As podcasts. Host hello, how are you . Guest im grateful for you during this. Host to give the audience the opportunity to get to know the bestselling author wes moore author of ims before, and the new book that couldnt have been more timely. Youve covered the book with part of the team that was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for breaking News Coverage of the death of freddie gray and at the event that followed. This book is a beautiful way to understand what happened to freddie gray, whats happened to baltimore and what happens in black and white america, how the lives that connect us in the own truths and half spoken truths and incomplete stories stop us from being one community and most importantly, five days is a way to think about the reckoning in america. Im pleased ti am pleased to bee this conversation with you. Guest thank you. Host lets start by talking about the young man whose life was taken from us, freddie gray. The book begins with with your attending the funeral
Showing you that, and you can see, upper 60sin San Francisco. Mid70s for oakland. Mid80s for san jose. Heating up inland. Concord at 90 degrees this afternoon, and 92 for fairfield. All of us cooling significantly by the end of the week. I will let you know what to expect at the end of the week, coming up. Im anne makovec and we just got the new numbers on unemployment from the department of labor, and in the last week, 1. 5 million americans filed for firsttime benefits, and thats slowing a little the bit as we have seen progressively from the peak at the end of march. That was when the oneweek total was 6. 9 Million People reliant on government aid. The total now at 20. 9 Million People in america on unem wl see how the numbers affect the stock market in less than half an hour. Oakland is the target of a new lawsuit over police misconduct. It seeks an injunction over using nonlethal weapons against protesters. Kiet do has more on the lawsuit and the latest demonstration in the street
More americans are going to die of coronavirus by september and 12 states including california have seen hospitalizations from covid19 go up since memorial day. Plus theres been at least a 10 increase in week to week cases reported in 19 states, one of the south is largest parks set to reopen in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic. So social distancing mask is going to be a key thing you have to remember if youre going to going out to Alum Rock Park that kron fours will tran is standing by live for us. With the latest on this and what you need to know will. Just open up the gates and look at that you got a first few people just aching to come through. This has been shut down for the past couple of months. But now its up and lets talk to some people man youve been waiting for a while now your thoughts on this park finally reopened just excited, its just that. Its opening a star at the relief over that. I said really said what did you do in the meantime when it was unavailable running
Its a great to give our audience the opportunity to get to know the bestselling author wes moore. You wrote the book with the awardwinning reporter the Baltimore Sun reporter final to the 2016 Pulitzer Prize with the death the freddie gray. This book is a beautiful way to understand what happened to freddie gray, baltimore with black and White America and the half broken truth and the incomplete stories that stop us from being one community. So thats a way to think about uprising and reckonings in america. Im just really pleased to have this conversation with you. Lets start by talking about the young man whose life was taken from us, freddie gray. But then leaving the funeral all the different parts Baltimore Society and knit the thread to paint a story to reflect what was going on and baltimore and by extension, the country but talk about freddie gray and why his death rocked the city and the nation. Freddie gray was a 25 yearold young man who committed the crime of making eye contac
Its way, gasia. I agree, it could be cooler, but it is beginning, so we are going to take what we can get. Sfo was sunny about an hour ago is starting to get more fog. It is a low fog. 50s, 60s, the city is 65, so we are close. The records go way back, the record low, 47 back in 1901. Two systems, and when will move in over as tomorrow, which will help temperatures trend down today. By tomorrow there will be a huge drop, about 15 to 20 degrees for some. For the city, everyone is above the temperature trend, all right. Over to sell this time, sal, where do you want to start . We are looking at the san mateo bridge but also the bay bridge toll plaza, steve. To let you know, both of these things are doing very well. The bridge at san mateo looks good. And the fog bank you spoke of, steve, is definitely there in our picture as you can see. You can also see that traffic here is moving okay on interstate 880. Still looks sunny there. And if you get to the toll plaza, there is at least a 10 t