Were concerned. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im anna dates. Thank you for joining us. Concern over coronavirus has the city of San Francisco taking a surprising turn, backward. Mayor london breed says at the end of the day friday, the city will eliminate Indoor Dining, reduce capacity at gyms and movie theaters and pause reopening at high schools, elementary and middle schools can proceed. Heres the reason why. Three weeks ago, there were 3. 7 cases per 100,000 people in San Francisco, and now there are 9 per 100,000. San francisco is averaging 80 new cases a day. Thats up from 32 a day in early october. City Health Officials say that rate is increasing more quickly than the summer surge. It is entirely plausible that we will face a situation where our Health Care System could become overwhelmed and reverse the current progress that weve made. The hard choices that we make now will help make things better for us in the future. It will get our city open. It will get our businesses o
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It was a group of Alabama State troopers who beat him bloody as bob was just telling us in 1965. He couldnt even remember what had happened. He thought he had died because of the injuries he sustained that day. And, yet, today, it is Alabama State troopers who will be helping to memorialize him. Its incredible. Reporter yes, and an honor guard taking him from the base of the bridge on the other side being passed to that honor guard, and then moving forward on to montgomery, where he will lie in state at the state capitol. I mean, the progress is incredible to think about. You know, as i was listening to you and nancy, i keep going back to that point of humility. It made him so approachable. And as i walk through the streets or i talk to people, each one of them has a slice of history that they can talk about, specifically, with john lewis. I think about Cheyenne Webb criseburg, who was on this bridge as an eightyearold with john lewis and so many other, those 600 protesters. She had co
The Administrative Assistant did such a fantastic job with the program and getting the invitations out and the creativity of the program. Then there was Marty Bennett who was my staff chair and they put it together. It was so dynamic. I will never forget that moment. It was so wonderful. All the people who came, the music was glorious. The director and the choir was superb. All the soloists i asked to sing from betty and marian in the choir along with kim and then there was janel, who is a professional singer who sings with the group called soldout band and then they had ron coleman. I grew up with him in los angeles. Hearthi hao a quartet. He plays the saxophone. People remember dear lord. All of those were just wonderful along with my speakers there and skyler was there, the superintendents, my colleagues and friends bobby jones and jim hopkins and then, also came was gail burrows, the wife of the late hill burrows. Our mentor and host and producer of mosaic for more than 30 years. I