A major announcement in the entertainment industry. The future of friends and netflix and why seeing your favorite shows may soon get harder and more expensive. And plastic shaming. A creative and embarrassing way to get people to stop using plastic bag, but does it go too far . Good wednesday morning. Thanks for joining us. We begin with a growing political fallout from the arrest of financial mogul Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges. Labor secretary Alexander Acosta is facing new calls to resign over his role in a 2008 plea deal that allowed him to avoid federal prosecution for allegedly molesting teen girls. President trump is expressing sympathy for acosta but now is distancing himself from epstein, a man he once called a terrific guy. Trevor ault has the new details from washington. Reporter yeah, so the source goes back 11 years when Jeffrey Epstein struck a deal to serve less than two years in prison and avoid a possible life sentence in an investigation involving 40 tee
At the bay bridge at 6 00 at the toll plaza. Taking a live look at, you see it is not as bad as it would be. The backup doesnt go to the a 80 flyover. Want to get to the toll plaza, you do not have to be patient. Once you get right you are smooth sailing into the city. Clearly a friday. The san mateo bridge is not nearly as busy as it is this time of day. No brake lights. Just a little bit of company on the restaurant commute direction. The eastbound started to pick up and you have plenty of lanes open on the bridge for the Richmond San Rafael bridge and started to back up a little bit. They have no lane closures the part of emergency construction. Those guys must have taken friday off. In the meantime once you get to the toll plaza you are good to go and even sell north or south 10 unclear at this hour. A little clear early for the commute to sort out her taking a look at the main travel times. Only the Altamont Pass in the yellow. It 35 minute ride. Usually you are in the right at th
About the weather. What we want to show you is this beautiful shot. Look at that. Thats a gorgeous sunrise. When i see that, i want to take a nap. I just want to lay in the fog. I always just want to take a nap. What a way to wake up here in the bay area. Its a beautiful shot. Most people in San Francisco are not seeing that. This is what they are seeing right now, actually. They are seeing me, and they are seeing a lot of fog right now and low visibility. Thats what would be the Golden Gate Bridge but you cant see any of that right now. We head inland to all clear skies, walnut creek with a clear start this morning and its going to be from the low 60s this morning go from the low 60s this morning to the low 80s by early afternoon. Well talk about what is ahead in the forecast. We talked about the pattern about 5 30 and 5 40, we see the break like right now. We see the camera there, and the sensors are clearing but we will see more of a build. No problem in trivalley. Concord, a little
Now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. You use it loudly. How difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away . Now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. However, my father is a professor of history. So from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. So, yes. And you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff youve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. And then the boys said, thank you, god, for not making me a woman. Yes, and the girls say, thank you, god, for making me according to your will. Yes, its, in some ways, quite a misogynist religion. I think that is a very misogynist type of prayer. I think i became increasingly. Well, i certainly increasingly had the feeling that it wa
Naomi alderman, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. I want to start at the beginning. You were raised in a very traditional, observant orthodoxJewish Community in north london where, i think its fair to say, women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. Now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. You use it loudly. How difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away . Now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. However, my father is a professor of history. So from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. So, yes. And you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff youve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. And then the boys said, thank you, god, for no