed up beyond 8.80 w it goes to the bottom of so pretty slow coming inbut no big problems that you need to worry about on the upper deck. here's another slow commute, this is 92, this is the san mateo bridg

robin all right. you let's check in on the traffic it's going to be busy for you traveling around the bay area, here's 92 it's under a high wind advisory and the traffic is pretty heavy and soggy levy hayward. >>heading over to the peninsula so be prepared for this roughly 31 minutes to make it off to one o one for checking the bay bridge. we see the raindrops here to remember the headlights and wipers should be on traffic backed up all the way through the maze 5.80 the e sure the nimitz you know how it goes to just get out there early in you don't have to worry about speeding are being late right checking in on our big trouble spot. it's still there southbound one at manor drive in pacifica all lanes close a fatal accident still under investigation traffic still backed up behind the scene and they are forcing you off at 35 in fact that is your best alternate 35 to shark park which brings you back to highway one that's how you get around it. the nimitz ok 10 minutes from san jose to milpitas one on on

at robin hey there we're looking good. it's friday light for now we'll check in on the bridges traffic picking up but not a bad start all right, but the start of the weekend is here and we love her and we're looking really good guys and dry conditions today mild afternoon. >>then the wet weather this weekend. the prepare you're going to be the rain gear ready because we're going to start to really see it's a touchdown. late saturday afternoon into the evening hours and some parts around the bay area and then carrying over into more details coming up in just a bit but for now visibility looks great here in the san francisco this our sutro tower camera overlooking a nice clear shot fog free of the golden gate bridge. that looks really good for you and then mix with of the dry commute it should be a nicer

robin thank you john all lanes still close and pacific on southbound one near manor drive. that's to investigate an early-morning fatality, a person was heading northbound in the southbound lanes going traveling in the wrong direction caused a major accident and it's still under investigation so you want to drop off a 35 that's where the traffic is being forced off anyway and it is causing some delays there just a couple of miles for slow traffic, northbound you're fine all lanes are open but keep in mind there's no estimated time of clearing. >>the drive into san francisco very slow already stacked up beyond 8.80 and windy too so make sure you reduce your speed sarah. >>one person is dead after driving the wrong way on highway one in pacific. all of the late >>29 and the breaking news that we're following is out of pacifica were all southbound lanes of highway one are closed because there was a deadly crash there for sarah stinson has been giving us the update this morning. she's live at the scene sarah. >>yeah we have confirmed that the wrong way driver died in this crash

ja robin wright, as always, thank you very much for joing me. robin: thank you. jane: let's have a quick look at the day's other ws. there have been dramatic scelas in venezuewhere opposition leader juan guaido injured the national assembly building after y being barred bcurity forces. once inside, mr. wide-out was sworn in as speaker, dehaite the factone of his political rivals was elected to the same weekend, when m guaido and his supporters were refused entry to parliament. state of emergency has been declared in puerto rico after the island suffered its most powerful earthquake in more than a century. at least in a series of earthquakes, including one with the magnitude of 6.4. numerous buildings have been damaged, and a power cut apl unged much of puerto rico into darkness. a british teenager convicted of lying about being gang raped i cyprus is on her way home. the 19-year-old, who is not being named by thebc bwas given asu four-month ended prison sentence. she maintains she was raped by a group of israeli tourists and the secret police made her false-- cyp

arned a lot from him. >> woodruff: and, robin, what was it about hisal joum? i mean, for people -- i mean, there are folks -- youngerto generationy who maybe didn't see a lot of jim or know a lot of jim.o what was it his journalism? >> well, i think he came, as i did, from a generation where the role, if you were going to be a rious journalist, if not overserious journalist, where you paid respect to the facts and respect for the institutions that you werevering, whether you disagreed with the way they were being run or not, andr respect e people who gave their lives to government service and the armed forces and everything else, that has changed normsly, and i thinkim was the kind of personification in the way he observed these values in his journalism of sony hings that are being mocked or trashed today in our current political and journalistic situation that he is truly of another generation. >> woodruff: it does feel like a different time.a but, sn, you got to know jim and robin, what, in the 1970s, when they were working on the watergate hearings. what wa

