Todays presenter, mark obmascik. Mark is a native of chicago southside. Hes a graduate from the Medill School of journalism at northwestern. He started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. He was the lead writer for the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the denver post for covering the tragic Columbine High School shooting in april of 2005. He had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with some of those things. He was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable retiring law professor at the university of denver, dr. Thompson marsh who was an enthusiastic, avid ornithologist. Mark himself had always been interested in birds, but it was the birders who fascinated him. Thus he wrote a book about the people who had the time and wherewithal to spend
Weeks dreamforce conference from salesforce. While even more inperson attendees are expected this year, theres talk that it could be the last one in downtown San Francisco. So theres a beehive of activity at moscone center. Welcome to dreamforce, the massive dreamforce tech conference runs tuesday through thursday. Salesforce employees from around the world are already here. Im from brazil. This is my fourth time. I love San Francisco. I love that. Here is all about technology. 43,000 people are expected to show up with guests. Matthew mcconaughey and the foo fighters. Another 200,000 people are registered to attend online this year. Is all about Artificial Intelligence. Its really three days full of learning, connecting, having fun and giving back downtown sf will be flooded with dreamforce attendees. Many of them are aware of San Franciscos crime drug and homeless concerns. Salesforce Ceo Marc Benioff says dreamforce could be on the ■move next year if things dont improve. But mayor
The search for survivors this morning in morocco after a major earthquake rattled the region, killing more than 2000 people. The reaction from one bay area family who was there when it struck and it is september 11th, 2023 today, marking 22 years since the deadly terrorist attack on nine divided by 11. Ceremonies and tributes are happening across the country this morning, including right here in the bay area. Good morning, everybody, and thank you here for being with us. Its monday, september 11th. Were going to start the check of our forecast with drew. Hey, good morning. Its going to be a nice day today. A lot of sunshine, warm temperatures. Look outside. Heres our east bay hills camera. We are lacking fog this morning. You can clearly see all the city lights across the region. So were going to see sunshine pretty fast this morning. But we do have some chilly spots right now. Look at Half Moon Bay and nevada waking up to temperatures right now in the 40s. So we do have some chilly ai
Senator stevens, and senator stevens told the president , he said, this lady makes some of the best Fried Chicken in the country. You wouldnt think that coming from alaska but i can testify from personal knowledge that that was a fact. The lucky wish bone, i expect, will continue on. It is a successful business with a large, large following. But with the passing of peggy and now george marks the end of an era for us back in alaska. We have lost two beloved pioneers who were dear friends to so many of us, and i am proud to count myself among that group. Its important that we acknowledge their place in alaskas history, and thats what i intend to do briefly today. George was a native of wisconsin. He attended high school in red wing, minnesota. He joined the Minnesota National guard. He was selected for officer candidate school. In 1943, george and peggy met, and they married the next year in 1944. It is said that they met over formica. George was training to be a pilot and peggy was a wa
We actually went to a little Catholic School for 2. 5 years. And his father got another job working for union oil. Was africa after that . It was very controversial. There are people that were very upset. Obama won in a landslide. But everywhere in the world, there is some controversy about any politician. So there are some questions about it. But not everyone understands. What was his lifelike in jakarta . Guest he is perfectly immersed. Imagine a sixyearold child being immersed in the culture. Sort of a lower middle class action. The exotic smells of jakarta. His father riding a motorbike to his job. His mother was there as well. That was his wife, life, he adapted. He had to adapt. But he did the best he could. Host why did he leave jakarta in 1971 . Guest his mother couldnt afford to send them there. Those 3. 5 years, he is in indonesia, immersed in the language. The mother is waking up at 4 00 a. M. To teach him with english schoolbooks to supplement his learning. It is very diffi