the new silk road a testament to china's revived ambitions on the global stage. just 40 years ago this was a market town today shenzhen is a high tech metropolis with more than 25000000 residents china's silicon valley. the cratering metropolis brimming with confidence is the face of the new china an ambitious china with eyes clearly focused on the west. and the way there is the new silk road we retraced 2 routes over land and sea from the chinese city of shenzhen to the german city of do sport. what lies behind china's grand ambitions what transformations will face root bring and how will these changes be felt in germany in western europe. i boarded a train from shenzhen headed west through the night in my restless sleep the sound of the wheels on the tracks conjures up the plot of the camel caravans that once traversed this route. the train is scheduled to arrive into one at 6 30 in the morning. but it pulls into the station half an hour early. china has taken many by surprise in its hurry to reach the west. as day breaks in doing the sand dunes slowly emerge o

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the 77 percent this weekend on d w. china's legendary silk road was one of the wonders of the ancient world now this trade route is being brought back to life. the new silk road is a vast undertaking and a demonstration of power and might. hundreds of billions of euros of flowing into new infrastructure right away lines harbors streets bridges and tunnels in 65 different countries it's a project the likes of which the world has never seen. it's a powerful vision and for many an inspiring one for some it brings opportunity for others misery. the new silk road a testament to china's revived ambitions on the global stage. just 40 years ago this was a market town today shenzhen is a high tech metropolis with more than 25000000 residents china silicon valley. the glittering metropolis brimming with confidence is the face of the new china an ambitious china with eyes clearly focused on the west. and the way there is the new silk road we retraced 2 routes over land and sea from the chinese city of shenzhen to the german city of do sport. what lies behind

in india i believe the silk road still exists. because the those values still exist so that's a fact. every country can profit from cradle long the silk road as was. but what if these hopes are not fulfilled in the search for a better life things of great value might also be lost. at the world nomad games tradition still holds sway. and his master norbeck are local celebrities norbeck raised the falcon and says it's like a son to him but norbeck needs the falcon every bit as much as the falcon. when i remove the hood. spray and flies to capture it. he sees for me. it into a. that's true or that it might 1st seem your back is blind . norbeck took gold at the 28000 world nomad games his brother on back knows who they have to thank for it. we were hoping for 3rd place and everyone was shocked when he took gold. nor back his promise to show his nephew some of the tricks of the trade. that. the family is proud of their showing at the nomad games. but they also wonder whether they'll be able to maintain their culture and traditions. you

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vianey, how is it looking on the roads now? it's getting a little busy through the tri-valley and the east bay, so i do want to give you a look at your drive times but i'm happy to say that the south bay so far no major issues to report. we had some slowing in through palo alto, cleared out from an overnight crash. so let's get right to the drive times, because dublin is one of the areas that really starts to get busy around the 5:00 a.m. hour as all of the commuters start to make their way into the south bay and the city. let's look at the drive times now. westbound 580 from grant line road to 680 looking at 20 minutes. southbound 068 from 580 to vargas road ten minutes and westbound 84 from vallecitos road to 680 about 11 minutes. this one is typically starting to build around this time. the east bay, oakland commuters get ready. we're noticing a lot more people hitting the roads very early this morning. as far as any slowing, it's just the typical morning pattern. no accidents to report but east bay drive times are starting

so this may not be the last incident that we see on the road to a driverless future. w for the millions of miles of testing that have taken place. if there's an opportunity to help keep our roadways safe, that's certainly our responsibility and our mission — to keep our communities safe and obviously our roads. so if we can reduce the number of collisions and people being injured and killed by leveraging new technology, that's certainly something we want to explore and support as we're moving forward, because we know that an overwhelming majority of collisions are preventable — they're caused by humans. we're just not able to share in the way that these vehicles are, i don't have access to 10 billion driven miles, which in the future these vehicles will have. every oddity that happened to be disseminated across a fleet — i want a world where a fender bender in copenhagen improves someone's safety in a mine in cape town that afternoon, in a way that we just don't as humans. so in 2017, national statistics show that over 10,000 people were killed because of impaired driv

