the united states also ordering russian's consulate in seattle to close down. white house press secretary sarah sanders said today's actions make the united states safer by reducing russian's ability to spy on americans and conduct covert operations that threaten america's national security. this is the toughest action the trump administration has taken against russia. russia had repeatedly denied having any role in the attack three weeks ago. a senior white house official said president trump has not spoken with president putin of russia about what happened today and that the information is being conveyed to russia through appropriate channels. it's fox's top story. rich edson is live at the state department. russia threatening to retaliate. >> shep, senior officials here tell us that there is really no response from the russian government, no official response. what we do have is a response from the russian foreign kremlin spokesperson dimitri paskov. he said -- >> now senior administration officials say they did coordinate with allies on this. you mentioned

of the parent upper low was essentially lined up along the pacific coastline from san francisco to seattle earlier but has now trekked slightly inland to encompass the north bay. as a result, the north bay has seen the bulk of the precipitation so far, with up to 2.00" in the wettest locations and widespread accumulations of .66" to 1.00" across the inland north bay valleys. warm sector precipitation ahead of the main cold front has already pushed deep into central california, bringing at least minor accumulations to nearly all portions of the san francisco bay and monterey bay areas. the bulk of the rain from this storm is expected to come through the remainder of this morning and into the early afternoon as the cold front sinks deeper into the golden state. southwest flow of 40 to 50kt at 850mb will accompany this storm system today. this southwest flow will enhance the frontal boundary as it shifts southward today by providing deeper moisture advection/vapor transport into the region as well as increasing the already favorable (orthogonal) orographic setup. as a result, much heavier pre

what do you think they were doing in seattle?t is where our nuclear boomers leave to go out to the ocean. so they're keeping track of those things. so that is fine. no -- but you're gone. you're out therefore. you won't by able to do that. >> if it is known to the administration that -- that folks in that consulate in seattle, russians were probably spying or spying on boeing or the -- or the submarine base, why were they there in the first why did it take the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. to get those russian diplomats here in the states expelled? >> they should have been expelled sometime ago. barack obama did do -- did expel several dozen russian diplomats during the last months of his tenure in office. but beyond that, we have had a series of issues dating back to the 2016 election with the russian hacking and as this russia investigation continues to unfold, it becomes clearer and clearer. and this was stated by the defense -- by the intelligence agencies, that until very recently this partic

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what's the cover for that seattle story?i think it was just a way to provide context about why they chose seattle. we've taken these measures in new york in terms of putting pressure. seattle was a natural place. >> frank, to your initial point, you've got this action today which looks old school, like we used to do to the russians, but then it's complicated because donald trump doesn't match it with any kind of a statement. donald trump when he last spoke to putin congratulated him on a victory and a rigged election and never mentioned, by the way, you guys can't use that nerve agent in public. you can't use it to try to assassinate individuals in other countries. >> there's an interesting dynamic going on here, which is ironically that we have a president who really wanted to cozy up to russia, proclaimed publicly that wouldn't it be great if we just got along thinking wrongly somehow that putin would reciprocate for friendship. all that's done for someone like putin is given him license to do whatever he wants to do aroun

and what happened to seattle's experiment of trying to take the money out of politics, we will explain this is "special report." ♪ >> bret: good evening, welcome to washington, i am bret baier, we bring the text messages that you are never supposed to see. suggesting two fbi employees may have tried to use a personal relationship with a federal judge, a fisa judge to influence the investigation into the trump presidential campaign. this comes on a day when a career fbi executive could lose his full government pension after being accused of acting on a similar bias against the president. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here with details pretty good evening. >> thank you, in late july 2016 after the clinton email case closed and the fbi open the russian investigation, text messages indicate fbi agent peter strzok talked about his friendship with the federal judge who later handled the prosecution of former national security advisor mike flynn. investigators working for the house republicans reviewed the original documents at the justice department and took note, be

also closing that consulate in seattle.shows seattle as a location or a consulate from the russian government to close because of its proximity to a u.s. sub submarine base. it's also near a major boeing headquarters. the state department says, quote "we take these actions to demonstrate our unbreakable solidarity with the united kingdom and to impose serious consequences on russia for serial violations of international norms." senior officials say the united states is not yet recalling any of its diplomats from russia, but it's likely the russian government is going to do that. we've contacted the russian government, asked them for a response they may have to this. they've not responded to our request. usually when you kick diplomats out of your country, the same happens to you in their country. european countries have joined the united states. of late, you've got lithuania, the czech republic, denmark and germany. >> bill: clearly coordinated, too. this is on top of already sour relations between the u.s. and moscow. >> r

