Minutes. Mike has a new crash now in fremont. Yes, the freeways are moving well. Well take you off just off of 680. This new crash northbound 680 heading up towards scott creek road shy of that offramp. A single car spun out in over toward the center divide. No injuries and no lanes blocked from where we understand, chp will give us an update. Meanwhile this crash off of 680 and pleasant hill. That cleared to the shoulder approaching 242. In San Francisco, theres that activity just off 280. Not a major issue for the commute but it is an issue. A big one, back to you guys. Breaking news were following this morning. A Police Standoff now in its 15th hour in San Francisco. A man is barricaded himself inside a home and is refusing to comply with officers. The home is on miramar and ocean avenues. Today in the bays bob redell is there live. Whats happening right now, bob . Well, within the past minute, two minutes, laura, we saw somebody lift up the blinds of that window here in this Apartm
All of this according to the california highway patrol. We are told that the officer suffered minor injuries, and the passenger in the car was not hurt. We are also following a major crash on highway 101. Lets bring in mike with the problems on 101. Mike . Yeah, scott and chris, well show you the map behind us here. We have video also of what exactly happened over there on the freeway. We had a deadly crash involving a motorcycle. There you go, coming down to the bottom of the screen at this orientation, you see the traffic squeezing by op the shoulder. This is a deadlyrash involving a motorcycle there. That scene is still blocking the majority of the lanes traveling northbound. Folks are getting off of the freeway. If you get back on and off, just take 280 as your alternate. You see all the backup. If we can get you back to the peninsula side, northbound, youre jammed up from the expressway. It starts way back here at 237. Off of 237 as well. Thats a good five miles of backup. A huge
Remain in the 80s sparking lightning flashes over the city, people across the tri state area doing anything and everything to keep cool but to no avail. Saturday night im walter perez and story on action news is the lingering extreme heat heat indexes topping 110 degrees today and it will be similar tomorrow. This afternoon officials in philadelphia announced two heat related deaths, bob brooks will have more on the women who died today in just a moment but we begin our Team Coverage of the dangerous heat with metrologist Melissa Magee at the action news big board melissa. Walter its the heat in combination with the humidity that makes it feel unbearable at times outside as you mentioned and day four of heat wave number five here in philadelphia and this is part of the problem. This is really the big problem. You look at the dew point numbers across the midatlantic region with the exception of bingianton and most locations have dew points in the 70s right now in philadelphia we have a
15 minutes. Professor waugh this is for my lecture baseball becomes professional. It wasnt too long ago that , if youre controversial can can imagine. Sports and consumerism wasnt important enough. It would have raised eyebrows. Sports, Department Stores buying stuff, will not anymore. Sports and consumer culture our research and written about, made during like every other topic by historians. Now theyre even professors of sports history. Why . Because professors have found that we cannot ignore sports. Why . Because it represents money and big our, big big power, big business. Its also cultural and emotional. There is this tension between professionalism, big business, and the emotional ties that is exemplified by this letter, written by a baseball fan and published in a newspaper sports section. Let me read a quote. Care modern ballplayers about nothing but money. They dont care about their team , or their city, with their fans. In my day, things were different. That sounds familiar.
Baseball in particular grew to be a National Pastime and big business. She describes the efforts of Baseball Club owners to modify the rules of the game, establish a National League, and attract a broad middle class audience. The class is about an hour and 15 minutes. Professor waugh good morning ucla students. Good to see you for my lecture baseball becomes professional. It wasnt too long ago that these subjects were controversial, if you can can imagine. Sports and consumerism, they werent important enough. It would have raised eyebrows. Like i am raising my eyebrows now. Sports, Department Stores buying stuff, will not anymore. Sports and consumer culture our research and written about, made boring like every other topic by historians. Now theyre even professors of sports history. Why . Because professors have found that we cannot ignore sports. Why . Because it represents money and big power, big business. We cant ignore sports for another reason. Its also cultural and emotional. T