Keeping firefighters busy today. Talk about turtle power its wednesday, july 22nd. Early today starts now glad youre with us. Im Frances Rivera im fill mphillip mena protests continue in places like portland, oregon where the city is on edge. Demonstrators protesting Excessive Police force continue to clash with federal agents who have arrived without the consent of leaders something that portlands leaders are saying is escalating the chaos reporter tensions escalated as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with federal agents, anger boiling over as some of the crowd set e federal courthouse President Trump calling the protesters anarchists. They were ripping down that city, destroying the city, looting it while many of the protests have been peaceful theres also been violence, and looting the presence of federal agents is fuelling the tension. The protests were calming down and that the presence of federal troops here, trumps troops here in the streets of portland has substantially exace
Thoughts, i know you have a few. Guest im kind of obsessed with looking at this list. I take the bullet for the team. Im always interested and talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up on to kill a mockingbird was a prime example. And we know why the handmaids tale was there this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. This was a book that was written in 1978. He was an english professor and lost his job and was separated from his wife and got in a forward e. , line 1975 van and rode what he called the blue highways. This was before gps and before google maps here he got the map of the country and all the backroads were colored blue. Those were the road he chose to take and so, he went to 38 of the 50 states and just kind of learning america, learning a lot about himself it was a Remarkable Book on the bestseller list in for 40 or 45 weeks were some like that. That. He has written other books in that he he is best kn
Work and how communities respond will look different this year. Already california has seen more fires this year compared to last year. We have the challenges ahead, and there are a lot of them. Reporter cal fire responded to more than 600 fires just last week. Getting on them fast, keeping the acreage down is the goal. Because the pandemic complicates everything. I would not know where to go right now, if that happened again. Reporter frederick lost his home when the tubs fire roared into santa rosa. He evacuated with his grandchildren that night to a packed evacuation center. We sat down and it got crowded and more crowded as we sat. There were a lot of people there. We only stayed about four or five hours. Reporter a scenario that wont work now. It may be that we dont put you in a congregant shelter situation. We may be putting you into hotels. Reporter hotels, dorms, scattered locations, the priority will be social distance. Box mills instead of buffets at a Temperature Check upon
Congress now considering a temporary Unemployment Insurance extension. Ahead on todays show, as more government money flows into vaccine efforts, well speak with the ceo of thur ermo fishe. Plus micro Loan Campaign affirm striking a deal with shopify well teex wispeak with marks ln about that and a number of names are reporting after the close including microsoft, tesla and chipotle those numbers could move the market this evening. Lets get straight to the big stories were watching today mike santoli is tracking all of the action meg tirrell has the latest funding for pfizer and phil lebeau has fresh comments from the ceo of united about what a vaccine would mean for his business subdued summer choppy action the Market Holding up near recent highs the major takeaway from the action so far. The s p 500 on a oneyear basis, you could look at this and say were laboring to make further upside from where we got in early june that is true this looks like relatively defined uptrend. The questi
Down and it might just be a temporary that it stays down kron fours reyna harvey is there with the latest dana. Dorian james the morning, well right behind me where you see that white sign thats actually a sign from the city that is actually where the Francis Scott drake statue once stood now the city saying that they temporarily remove that statue because demonstrators so they were going to move it themselves so were going to show you with that statue look like it was hard to miss you could see it all around this area. It was 30 feet tall standing here so again residents this morning that ive talked to shot that its actually gone now people have been calling for the removal of the statue for weeks and not just the statue they also are calling for the removal. From public spaces and parks because they said frances sir sir Francis Drake was a slave traders so historically. Now people are learning more about this ive been talking to residents out here this morning. We were telling me tha