If you have been following the news in recent years i imagine that you like me have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a jerefugee experience in communist vietnam in 1975, but in many ways it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at icet, refugees suffocating in meat trucks. Theyre crowding onto leaking boats, theyre drowning the bodies of those unable to cross to safety are washing up. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being up rooted by conflict all around the world. Were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other war torn regions. Especially in the past couple of years it has been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlements like so many other topics today has become a polarizing topic. On one hand opposition has been fierce
Public Health Officials are trying to get the word out here. To be vigilant, keep the masks on, continue to social distance. Allie joins us this afternoon to explain why some popular spots will be closed this coming Labor Day Weekend. Reporter in the past, in previous years whenever you had triple digit temperatures inland and a three day weekend it usually means people flock to local beaches. This year, with covid19 still an issue, Public Officials are trying to change the trend. The Public Safety message make your labor day plans local, limited to your family to prevent the spread of covid19. All regions are closed this weekend. If we have our beaches 250, 300 people, we are in some serious issues. Reporter hiking trails of the pacific will remain open, still were beaches in Half Moon Bay. In santa cruz most beaches and state parks are closed. The idea behind the partial closure was to discourage out oftowners to get smaller locals a place to escape the heat. The daytime closure will
Classroom. How educators overseas are handling safety. And starting over. Country star Chris Stapleton talks about his new album and his newersptiven life duringhedemicnd movement. Want to hear that. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Joe biden has given moral aid and comfort to the vandals repeating the monstrous lie these were peaceful protests. Theyre not peaceful protests. Thats anarchy. The president blaming democrats but joe biden says violence is playing out in President Trumps america. Ture. Ise are not images of som ese a dond um ameca President Trump make something controversial statements about the suspected gunman who killed protesters ahead of his trip to kenosha. He was in very big trouble. He probably would have been killed. If you felt pressure to make a vaccine available before its ready, what would you do . We will not make that decision on the basis of politics. Thats a promise. Voters in massachusetts head to the polls in a closely watched
Flames that charred all 18,000 acres of californias oldest state park arent spelling it in for the ancient redwoods. I am elizabeth cook. I am alan martin. We have seen dramatic video of the damage done to the redwoods. But a fire from the past is now offering hope about the resiliency of these forests. Wilson walker explains. Reporter the vision burned more than 12,000 acres. The fire now is more towards the south end. There is not much in the way of overlap. It the past, present, and future of this landscape. Not another way to describe what we are seeing except total devastation. If you want to see what replaced the devastation you will enjoy less oldgrowth forest and to let one single turn you will hit this. I wouldnt call it a star,. 36 years at the chief of interpretation was remarkable exploding back across the burn zone. It got to a point where they were very thick and dense. Which is not at the so in the last 10 years we did a fair amount of clearing. Within 10 years, regrowth
Hayes fog thats what were starting this morning with you can see from the east bay berkeley, not looking at much of a view just yet thats due to low cloud cover thats lifting above the east bay hills so most of our bridges are just fine on even the golden gate as you traverse up into Marion County are down in San Francisco, looking great as far as visibility goes not so great as far as air quality goes which will be getting to here in just a minute 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with alameda at 59 degrees hayward concord oakland in the low 60s right now nice mild morning of course its tempting to get out there maybe go on that job but id say work out indoors. This next week as we do see hayes sticking around 6070s, 80s and even a few 90s remain in the forecast today weve got all the details on the smoke all still to come first, lets get a look at traffic with rob. Thank you john will traffic is starting to ease up on our bridges but its getting slow on the freeway. So lets c