Some snow up in the sierras above 6,000 feet. A few showers moving across the south bay early this morning. Right now lingering clouds in place. Current temperatures are in the 50s across most of the bay area with santa rosa at 50. Well take a look at the wind speeds changing quite a bit all morning long. Oakland winds westerly 21. Santa rosa is a gust, 25 Miles Per Hour. Some more wind reports towards sfo. Gusting to 29. Sustained at 22. Half moon bay, one of the stronger winds checking in at 31 Miles Per Hour. For this morning partly cloudy skies with patchy fog. More sunshine in the afternoon hours, windy near the coast and also places like San Francisco with the wind advisory for this afternoon. By 4 00 this afternoon temperatures will be in the 60s to around 70 degrees. Cooler than yesterday but then gradually bumping up by the weekend. Sal now has an update on the roadways. Good morning, right now we have a look at the east shore freeway and were starting there because the traffi
Rides mountain bikes and drives his daughter to School Every Day except on days when he is inspiring folks like us. I want you to know he has a better introduction for himself. I am proud and honored to welcome travis mills. Thank you so much. That was a great introduction. I tell people when they come out and see me and someone introduces be i say what do you call a guy without arms or legs in the ocean . Bob. Travis mills. Nice meeting you guys. Let me start off with my thank you to the savannah book festival. Thanks for having me. My father in law and brother drove down so we are happy. The hosts are the most phenomenal people. If you dont know them you need to. A couple things about me Everybody Needs to know. One, i am awesome. Two, i am humble. In that order. You get the idea there . I have pretty cool tricks. Yup. And i wrote a book so im an author, too. What . [applause] i know you are not supposed to read from your book so luckily i didnt bring one up on stage. I was told not
He brought 60,000 guest, the union army. Sherman had previously been to savannah and lost savannah. There was no burning, looting or destruction. Savannah was spared. Sherman just left savannah about four months later with those 60,000 troops. A significant amount of marriages occurred between savannah women and northern officers. So we come up past the American Civil War through the reconstruction period ending in 1876. By the 1920s cotton had failed because of overgrowth and lack of fertlization and in gave the weevil and savannah was back to being poor. Lady aster said savannah was a beautiful lady with a dirty face. By the 40s and 50s the old houses in downtown savannah were worth more dead than alive just to get the bricks to build new houses. One city planner said savannah was so poor she was not able to destroy herself unquote. Progress did make some hideous inroads in putting highways through one part of the old town and a street through three of the pressures squares. At one p
The founders are. In 1954, come to the rescue was the Historic Preservation society who had enough when the Old City Market was destroyed and they built an incredibly hideous looking parking lot. So, they band together and formeded what some called it hysterical save savannah foundation. Literally seven old ladies, some in tennis shoes, went around throwing their bodies in front of the wrecking ball to stop the progress and a Revolving Fund started to buy a house for 5,000, restore it to what it was and sell it for 25,000 or something. You got 20,000 and you do it and do it until at some point savannah now has the largest restored Historic District in america which is quite an accomplishment. What has been done since 1954 is an accomplishment. And i will not name any of those seven little old ladies. They are not twittering old lady. They have clout and it showed. Historic savannah is sometimes nogs meaning north of gaston street. My wife and i live on gaston street. We live on the sou
You selling books, speaking. Im also retired from military so i do that. So we have a different couple different avenues to make sure i can take care of my family, but as far as the foundation thats correct all about giving back. Never want to take a salary. We have to pay our staff but the Board Members never get paid. Its all about giving back. Some foundations need to but this one we dont. [applause] another buckeye. The worst. Were going gang up on you. And you know, your coach at the university of michigan is a buckeye. I can keep going. Anyway, first made a great switch, then, obviously. Theres more president s from ohio than anywhere else . Thats correct. They want to change the world they had it so bad. [laughter] on a serious note, on behalf of everyone here exid like to thank you for everything you have done for this country. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. [applause] thank you. I appreciate that. I was just fortunate to serve my country. I love my job. I would never