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there will be insufficient money to fix the roads and we'll have more problems. 33% of our roads are in poor condition. >> what do you predict in terms of gas prices for this summer? >> it depends on what happens in the near term. we've seen a couple factors that have led to higher prices. opec said they're going to continue their production cut back from 1.8 million barrels a day. we saw the fire in philadelphia. >> tensions in the middle east >> trade talks tend to have the opposite effect. when there's tariffs and what have you, there's less demand for gasoline but demand is way up so three factors say they'll go up, a couple factors say they'll go down. >> we're in what the triple a calls the 100 deadliest days of the year what is it >> memorial day, holidays. we see fatal crashes going up. speeding, distractions, using alcohol while behind the wheel and we're seeing the increase of legalization of marijuana making the roads more dangerous >> has that had an impact? >> oh, absolutely. in the states where, technically, colorado, that is a big problem. we've done a survey of senior

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not a -- it's the only road into this neighbor. she says she's never seen anything like this. >> i'm worry about the poor people. >> doug worries abt the other side of the split. >> it's narrow but you can get down there. >> reporter: he had to cross the creek to get out. i'll be working from home and doi calls and got two dogs so hanging out for them and just waiting until this gets fixed. >> and back over on the klara barton rkway, that road now a river. crews working to get the cars out, drs now cove in thick mud. >> i need t stay home until it's done raining. >> back onny bevel fat road. for the end. day that fix can't come soon enough. this has been a very complicated repair out here. as you can see, lots of damaged pipes and uprooted pipes down ere in that creek. just generally one big mid mess and coming back up here to belfast road it looks like they are on track to get the repairs done quickly by the end of the day. jim? >> and then tomorrow get ready for all the mosquitos out there. all right. imee cho, thank you. >>> well

ran off the road. and now we're hearing that in this crash has resulted in a fatality. so this is 80 east l foretell drive at least 3 lanes of traffic are close. crews are on the way this is very fresh, but it is quickly backing up in both directions once again, 80 east l foretell drive fatal accident here several vehicles involved crews are on the way i'll keep my eyes on this i'll have another update coming up in just a bit john. well robin skies. >>very clear across the bay area this morning from the area this morning from the coast well inland across the the golden gate bridge well out into marion county eventually sonoma and napa counties out there in the distance and all of it looking really beautiful really upbeat that start to the morning, 50's 60's and 70's is we're temperatures are sitting which is just the icing on the cake so what is already a nice and clear start to the day, pittsburgh you're at 72 right now in dublin in hayward at 58 oakland at 60. even our coolest of spots really not all that chilly so get out there this morning enjoy the start to the day

they have to make sune the gro is stable and the road is intact before they let the drivers on. >> news4molette green is on belfast road in potomac where a major hole opened up in that area because of the rain yesterday. >> reporter: i'm stanng on temporary steel plates where the massive sinkhole opened up yesterday during those torrential rain that came down. this is temporary so the repairs can ntinue. unfortunately in this community one way in and one way out and we are standing on so they had m to get shing temporary in place. what they have to do, the contractors have marked all of these line of trees, theare spray painted. they have to come down in order for these repairs to continue. i just spoke with a contractor who said he got the emergency call just last night >> in order for them to put the new culvert in the trees have to be removed. they have to do that because there is no way the trees are going to survive. >> reporter: residents here in this community have tempor infrastructure repair happening while this repair and cleanup continues. i just want you to look down here. a

