To be saved by the marine layer, well have unhealthy air today, tomorrow and more likely saturday. Ill explain coming up. Disappointing but learning to live with it. And still so much buzz about that orange sky that we saw yesterday. You see the bay bridge there and there is coy tower. And Amy Hollyfield is live in the east wibay with reaction. Reporter and were watching the skies this morning. No sign yet that it will be the orange darkness that we saw yesterday. We also arent seeing falling ash yet this morning. Well keep you posted on how it looks as the sun comes up. Yesterday was definitely one for the record books. And people repg rcognized that,y people taking pictures of the orange die. And also people were out on walks or fishing saying that they were trying to add some bit of normalcy to the strange day. Others the darkness threw them off. I was pretty disor yefbtsed. I missed an appointmentment. Almost never do that. Yeah, it was bewildering. Yeah, it is just everything. Jus
Talks about the Motion Picture industry and the codes that sought to tamp down on sexuality in films. He addresses the scopes trial in which a Tennessee High School teacher faces charges of unlawfully teaches evolution in a statefunded school. Now in my last lecture and in our debate on monday, which i think went pretty well, you might have been left with a question in your minds, what was the legacy of world war i for American Society . Now the politics of the United States definitely veered to the right during the 1920s. Republican president s fairly conservative ones were elected by land slides in 1920, 1924, 1928. Congress was under control of the republicans throughout the 1920s. With support of congress, republican president s signed bills which rolled back the income tax increases passed during world war i. Leading social movements on the left, labor unions and socialist party both lost members during the war. The socialist party was never a factor in american politics again aft
[gavel]. Chair peskin good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, august 25, 2020. We have a new clerk today, miss brittany milton, who comes to us from the contracting industry, and we are delighted that she is on board, and someday, well work with her in the board of supervisors chambers. With that, ms. Milton, welcome, and if that, could you please call the roll. Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk we have quorum. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milton. Do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for any item on this agenda by call 8882045987, and entering access code on the screen. Once told, you will be invited to join the meeting as a participant. When prompted, dial star, three to speak. You will be prompted by the system when it is your turn to speak. Please anow for audio alf delays and a 30second lag time during the course of this meeting. That completes my announcement. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milt
Lets switch to the county were evacuation orders remain in place for residents along Morgan Territory and marsh creek road this is near brentwood and the blaze is believed to have been sparked by lightning on sunday. More than 1100 acres have been burned. And Governor Newsom is demanding an investigation after rolling Power Outages around the state. Californias electric grid operator says more than 3 million homes could lose power tonight. I spoke to the professor of economics on the shutoffs and what can be done in order to prevent this from happening again. The big issue right now is the demand side of the market. What is happening right now with demand in the rolling blackouts as it stands in the bay area and statewide . One of the ways to keep the lights on is to make demand equal supply and in california we have the ability to do that technologically, but we dont have the political will to do that. And what do i mean by that . We record your consumption at your house in Southern C
More than 1700 acres so far. Evacuations currently are in place for both of those blazes lets check in right now with meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez who is standing by with the very latest conditions that is helping to fuel those flames but not helping fire crews in any way as they tried to battle those fires, yeah, the very hot dry conditions certainly not helping at all jonathan 93 degrees out there right now in concord near that deer zone fire is burning. The one thing that really is helping firefighters. The lack of winds right now sustained winds at 13 Miles Per Hour. Gusts right now less than 20 Miles Per Hour. So that is great news right there. But extremely bone dry with relative humidity just at 36 so not really tracking much moisture there. But the good news is that were not under any imminent fire danger all of our red flag warnings were allowed to expire throughout the bay area at 11 oclock this morning and overall tracking some cloudy but very muggy conditions out there t