robin.>thank you john over to the richmond sandra fell bridge is there is the crowd it's going to be a slow commute here working your way up to the toll plaza so get out there early while it's nice and quiet and hot spot free. but the back of just continues to grow so right now it's roughly 14 minutes to make it across and over to one o one 80 west, the bay bridge trip into san francisco much heavier i think the san mateo bridge. so it's going to be stacked up from the maze it's going to grow and back up through the maze where a 12 minutes now after fremont street you're only saving time if you are a car pooler that's about it for checking in on traffic tracker the drive here on 6.80 it's going to be rough. remember we have the accident that i talked about earlier involving the truck that collided with another truck and there was a spill so you're looking at a whopping 83 minutes rolling south dublin to fremont we had other crashes behind that livermore to dublin is doing fine and than emmet

robin l and we like sunshine. thank you john. now let's check in on the morning commute, the drive into san francisco will be pretty calm and peaceful here on 80 west, we're looking good with no problems on the upper deck. >>we're checking in on 92 and it's a little busy it's a normally a little more crowded in the bay bridge during the 4 o'clock hour. so there is a crowd on the flat section but you're looking good up and over the high rise into foster city. we're checking the richmond sandra fell and we have great traffic. you're a great commute rather 9 minutes with no big problems across the span into the north bay want to take you down to the santa cruz mountains because we do have a crash wrapping up on northbound 17 at bear creek near the process of clearing that at last check it was partially blocking one of the lanes are the right lane and we do still have fire crews on scene so it'll be just a little hiccup in your morning drive for northbound 17 still a 24 minute trip out of santa cruz into los gatos and then checking i

. >> reporter: good morning, robin. americans are being warned to get out of iraq immediately after this stunning and dramatic escalation with iran and now the world waits for the response from iran. what they do could have a profound impact on the region, possibly leading to war and given the threats this morning coming from iran, a response is almost certain. a fiery heap is all that remained of the motorcade that was carrying qasem soleimani, the powerful and revered quds commander in iran, a force labeled a terrorist organization by the u.s. soleimani had just arrived at baghdad's international airport, climbed into an suv and within minutes, he was dead. a sophisticated u.s. drone launching powerful missiles into the vehicles carrying the elite commander and others supporting iranian-backed militias. an image of soleimani's hand from the smoldering wreckage emerging with a large ring he was known to wear. the pentagon saying in a statement last night that soleimani was actively developing plans to attack american d

thank you very much robin.ational headlines this morning, a doctor in florida is now being credited with saving a dog's life after the dog's leash got stuck in an elevator door, the entire incident was caught on camera we've got angie andrews now with the video. >>surveillance cameras caught the whole thing you can see here the elevator doors close in on this dog's leash and the owner panicking trying to free her pup through the doors in walks doctor muhammad holding a plate of food, then this. i want the roses food doesn't waste a second jumping over and over trying to pull the dog down he even stumbles himself before finally snapping the leash free and in my head, i'm like there's nothing else you can do have to go help this dog and like slow motion timing we have the chance to catch up with doctor of wives and says he's grateful that he was the one there on sunday night and that his instincts took over rehearsals something like this obviously was dangerous for you to aussie out everything about anything a dr

so let me toss it over to robin winston is all over it. robin yes we were talking about an accident that was blocking for over an hour in richmond, this is westbound 80 and barrett avenue. >>it involved a vehicle that ran off the road and was sort of hanging off okay rail. this crash cleared 30 minutes ago all lanes are open the sig alert was canceled, but we still have residual delays so if you have to use 80 it's going to be slow and go on of hercules from highway 4 in stretches all the way down to berkeley but at least it is out of your way you're looking at a 33 minute trip now from crockett to the maze quick to get oakland 5 of us found in keller. this is a vehicle that ran off the road into a tree so we had all lanes blocked, but i look season we lanes clear but now they're blocked again. now that a tow truck has arrived so 5.80 west of at killer 2 lanes closed. that's pushing up your drive time a little bit at 21 minutes making it down to the maze could pick of the bay bridge toll plaza we have a full house you are solid from west g