it shows that the street lighting makes the road clear clearly visible well into the distance.uber are not living up to expectations before the cross. as of march 2018 uber was struggling to meet the targets of 13 miles per intervention in arizona. as a comparison, gm owns caffeine is reported to california regulators that they went more than 1200 miles before intervention and waymo said that there california just because atan that there california just because at an average of nearly 5600 miles before drive intervention. reports said that the uber vehicle actually detect did elaine herzberg six seconds before the crash, but the perception system got confused, classifying her as first an unknown object, then as a vehicle, and finally as a bicycle. those volvos came from the factory with an accident avoidance system, one of those new semiautonomous systems that a lot of the new cars have. 1.3 seconds before impact, the self driving system realised emergency braking was needed. however, uber had disabled the emergency braking system had disabled the emergency braking syste m o n

watered wash rocks and chunks from the side of the road into the middle of the road and also appeared to wash away some of the side support causing part of that road touc be. >> back inside the beltway an example of what can go wrong when you can't tell how deep the water is. >> reporter: a man forced to carry his kids through waist-high deep water on flooded out little falls parkway. news 4's mollet green has the rescues you'l seenly here on news 4. >> reporter: it took a few minutes with a bad decision to put a family danger from the high water and dramatic rain that fell during the height of the morning rush. watch here as this d had to carry his two little girls. they were around 7 years ofge in, each arm to get them out of their stalled car, trapped in high water here at the intersection of little falls pkway and massachusetts avenue. luckily the dad was able to carry them away sely, and a good samaritan rolled up who watched all of this play out and actually gave them a ride home. >> he was unable to open the car door, so that's why he grabbed them and out through

const ction crews are working around the clock to clear a path for stranded residents on belfast road in poet omack. >> it must've been really tough to be cut off like that and cut off unexpected loechl. >> reporter: this is the kind of damage a flash flood can do. a huge sink hole formed on this road during monday's downpour. it's the same storm that turned some of our roads into raging rivers forcing drivers onto the rofs ofir the cars. >> i understand climate change and the excess of rainfall, 4 inches in half an hour. it's an awful lot, much more than normally we think of. it's really outside the range of normal. >> reporter: for residents on belfast road, there is only one way in and one way out. that's why crews are working throughout the weekend. >> it's amazing to me, though, if they are actually ableto rebuild the road by monday morning so people can get out, this is really a huge construction effort that they're doing here. so we'll see. >> reporter: a spokesman for the county says the road is expected to be passable by sometimend morning, nearly a week after the storm. back

so this may not be the last incident that we see on the road to a driverless future. accidents involving self driving cars is very low for the millions of miles of testing that have taken place. while the advancements we've seen in the last few years are more than impressive, getting a computer to fully understand the real world, and drive safely through it, will be a monumental achievement. they're not saying it's done, because it's not. this not a solved problem, it is a hard problem, it is many years before you can buy a car that has no steering wheel and you can say, "i'll have the car with no windscreen," and it has the same functionality as your car now. to start with, they will have subhuman capacity and superhuman capacity in other things. subhuman in their ability to reason, about all the extraordinary things that can happen on a road that has nothing to do with driving. superhuman in their ability to concentrate and never ever, ever get distracted. to see in ways that humans don't see with radar and laser, to sense distance, extraordinary things and above all

so, this may not be the last incident that we see on the road to a driverless future. riving cars is very low for the millions of miles of testing that have taken place. while the advancements that we've seen in the last few years are more than impressive, getting a computer to fully understand the real world and drive safely through it will be a monumental achievement. they're not saying it's done, because it's not. this not a solved problem, this is a hard problem, it is many years before you can buy a car that has no steering wheel and you can say, "i'll have the car with no windscreen," and it has the same functionality as your car does now. to start with, they will have subhuman capacity and superhuman capacity in other things. subhuman in their ability to reason, about all the extraordinary things that can happen on a road that has nothing to do with driving. superhuman in their ability to concentrate and never ever, ever get distracted. to see in ways that humans don't see with radar and laser, to sense distance, extraordinary things and above all, the ability fo

