competition web users on the continent will therefore welcome the news that french satellite specialist tolleson many a space is about to launch a new satellite it will help deliver that data needs. space the final frontier for africa's broadband dreams this 3 and a half term spacecraft will provide low cost high speed internet to most of africa as well as southern europe. promises that data package rates will be affordable on african average incomes. we know that on african territory obviously there's no technology that gives access to broadband internet to individuals companies and administrations and therefore in terms of economic development this is something that will be very important for africa to get physical the. internet access to still not affordable in most african countries the average price of $1.00 gigabyte of data in africa is over 7 percent of a monthly wage much higher than the global affordability benchmark of 2 percent the satellite is big and powerful enough to make broadband rates competitive we don't sell nuclear only it allows us to offer broadband real broadband competit

we're now joined on the phone by shasta tolleson with the highway patrol in the central valley in fresno shasta what's your advice right now, i know you cover a lot of territory people are heading up towards yosemite up the sierra the central sierra. >>and a lot of people going on i 5 toward la what's your recommendation right now. >>and good afternoon. right now we are getting a little bit of rain that through that murder desso area. it is that traveling to the south at this anybody traveling to those higher elevations up toward the east the park or to the fear that couple of our passes are closed as the past in our past are currently closed if you're headed up toward shaver lake on the one 68. we do have chain control in effect. >>so your key trouble spots you kind of just listen what are you anticipating though as more and more people begin to travel into tomorrow. >>we did do have that storm that is coming in and with the ax the club on the roadway. they were going to have tremendous slow down, i'm not only because of the weather but that but also with all that extra to travel. but j