John fed them and tended to their every need. Ones, for spiritual john baptized them, married them, and he preached to them. When his parents claimed one for supper, john refused to eat one of his flock. Going hungry was his first act of nonviolent protest. He also noted that in later years that his first congregation of chickens listen to him more closely than some of his colleagues in congress. Thought the chickens were just a little bit more productive. At least they produced eggs, he said. Nashville, from the freedom rides to the march on washington, from freedom summer to selma, john lewis always looked outward, not inward. He always thought of others. In preachingieved the gospel in word and in deed. Insisting that hate and fear had to be answered with love and hope. John lewis believed in the lord. He believed in humanity and he believed in america. He has been called an american saint. A believer willing to give up everything. To bear witness to the truth that drove him all cou
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn be area we are looking live from our camera on Treasure Island out of the city of San Francisco. Good morning, it is tuesday, july 28th. I am michelle griego. I am len kiese. Glad to have you with us. Ie as we start thday. Here is mary lee. We are settling into that weather pattern in the bay area. It is similar to yesterday. Here is a look with the Treasure Island camera and you can see those low clouds, so low clouds and areas of fog and right around the bay and even some of our inland locations. We are in the mid to upper 50s to 60 degrees. Through the afternoon, mid 60s in San Francisco, oakland at 72 concord. And 91 r we are where we should be if not about 3 degrees above average. We will talk about a cool down through tomorrow and then heating back up. Will have all of that coming up in my full forecast. Back to you. We have video in from the protest going on in portland. Crowds have become much larger over the past week, drawing thousand
Aound the bay, clearing to the mid to upper 60s to the 70s and cool, cloudy and breezy along the coast. It gets cooler tomorrow with that stronger ocean breeze and i will have more on that coming up and now lets check in with the latest on the Traffic Alert along highway 17. A lot of activity if you plan on taking 17. Both directions and both lanes on the southbound side are shut down right at the summit. Northbound lanes are open. This is due to a big rig accident where they hit the hillside and got stuck on its side. It kind of toppled over. It will take some time for this to clear out. They are turning vehicles around at redwood estate. Using a lot of brake lights building because of this. Traffic alerts are in effect around 17 north of the summit. Today marks one year since the gunman broke into the gilroy garlic festival and shot and killed three people. There are several events planned but they will be largely closed off through social distancing. Were live in gilroy with how tod
No. Absolutely not. What is the target you have set for your department for call back time . We are trying to get out of the business of doing callbacks and that is why we are upgrading the call center so we can have fully trained staff from eight a clock to eight a clock. Reporter she wouldnt say when exactly that would come online and meanwhile this week the state saw more than 470,000 new claims. We see a combination of the initial furloughs now turning into layoffs given the continuation of the lockdowns and we also see businesses that have tried to hang on closing and not only closing but closing permanently. If i was not married, i dont know what i would be doing. I would be homeless. The governor is saying he will send a strike team to help the massive backlog. When will that happened . Reporter we are told within 45 days, that is when his team is expected to deliver recommendations and solutions to the ed and the edd has said that while it has hired 5000 new people, 2500 have c
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. But perseverance finishes its work so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. It is a great honor to be back at Ebenezer Baptist church in the pulpit of its greatest pastor, doctor Martin Luther king jr. To pay my respects of perhaps his finest disciple. An american, whose faith was tested again and again, to produce a man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance. John robert lewis and to those who have spoken, president bush and president clinton, madam speaker and the reverend, johns family, friends, his beloved staff and i have come here today to because i like so Many Americans, owe a great debt to john lewis and his forceful vision of freedom. Now, this country is a constant work in progress and we are born with instructions to form a more perfect union, explicit in those words is the idea that we are imperfect a