>>the roads are looking good. m not picking up major traffic collisions or anything that would really slow your commute down if you're out and about this independence day looking out here on the golden gate bridge. both directions barely any cars on the road. it is just wonderful bay bridge here for going to san francisco very few cars out on the road this morning and taking a look at our east bay roads here all in the green. >>you're taking interstate 80 from san leandro out to l p s were looking at a 20 minute drive time, i'm really breezy. and some more of our drive times here in the green looking like quick to commute there if you're taking 6.80. >>5.80 from livermore to dublin looking very good to highway one oh one from brisbane to the 80's split their under 10 minutes. james. >>all right. thank you very much. to the news a group of high school students from oakland is in colombia right now all part of an effort. and a chance for them really to see life beyond their own neighborhood we've got kron four's ken

this was the scene on chimney road near w trap where a car is nearly coveredy the rising water. te flooding h roads hard ross northern virginia. the heavy rain is a factor in this accident on 495. >> now while most of the water has receded inof most he roads in northern virginia have been reopened a spokesperson for the virginia department of rt transpoion tell me they do have structural engineers out checking some smaller bridges that were flooded this morning to make surehat they are sound enough to allow traffic to resume back over them. >> right now parts of district are still under water and that's closing road cl>>ures there. take a look at your screen right now. we want to bring up part of canal road. i-395, south capital street. they are all still shut down right now. >> here's why.hy this is w-- this is that area of south capital near malcolmx avenue. that's the roof of a car under several feet of water. d.c. crews had to rescue at least three cars that became trapped earlier today. >> this is why twe alwaysl you to turn around. more rescues at 15th street and multiple c

so just something to note as you do take to the roads this morning might want to give yourself an extra few minutes as the visibility could slow you down just a touch fog streaming inland along with this onshore flow. basically that's just bring in some cooler air from over the pacific in right over the bay area we're going to feel just a slight cool down and temperatures today. if you're not really looking you're probably not really going to notice it really only a one to 2 degree difference from yesterday. the fog will continue on into tomorrow morning after burning off this afternoon and notice there you also have the return of some coastal drizzle tomorrow too. so the potential of some very dense fog it again for your wednesday morning so so long in those clear skies that we had for monday, even though we do have clear skies this afternoon we do see this foggy mornings becoming a normal for the rest of our forecast. 60's and 70's for your daytime highs. on the peninsula today, not a huge difference from yesterday and in fact these areas are going to remain pretty similar ball. the w

millions of americans will take to the roads to celebrate the holiday. us now with the big getaway and how much it might cost >> so as you said, millions will take to the road millions upon millions upon millions first we have some good news and then some bad news the good news is a strong economy, low unemployment, low gas prices according to aaa the national average is about 2.73 a gallon that's down from about 2.85 a gallon about a year ago. thanks to lower prices, a lot of people will be stopping at rest stops like this one behind me. according to aaa 49 million people will be traveling for this holiday about 41.4 million of those people hitting the road driving. all of this brings me to the bad news you know there had to be bad news because of all of these people will be on the road, you can expect more traffic and gridlock according to aaa, in certain parts of the country they're expecting about four times as much congestion at certain parts of the day today being the worst. later this afternoon being the worst time of the day. say it's a 15-minute

the 11:00 hour, if that. we have big delays, and closed until 11:00 a.m. on calaveras road. >>> a crash here leaves two people dead. the coroner arriving there a short time ago. that crash happened at about 1:30 this morning near fallon road and anton way in dublin. this is near the dublin ranch golf course. officers say that car crashed into a light pole catching fire and both men in that car died. >>> we are celebrating the fourth of july by getting you prepared. the skies seem to be iffy for tonight's fourth of july fireworks show. >> the waterfront will be packed with the hopes of fireworks being delivered. preparations have been under way for days, and last-minute work is being done. we see people running around behind you getting things together. >> reporter: yeah, good morning. we are expecting more than 100,000 people to show up for the fireworks show along the waterfront. it's a cool show. hopefully the weather holds up and people can enjoy the fireworks. it has been taking place for a few weeks now. we know that the fireworks will be shot from a barge anchored nea

