House speaker. Now, the state senate, as you know, has the largest republican majority since 1950. Theres the guy thats gonna have to deal with them, governor tom wolf, a democrat. The state house has the biggest republican majority since 1958. Goodness me. Dom giordano, how is Governor Wolf going to do anything over this next calendar year . Well, hes gonna have a lot of trouble doing anything. Hes gonna be on the defensive, but i dont have a lot of faith in these guys in harrisburg who are republicans. How come . You still have the liquor law in place, even though weve had widespread pushback with wolf, and they just seem to be out of touch. The sanctuary cities bill got passed, wolf vetoed it, but they ran out of days and didnt do anything with it. So hell be on the defensive, but i dont know that theres so many people there pushing back against him in a united way among republicans. They squabble. And, you know, matt, theres a lot the governor can do where he doesnt need the legisl
Anniversary 55 years to one guy. Its amazing. Im so thrilled to be with you. An interesting time dont you think . Its an interesting time. Jamie before you leave everybody in the writers festival so professional and so helpful stu and i about 12 years ago we brought a house it already had it. This library and now the writers festival that really made my day. What more could we want. Im going to talk about this book it took me four years to write this book. This is an effort of love and memory and i had been published before. This is my fourth published book. This one is the closest to my heart. For a couple of reasons. As we get older we do get wiser we do understand things better. Here we are all products of the times in which we live. So for someone like me and yesterday we have a little bit of a writers lunch that was so fabulous. Theyre so brilliant and they look at things from way. And put it in the context of the universe and i had been at ground zero about so many things that th
That really made my day. What more could be want . Ur years it took me 54 years to write this book as an effort to of love and memory this is my fourth published book this is the closest to my heart. And as we get older we get wiser redo understand things better were all products of the time of which we live. We had a little lunch yesterday that was so fabulous and they put into the context of the universe and dissect ground zero ofin so many things that they rightabout. If you look out here with the issues that we have lived through it wrote down a few. I am not talking about the fact that was born around rolled were two or the discussion of the holocaust all the time in my home. Lder as i get older the civilrights movement, Human Rights Movement the aids crisis and ltv t Climate Change uh Great Recession the Voting Rights is just a few islands in the middle of. View you were there to have their own thoughts and feelings so when i decided to write the book for years ago i did it on th
Officials say its now been secured. Engineers have been assessing the situation, and crews are at work right now, trying to stabilize the problem. Ktvus amber lee has new developments in just the past hour. Reporter the Fire Department held a briefing just about an hour ago at 9 00. Major announcements coming out of that briefing. The Evacuation Order has been lifted with the exception of one building. 44th tahama. Thats the building across the street from this high rise. All buildings have opened except for tahama between 1st and 2nd. City Officials Say theres no danger that the concrete pumping structure will fall, but there is still work to be done. Under the night sky crews spent hours shoring up the platform thats holding up the concrete pumping structure thats leaning. They received a call at 2 45, from construction workers pouring concrete on the roof. They reported that the platform had failed, causing the concrete structure to lean. It caused a heavy piece of equipment to be p
Skies, but start. By recess time, its going to pan out to be an overall nice day with a combination of sun and high clouds. But by 1 00, it is expected to be warm today. Were still going to be in the 70s. So keep that in mind in terms of what to pack for clothing, light clothing. Something they can shed throughout the day, and then of course, tomorrow and friday, going to see a change in the forecast because were tracking rain. You might want to start whipping out the rain boots again, but mike, i know youre tracking an accident in fremont. Thats right. We have one crash in fremont, which has been a bigger issue. 880 slowed down quite a bit. The rest of the bay, the freeways move well. We have a big crash in san jose were also tracking, but this is blocking a major freeway. Two lanes are blocked. Two lanes are open south 880 atto mall parkway. Look at all the slowing off the dumbarton bridge. Waze tells us we can get a good advantage here from union city down past the scene of the cras