robin. >>a wet commute. it's not a fun, one that means heavier trfic around the baarea an increase in the number of crashes which is exacy what we're seeing right now what i want to cross the golden gate getting a little busy uthbound that's a trip into san francisco on the left. we see the rain drops here on the camera too so don't forget to slow it down out there 30 minutes and gring for south one oh one of otto to the toll plaza it is much heavier on 80's. so if you're traveling for a big backup from 5 80 d from the nutes from the sure they're all solid 15 minutes and growing into san francisco. we'll take a look at the south bay and the trip out of san jose coming up next james, well all right robert, thk you. >>so this morning we have reaction to a new report that shows that there's been a spi in the scter injuries, according to ucsthere wee more than 39,000 injuries from scooters between 2014 2018, which is an increase of about 222%. those injuries are most prevalent among young adults tween 18 34 and

robin wright. thank you john a couple of trouble spots to talk about there is some good news along the east shore freeway there was a similar to a traffic alert in place 80 east at hill top. >>we had an injury crash right here in richmond that the 2 left lanes blocked. it took a little over an hour to clear, but hey at least it's out of the way do expect residual delays from san pablo dam road heading east on 80 of 2 hilltop drive the traffic is already looking better westbound is the commute side and we're doing fine. it's so nice and smooth at 60 minutes from crockett down to the maze want to take you over to a 6 ad and conquered because there's a problem here with a truck that was towing a trailer looks like the trailer came off its blocking the right lane. this is south 6 80 at will pass so they're working to get those 2 connected. but they've issued a traffic alert for this are calling for a tow truck south 6 ad will a pass road a trailer came off of a truck and it's blocking the right lane so

ank you robin starng off with a live picture. >>overlooking of the golden gate bridge right now visibity really nice. no fog in your way this is our camera at the tower and just a really nice shot. the golden gate and won a lot of folks are heading into san francisco. dry condions out there on the roadways and not tracking any rainfall for today and even into tomorrow but then things are definitelychanging as we get into the weekend. so just keep that in mind we're tracking a sto system a developing out of the pacific northwest it's going to be pushinghrough mainly saturday afternon into the evening hours and then carry over into sunday so make se the have those in umbrellas hay just in case you're gointo be outdoors this weekend for now though yes dry and cloudy conditions that were expecting a high of sam for a 59 degrees in san francisco's a matter of fact, 60 in oakland d a mild 65 in owntown san jose will have mo details on the rain in my full report coming up in just a t mes darya. >>thanks a lot of 7 oh 2 at our local firs

much robin.s most prestigious awards show will skip the opening monologue again this year the 92th academy awards is going to be without a host when the golden statues are handed out next months to the rolling out the red carpet they are literally they're going well they're going to continue with this change in the next hour actually going to have a recap of the nominations for some of our favorite categories to stick around for that as award season really getting in us are fighting over which is better who should be an action when because we like different in the 60 coming up in the next is set the 40 niners again host the packers in the nfc championship game. >>we will have the highlights coming up. and mama's for housing is going to be holding a rally they are this morning, we're live out there we're going to tell you what this fight is about coming up. plus a deadly shooting is under investigation in the east bay we're going hear from neighbors in the next hour. and a live look here at the sa

>> reporter: exactly, robin. jong-un warning that north korea will no longer be bound by a self-imposed moratorium on testing nuclear weapons or long-range ballistic missiles and he did threaten to show off a new strategic weapon. this is going to be a very challenging year for president trump with both north korea and iran, robin. >> does appear to be that way. all right i martha, thank you. t.j.? >>> we turn to a dangerous weather threat that is on the move this morning. we're talking about snow, heavy winds, also out there heavy rains that are causing some flooding. all this as millions head home after the holidays. ginger has the latest. she's tracking this. good morning to you, ginger. >> good morning to you, t.j. you can see right here, salt lake city, interstate 15, the slide-off. dozens of accidents happening there. it wasn't just that light snow, though, that was causing trouble. it was the wind. that's right along the wyoming/colorado state line. that amazon truck taking that wind, and this is why we wa

robin. >>all right, thank you john we're getting word of some police activity in the north bay details still coming in but we have something going on in the adair on one oh one north right around tamil pious drive. it looks like police are on scene and they have all lanes close this is doesn't look like it's related to a crash. so it's some sort of police activity chp just issued a special traffic alert. once again northbound want to want to tell a pious drive all lanes of traffic shut down 4 police investigation as soon as we get more information will definitely pass it on on air and online but this is already backing up traffic in both directions so far no word on the southbound side it looks like southbound traffic is getting through but northbound want to whine and tell pious everybody on hold right now for this police investigation checking in on the golden gate bridge itself looks good. but these folks here heading south from the tower on to doyle often onto richardson we have slowed t