>> it was a way to provide context about why nay picked seattle. san francisco and washington, d.c. york. we have taken these measures to put pressure. if you squeeze them in the places, there is only a few places left and seattle is a natural place. >> to your initial point, you have this action today which looks old school. like we used to do to the russians. then it's complicated because donald trump doesn't match it with any kind of a statement. drum when he last spoke to putin congratulated him in a victory in a rigged election and never mentioned you can't use that nerve agent in public. you can't use it to try to assassinate individuals in other countries. >> there is an interesting dynamic going on that is ironically we have a president who wanted to cozy up to russia and said it would be great if we got along thinking that putin would reciprocate with friendship. all that is done is giving him license to do whatever he wants including the poisoning or attempted poichk soning of a mad his daughter that we swapped at a spy exchange like out of a novel. this is an equal and op

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of the parent upper low was essentially lined up along the pacific coastline from san francisco to seattle earlier but has now trekked slightly inland to encompass the north bay. as a result, the north bay has seen the bulk of the precipitation so far, with up to 2.00" in the wettest locations and widespread accumulations of .66" to 1.00" across the inland north bay valleys. warm sector precipitation ahead of the main cold front has already pushed deep into central california, bringing at least minor accumulations to nearly all portions of the san francisco bay and monterey bay areas. the bulk of the rain from this storm is expected to come through the remainder of this morning and into the early afternoon as the cold front sinks deeper into the golden state. southwest flow of 40 to 50kt at 850mb will accompany this storm system today. this southwest flow will enhance the frontal boundary as it shifts southward today by providing deeper moisture advection/vapor transport into the region as well as increasing the already favorable (orthogonal) orographic setup. as a result, much heavier pre

and has ordered the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and the european council president donald tusk says fourteen the e.u. member states are also expelling embassy staff these include for each from france germany and poland ukraine which is not an e.u. member is also taking action there expelling thirteen russian diplomats from the country we've got correspondents right across this breaking news and sasha butler standing by for us in paris with a view from europe but first let's go she have returned see who's at the white house she had this is the largest number of diplomats that are going to be expelled sixty do we know who they are. we don't but they're being presented as intelligence operatives all sixty aren't in fact the twelve outs of the u.n. mission specifically being being accused by the un mission the us is un mission of abusing their diplomatic status it order for the purposes of espionage just aside from the wiki leaks u.s. diplomatic cables we know that the u.s. engages in that sort of thing routinely at the u.n. but that's another story so there's twelve and then

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shut down the russian consulate in seattle.s at the american cans late have been told to leave by saturday. this comes after the trump administration closed russia's consulate in seattle. russia has been accused of using a nerve agent a gas, on a former spy in britain but the kremlin denied that. the backlash by russia is not limited to the united states. 150 diplomats from two dozen countries have been told to leave russia. >>> after 10 days in custody, the brother of the parkland school shooter was released from jail. 18-year-old zachary cruz pled no contest yesterday to trespassing on school grounds meaning that he is not disputing the charge. he was arrest on march 19th after he was seen skateboarding through the campus after by- passing locked doors and gates. he was sentenced to time served ordered to complete 6 months of probation to attend therapy and wear a gps ankle monitor of the during probation he is prohibited from possessing any firearms. he's the younger brother of knick las cruz who is charmed with killing 17 p

has expelled sixty russian diplomats given them a week to leave close the consulate in seattle you've heard germany expelling four diplomats ukraine thirteen czech republic three embassy staff members will stay here in the poland lithuania and other e.u. countries getting on board everybody getting behind the u.k. on that sending a clear message to vladimir putin and the kremlin in moscow. it was roy. and his live to us it is a bad day for russia and the prosecutor general has been ordered to examine fire safety and shopping centers across the country off the sixty four people died in a mall in five beriah investigate says say a security guard switched off the alarm system and fire blocked and has the latest . for some playing from a window was their only hope flames and smoke swept through the upper level of this mall in siberia on sunday families were enjoying a day at the movies and the play area russian emergency services say the fire in the city of kemah robbed killed dozens of people it's considered one of the worst fires since the breakup of the former soviet union to sit uprig

