Current news from northeast syria. We have great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollack, dana stroul and were also pleased to welcome back in the eye senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program bilal saab after a oneyear fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of the six experts is eric schmitt. Eric is a writer covering terrorism and National Security for the new york times. Since 2007 he has reported on terrorism issues with assignments to pakistan, afghanistan, north africa, southeast asia, among others. He is a coauthor of counterstrike, the untold story of americas secret campaign against alqaeda. Published in 2011. Before joining the times, eric was an education reporter at the tricity herald i
Offering a civic plan. The president also on a trip to california saying the people of San Francisco are fed up. Reporter there was a lot of controversy here today, President Donald Trump has been about San Francisco multiple times for the problem around homelessness and housing, certainly people here in San Francisco including the mayor agreed that it a big problem and the Trump Administration published a report yesterday stating that california has some of the biggest problems with housing in San Francisco, los angeles, san diego and more than any other places in the country. The difficulty is what to do about it and that is where there was a lack of agreement. President donald trump did mention that he wants to do something, the mayor asked the secretary for a meeting today and he declined. Reporter the u. S. Housing and urban Development Secretary toward the new 72 unit Apartment Building on connecticut street in San Francisco. He provided video of meeting with residents from the s
Downtown oakland about 8 00 you can see a lot of people with umbrellas. There is a matinee at the coliseum today. Playing a getaway game here. A little rain for that . I think it will be done. Bad hair day weather. Thats what we have very light rain moving through and there is not a lot to this system but it is holding together. On the peninsula light rain hitting highway 92 right now and slowly moving south. You can see through the county picking up some intensity there off of San Francisco. The san mateo coast. We are not done yet. The system continues to work its way south and holding together. There wasnt a lot of rain with this motive is that Mendocino County but sausalito picked up 13 100. Point raised. 4. Napa valley a bunch of. 2. Most of that has gone through to the north. There is a line stretching across san pablo bay. 80. Hercules, rodeo, vallejo, american canyon. There is still a little bit and thats another low dropping in at the september pattern saying ralph. Ralph. Mil
To that story in just a minute, but first the latest battle between the Trump Administration and california. The Trump Administration carried out its promised today to revoke californias authority to set admission standards higher than federal levels. In a series of tweets President Trumps that his action would create jobs, as he predicted americans would buy more cars. He said the new cars will make the air cleaner by taking older models off the roads. However the epas own estimates dispute that claim. Californias governor and attorney general say they will fight the row back in court. We cannot afford to backslide in our battle against climate change. For us, this is about survival. Our communities are screaming for help to address the climate crisis. Governor newsom said the administrations move is intended to benefit oil companies, he said many automakers are on board with the lower emissions and higher mileage requirements under a deal made back in july. To make a San Francisco wo
I saw a man on the floor, just on the floor. Lycie the man she had is in serious condition and lives nearby, the officer, her dog and two other drivers escaped major injury. Chp came in to investigate to avoid any conflict of interest. Our police are always very cautious and highly respected. So to see an accident like this is kind of shocking. The chp Major Accident Investigation Team spent the day diagramming the scene. At the time of the crash that road was sick from morning just goes to show that writing in these riding in these conditions is really dangerous. The names of the officer and everyone else involved have not yet been released. Henry, thank you. For the second day in a week it was a wet commute for many parts of the bay area this morning. This is what it looked like in downtown oakland. People use whatever they could, a rain jacket or umbrella, to stay dry. Lets talk about the weather, how much rain did we actually get built . To make it rained in oakland, about 2 10 of