we have a hospot to talkabout robin stand by with the latest on that robin we do indeed a lot of heavy traffic on westbound 84 the down barton brge accident just cleared just in time for my reporter ita right westbound 84 at the estin the middle lane was cle and is out of the way, t you see that long line of heavy traffic for the westbound drive all the way acss the span through the tolls spilling backinto newark now so you got to work your way through that right now you're averaging a whopping 51 minutes to make it to the peninsulaso do expect residual delays for 84 west babridge 80 west a long line here too but we don't ha any craes or stalls adding to it. it's backed up through the bottom of the maze are averaging 15minutes to fremont street that is a good average for th time of morning, no problems at all across the golden gate usually the easier bridge right 28 minutes noto to the toll plaza and trouble ee livermore to dublin that's going to be a quick 12 minute trip and to 37 averaging 11 minutes, lot of folks start hopping over to 2.37 to avoid the dumb barton bridge bu once aga

>>thank you very much robin is developing story this morning.are now learning the names of the 3 americans who died in that air tanker crash in australia and these are their pictures here on the left 43 ulrika de morgan junior. >>he died in the crash as well as 44 year-old in macbeth and 42 year-old paul clyde hudson them this video that we have here shows you the crash site the crew was fighting the wildfires there. they were aboard a c one 30 tanker when the plane went down in new south wales. that plane was staged actually at a base in sacramento, for more than 6 months last year with jessica mensch with reaction from cal fire. >>tragedy across the globe is still hitting too close to home for cal fire. >>those pilots and take some of the highest risk to any job there is an air tanker crashed thursday during a fire bombing mission in australia killing 3 americans are at the very same plane that was staged sacramento. county's mcallen airport for more than 6 months last was the same aircraft it just brings that connection that the aircraft has

john and robin up looks like we've got something going on here a break on the san mateo bridge. so we'll get the very latest details from robin here in a minute on that and john keeping an eye on the forecast and the wet weather when will the rain finally clear out of the bay area it will he's promising us will get a more specific look at the timing in just a minute. ♪ ♪ there are rising reports of a zombie outbreak across the area. the national guard- sometimes you just want to stay in. enjoy the great taste of dunkin' at home. sometimes you just want to stay in. wean air force veteran made of doing what's right,. not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa >>good morning. thank you for joining us at 07:00am on james fletcher and you are looking at the stor

robin for those of you traveling on highway one this morning.manor drive the pacifica area southbound one and manor drive all lanes close for the ongoing investigation of an early morning fatality where someone was driving in the wrong direction and causes crash. the driver did not survive so as they continue to clean up and investigate they are forcing you off at 35 you can take 35 which is right here over to shark park which will bring you back to highway one or you can stick with 2.80 depends on where you're going northbound you're getting through nothing's blocked or coned off it's only the southbound side where they're forcing traffic out of the way and still no exact estimated time of clearing highway for west a lot of heavy traffic here but pro ching a the martina side right at 6.80 injury accident in the second lane from the left that's why it's off to a slow start out df a point sir you're already backing up there on west for you're looking at roughly 26 minutes which is still not bad from one 60 out to 2.42 but since the rain is moving

robin? >>> as you know the impeachment trial is having a direct effect on the presidential campaign this morning. this morning four democratic candidates who are also senators are forced to leave the trail and head back to capitol hill. with just 13 days to go until the iowa caucuses, the first votes in the nation. and eva pilgrim is on the ground there in des moines, iowa. good morning, eva. >> reporter: robin usually this close to the caucuses are nonstop here in iowa. but not this time. the president's impeachment trial pulling several off the campaign trail. time is ticking in the hawkeye state and adding pressure on at least some of the candidates, their duty in d.c. as jurors. >> i'm not going to be able to be here as much as i would like. so you guys are going to have to carry the ball. >> reporter: four candidates including top challengers bernie sanders and elizabeth warren returning to capitol hill this morning ready to take their seats in the senate for the start of the president'

