Today he would wont break any records. So theres that. Temperatures are a couple of degrees cooler than yesterday. So heres a look at what you can expect. About 15 degrees above average is what were going to experience. That hot, dry air is back all because of those offshore winds. So we really need the onshore winds to return. Heres our satelliteradar showing you the Clear Conditions barely any cloud coverage out there, just way off in the water. Thats all the clouds that are being allowed to come on in. Temperaturewise, here we are in the mid to upper 50s for livermore, concord at the moment, San Francisco 64 degrees. So its a nice morning. Well tell you how hot it will be coming up. We are tracking an accident involving a couple of vehicles definitely slowing things down for drivers heading along the eastshore freeway. This is westbound 80 near san pablo avenue and it has at least one lane blocked possibly two. Traffic backing up towards highway 4. So its about a little over 20 minu
U. S. From eight countries. Abcs david kerley starts us off from Dulles Airport with all those details. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, robin. This ban went into effect just a couple of hours ago. Specific airlines, specific airports, told that Electronic Devices bigger than a phone like this will not be allowed in cabins on direct flights into the u. S. This morning u. S. Officials taking the extraordinary step of banning electronics bigger than cell phones from the cabins of jetliners flying in from 8 middle eastern countries, including several allies, each of saudi arabia, the gulf states, all in an attempt to prevent this, a laptop smugg onto a smol yee jetliner detonating after takeoff. The ban prevents laptops, tablets, cameras and dvd players. It does not include phones or medical devices. What theyre trying to do here is take an extra step to take anything that could be packed with explosives out of the cabin and prevent some sort of a device being manually detonate
Falling for most of the evening. Were seeing heavy rain developing in some spots. Street level we go, right over San Francisco at this hour. Those yellows, oranges and even reds you see on your screen from the richmond district, sunset San Francisco, the marina, north beach, that is falling at half an inch an hour. This cell is moving off to the north and east. So well time it out for you. Approaching emeryville around 9 14. Rind, 9 18. Vallejo, 9 39 p. M. Were tracking scattered downpours as well as a chance of thunder and a wet Tuesday Morning commute. A stronger storm is on the horizon and the full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Ama . You can track the rain on our abc 7 news app. Be sure to enable push alerts. A wild sideshow on the bay bridge last night. These dirt bike riders may have thought they got away, but the california Highway Patrol caught up with them in the end. They used a high tech, new airplane that was watching them the whole time. Its better than giving chas
School Reform Commission will exercise the powers given to us by state law to cancel the labor contract between the School District and the Philadelphia Federation of teachers. Reporter that was the announcement that happened shortly after 9 30 this morning. The src convened a meeting saying after 21 months of negotiations with the pft, those negotiations have moved, in their words, the wrong direction. Superintendent dr. William hite says its time for teachers to share in the sacrifices. So here is what happened. A board voted unanimously to cancel the pft contract, and what that means is that teachers will have to put up their own money for benefits. Salaries have not changed, and the src says this action will d redirect 48. 3 million to district schools and save 100 million over the next four hours. The School District is facing a 71 million deficit for the next school year and both the chair and superintendent contend this will help. I asked chairman bill green why this happened no
After the president of the United States has already committed to action, the consequences would be catastrophic in that the credibility of this country with friends and enemy and adversaries alike would be shredded, and it would be not only implications for this presidency but for future presidencies as well. The president really has no one to blame in many ways but himself about the lack of public understanding of whats at stake in syria. We talk about the past, present and future. Two years ago when an opportunity to get assad out when there were dozens of al qaeda only in syria. Now theres thousands. A year from now there will be tens of thousands. Two years ago there were not 600,000 refugees in jordan compromising the kingdom of jordan. Time is not on our side, so we urge the president to up his game. Well, president obama made it clear that the u. S. Should take military action against syria, Many Americans disagree. A recent nbc poll asked americans whether the United States sh