Class Vincent Polanco is mourning the death of his father, gilbert, a san quentin prison guard, first admitted to the hospital in july, after contracting the coronavirus. Then on life support. Sergeant Gilbert Polanco died at Kaiser Santa Teresa at 5 00 sunday morning. Covid19 is a real thing. It takes peoples lives away, and my dad is one of those people, and he did not need to go at the age he was at. Reporter at 55 years old, vincents father gilbert, a san jose native, had wanted to become a prison guard after passing san quentin on a ferry ride in middle school. And he saw one of the guards there as a kid, and he waved at my dad, he literally waved at my dad, and he, like, theres all of these kids, too, but my dad knew that this man waved at him. Reporter after serving in the army and national guard, he worked at san quentin for 30 years. A crisis created after the Corrections Department brought in untested inmates from a prison in chino, where there had been an outbreak. Visible s
Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
I would love to see nine movies made. There seems to be a reluctance there that is misplaced. A lot of books that have nothing to do with islamic terrorism. In the code of conduct they all had to do with someone at the un. Hidden order was all about a series of murders taken place around boston. I normally dont say its about the fed when i publicize it because how could you make that sexy and be a thriller. Lets just one of several examples there was one muslim guy in it. It was one guy for all of that. Another theme intergovernmental intrigue. I talked to family members and things like this. Not close immediate family members. Francie tucker intrigue and i realize this is a same government that could not run the post office. All of the things that people want to put on dc makes for interesting fiction and i think we find it very easy to believe that there are forces behind the scene puppeteers that are controlling everything. I think that makes for interesting reading i grew up readin
Drift so there are partly cloudy skies. Some cli da the majority will see some calling today. It will be continuing hot inland. It will be 100 today. 50s on most of the temps. Look for the fog to retreat and bigger onshore breeze. It was up to 30. So it is coming down but it does look like a little bit more of a breeze today. Overall highs will come down but still it will be in the 90s. Otherwise everyone else will be pretty close to seasonal averages. Lets say good morning to al. Good morning steve. Yes i am in for sal this morning. Things look pretty calm on your commute. We will check in the usual spots including the far east bay. All the way clear maze, just a once you get to the bay bridge toll plaza things are open here. Lets go back to the headlines. Happening today in just a few hours online classes begin for the new school year in the Oakland Unified School district. There is still no longterm plan. But all of the students will start the year working from home. The district an
That will hold us up a little bit. Temperatures are near average to above. We are only at 90 today. All right, over to allie, she has been busy. There are things to talk about. There is something new to talk about, steve. This is a crash in the oakland area. Lets show you on the map. This is near grant avenue. A couple crashed vehicles are involved. According to the chps notes, they are doing a traffic bake break so they can respond to this. We will keep an eye on it. The ll plaza is very busy. You will see it slowing, a 10 to 15 minute delay, this usually clears up in the next hour or so. Here is the drive from the san mateo bridge, no major problems. 6 01, lets go to the days headlines. Happening today, it is the first day of school for students in oakland set to begin in just a few hours. There is still no deal between the Oakland Unified School district and the Teachers Union as a distancelearning plan for the fall is still unfolding. Our reporter is joining us live with that story