Hill and meeting with both republicans and democrats to talk about trade and tpa. We do need strong support from the white house and the president , ask as i said in my opening statement, we need to be really all hands on deck. What is the administration doing to build congressional support . Well, we have a wholeofgovernment approach to this. As you know, the president talked about this in the state of the union. The Vice President has talked about it, they have met with members of the Democratic Party as well as with the Republican Leadership on this issue. Weve had the chief of staff of the president up here talking about it as well as the secretary of treasury, secretary of commerce, secretary of agriculture, secretary of state, secretary of defense has been writing op eds on the importance of our rebalancing towards asia including tpp as a critical component of that. So we work with all of our interagency partners at the cabinet and White House Level on down to build support up he
Calcutta green thank male announcer live from the bay areas news station, this is the kron 4 morning news. Kron 4 news at 7 00 a. M. Starts now. Bay Area Temperatures on the cold side once again at or below freezing in some spots. Will it right to that forecast. Good morning erica. It is clear now. Allaire was the increase in clouds cover. Partly cloudy conditions mostly sunshine into the afternoon with temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. And take a look at your numbers 27 currently in fairfield in vallejo. 29 and napa. Look at the numbers ofand wear their expect to go of my next report. We are tracking call conditions we continue our Team Coverage by talking to kron 4 solo reporter mike pelton who joins us from livermore. I see that you have 27 degrees. That is cold light. Yes anny it is a very cold morning in livermore. And did your has gone down to 26 degrees. That is the cold as i have seen it this morning. Test the temperaturehas gone down to 26 degrees. I spoke with some people
Afternoon clouds, a lot of 60s or very low 70s, here is sal. Good morning, we are looking at a drive that still looks good all over the place as we look at the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic continues to look good and the drive is about 8 minutes. Also the morning drive here in oakland is moving along very nicely driving passed the coliseum, from the coliseum to downtown oakland will take about 5 minutes and if you are there any time soon, it should be a very nice drive all the way up to cupertino, it is less than 10 minutes, 431, lets go back to the desk. We are now hearing from the mother of the girl hit and killed by an amtrak train and live on the details just before she was hit. Tara . Reporter the teen edger just apparently teenager apparently had a fight with a Family Member and was talking on the cell phone when she was hit and killed. Her family said she was a straighta student getting ready to graduate and had just been accepted to column. She was walking along the train trac
Promises to be like no other Political Convention in American History with most events taking place virtually including joe bidens acceptance speech. Good morning and happy monday. Im sandra smith. Trace im trace gallagher. Tonight Convention Speakers include Michelle Obama and former 2020 candidate senator Bernie Sanders. Tomorrow bill clinton speaks. Wednesday bidens vp selection senator Kamala Harris and former president obama before joe bidens acceptance speech the following night. No public appearances over the weekend and have yet to take many questions from the press. A short time ago President Trump accused the media of not Holding Biden accountable. President trump somebody like biden, he doesnt know what to do. He doesnt come out because he cant. He doesnt take any questions from reporters. I keep saying to my people here i am getting bombs thrown at me every day by people totally frankly dishonest reporters but im getting theyre espousing the view of the radical left. Bombs
Spending. In the end, this congressional ethics investigation into reports he used taxpayer money to fund lavish trips, redecoration of his office, et cetera cetera has proven too much for him to withstand. Want to bring in our cnn senior washington correspondent and also our Senior Investigative correspondent, drew griffin, by phone, who recently profiled this congressman. Jeff let me go to you first. Well talk about how he was this rising young star in the Republican Party. But first, hes just released a statement. Hes announced a resignation date. What did the statement say . Thats right, brooke. This is really coming as a shock to all republicans on capitol hill. Even republicans in speaker boehners office and other leadership offices were not made aware of this. In this Statement Released a few moments ago, he says hes doing this with a heavy heart. But the constant questions over the last six weeks have proven a great distraction that has made it too difficult for me to serve the