I think that elayne brown has the power to. I really spent a lot of time digging into the personal stories of my heroes. What i love about those books. As somebody that has done these, what was the process and how long did it take. They have a better timeline. Anywhere from the time i spoke nine months later we were getting a book deal. I came to her because someone had come to me in the 2015. You heard me talking about my story. I wasnt thinking about that. I was thinking about where our movement was going and what the protest was going to be and the next stage othatthe next stage t was. And i kind of wrote an outline and then i went back to organizing, to the daily grind. But then the president ial candidacy happened. I started to see the ramping up of the rightwing Interest Groups and seeing my face on bill oreillys former show. I said okay, i need to write something. They said someone had already asked if i wanted to publish a book. What do you think, do you think i should do it an
A. M. Hour. Thats typically when we see the heaviest of the build up on the road. You can see slowing in the oakland area as well, which means, yes, we are starting to see more folks heading to work. Right now, a quick check of the south bay drive times. Northbound 101 from highway 85, 24 minutes. Northbound 280 to highway 101 changed from moofive minutes to eight minutes. East bay drive times showing slowing. A quick reminder, the metering lights have been on 30 minutes so seeing bumpertobumper traffic. Over to you. Thank you. We begin with breaking news this morning. Hurricane maria is slamming puerto rico this morning after making land fall overnight. Here is where the situation stands at this hour. The hurricane made land fall about 3 15 this morning as a category 4 storm with winds up to 155 miles an hour. As much as 25 inches of rain could fall during the duration of the storm. We are getting lots of new video into the news room asthma ria slams puerto rico. A man sent this video
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