consulate in st petersburg is being closed down in response to the closure of russia's consulate in seattle and mirrors spawn's no more no less and again moscow has called on the united states to stop it is proposed to us south or ities inciting in fueling this merican pain against our country to rethink incurred their reckless actions destroying bilateral relations the sum up russia which denies any role in this poisoning says never before have we witness such mockery of international law it is also convened a special meeting of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons would be c.w. has sent technical experts to examine the substance with which the former russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned but their best the geisha will be technical. o.p.c. w. experts have arrived in london to analyze the substance used in the alleged poisoning of surrogate and eula script this will only allow them to distinguish the chemical formula of the substance the o.p.c. w. technical secretariat doesn't have the mandate to verify. ukase allegations by the way the investigation into t

one interesting detail — a russian consulate in seattle will be shut.n washington responded by asking its followers which us consulate should close in response. i haven't checked which one people have gone for, but there have been over 15,000 votes. 0ne do the russians have a consulate in seattle thatis russians have a consulate in seattle that is of interest to both sides, here is chris buckler to explain. it's basically close to a submarine base in the us. it's also close to boeing aerospace. and those two places, which america does not want a russian consulate close to. and that seems to be because they are very concerned about those inside america who are intelligence gathering, who are involved, as far as they're concerned, in spying. and they're also worried about cyber attacks that have been taking place. in fact, there have been cyber attacks in the last number of months that have involved attacks on america's infrastructure, vital infrastructure, for example, like electricity grids. so, that's the reason for that specifically. and more broadly,

heather: in new york, dc and houston, why do you think they chose seattle?seattle is a hub for high-tech and there may have been concern, the nuclear facility, eliminating presence on the west coast, the russians we can expect to respond. and the number of people in russia. heather: on twitter to vote. who or which embassy should be closed in their country. this is a tweet but there it is. you can see people are supposed to choose which one they thought should be closed. i heard st. petersburg is winning right now and more than likely that would be closed. >> that would be akin to new york closing in the united states, the bottom line, this is an important message we sent to the kremlin, an important message. and in the united states, standing with our nato and eu to deliver this message to the kremlin. really vital. heather: and what russia is accused of doing i want to ask you do you think donald trump has handled this in the correct manner in terms of the timing of it, accused of not being tough enough on russia and now he does this. will this be enough?

connell: seattle pilots, oh, that was baseball. jared: metropolans.ren: fox news headline 24/7 jared. connell: thank you, jared. a good sports town. in a moment, london which is another goods sports town but different types of sports they have news on tariffs today and something else traders are keeping an eye on, we will tell you what it is when we come back, don't go away. so who sent you? new guy. what new guy? watson. my analysis of sensor and maintenance data indicates elevator 3 will malfunction in 2 days. there you go. you still need a pass. connell: back to stories, in europe negative reaction to president trump's tariff plans announced yesterday. shares in germany and paris down, you see on the screen about 2% a piece. peter dickson joins us, global economist bank. the reaction, peter, predictable in some ways in global markets to the protectionist policy put forward by the president. what's the hope over there, that it maybe doesn't go through it with or -- >> the hope is that this does not translate into an all-out trade war because obvious

el arresto ocurriÓ en seattle. claudia uceda tiene mÁs informaciÓn.etes fueron enviados a lo largo de la capital a bases militares y el edificio de la cia. un paquete tenÍa como destino final el servicio secreto, agencia encargada de cuidar al presidente. otro paquete fue enviado a esta base militar donde se encuentra la universidad de defensa nacional. la caja no explotÓ. se encontró polvo negro, residuos, un gps y un fusible. ninguno de los paquetes y dio a nadie. autoridades arrestaron a un hombre de 43 aÑos en seattle quien es acusado por enviar materiales explosivos y enfrenta una pena mÁxima de 10 aÑos en prisiÓn. >> yo creo que esa persona no estÁ tratando de matar gente. yo creo que esa persona estÁ tratando de intimidar a la gente o ccausar terror. claudia: el fbi alertÓ que mÁs paquetes podrÍan llegar a otras instalaciones. pidiÓ al pÚblico que permanezca vigilante y no tocar nada sospechoso. >> hay que tomar mÁs precauciones. claudia: autoridades continÚan investigando el motivo. varios de estos paquetes fueron enviados con mensajes que muc