fear of the road for the ford saga beetle as the very last edition rolls off an assembly line in mexico. and monaco becomes the 1st european country to be covered by super fast 5 g. courtesy of a controversial chinese firm waterway. this is the w. business i'm joined now the milan in berlin federal reserve chairman jerome powell has boosted expectations for the 1st u.s. interest rate cut in a decade to be implemented later this month and testimony to congress how pointed to a broad global weakness clouding the u.s. economic outlook amid uncertainty about the fallout from trump's trade conflict with china and other nations president donald trump has been pushing paul to cut rates and has repeatedly said he has the power to fire the fed chair if he doesn't comply. our financial correspondent joins us now from new york to tell us and how did paul's comments go down on wall street. new records simple as that for the very 1st time ever the s. and p. 500 crossed the crucial 3000 point mark at least during trading and there was one word that you're stressed again and again and again and that w

this is the damage to a home on reservoir road in northwest. imagine the 'of that tree onou your. >>> in glover park a tree split in half. a big chunk of tree landed on a car. the tree pued down wires and knocked out power in the neighborhood. we have been seeing a lot of this i feel like the last several weeks as the summer does what it does. >> many days in a row with not a hardly a drop and then hit and miss thunderstorms which could calls have quite a bit of a bunch this time of the year and wathat carefully today. >> more rain today? >> it's not a guarantee but an 0% chance. >> has that is high. >> it's almost a guarantee. a few folk that get the rain today. most likely places that happens is the southern parts of the shenandoah valley. here is a look outside on a monday. very cloudy in washington right now. not much rain in and around ther city cutly. that also is likely to be changing. the highest likelihood is now t between lunche to get rain. rain chances fade away after 2:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon. steamy. 70s everywhere this mornin

so it's a good hour to hit the roads the bay bridge toll plaza in the san francisco, no problems no issues and no delays an 8 minute trip out of the east bay and the oakland side over to a san francisco. and the san mateo bridge looks good westbound 92 coming out of hayward and then across the span highrise no issues there and then over to one o one just under 15 minutes. if you need to get over to the peninsula now the north bay looks really good coming out of the east bay, the richmond sandra fell bridge. absolutely very lightly traveled right now just 8 minutes from the pay gates over 2 of the north bay, the golden gate bridge looks good yes we saw very foggy yesterday morning but like john was saying what clear for your morning drive 20 minutes from nevado through moran and then across the span into san francisco. so not too bad, i'll be back with some east bay drive times coming up in just a couple minutes. >>thank you time now is 4 oh 3 and breaking news this morning. a hazmat situation at facebook's mail facility in menlo park is over. crews have removed a package that may contain t

a stream runs beneath the road. cayou park at the bethesda metro, potomac village shoppin center o or the lot across from oldangler's end. the road is expected to reopen sometime on >>aturday. >he declaration is a key stab in requesting state and federal help for recovery. th isood news for residents who are just finding out their traditional insurance policies may not cover their damages. massive cleanup effort continues in this area. heavy rain covered streets and vered card andfurniture was tossed around and destroyed and basements were filled with mud and debris. >> we were upstairs on the main level and we heard this crash. i mean, explosion. four feet of water was there and all of that rushing into the basement, within 30 second the place was flooded and coming into the living room. >> some residents face pperty loss and repair costs that run in the tens of thousands of dollar. arlington county is asking residents to submit damage reports by friday. >>> today is a remembrance day.t been more than five years sin

the road is still closed. pennsylvania avenue still closed between 20th and 21st street while they do the cleanup here but may not beo too much ler before they open things up. take a look at the video from earlier this morning. this happened about 11:45 last night. the suv according to police was traveling west on pennsylvania avenue, when,rfor some son, it left the roadway, went up into the park and struck the two people who apparently were on the bench in the park. w, police say that they are looking into whether excessive speed was a factor in all of this. there was no othe vehicle involved. it was the single suv that went into the park d two victims were pronounced dead on the scene. things are still being investigated he r. thead still closed at least for the time being. we can tell you thatin term of the victims and who they are, a lot of passer-byes and people who work in the area say there are homeless people who live in this park. a person who was in the area at the time of the accident who does securi