so let me toss it over to robin winston is all over it.alking about an accident that was blocking for over an hour in richmond, this is westbound 80 and barrett avenue. >>it involved a vehicle that ran off the road and was sort of hanging off okay rail. this crash cleared 30 minutes ago all lanes are open the sig alert was canceled, but we still have residual delays so if you have to use 80 it's going to be slow and go on of hercules from highway 4 in stretches all the way down to berkeley but at least it is out of your way you're looking at a 33 minute trip now from crockett to the maze quick to get oakland 5 of us found in keller. this is a vehicle that ran off the

robin?>> as the impeachment trial ramps up, so of course, is the race for the white house. we are just two weeks away from the critical iowa caucuses, the first votes in the country. rachel scott is on the ground in des moines, iowa with the state of the race. good morning, rachel. >> reporter: good morning, robin. we are in the final stretch, and this is traditionally when all the candidates would be camped out in key early voting states, but that senate impeachment trial has scrambled the plans for the democratic senators in this race who are now forced to split their time between washington and the campaign trail. the democratic senators running for president blitzing through key early voting states and making their final pitch before that impeachment trial begins. >> it's mostly about getting out there any moment you can. i don't need much sleep. i can get by with very little sleep. >> reporter: the schedules for the four senators upended two weeks ahead of the iowa caucuses. >> we've ha

early early this morning was a little south bay ofmost the people that i did report it to the yes robin ur right around san jose and then from sth especially to morgan hill, how big i was just a 3 point o and so i'm definitely have around the usgs had about 200 people reporting on their site. >>that they felt a that's a lot the night. it'like a complimentary alarm clock, a so a lot of you probably felt that really in the middle of the night last night and if you did wellthat is what you felt right down south on one oh one just south of morgan hill near gilroy now as far as what we're exriencing rht now it's just chilly and as robin has been mentioning it's a little breezy on our bridges so that's abut the only thing that's going to slow you down visibility is sitting just finereally not looking at any sort of fog acro the bay area this morning. so sue smooth sailing in that regard couple of spots right along the coastline, especially where we're sing breezy conditions will further london the morning and afternoon. so we really ought to worry about those winds for much of the day if anyt

robin. >>all right, thank you john back to the bay bridge we're checking the drive into san francisco. we have a little bit of a wait and some of the cash lanes it's not bad at all, but it is a sign that folks are starting to head back to work, you know after a nice little holiday break so don't have any problems reported on the bay bridge 80 west into san francisco. so it could be some trip early at 9 minutes off to fremont street. i do have one little trouble spot that's wrapping up in one at tree cut south 6 ad of that 24 merge. crews are clearing a spin out a driver crashed into the wall that vehicle was facing sideways blocking several lanes of folks are out of the car standing off to the shoulder so be careful. there may be a slow connection to 24, but no major delays because it's so early and so quiet 11 minutes from highway 4 out to danville will check more slow downs coming up we'll james. new this morning people in the south bay were shaken in a smaller earthquake that happened las

. >> reporter: good morning, robin. this morning iranian officials are proclaiming the strikes a success and while they say they do not want war, they say the military action was not enough. in a live tv address this morning, iran's supreme leader calling for u.s. troops to get out of the mideast saying their corrupt presence must end calling iran's attack a slap in the face to the u.s. the now familiar chants of "death to america" then follow. [ crowd chanting ] the iranian revolutionary guard naming the overnight attack "operation martyr soleimani." only hours after calls for revenge rose up at general soleimani's massive procession iranian rockets were raining down on american forces in iraq. a senior iranian official tweeting a picture of the iranian flag appearing to mock president trump's similar tweet after soleimani was killed showing the u.s. flag. but shortly after the iranian attack, president trump tweeting, all is well. missiles launched from iran at two military bases located in iraq. assessment of casualt

robin. >>all right back to our hot spot.ll lanes are open on west for after san marco that's in the pitturg bay point area. we had a major accident that happened 3 left anes shut down so now that the traffic alert was canceled and this activity is out of your way traffic already looks a lot bett so you are still backed up beyond the pittsburg bay point bart station. i'd say it's right here o about and over the hill approaching will pass in concd you're going to be dealing with residual slowing but it's out of the way we' at 35 minutes here from one 60 out to 42 checking in on the san mateo bridge another foggy spot looks like a the traffic and justlike disappearing into the fog right we're dealing with that on some of our bridges the bay bridge. the san mateo bridge and i think that's partially why it's so ow because it was looking a lot better and when the fog rolled in over the high rise, it started backing up again it's hard to se >>driving through the fog so just under 30 minutefor the drive look at ths. this is a trip i