used and the reason the white house go for closing the russian consulate in seattle particularly was it was close to a submarine base and boeing the aircraft manufacturer what's that going to do with it for a start if you're dumb thing to do with it in fact that they're reacting that the british the british consulate would not reopen props that give them no idea right then we closed the russian consulate in seattle. and if you like it's a tit for tat. and how likely is this note to long term damage america russia's relations have been the one how we've got from saying most to work with russia but then he's expelled lot of the diplomats of these supposedly saying he wants to work with how does that tally up. it doesn't add up it's saying one thing and then contradicting it five seconds later and the situation now the top administration came in hooping to improve relations with russia that it could have a working relationship with russia a but because of the democratic campaign against. trump the hacking the accusation of hacking involvement in dirty tricks and so on those situations g

we decided to head over to rover seattle headquarters to find out what it takes to smoothly merge two different cultures and two different teams and two different platforms in a way that makes sense for the company and the customers. it was just another regular work day at the santa monica headquarters of pet sitter booking company dog vacay. that is until it wasn't. >> that morning our ceo actually called an all hands meeting and brought the whole company in and sat us down and basically said, hey, we're being acquired by rover. which was kind of a shock for us. it was a shock for the employees. but not for the executive team. they had been working on this for years. aaron easterly dog vacay's biggest competitor had always considered the possibility of merging the two companies. >> does it make sense to put this thing together early? i think at the time there wasn't a lot of interest, but we continued that conversation for five years straight. >> and they met with other ceos to understand what it really takes to bring two companies together. >> talked to people at grubhub and seamles

whether we've got sensitive individuals out in seattle or not. whether there are russians out there that moscow might want to hurt or not. there could be a symbol sis many saying, you're not going to be allowed to stay in our country as trustworthy individuals if you see we're not trustworthy. it could be something specific to seatle that i'm not aware of. >> if we want to send a message to moscow. to send a message to vladimir putin, how important would strong words and just that, from the president be? >> i think president trump struggle was this issue. there's a part of me that has to come to this defense. in the sense that very fuel people do that these days on this issue. i think he's right. we can't let u.s. russia relationship completely fall off the cliff. if we use harsh words from the white house spokesman or secretary of defense, the president himself tries to retain a certain rapport can putin that's not all bad but everyone can see that president trump doesn't want to talk about the election because the russians were trying to help h

"am from seattle. i love nirvanka! and their song 'you smell like a teenager.'" ( laughter ) that's my seattle impression. ( laughter ) there's been no official response yet from russia, but their embassy asked on twitter: "what u.s. consulate general would you close in russia, if it was up to you to decide? vladivostok, ekaterinburg, or st. petersburg." and like all russian votes, the winner was vladimir putin. congratulations. damn it! damn it! ( applause ) there's more news on the stormy daniels front. and the rest of her. ( laughter ) the president has a brilliant, new defense. he's telling people that stormy daniels isn't his type. ( laughter ) what? she's a buxom blonde. she couldn't be more his type if she was a filet o' fish wrapped in a hundred ruble bill. ( applause ) and what kind of defense is that? "i would never cheat on my wife... with her! but i like that one over there." "oh, that's ivanka, do not date. okay, guys. do not, ever. i would absolutely never ." trump's been largely silent about the affair,

and the closure of the consulate in seattle. is this you expect there to be a strong response by vladimir putin? >> no telling how he will react. this was not a statement this was decisive and twist action by our president donald trump. 60 russian diplomats expelled is two and a half times of the next country. 23 in the u.k. and this time, joining with our allies taking action against the poisoning with nerve agent of this gentleman and his daughter in the uk, but also putting at risk innocent bystanders, including children. also this ridiculous narrative that the president is never tough on russia. 700 billion investment in spending last week, do you think that helps russia u.s. military getting stronger, bigger, tougher. and we export energy here, how does this help russia. to say nothing of fact that u.s. address have issued sanctions against 100 individuals. and then any number of other actions taken. it really up ends that whole narrative, and shows again this president takes action in city that loves to talk. lou: in a cit

