We will go to yemen to speak with save the children. Plus, we will go to the streets of new york where thousands took part in sundays puerto rican day parade on the same day puerto rico held a controversial referendum on statehood. Theyre are being deeply impacted by migration, congressional inaction, and deathsally by all of the. Lester, half a Million People migrated inland. Grading infrastructure. Amy and looking at to Real Estate Investors advising President Trumps residence described them as slumlords. Two new exposes show how trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner and his close friend thomas barrack have profited mightily off the backs of lowincome renters. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In yemen, a civilian is dying nearly every hour from an cholera outbreak, as the ongoing u. S. Backed saudiled Bombing Campaign and naval blockade has devastated yemens health, sanitation, and water systems. The World
And 90s. A lot of people dont have air conditioning around the peninsula. We have overcast skies towards the bay bridge. Its a thin overcast due to the marine layer. Temperatures 54 San Francisco and santa rosa to now 61 degrees in redwood city. Much cooler this morning. Even livermore, boy, it felt refreshing last night. 60 degrees. High temperatures today from 71 pacifica to 104 concord, 105 brentwood. Full forecast is coming up. A backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. No reports of any accidents. The metering lights arent on yet but looks like the backup is in the cash lanes. So get a fastrak to get through quicker. Other than that quiet except for usual slowdowns out of tracy into livermore, westbound 580. Heres a live look at 580. Those headlights moving westbound approaching 680 from 205 towards the dublin pleasanton interchange. Just under 25 minutes. All your diamonds rubies for your wednesday morning commute. Back to you guys. Uber founder Travis Kalanick is resigning as ceo. A
Reports that the suspect was wearing a backpack as well as an explosive belt and shouted and arabic quote, god is great. Todays incident continuing extremist attacks in the european capital, be sure to stay with us for updates. Now to the weather and there has been a bit of a cooldown but inland temperatures are only seeing a few degrees of relief and it is not going to last long. Lets go to mary for the latest on the hot weather. Temperatures are going to turn around and head on back upwards. Lets take a look at your numbers. We have 61 degrees at Half Moon Bay. 64 at San Francisco. Inside the bay, 76. 76 in hayward and 94 degrees this afternoon and 99 in concord. Some of the hotter spots, to the north bay, 93 degrees. San francisco, a cool 64. We will go to the east bay where some of the hotter numbers are. 92 for pittsburgh. 91 in danville and 97. Heres a look at our temperature changes. We dropped off yesterday and did some more today. 10 degrees cooler than we were at this time ye
Power to all of the areas that were hit during the heat wave. The outages have affected thousands of homes and businesses but at this hour, pg e says only 2500 customers are without power and most of those are in the east bay. In the south bay, close to 200 have no power. Two customers have no power on the peninsula and in the north bay, 101 customers have no power. Pg e issued a flex alert today. Conserving power during peak demand. Tom joins us from the newsroom with more on what you can do to help prevent widespread Power Outages. We could have widespread Power Outages if people dont Pay Attention and one wildcard that we will talk about in a second but if youre looking for a place to be the heat, there is just nowhere to do that. I can tell you this, when i call a flex alert, they really do work. Reporter the operators have called another flex alert and it is a voluntary request that asks customers to postpone using major appliances between 2 00 and 9 pm. To set the recognition is
The conditions. But jana katsuyama, its been causing power problems. Reporter downtown, its only 70 degrees, a little of a relief from earlier in the day. The fountains are off, but they got a lot of use today. As some people tried to get out of their house to conserve energy, other people and businesses here downtown lost power completely. At livermores public fountains, families look for some relief from the triple digit heat. Chance and veronica brought their toddler and 8 week old baby, trying to comply with the alert, asking for consumers to reduce power use. Its rough with a 2month old, and 2yearold. Trying not to run the washing machine, the dryer. Reporter the California Independent system operator, issued the flex alert, asking people to conserve during the peak demand time between 2 00 p. M. And 9 00 p. M. Theyre trying to pull a lath more power to tran mission lines, and sometimes we get get anymore through the transmission lines. Reporter californias power grid has added 20