ok robin, kareem, thank you for your thoughts. thank you both for being with us.e year, the big crisis around the world, you would‘ve picked out iran, but you would‘ve picked out iran, but you would‘ve also picked up north korea. pyongyang has been fairly quiet on what‘s happened here, but if you are kim looking at this, don‘t you think well, you know what, i‘m going to hang onto my nuclear arsenal, because of the americans are firing hellfire missiles at people they don‘t like, maybe i just hellfire missiles at people they don‘t like, maybe ijust needed as a back—up. don‘t like, maybe ijust needed as a back-up. yeah, i think it's very important to see this notjust in terms of the context of iran, iraq, and even of the middle east, you mentioned there with robin, the fact that vladimir putin has pitched up ona that vladimir putin has pitched up on a surprise visit, he wasn‘t scheduled to be in syria today meeting aside, but there were ramifications of in north korea saying i will hold onto my nukes, russia sees this clearly as an opportunity, on top of the potenti

robin? >>> george, as the impeachment trial gets under way there is a new report that russia's military is interfering in our elections again by hacking into the ukrainian energy company connected to the biden family. our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas is in washington with this story. as we all know, pierre, the president's push to investigate this company is at the heart of the impeachment proceedings. >> reporter: indeed, robin. good morning. that's right, area one, a security firm based in silicon valley claims the same russian military unit that targeted hillary clinton's campaign has hacked burisma, the ukraine based energy company joe biden's son was on the board of and they claims that the gru tricked burisma employees into clicking on to a fake website, giving them a way in. some are speculating the russians may have been phishing for damaging information point bidens to help trump as they did in 2016. we have not heard back from burisma but the biden campaign emphasizes

>>well robin can't blame weather for any slowdowns today because weather cooperating and like we had yesterday was showers during the afteoon, especially what you're seeing this morning is some low lying cloud cover sitting right over san francisco, that has resulted in se misty conditions a time or 2 you can see a little bit of green owing up on the radar that's just a coue of spots right there where you may be turning on the windshield per a time or 2. if you're crossing the altamonte over to tracy from lirmore you may run into a light shower but that is just the remnants of what we had yesterday that's already pushingout of the bay setting us up for a really dry day ahea of us increasingly clea too. 50's for most of our tempatures 40's for the north bay though palais how you're at 50 right now berkeley, safrancisco and oakland at 54 degrees le expect some 60's on the map baide in inland areas, especially reaching that mark i've got moredetails in your forecast. still ahead daria thanks a l 5 oh 5 and a week from today cars will not be able to travel up or down a section of market

robin all right a beautiful shot of one oh one heading across the golden gate. i don't see any big problems here but it's picking up a little bit the trip out of novato getting heavier and heavier for the southbound trip you're looking at roughly. >>26 minutes to make it to san fncisco. here's that little bit of slow traffic just south of 37 into ntral center fell and that's about it once again, the golden gate itself and the san francisco side looks really good here at the bay bridge 80 west, the oakland side, it's backed up in heavil it's been like this for a couple of hours it spills back to the bottom of the maze. your connectors are pretty solid looking good if your car pooler but sold the inclined to so busy into san francisco. but not bad and no major hot spots from the opposite side of san francisco coming from the peninla north one oh one 11 minutes to make it to the 80 split 2.80 picking up a little but not bad at all that a 15 minute trip to downtown san francisco quick ticket to 37 that's getting busy for the westbound role, .13 eur minutes from 8.80

more on your forecast is ahead robin. thank you john a quick peek at the traffic heading into san francisco a little busy little crowded mostly for the cash payers but it's a sign that it's really picking up and more folks are heading into san francisco so prepare for a weight if you have cash, but you don't have to worry about that if your car pool or a fast track or so under 10 minutes to fremont street. >>accident wrapping up here on southbound 6 80 at the truck scales a happened early this morning with a couple of trucks there is a fluid spill and so they are still wrapping up clearing that from the left lane so minor slow down through the scene your drive time still looks good at 13 minutes, dublin to fremont will check more coming up james will hart thank you very much rob and so our big story this morning. we have a new plan now to take vaping restrictions a step further here in california. >>one local lawmaker because is already a big national story president trump was talking about banning flavored products and n