$5 million guarantee, more than i could have done what i played at pro level in seattle.'s really all i wanted. >> a guy that puts on himself and then make $60 million in bonus money if you mixed the pro bowl next year, so it's all on him. meanwhile, the sharks not just winning five in a row, they are putting people away. they are putting it in the basket on a regular basis, that is to-1, 3-1 san jose, now 4-1, logan couture scored on a daily basis, 5-1 late in the second. brent burns, to mikell balked at the moritz at three to mikell balked at the moritz at 36-to final. sharks are in fifth place, that solid right there. they have 10 games left and plane probably their best hockey of the year. you figure finally something had to break for the golden state warriors in a health direction and it does, the news that jeff curry, we've been seeing a lot of him. i think a uniform like this, here's the play that he tweaked his ankle on they are calling it. it's the fourth time they said they had an ankle sprain depending on how you want to look at it but he has been cleared to pr

esto ocurriÓ en washington, seattle.mbiÉn en edificios de servicios secretos de la cia. la pregunta es si hay mÁs de sus paquetes misteriosos en camino. esta maÑana se enviÓ un paquete misterioso al edificio de la cÍa. afortunadamente no explotÓ, asÍ que no hubo heridos. se sabe que pudieron explotar, pero esta persona cometiÓ un error y no se sabe si lo hizo a propÓsito, si quizÁ solamente querÍa causar caos. sabemos que en estos paquetes habÍa mensajes que muchos han descrito como preocupantes e incoherentes. las autoridades habrÍan tenido contacto con esta persona. regresÓ con ustedes. javier: esto se da en momentos, en los que la semana pasada revisamos lo que estÁ pasando. hablamos del joven en austin, texas que fue detenido por la policÍa y terminÓ muriendo cuando explotÓ una bomba. carolina: momentos de pÁnico para las autoridades cuando reciben ese tipo de paquetes sospechosos, especialmente porque tenÍan un polvo negro para hacer exclusivos. javier: stormy daniels sigue causando tormenta la casa blanca. la actri

also ordering the seattle consulate be shut down in response to u.k. spying case that we've been covering for some time now. the u.s., britain and other nations publicly blamed russia for the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. and they have actually taken similar measures expelling russian diplomat. i'm gathering more on this breaking news that just came down. i'll have details when possible. back to you. >> thank you so much, jessica. >>> we're asking you this question this morning. do you trust driverless car technology? it's our question for you. you can answer it right now at abc7news.com/rote. >>> -- vote. >>> you can watch it update in real time at the bottom of the screen. the reason we're asking is because another company says it would have been able to avoid the deadly pedestrian crash by uber in arizona. an update on your votes and the story is coming up. >>> as president trump slaps tariffs on imports, one country is getting tariffs lifted. >>> never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. che

leave including twelve attached to the united nations he's also closing the russian consulate in seattle forty nine are being expelled by other countries most of them in europe ukraine which is embroiled in its own conflict with moscow's expanding thirteen russians were all the countries so the people are expecting are actually spies russia says it will respond in kind she had tons of reports motion. the trumpet ministration had said it would expel russian diplomats if its allies also did so in a coordinated action and on monday that coordination was revealed countries across western and eastern europe and canada joined the u.s. in the expulsions the british prime minister expressed hope gratitude international solidarity following what the u.k. alleges was a russian nerve agent attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in an english town this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence officers in history. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronte

plus, he's closing the russian consulate in seattle. the white house says the move comes in response to the nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. several u.s. allies, including canada, also expelling russian diplomats adds a sign of solidarity after great britain ex-pulled two dozen earlier this month. the kremlin telling russian state media it will retaliate. white house deputy press secretary hogan gibley earlier on fox news. >> the president's been very clear that we will impose costs on russia when it is in our interests to do so and when it's in our interests to work with russia, we'll do that as well. this president has not softened or weakened any position that barack obama had on russia and, in fact, he's gone much further. >> harris: washington correspondent rich edson has more from the state department. rich? >> reporter: good evening, harris. the united states and allies are expelling more than 100 russian diplomats from their country. here in the united states, the administration says these

if it were up to me i would not have closed the consulate in seattle. i would have expelled the intelligence officers from there like they did in washington and new york. but let's just be clear, by closing that consulate we're hurting americans trying to travel to russia. we're not hurting the oligarchs, the big business people close to putin who do business in the uk. that is the next frontier and i hope they take that seriously. we need to make those people suffer the consequences so that they put pressure on putin to change his behavior, closing the consulate in seattle does not do that. >> fair enough. bill, let me ask you about the reaction coming out of the white house particularly the repeated message. today it said that the actions have consequences in reference to russia's actions. but what's interesting perhaps is the silence that is coming out of the president himself. does that in itself also send a message that we haven't heard from president trump directly in response to these expulsions or actions against russia? >> sure, i agree with mi

