A lot of clouds but well see that clearing out for some sunshine and it stays hot in the trivalley today reaching sbhoo the low 90s. While San Francisco will see a high of 66 degrees. Well talk about this temperature spread coming up. Heading over to mike, more slowing on the drive through fremont. When i was younger we had to remind him to put his pants on. He forgot something. Smooth drive. Nothing memorable about this commute. Standard flow of traffic. We do see more traffic flowing. Past sunol boulevard and fremont. Same direction off the Castro Valley y slowing past a street and industrial. Now the build toward the dumbarton bridge. Westbound directions build a bit. Looking at the bay bridge toll plaza. Big westbound commute in oakland. The span itself moves smoothly. Even the fastrak lanes are moving well. Well track that build. Mike, thank you. We go back to our north and update to the clayton fire that continues to burn out of control in lake county. This morning a major twist
Well. The approach no problems toward the bay bridge plaza. We take a look at the toll plaza and live camera from emoriville shows you the back up because the meetering lights. We have a more serious and more recent development. Look at this. This is a clayton fire. Its an update to breaking news weve been tracking all morning. Well continue to track for some time. In is the clayton fire completely burning out of control to the north in lake county. Here is the latest numbers we received overnight. At least 10 homes and businesses are completely destroyed. More than 3,000 acres have burned. And that number is actually expected to jump drastically. Some 6,000 people have been evacuated so far. Those numbers could go up as well. And actually strike teams from the bay area are there on the front lines. We have multiple reports this morning. Kari hall joins us in one minute with how the winds can impact this fire. Lets begin with pete. Live here in the near the fire lines. How is it lookin
An enormous step forward. Now, the agency has been in existence for only four and a half years, but has already done some important things. Its taken some enforce actions, its done policy work to protect those people who are not entitled or not eligible for anything other than subprime loans to protect them in the market. It has proposed some, some curtailment of the right to mandatory arbitration. But thats just the first step. That agency is under assault constantly in congress. I talked to my friend rich, he stopped counted the number of times hes been hauled up to the hill to testify. It was, i think, 50 at last count. Hes not only been there for a few years. We need more legislation, and in order oo eer to do that, we ne organize. We need to personalize these stories, and we need to look at the level of powers that are available to us and try to exercise power. So let me talk about a few things. One is if you look at mandatory arbitration, congress understands how powerful a force
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Tens of thousands protest in brazil over claims of government corruption. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im richelle carey. Accusations are flying right now on capitol hill. Theyre trading blame on over contamination in the citys water supply. Several house members accused rick snyder of knowing about the crisis months before he did anything about it. Governor snyder said hes done everything he can to address the problem. Let me be blunt. This was a failure of government at all levels, local, state and federal officials. We all failed the families of flint. This isnt about politics nor partisanship. Im not going to point fingers or shift blame. Theres plenty of that to share, and neither will help the people of flint. Not a day or night goes by that this tragedy doesnt weigh on my mind. The questions i should have asked. The answers i should have demanded. How i could have prevented this. The ranking democrat on the committee, elijah cummings, wants snyder to step