Hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, reminding you that while cinemas may be closed, there is still plenty of new movies to enjoy in the comfort and safety of your own home. The most mainstream release this week is the dig, A Bittersweet Real Life Drama about the unearthing of the sutton hoo treasures on the the eve of world war ii. What are they . Do you hazard a guess . Burials, men, id expect. We are standing in somebodys graveyard i reckon. Viking. Maybe older. Apparently local girls used to lie down on them in the hope of falling pregnant. Ive read plenty of legends. Ive heard plenty of legends. Is that why you want to dig, mrs pretty . Details of Buried Treasure . Ralph fiennes stars as basil brown, the self taught archaeologist who wears his immense learning lightly and who is enlisted by carrie mulligan s wealthy widow, edith pretty, to excavate the imposing Burial Mounds on her property. My interest in archaeology began like yours, edith tells the initia
Website at archives foundation. Org before we began, i want to make sure that everyone knows our distinguished speaker will be taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know but im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out to a shot out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. You do not have to wait until the end to ask your question. Your questionut and, and we will have them queued up for only get to that point. I had the fortune of visiting the Ronald Reagan president ial library a number of times. In my current role, ive had the chance to partner with my current guest. About. Learn quite a lot duke is the president and dean of the library directors. He has been with the library for 20 years. To give you some sense
Taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know what im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. We are going to have a blast. Duke are you with us out there, in a secure occasion . Duke i cannot tell you where i am. But it is secure. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Patrick you can tell that you know someone well by the introduction. It has been a difficult time. How is the staff doing out there . Duke i think the staff is doing a great job of being productive, staying mentally healthy. We concern ourselves with that as the leadership at the library, trying to reach out to them, weekly, if not daily to make sure that everyone is fine. There been some losses that we have
Right now we want to get a look at what we can expect from that forecast today. Reporter well, we do still have the red flag warning that will be in effect as we go into later today an danger a big con as we can see the gusty Winds Continuing and low humidity at least until this afternoon. A heat advisory through 8 00 through much of the bay area. Temperatures heading to the mid80s, oakland, some mid90s for the south bay, and up to 101 degrees for the inland east bay. Im tracking all of this, of course, with a look ahead to the week. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Mike has a look at that commute as you get ready to head out the door. Were tracking all of this, the closures in the fire zone, the glass fire. Looking at the map well zoom into overnight during the 1 00 hour a deadly crash in petaluma that closes highway 101. One person has died and another with major injuries closing the southbound side at north petaluma boulevard. I think you can get on lakeville street that wil
Smoke into the bay, but a lot less of that smoke now out in the pacific. So any sort of coastal winds from here on now will likely becoming with less and less of that smoky foggy impact that we had been seeing so these are all nice things to be talking about sure nice to start the day with some good news, 50s and 60s for your current temperatures as you are venturing outside thats where conditions later today, daytime highs will be in the 70s to 80s little warmer than they were yesterday. And certainly a little bit brighter too. Back to you robin thank you for the good news john be appreciate the update. Lets check in on traffic. Some good news and traffic to your morning commute is off to a great start a quiet start. No problems here at the bay bridge toll plaza of the trip into San Francisco is doing just fine this is what we like to see under 10 minutes from the bottom of the maze off to fremont street. We also have 92 your connection between the peninsula and the east bay every tim