dan springer is right in seattle. dan? >> hi, melissa.ry that goes back to the campaign. two white house officials said this week there is no immediate plan that the administration has in going after amazon. they did echo the president's sentiment they believe that amazon is killing retail jobs across the u.s. meantime here at the seattle headquarters of amazon things are rolling along in overdrive. they made $177 billion last year, now employ 570,000 workers. stock took a massive hit when a report came out president trump has talked openly about nailing amazon with an antitrust case, or forcing them to pay more in taxes. shopping malls and pop mom and pop shops struggle with bankruptcies, while the u.s. economy added 2 million the labor department says retail lost 66,000 jobs. some believe amazon is killing competition by stealing their ideas and controlling online sales, with president trump's numerous tweets are unprecedented. >> there are legitimate things can you look at with amazon. but his erratic approach kind of undermines it a l

all of it is my fault. >> the story begins in suburban seattle.ourtney allen was a married stay-at-home mother. that's when her marriage began to change. >> steve wasn't home a lot. i felt abandoned. and having no time to talk to friends i felt very sec ludsed. >> start to play a online game before players use the power of the gods to protect themselves and fourth alliances with other virtual players. while playing the game med todd zoneis. >> at first what was it like. >> he was rude and crude but i thought it was funny. >> then they began emayling. >> did the relationship get close. >> yes we started flirting and turned to texting, sexting and that's mainly how the relationship started to evolve. >> courtney was living a double life. a married woman with a child having what she calls a secret online affair. >> even though you never head him face to face, you felt like you knew him? >> yes i felt he was my best friend. told him very private things about myself. things i really didn't tell other people. he replaced my husband. >> then she says thi

ordering the seattle shutdown in a week, noting the proximity to a u.s. base. >> the poisoning in the uk that led to today's announcement was a very brazen action. that was reckless action. >> reporter: american officials estimate right now more than 100 russian spies are actively working in the u.s. the white house saying the diplomatic expulsions makes the u.s. safer. russia blasting the move. >> these decisions are going against to the telephone conversation between our two presidents. >> reporter: president trump just last week calling vladimir putin after his re-election, but never confronting him over the poisoning case. >> i had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory. >> reporter: president trump hasn't commented on the expulsion order or the recent u.s. sanction over russian meddling in the 2016 election. today's white house announcement, coordinated with allies around the world, 22 countries so far expelling more than 130 russian diplomats. british prime minister teresa may con deming russia. >> it is a part of the patte

has been severely damaged now you mention that seattle seattle consul general this is all part of that narrative as well we were told that the seattle consulate is being closed down because of its proximity to a u.s. submarine base on the operations of the boeing aviation company so again we have that narrative of russia covertly spying on the u.s. and the u.s. doing something about it thank you for that she had time to live for us at the white house now the russian embassy in the u.s. has just put out this poll up on their twitter page it asks russians which american continent they would like to see shot first not of all stock. or st petersburg let's bring in our correspondent in moscow. the russians very quick to respond and they're likely to retaliate in kind. yeah well the messaging from the foreign ministry so far has been that this is a provocative and unfriendly step for all of these countries this long long list of western nations that are decided to throw out russian spies russian diplomats now the foreign ministry is going to be drafting up a list of possible retaliates three

seattle. we don‘t know exactly why that has been closedlj seattle. mats expelled, how much of that is to do with what happened in salisbury? that is very interesting. we have the domestic backdrop that president trump is under investigation for alleged links to russians during the campaign. he has come under a lot of flak, just in the last few days. he called president putin to congratulate him on his election win and went against the advice of officials and failed to mention the salisbury attack to president putin in that phone call. there was a lot of criticism, not just in that phone call. there was a lot of criticism, notjust in the american press but across the world. now we see a very different response against russia. i think there will bea against russia. i think there will be a lot of world interest and political interest as well. given what we‘re hearing the eu and the countries acting in support of britain, it will be interesting how vladimir putin response? yes, is he going to have to expel all these diplomats in response? it is certainly

again, that's seattle. our jacob soboroff remains on duty in los angeles, california, where we saw at the top of the hour, again, 10:45 there on the left coast, jacob soboroff at hamilton high school in l.a., where students were gathering for some sort of program in addition to the protest. jacob, what's the seen there in l.a. right now? >> reporter: craig, the program is wrapped up. if you come with me you can actually see about half of the students have now split in this direction and are lining robertson boulevard, all the passing motorists coming off some of the busiest thoroughfares in los angeles. the rest of them are coming back to school. we've been hearing the chant "no more guns." over and over again, the students are out here saying the same thing. they want to be here in solidarity with some of their fellow students across the country. have you ever done anything like this before? >> no. >> reporter: what was it like to be out here today? >> pretty cool. >> reporter: what's your name? >> reneau.