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>>thank youvery much robin 6.31.more than a week since a laptop theft end with the death of a software engineer and a community in oakland calling on the city keep them safe from force gayle, ong as at a community safety meeting that was called because of the incident. >>the meeting began by asng for a show of hands for those learning more about safety. eling concerned anger frusttion and outrage or was concerned over this fellow's death. you know i thought that yoknow it. >>i certainly that and to hear what'going on. >>the meeting com a wee after the deadly laptop theft at the montclair starbucks. it was the morning of new ar's eve, a 34 year-oldsoftware engineer died afr chasg the thieves who stole hi laptop. come police arrested 2 men one charged with urder the other manslaughter police are still looking for a 3r suspect montclairresidents we spoke with say there's beenan uptick in crimes befoe the tragedy car breaich is a drag its ery week i'll read our cars are stolen car in burglars came and there's still the m

>>robin thank you john traffic so creeping along on a team to san francisco. it's quite having the backup here spills all the way through the maze so it's more so the approach the oakland side that's all jammed up the bridge itself doesn't look so bad, it's ok on the incline and the suspension and the skyway but just crawling on the oakland 5 through the maze from all connectors by the way. a quick peek at the nimitz for those of you traveling through san leandro 18 north after washington. crews are dealing with the stall there pushing off to the shoulder. but it's backing you up on to to 38 in 2.38 backed up on 2, 5, 80 so if you're leaving castro valley, it is just crawling right now from redwood on to to 38 all the way over to the nimitz so be prepared daria. >>thanks a lot robin, it's 96 in berkeley city leaders are working to make the streets safer after a report showed that 93% of pedestrians, diane are injured on 14% of the streets, yeah, pretty crazy and during 1, 9, year period in fact there were 10 deadly collisions involving pedestrians in berkeley

wishes today before he takes off for a nice little we'll get to his birthday forast in a minute first robin hot spots to update us on we do have a hot ot and it's on highw 17 have a jackknifed big rig and it's blocking both lanes really have to lay off 17 answer, party around and write i don't take highway 17 near birthday will be ruined. >>so it's northbound which is the commute direction, and it's just north of the summit. yeah, this big rig spun out and sort of sttched across theanes of traffic and as i said you only have 2 lanes there so it doesn't look like anyone i getting through at the moment. we have crews on scene they've issueda traffic alert and they're waiti for a large special hey duty tow truck. >>to come out and get it clear they may even have to unload this big rig befo they taught often depends on what's on it. but it's going tbe backed up by leading up to the sceneust crawling there so hold off on that trip northbound 17 at the summit southbound you're doing fine. a quk peek at the bay bridge. the g has lifted a little bit at least i can see th80 over crossing but there's

all right, thank you very much robin. >>so to our breaking news overnight again that driver who died on treasure island after crashing into a tree, the driver was fleeing from the hit and run seen kron four's sarah stinson is live at the scene with the details on the investigation sarah. >>yeah the intersection as clear here have a new age in 93 on treasure island it was closed for over 7 hours has not only the crime investigators spent time trying to figure out how this all happened, but also they're still cleaning up here even though they opened it up the department of public works still has him all the debris take a look at this video it's video from the scene and it's horrific. the video you can see the involved cars a white porsche. and it is completely mangled up in several pieces. it's really loud here because they're trying to clean the streets right now. and let's let this pass really clicked. all right now i can hear myself think a person was driving on treasure island around 11 30 last night when he crashed int

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robin. >>thank you john checking back in on our major hospot along one o one if you use it to get to san francisco or maybe the south bay right in the middle here along the peninsula, have a hot spot south 21 at poplar avenue injury accent involving a car and a ving trucin this is a traffic leading up to the sce. those folks are funneling down into one lane only the left lane is open you see all the emergency crews blocking the 3 right lanes so this is awful for people using one o one special alert remains in place. and we don't know how long 's going to take to clear. here's a peek at it on traffic tracker you can see th southbound back up. 's all the way back to sfo t good and then north one oh one it's back to will be on 92 it's almost spilling into belmont now so major delays on one oh one 92 west crossing the san mateo bridge still very soggy. but we don't have any big problems right now your ivtime has been averaging a anywhere between 35 minutes, so it's been busy all morning which is

