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A reputation for being overly obsessed with westminster, not surprising when that is where the houses of parliament our company can lead to those outside london to feel their being ignored. That might well have been the thinking behind the recent appointment of alex forsyth to the new role of Political Correspondent based outside of london. Her time going around the country, talking to members of the conservative party about who should be its next leader. Here she is in a report showing last mon...

thats it. >> new ball. >> shots are 2-2. >> got by him. >> comes back with it! >> you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while youre playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razors edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my bodys floating within myself. >> the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and fort. in all white country clubs...

Airport in honolulu and chartered a plane to maui. He made it through tsa with a fake id be a chose san jose because it was the cheapest ticket in to california. He landed sunday night and took a cab to a motel. I couldnt believe i actually made it. It was surreal. Reporter saito spent time looking to buy a car in san jose. But unable to do that he took another cab to stockton, an area hes familiar with after spending three years in nearby lodi with his family when he was a teenager. After spend...

Tahoe. Dry afternoon. 60s on the high side today. Sal, what do you have . Anything good . We have some slow traffic, steve, definitely. We are going to start off with the bay bridge toll plaza and show you the traffic is going to be busy if youre driving through on westbound bay bridge, which is typical, of course, no major issues here, traffic continues to be okay. If you are driving on interstate 880, the traffic is moving along, also going to be okay here. When you get to the toll plaza, you ...

Much live from berkeley. We brought you an update from the usgs in menlo park and they said there has been one aftershock reported after the 4. 4 hit this morning. The geologist said the earthquake was relatively small but many people do not describe it as such. He said this could be a force shock of a larger earthquake and that is something agencies are on alert for in the coming days. More information coming throughout the morning. The impact on transit was minimal. Bart says there is no damag...

1 2 inch around oakland and alameda. Sausalito with. 82 inches, from marin county to the north there are some great totals. Some up in Mendocino County and russian river, granville two inches. Santa rosa at 1. 09 inches, glen ellen. 83. North never had more that is for sure. Piedmont. 41 and pacifica. 28 but for some it took a while for the system to arrive. To the north things look to be done. There is not a lot left for parts of the north bay. Hercules and richmond out to vallejo still a littl...

The commute is getter busier, steve. As you know, this is one of the peak hours of the commute. 22 minutes between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze doesnt seem like a long time. It is a little on the light side. By this time we have 35 to 40 minute delay. That is good as you drive in. At the bay bridge we had a crash westbound right near the gore point of the hov lanes. That is clear. One vehicle is still out there but traffic is moving by. It has improved. This is a look at interstat...

Was the only president to be inaugurated in the city of houston, which he hated for the name alone. Sam houston was the only president to be inaugurated in austin, a city he fought against. Only political rivals, but personal enemies who hated each other. Between the first rumblings of independence in 1835 and the spring of 1837, the seats of government of the republic of texas shifted several times. They started incidentally be with a convention in 1835. In 1830 six they signed the declaration ...

Boy found dead in a courtyard, neighbors stunned. Sends a chill up my spine, thats awful. Police say it happened around 4 a. M. , the infant who lived with his family on the fourth floor of the building, here shaken. This woman says her friend told her someone in the building called 911 when she saw what listen. She was the one who called the cops and the cops asked her to do cpr and she said there was too much blood, she said i cant. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the de...

Production the state department of transportation and Port Authority as well as new jersey senators corey booker and bob mendez. They are talking about new Jersey Transit trains and how to fix them. In order to make this happen we are going to need everybody. New york, new jersey, the Port Authority, the federal government, new Jersey Transit. Because thousands heading into and out of new york city have been dealing with two hour delays and cancellations. Every day if its a drop of rain its a de...