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Napa, about 42 degrees. Look at your temperature trend for the next couple of hours, well get a mix of sun and clouds, a little cloudy around the coastline and breezy. What im monitor something a High Surf Advisory. Ill have a closer look at that and how that may affect you if youre headed out to the beach. Ill send things over to mike. Rain for those of you listening, cold. The rest of the bay is moving nicely, a smooth drive and no problems in the trivalley we have one crash, got my eyes on th...

Impeachment efforts as the white house walks back a stunning admission, aid from ukraine withheld for political reasons. A live report from capitol hill just moments away. Plus when i say union you say power. Union power union power it is day ten of the Santa Clara County workers strike but there is a deal on the table. Coming up in a live report, whats next. Plus the weekend is just around the corner and if youre headed to the beach, beware. High surf warning is in effect right now. When the wa...

We investigate the incident of force. On edge every time this year we begin with a fire in the north bay where crews are battling a fire. The wragg canyon fire burned 60 acres near berryess canyon. This fire is 60 contained at this hour. Cheryl hurd joins us from napa county. This could be the delayed start of the fire season. Reporter yeah, thats right. We areiv atiles up that hill. As you said, the fire is about 60 contad news for everybody. The road closure will be here at least until morning...

Robert mueller repeated his assertion from the morning hearing that russia stood to benefit the most with donald trump in the oval office. Direct dur the instructor, who did the russian social Media Campaign ultimate intent to benefit . Hillary clinton or donald trump . Donald trump reporter afterwards, the president reacted. This was a bad day for the democrats so Robert Mueller did a poor job. Reporter robin miller did tell lawmakers he wanted make a correction to something he said this mornin...

The president was not impressed by muellers appearance. The president called it a great day for republicans. Muellers testimony was mostly dry and dispassionate during more than six hours of questioning. As promised, he stayed close to the statements in his written report, and he distanced himself from topics of president ial crimes and impeachment, leaving that to congress. I think looking at this there was political grandstanding, followed by short oneword answers from mueller. Clearly one of ...

Somewhat unexpected delay, coming in from el sobrante, in to richmond and san pablo. Going to be narrowed down to one lane as they do this. And hopefully it wont take too long. But look at this backup we already have here early in the morning. For this roadwork. That would be in the westbound direction. People will be in stopandgo traffic. That is the worst, isnt it . Sometimes youre stuck in 3 00 stopandgo traffic. Are you kidding me . Before perhaps, saying some words that you probably wouldnt...

Specifically cited by name. But news out lets indicate facebook, google, apple and amazon are the companies being investigated. We spoke with a Digital Privacy rights think tank who believes that under the current model the cycle of competition has broken down. It used to be companies could be supplanted or weakened by upstarts, but now with the same names operating in the same spaces gathering mass apartments amounts of your dada. It keeps their dominance sticky. Its something thats really hard...

It took six years to see an independent police auditor report on the incident where a team of Palo Alto police officers came to the home of Gustavo Alvarez --...

Watchdogs have characterized binding arbitration as a barrier to police accountability. So in 2021, when Palo Alto polices top brass had to fire one of their own, they faced a steep hurdle: convincing an arbitrator to allow the move.

It took the Palo Alto Police Department more than a year for its internal investigation into a violent 2018 arrest by one of its officers to really take off. By that time, news of the highly questionable conduct was spreading fast.