Well look at whats ahead for the a deadly crash. I adeadly crash on the east shore freeway. Im showing you the bay bridge toll plaza because our camera sees the area around powell. We cant make out any problems. Were swinging our camera around the emeryville side east shore freeway, see what we can see. Im told all lanes of westbound 80 at powell are blocked, the same direction as yesterdays problem way up here in san pablo. San pablo is clear but powell coming through berkeley and emeryville, word is they just closed the lanes for a deadly crash on the east shore freeway approaching the bay bridge. Well track that. Traffic is light but a closure of that freeway will be a major problem again today. Well bring you more detail coming up. Backewsight now in the south bay where one woman has died in a mobile home fire. It started a little before midnight at a Mobile Home Park in san jose on el bosk drive south of highway 237 close to the al viso salt pond. Firefighters confirm one death. N
Today. We begin with a live look at the chase center. Good evening. I am veronica. The San Francisco symphony and metallica are ready to go. Fans are lining up. There is a new stateoftheart sound system. We are there live right now. Reporter i can tell you that fans are ready to rock at the first ever concert. As you can tell behind me, they are getting ready to go inside the arena to see metallica with the San Francisco symphony. They have come from all across the country and around the world for this event. The box Office Opened at noon today and fans started to gather around chase center for hours just taking all of this and. This will be a night of firsts even for the band, drummer and cofounder lars all right told me they did a sound check about four hours ago and they have been rehearsing. So they will feel the full force of stateoftheart acoustics in chase center when all these fans, 18,000 of them, get inside. This is the 20th anniversary of metallicas collaboration with the Sa
Government officials testified about the infrastructure needs at recent senate hearing. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Today we are holding a hearing to highlight the importance of passing a new Water Resource Development act or werda during the 1 is 5th congress. It authorizes funding for the army corps of engineers Water Works Program which need past wedder today provisions. Prior congresses have too additionally passed werda on biannual basis going back to 1986. Unlike other contentious issues, historically, republican and democratic members of this Senate Environmental Public Works Committee, have been able to pass werda legislation. This is legislation that moves. Regardless of Party Affiliation we understand these kinds of investment are par too important to the community to fall to partisan politics. This represents a did i veers group of communities with different needs. Our committee has members that represent baltimore, maryland, anchorage, alaska. Wyoming and wi
Literary and historical sites across the nation. Civicrom authors and leaders every other weekend on cspan3 and American History tv. See the city tours on cspan each day at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Welcome to galveston, texas, on American History tv. Located 60 miles from houston, the city sits on a Barrier Island facing the gulf of mexico. Established in 1825 by the congress of mexico, while land still known as texas land now known as texas still belongs to that country. Coming up, visit the Rosenberg Library museum, the repository for much of galvestons historical heritage. We are the keeper of the history here. Later, step aboard a 19thcentury ship that once delivered goods to the city. She sailed and arrived here probably about 100 yards from where we are standing right now with a cargo full of bananas. We begin in the surrounding waters. The port is a major reason the plays asts today, and dominant role in its economy. The first land grant for toveston came in the 1830s a guy named Mic
Included in apac. The president announced new plans to extend visas for tourists. But when the president hosted the leaders of 11 pacific countries later in the day, he didnt invite his chinese counterpart. Because president obama was lobbying hard for a Transpacific Partnership which would create the largest trading block in the world. It would remove trade barriers between these countries that have borders on the pacific. But china has been left out of these talks. Indeed its aggressively pursuing trade deals of its own. It signed a trade back with south korea and a second big gas deal with russia. China is asserting its political and military muscle too, reopening disputes with allies of the u. S. Including japan. But china is reviving a 2,000 year old idea. In history the silk road long connected china with markets in the middle east, and then out to europe. It was a true global artery for commerce. It fuelled an exchange of ideas and technologyings between the east and the west. T