it's hard to see the big rig that ran off the road. but it ran down the hillside and flipped over and we know that one person did not survive the crash so with this alert in place to expect to see a lot of heavy traffic going east you're back to at least 2 avenue and then westbound we have a new crash coming in at panel valley road plus it was already slow. so we'll call west found just slow and stretches from hercules down to berkeley we'll check in on more slow downs coming up john. >>are seeing some really nice conditions this morning to be out and about on those roadways even though they may be slow at least are skies are nice and clear as a foe is also looking very cloud-free and that is helping so much no delays out there whatsoever that's the way we've been all morning long. you can expectf it to remain that way as far as weather goes anyways should be any interference as with your flights. now it's still going to be a very warm one inland you see that president daytime high hard to avoid looking at a 102 degrees no triple digits

true canons on the road, there's one road through the wilderness and the 11 court spread out along theroad. i have two cannons, one regimen facing west and jackson is coming through there, coming through the raw and brush and the breyer and the brambles and you can hear the confederates talking. and they can't do anything. and so you got the leather of course spread out on this long line. and then sickles is having a fight with himself in chancellorsville. howard takes his only releases and companies is only resort, barlow's brigade to reinforce tonight got the smallest poor union army, heaviest brigade branched out in a long line for about almost 3 miles. and who's coming? stonewall jackson with more than half of lee's army and imagine that the 11th core is stretched out in a narrow line down this little aisle. jackson is equivalent to stretching from wall-to-wall. and he hits him, it's like this massive key closing in. what's amazing is the 11th core held as long as it did and as well as it did. alexander, confederate, very talented, after the war he said there is no way any soldier

and say we don't wa nt can down the road and say we don't wantan can down the road and say we don't lation. everyone is worried what that could mean. the israelis have said, we won't allow iran to have a nuclear device so if they feel iran is stepping up the enrichment, there is always the worry that israeli military action, but apart from that, washington. are you watching the world cup? it's been a fantastic month for women role. they are multi— winners. very good. what's this told me? i can guess over the past month, it's very different to previous world cup involving women. we are moving onto a much more commercial basis. quite commercially viable women's teams playing on a national level. we are seeing this translated to the international arena. people shouting out, equal pay, equal pay. it's different for women's football. should it be? it's commercially driven. i don't think you can divorce, i know the point you are making about being international but you can't divorce it from what is going on in the national game. there is not enough money in the national game compared to me

scientists call it the urban heat island, buildings and roads absorbing the heat during day and then releasing it at night like a radiator, a new challenge for old europe. norah, we spoke with a meteorologist in paris who told us because of climate change, these extreme weather events will become more widespread with records regularly being broken. norah? >> all right, ian, thank you so much. >>> in puerto rico, protests turned into a celebration that lasted well into this morning when governor ricardo rossello announced he's step do you think next week. his government's been accused of corruption, and protesters jammed the streets for days after insulting chat messages were releaked. puerto rico's justice secretary wanda vazquez will take over as governor. ♪ here i go again on my own ♪ goin' down the only road i've ever known ♪ ♪ like a drifter i was-- ♪ born to walk alone! ...barb! you left me hangin' on the high harmony there. if you ride, you get it. geico motorcycle. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. >>> a cbs news investigation has captured the attention of the fbi. we loo

down the road they will make it up. the lows will be up and highs warmer as well. fairs one of my least favorite weather words. it will be fair out. see that system, again, something of this nature, usually followed by high pressure. that's going to happen. it's coming in from the desert southwest. rain in the pacific northwest. dragged across high clouds, if you are a at