we're producing a lot more events here in other venues arranged seattle. this is -- this is wild week tomorrow night for valentine's day david lynch on stage, of the hill talking about limitation, and a great political double header that i think some folks interested inning toed of tonight's event with historian jeremy in conversation with the american institution of the presidency. followed at 7:30 by veteran journalist steve cole on the war in afghanistan. the cia war in afghanistan. so this is a history of the afghan war that is special focused on cia and particular role in that conflict and ongoing america's longest war. add to that a bunch more event it is they're adding to our calendar all of the time more events on technology and politics. some great music and cultural programs next few months. and that's what we did here at town hall you can see all of these on our website town hall seattle.org and sign up to our memory thanks to members in the room. all right now on to tonight's program. lavigne is an investigative journalist for daily a sphrik bi

. >> you note the move in seattle. why seattle? there is a major u.s. submarine base. a big competition going on tunneled waves around the world. it appears to be sensitive about the possibility of russian surveillance. >> a lot of high-tech dmoicompa in seattle as well. joining us now, democratic senator richard blumenthal, a member of the judiciary and armed services committees. you've been a critical of the trump administration. suggesting it has been too weak. do they deserve credit for a tougher response? it is an expulsion of 60 out of 100 there are figured to be but also because it is coordinated with our allies. remember, he's been very dismissive of our allies and nato. and this coordinated response is significant. but the president's silence speaks volumes. his failure to use the white house as a bully pulpit against concerted attack on our democracy is profoundly significant. maybe even as significant as the expulsion. >> the russians promised to respond in kind. how do you think putin will retaliate? >> i think by cexpelling our agents. i think there's no d

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so they're going to be going where the jobs take them and we're seeing massive growth of course in seattle portland denver san francisco l.a. new york miami these areas will continue to boom until it just becomes so one affordable that that companies and those people begin to move out of town kind of like what's happening in california there's more people moving out. you know but we just had a guest on top shipley and he's in reno and reno is actually a place where people are moving from from what palo alto and that area to reno is that correct yeah that's right our company is actually building two hundred fifty homes there and we're not even close to the number of homes that are needed there's about sixty five hundred new homes needed every year in reno because so many big companies are moving their google amazon you've got tesla battery facilities there and and switch so and lots and lots of high tech companies because we're only three or four hours drive from the silicon valley but in reno it's a whole different whole different economy much more affordable i'm just curious it's changing

and seattle shops him around doesn't mack sense but you dig deeper you realize, saw hawk are ready tod to rebuild. eagles are building as an add to go layers of super bowl foundation. bennett fits this mold. adam, graham, cox, jurnigan. offensive coordinators won't get a lot of sleep on sat nights. bennett known to be little outspoken he can be a problem in the locker room. jay ajayi ya was last year when he came from miami as well. how did that work out? eagles do have work to do to get under the cap. but as the foreman house ho you wee roseman put op his hard hat and continued to build. to 31 other teams message sent, here we are. iain? >> all right tom thanks much disney fans you can now explore 11 disney parks from your computer. the parks are now on google street view. google used 360-degree camera mounted oh to backpack to capture parks like animal kingdom and epcot. visitor which is use the tool to help plan their trip. google street view is limbed to disney parks across the u.s. the company has yet to confirm if other parks will be included in the roster for other virtual tour

has shut down the russian consulate in seattle and all of the expulsion of sixty diplomats including twelve attach the united nations in new york more than fifty russians are being expelled by other countries most of them in europe or ukraine which is involved in its own conflict with moscow is expelling thirteen russians and moscow says it will respond she has britain see reports from washington. the trumpet ministration had said it would expel russian diplomats if its allies also did so in a coordinated action and on monday that coordination was revealed countries across western and eastern europe and canada joined the us in the expulsions the british prime minister expressed her gratitude international solidarity following what the u.k. alleges was a russian nerve agent attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in an english town this is the largest collective expulsion of russian intelligence officers in history. i have found great solidarity from our friends and partners in the e.u. north america and nato and beyond over the past three weeks as we have confronted