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
Problem clarks burk southbound 270 after 121 clarksburg road crash on the right shoulder. We do have that crash but not t. Eing much of a delay eastbound 66 Fairfax County parkway, disabled vehicle has cleared out of the way. Everything is nice and open. Inner loop, outer loop of the beltway, dont have any complaints on the beltway. No road work either. Those eastbound lanes clo d another water main break in arlington, northeney betwe north quinn and north oak street. Eun . Thank you. Ne its 5 01, a controversial arrest has turd into charges for a montunmery coty Police Officer. The announcement was made on tuesday. Now people in the county want more accountability from police. News 4 justin finch is li at Police Headquarters in gaithersburg now with more on this story. Justin, good morning. Reporter aaron, eun, good r mong. Those charges came down yesterday, Second Degree assault and misconduct in office for officers kevin morris. He he is t officer seen in that video that first appea
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Yesterday afternoon. Its not somethinjuly. We got the tail end. The low 60s. Fog reported. Santa rosa, vellejo fog. 63 union city. Its warmer. A little bit of a breeze, overall looking for a mostly sunny day and temperatures continue to bump up a little bit inland in mid80s, 60s and 70s by the water. We a off to a decent start, steve. Lets go to the traffic. 80 westbound, looking pretty good. Vellejo, fairfield, looking pretty good, driving in, no major issues, driving to the bridge. Traffic is looking very nice. Taking 15 minutes, a little more than that to drive from the car keys in bridge to the maize. A line in the cash lanes but nothing major, once you get to the bridge its a nice drive in to San Franciscoch police are investigating a deadly shooting in the bay view district. Two people were shot on jennings street, one pen died and the other injured. That person was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition. So far, police do not have anyone in custody. We do have a news
101. So at 7 00, 57 to 34i6. Milder temperatures that will spring board us to 71 to 75 more brighter skies by noon except for the coast where we stay in the low to mid60s. A warmer afternoon seeing us push into the mid70s to low 80 frs the bay and inland neighborhoods but a comfortable evening on the way in the 70s. Got a little bit of a heat wave this weekend. Well talk about that coming up next. First over to alexis. Good morning, mike. Were looking at bay bridge toll plaza slowly starting to fill in. So that is the norm. Well see if the metering lights flip on early but most likely making it to 5 20 and the car pool is open and cash lanes not too bad, better than the last couple of days. So maybe they have a few more cash booths open. Drive times lookin good, southbound 101 santa rosa to petaluma 13 minutes and from Castro Valley to the maze and northbound 101 through downtown san jose, 280, 680 split to highway 85 in the green at about 11 minutes. Might have a new problem in richmo