side of the road. is now a misdemeanor instead of ju a traffic infraction. >> good. well, maybe you've seen them, those bight yellow plasticpy ns popping up at intersections all across the district, but what exactly are they there for? our transportation reporter adam tuss has an explanation and how the new traffic calming devices are expected to make our roads safer. >> after 53 years of crossing th same intersection aida takes a little more timerom getting one side to the next. do you worry, you know, about the cars and the way the drivers are? yeah? >> reporter: they don't see me? >> they are not looking who is coming, nothing. yes, they are speeding, you know. >> reporter: and as she rightfully points out, speeding and turning, they don't mix. that's why d.c. is using more and more of these yellow pylona yellow striped devices, a lot more of them. we'5 got 8 locations across the distr pt and in place 85 of them and over the next year we'll put in the more. >> reporteey are known as left turn harden

forest service to maintain some of the forest roads. and also in talking about the forest service, i mean, one of the main infrastructure in our federal forests is our trees. when we are looking to -- we are looking to make sure that we have forest rest trags aoration health. kokono county is helping with that. you recently introduced legislation. but we need help from all of the federal government to tet getaway this project underway. we think about our resources in terms of the trees as something that is infrastructure and we need to make sure that we have forest health and forest thinning. >> thank you. i'm running close on time. a different topic on fossil creek. the importance of the $6 million that are needed to repair forest service road 708 to get access to fossil creek. i am not sure if you are familiar. there was a meeting scheduled for 60 days that was supposed to happen last week on this topic and it was canceled abruptly. and so a lot of folks are pretty unhappy about that. can we get your commitment we are going to get that

if youe staying here in town for the holiday, get ready for some big canges on the road. the memorial brid and dozens of streets down will b closed a few hoursw. from melissa has more on what she needs. we're talking about sections of constitution avenue and part of rock creek parkway. we want to expect heavytraffic d delays down in general throughout the area because of so many different events. the lanes will reopen in a southbound direction to get m. rybody home around 9:00 p so that will be helpful. another good thought. metro might be your best bet if you avoid allhese traffic troubles. >> keep in mind, not just the roads being impacted. the july 4 celebrations shutting down flights at vague national airpor the air traffic will stop again between 9:00 and 9:45. the fireworks show, also the flight operations for the military flyover we told you about. a new location at west potomac park is now closer to reagan's flight path. >> no matter where you man to celebrate, we'll be there for you. we'll have a list of all the fireworks shows in our area so open it up and search

there is congestion on the roads, airports and trains. yes, most schools have either broken up already and or have their last day today, so if you are planning to travel over the next couple of days, it is going to be busier than usual. so, if you have a flight booked or you're heading to the airport, all the major airports and airlines say they are preparing for the big getaway. edinburgh, glasgow, liverpool, newcastle and southampton will all experience their busiest days either today, saturday or sunday, so leave extra time to check in. easyjet and thomas cook say today is going to be their busiest day. but watch out for strike action, too. that could hinder some plans, however early you get to the airport. workers at heathrow and gatwick as well as ba and easyjet staff in stansted are all threatening to walk out in various disputes. the companies say they have plans in place. nonetheless, on what will be the busiest weekend of the year, it will not be very helpful, frankly. how about those staying in the uk? currency exchange is not g

all of our concrete such as sidewalks, gutters, have been inspected and all the roads are in good condition. you can travel upon all of them. >> the governor said president trump is committed to helping the region recover and says california will get the help that's needed. across california, people are pulling together to help those quake victims, strangers are doing what they can to help businesses affected by the big quakes. >> reporter: driving through the southern california desert, met by cracks on highway 178. the road that lips to two towns rocked by earthquakes now separated by this split, inches deep. usgs set up equipment, monitoring for earthquake activity. >> looks like there was a crack in the road. >> reporter: also assessing the damage, an engineer from a company founded in sacramento. >> this is interesting, the roads shifted in two directions. see this line? it doesn't align with this line anymore. >> reporter: this team is helping infrastructure safer for the future. >> it looks like on either side checking out the strength of roads and buildings at the middle school, fal

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