Conditions. 27 degrees and chilly in san jose. 39 oakland. 44. Heres what we could expect the rest of the day. We lost it. We lost it. Well come back to weather later on in the show. It will be nice i hear. Yes. Less than three days left 2013 which will go down as the bay areas driest calendar year on record. Those records go back to 1849. As kpix 5s don knapp reports, the rain is measured in not in inches but in feet. Lack of snow in the sierra but no snow is more concern for the states water supply. The main source of water for the east bay municipal district. Its for hatchhachi. Its around the mount, 250 inches a year. The county is headed for a record low with 10. 5 inches of rain. Its full at this time down to 58 . Its called for a voluntary cutback on water use and may consider rationing at the meeting. The lexington reservoir is dramatically low but thats deliberate. The district pulled out the water and put it in storage. The santa clara district makes it reservoirs. Its into t
For young pakistanis. And the silk solution, new medical possibilities using web fighters fibers from spiders and goats. We begin with extreatment violence late today, at least dozen People Killed in an explosion just outside the capitol. Witnesses say a car bomb went off near the check point. No one has claimed responsibility but the armed group has targeted the city before in its fight against western influence, a rough francelation means western education is forbidden. Tonights attacks come two weeks after suspected boca gunman kidnapped 200 Nigerian School girls. What we know speaking to the authorities is that there was a vehicle that was apparently layden with explosives that went off not far from a check point that was been manned by military, and police. They have been on high alert, because just over two weeks ago there was a blast in the same area that killed 75 people. We have also managed to make contact with resident who is have been in touch with, who basically say the en
Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the national anthem. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steve hengineg executive director metropolitan transportation commission. Good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee and my committee colleagues, and the director of cal transand the executive director of the california transportation commission, it is my great pleasure to welcome you at long last, to the opening ceremonies for the new east band of the San Francisco oakland bay bridge. That is an applause line. [ applause ] i know that you joined me in thanking the Oakland Institute color guard and the choir, and their wonderful presentation and our ceremonies. [ applause ] and i guess that i will not ask you if it is hot enough. And it certainly is, so do please, keep cool and gentleman take off your jackets if you need to and keep the water going and keep an ey
Movement. Bail has existed on the surface. In the 60s and 70s at the time of due process for the prisoners. And professor foot turned to bail in the 50s. And argued that there was bail in california in the 60s. I cant say there was a Grass Root Movement but when you look at that movement to warehouse people in mental hospitals, and shall initiatives. The state was looking to break down these very discriminatory patterns that focused on certain communities. There is a moment of that. But it was caught up in the fear of crime. I am old enough to remember in the 70s as the homicide rate continued to go up. And something has to be done but we throw it under the bus for Risk Prevention and poverty is and race are to be changed by proactive measure. Let me take a question from the audience, professor simon, money system often taps the relatives assets. And then the relatives are motivated to help locate the fugitives. What would motivate them to rat out of fugitives. In other words what the
And we happen to have the person for the job, currently a professor of creative writing at uc river side and was craoe put to his post in 2012 and it is my pleasure to introduce him who has written a poem about our beautiful new bridge. Thank you, very much. It is a great pleasure to be here you look fabulous and this looks fabulous and i want to thank Governor Brown, for nominating me and confirming me as your poet laurit, and i would like to thank the arts council for doing the same and the University California river side and the department of transportation, and thank you so much. And i also wanted to introduce you to our youth poet of oakland, davis who is 70 years old and right there standing up. He is our new lauriet for oakland. Thank you so much, my wife is right there, and who is my great inspiration and hadari who works so much for oakland and the arts. The bridge poem bay bridge inauguration poem, San Francisco oakland bay bridge, september 2, 2013. For all bridge dreamers,