Indoor indoors during air quality. Its making it difficult to breathe. This is beyond bad. The vehicles are just disappearing into the smog. It looks like a winter day, that was this morning. By this afternoon, the situation in san jose are just add murky. Heres another look at our air quality from the gold ing gate bridge to the san mateo bridge, thick smokey fog. Good evening, im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. The air was bad today, it probably wont be better tomorrow or the day after that. Abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel begins our coverage. One second here. I guess the computer has just shut down. Give me a second, ill come back to you. Hopefully we can talk about the air quality. I have no idea whats happening here. Sending it back to you. Thank you, sandhya, dan . Well get back to sandhya in a moment. You can see how smoke and pollution enter our lungs and into our blood stream. It can cause coughing and itchy eyes and increase the risk for people with heart problems as wel
High drama, the rare move by firefighters to save this woman dangling from a window hundreds of feet off the ground as fire. Sohis morng,rouble on the t. One joggers Close Encounter with a bear. Making the call. Why cell phones are hanging from trees outside Grocery Stores all in the name of service. And one working moms powerful message, the state lawmaker forced to end her Maternity Leave early. What she said when she got to the statehouse with her newborn in her arms. Good wednesday morning, everyone. Im will reeve in for kenneth. And im mona kosar abdi. We begin with the fallout from President Trumps visit to kenosha, wisconsin, more than a week after the shooting of jacob blake. The president making little mention of the shooting but defending the police and avoiding answering a question about whether systemic racism is a problem in this country. It all comes as the president makes a series of claims about far left groups posing a danger to america. This morning, two clashing narr
Fundamentals to keep us a safe rather than investing in prisons and police. Before i introduce everyone i have a few housekeeping matters, first tonights program to enable the live captioning click your caption closed caption icon at the bottom of your screen on the righthand side. I also want to invite all of you to share your questions to route the program we will take them towards the end and you can do that by typing them into the q a box which is also the bottom of your screen. For those interested in reading prison by any other name we have partnered with Community Bookstore located on Seventh Avenue in brooklyn and we will post a link to purchase the book through Community Bookstore in the chat. I want to thank humanities new york which has played an Important Role in funding tonights program with support from the National Endowment for humanities and finally i want to encourage you to come to future will virtual conversations. This week on wednesday we are hosting jesse New Yor
That deep, deep research that goes to the bones of our country and unearths the things we are not interested in talking about. So im deeply thankful to richard and i am paying back the favor by being here in conversation with him. The second part of this is there is an notion i have been doing whatever i can to reverse this. We have conceived of ourselves as a country with a racial problem. Underneath of that is there notion is that there are pure races in this country, a white race from europe, a black race from africa, and asian race from asia a latino race that hails from, i dont quite know where. Increasingly in arab and muslim race. This is the path we are going down and what this language does is obscure the fact that race and racism in america is a done thing, that the name comes after the attempt to take something from somebody and what that allows us to do is feel like we are some sort of divine, god in with some sort of divine, god made problem when we are in fact dealing wit
Racism and policing, and the role of Police Unions. Come to order. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and thank you to everyone for being here for this important briefing. Black lives matter. I cant breathe. Hands up, dont shoot. No justice, no peace. These powerful phrases are rallying cries for fair minded americans seeking to live up to one of this countrys core principles. Equal justice under the law. Since our nations founding, africanamericans have struggled, fought and died for the right to be free and equal citizens. This month marks 99 years since the tulsa race massacre, where an entire, vibrant community was destroyed and black men, women and children were systemically murdered. Today is juneteenth. A holiday that celebrate s the freedom of black people in america. That freedom did not come until 1865. Two and a half years after president lincoln abolished slavery. We are still working for freedom and we are still working to provide equal opportuni