Theres a lot of different angles to this theres a lot of different sides to it but i think overall for me personally the Biggest Issue is the death of george floyd the death of too many africanamerican men and women at the hands of these officers theres no justice for them hardly ever but this has evolved into so much more than that and i dont think a lot of that was intentional and its i dont think seriously problematic i dont think its intentional to put antiphon the streets ok thats the 1st one there was no intent there i have a bill mahers opinion about antiphon you know you remember several years ago he was very critical kind of describe the whole Music Movement as privileged white kids going to you know going to College Board for the summer they dress up in black uniforms its almost like they saw too many hunger games movies and too many star wars movies are kind of agree with him in that analysis of a. Antiphon but the reason i raise the Rick Perlstein issue is nixon land to me
Later in the show amazons been caught red handed in its latest p. R. Stunt feeding sponsored news content to local t. V. Stations d across the country dont go anywhere americas war starts right now. Riots in america where does it all lead how what does it mean for the next president ial election i have fair and cousins with me were going to talk about this fair and you know this is this is complicated its tough to do in 8 minutes to round all this out but as i was watching a couple of commentaries the thing that struck me was Rick Perlstein you and i did actually we interviewed Rick Perlstein my memory is who wrote nixon land and as i look at nixon land it plays right into what i see happening what is your take on it i think theres a lot of moving parts to this obviously you know weve got the the act. Sins of the Police Officers not just the one you know who killed george floyd but whats been happening since then the videos of all of that the videos of people you know looting a target
Up the infrastructure there to protect it the walls around it needed to be higher because they had already predicted both the government in the company that this thing was susceptible to floodwaters that was a failure theyve known about it for years the infrastructure at the day i am that failed failed and caused the flood itself they knew that needed to be fixed and repaired and updated the company had actually already lost its license for failure to comply for years so were talking about catastrophic failures across the board state federal governments corporate you could not have had a more complete failure from every player all. I think that the detroit the water problem in detroit same kind of analysis infrastructure failure State Government does nothing about it but now this cat was named jacob carter scientist for a union concerned scientist. Comes out well this is a federal problem no its not a federal problem its partially a federal problem but when you are in the state and you
Floodwaters in michigan last week and ended up maine galing with toxic chemicals from a dow Chemical Plant i have fair and cousins from drill our magazine to talk about it this is pretty disturbing article i mean if youre a resident or a farmer around that plant youre in big trouble right now but ill tell you the take on it was it was so odd to me the take on it was well the federal governments responsible no the federal governments not responsible for what happened here theyve allowed the infrastructure to fall apart and theyve allowed dow chemical to do everything they wanted to do with their toxins in that Middle America that nobody to blame but them i really dont see anybody to blame but no right and this is a you know were suddenly dealing with this issue but these were failures that were set up for decades as you mentioned the infrastructure the superfund site the dow chemical was running or or you know not cleaning up basically they needed to clean up the infrastructure there to
People for covid19 and we are now looking to make sure that we capture anybody and test them who may have been exposed and who is carrying the virus. So you dont need to have symptoms in order to pass this on to somebody else the new popup locations bring to 46 the total number of test sites across the county. That includes for existing drivethru sites like this one 2 of which are in san jose with one each in milpitas and morgan hill all 4 are open 7 days a week from 08 30am to 04 30pm appointments are required and can be made online is san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Thanks robin. Heres a look at the number of people infected in the bay area there are now more than 12,500 confirmed cases. 426 people have died from the virus Alameda County now has the most known infections with 2,874 in 93 deaths you can find a complete list of cases broken down by county on our website kron 4 dot com. People are not only heading to reopen beaches for the memorial day holiday but hiking trails as we