Discussed reviving the Homeward Bound Program. Theyll be taking Public Comments at next weeks meeting before supervisors will vote on it for sara stinson spoke with organizations devoted to helping the unhoused and she joins us live in the studio with the details here. Whats going on there . Grant people who serve the unhoused daily say the Homeward Bound Program is not for everyone, but its a resource they will recommend to people who need or want to go home. A San Francisco program has been offering unhoused people a ticket back to their home towns for nearly 20 years. It allows us the opportunity to offer the ability to reunify with their family. A ticket expenses to get back to their home. The Homeward Bound Program started under thenmayor Gavin Newsoms office with the goal to help 1000 people annually supervisor ahsha suffice. As in recent years, the program has dwindled. Hes now working to revive it while also running against mayor london breed for her job this november under may
From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Well, good tuesday morning. And they usually get with this bright and early for the kron. 4 morning news today is tuesday march 12 radar v. All right. Got to start this morning with a check of weather, john, because another rainy stormy morning waking up to some wet conditions out there yet again this morning as we were talking about yesterday, daytime hours were nice, but those showers rolled back through last night making for some slick conditions this morning. Heres san jose. One of the most active raining spots right now. You can see those showers gradually moving out of the region. Were already seeing signs of rainfall activity, diminishing. So also as i promised you yesterday, the heaviest of it during your overnight hours in definitely some calming conditions as we work into the morning commute, you can still see some widespread showers all across the bay area, including especially so on the peninsula to
let s get down to business. america s supreme court is set to hear two cases back to back that could reshape the internet. the first is gonzalez vs google. the second case being heard on wednesday is twitter vs taamneh. both deal with whether tech platforms should have legal immunity for what their users choose to post. for more, here s our north america business correspondent michelle fleury. should tech companies be held liable for harmful content promoted by their algorithms? that is the question being put before america s top court. eight years ago, gonzalez, 23 year old exchange student was killed by ices gunmen in paris. the family in seeking justice for her death is targeting google s video platform, youtube, alleging that by distributing terrorist training videos on its side, the tech giant acted as a recruiting platform for isis, in violation of us laws about helping terrorists. at the centre of this landmark as is a federal court forged in the earliest days of today
Duke University Historian professor Nancy Maclean, author of the new book, democracy in chains the deep history of the radical rights stealth plan for america. Maclean also uncovers the instrumental role the late libertarian economist James Buchanan played in the Rights Campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, and privatize schools. Buchanan was an economist to train at the university of chicago and went on to a number of virginia institutions over the years. He won the nobel prize in 1986 for his original contributions to our understanding of political economy. It was James Buchanan who taught charles koch for capitalism to thrive, democracy must be in chains. Amy President Trump says the Environmental Protection agency will roll back and obama policy environmental policy. Pres. Trump the socalled waters of the United States rule is one of the worst examples of federal regulation and it has truly run amok. Amy this comes as the intercept reports the person trump has tapped to be
Where it is a highpressure situation. Say they are five innings in. Despite the fact that they could possibly have three games in three days it sounds like Terry Francona is not afraid of going to the bullpen for heavy duty like game one. If we have a lead, we will certainly try to win the game any way we can. I dont thats why we had trevor going first because we didnt think it would i think too much is made of playing three games in a row or what are you going to do tomorrow . Thats why we talk so much about staying in the moment and trying to win tonight. It will be hard enough to do that. And well do our best and then well see what happens. It is buckholz for the red sox. Like tomlin he went through a funk and he was moved to the bullpen but is doing well. Era is great. Who knows whats going to happen tonight. At 6 00 we talk about david ortiz who when he was taking b. P. Jason walked past him and said i just watched your last batting practice. Wow, coach, shot fired. Live at fenway