coming up in just a bit robin. quick pe at your commute from the north y to san francisco are checki out the good. no problems here, it's pickg up a little bit but t bad at all we're at 20 minutes th's quick right nevada to the toll pla so an easy dre into san francisco, not so smooth at the bay bridge to plaza but at least it's quiet your backup, it's growing. >>that's expected it's now through the bottom of the maze when i say at that means it's backed up on to your major connectors like the nimitz 5.80 the east shore freewa those coector ramps are full. busy thugh the tolls up the incline toward the tuel but no problems on the suspension or downtown san francisco, wonder san fransco looks good that's a 7 minute trip and 2.80 is wide open right to thebottom of the 2.80 extension darya. 6.32 thanks robin, a new numbers show opioid aths in san francisco more than doubled last year that compares to the year before d that trend is sparking cas for an emergency response from city leaders convoys morning kelly >>the la

still ahead robin. >>all right, thank you john a quick peek at the bay bridge, a minor weighand some of e cash lanes it's been a great trip for the last hour into san francisco. so nice time to go ahead and use at 9 minutes for the commutethe average commute time off to fremont street exit you can't beat that that's perfect all ght we're checking on the nimitz there's a minor crashrapping up on the hayward side, this is 8 80 at whipplewe have crews on scene no injuries reported,but it may still be blocking one lane. so that's why you have that back up its billing just be on 92 and then there's another little pocket through fremont but overall it looks good for only a36 minutes total to head south on 8.80 from 2.38 to 2.37 chais will. >>all right, thanks very much. robin fremonpolice now searching for 4 people responsible for a home invasion robbery hinson in the sun dale neighborhood now th comes just days after dozens of cars were broken into in that very same area. robert taylor to sack explains. >>yo

"30 for 30" for robin.merica." >>> good morning. happening today, governor newsom is kicking off a week-long tour focusing on homelessness. $1 billion has been updated to attack this will issue. >>> good morning, everyone. we're following a sigalert right now in san bruno, a crash involving three to four cars here. two lanes are blocked right now and injuries have been reported southbound 101 past 3806789 the sigalert is in place with no eta as to when the road will reopen at this point. emergency crews are on the scene. i'll keep you posted as t >>> good monday morning. fog through the morning commute. by the afternoon hours, it will be dry until about 5:00 in the north bay light to moderate rain. exiting by tomorrow morning with a few scattered showers. that's a one on the impact storm scale. heavy rain for thursday's morning commute. it will be much harder to get around there. kumasi? >> thanks, mike. we'll have another abc news update in 30 minutes or so. you can always find us on our abc 7 news app and

robin, take us back to th earliest days.om his newspaper in in text -- newspapering in texas. tell us about that. >> well, it was amazing how quickly, within a day or two, we became friends. then we discovered that we each had a tiny daughter in the same kindergarten in bethesda. that friendship grew so intimately and quickly that it was rather astonishing.it rew to the point at within a year or so, we put it in our t willst if anything happened to either of us, the other would time moved on and we did noten. need to observe that. but jim was just instant our backgrods were so different but they melted a very curious way. i remember very well in his beaten up old volkswagen driving inck from the watergate he every night and each of us turning to the other and saying --can you believe we are getting paid to do this? anyway, as i said earlier, jim taught me aot. i grew up in a television background where you kind of loaded up your questions with enough iortion on foreign affairs as though you were the secretary of state in wai

robin thank you sir, let's head over to the richmond sandra fell bridge.d it's stacking up and quickly. >>it's going to be slowing go from right around burton parkway leading up to the toll plaza so very busy for the cash for years and the fast trackers but not thatyou're used to this if you take it every day right 12 minutes to the north bay, the bay bridge traffic 80 west that's filling in your backup spilling through the bott of the maze, especially coming in from the east shore freeway follow the cline busy toward the tunnel but not bad just under 15 minutes to make it and we'rchecking out traffic tracker looking at the drive times around moderate crowding out there on the shore freeway is recovering from a number of crashes inly mid to upper 80 sure looks like everything's out of the way but you're almost to 30 minutes now from crockett to the maze 6.80 south dublin to fremont looks okay, there's a new accident at stone ridge just coming in so that's a 23 minute trip and a pretty good looking and dry for 87 only 13 minutes from 85 to one o one james a