Gunshots in the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by shooting legendary by nigerias Security Forces. Im told me all of the ball welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comments in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Im now joined by chicago based journalist Michael A Laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt
Negative. The president s chief of staff earlier today said the president is experiencing some mild symptoms and this transfer to walter reed is out of an abundance to caution. Elizabeth schultz has the very latest. Reporter tonight the white house announcing that President Trump is still suffering mild symptoms but has been transferred to Walter Reed Hospital out of an abundance of hospital. And out of the recommendation of the physicians, he will be working from walter reed for the next few days. The white house physician saying the president is being treated with an eightgram dose. Dose. He tested positive hours after the news that one of his most trusted aides, hope hicks, tested positive. As this virus goes on, other people in the white house will certainly have a positive test result. Reporter the president chief of staff saying trump is in good spirits. Sources say the president did not participate in a scheduled call this afternoon about covid19 with seniors. The Vice President
Ill even omit my customary lame professor humor about the ncaa tournament, for example, thats how serious this is. Lets think for a minute though about where were situated, what were working on here. In this last third of the course that we started last week, were dealing with the post revolutionary era. Weve built this idea that something radical and transformative happens to music nick the 1960s. You worked hard over the course of several weeks to establish those ideas. And we cant leave without justice a kind of baby boomer nostalgia for the days that were. What weve been trying to deal with is the sense of disappointment that the revolution somehow end nd the early 1970s, that popular music became a disappointment as thetically, politically. Thats the cliche. We saw plenty of evidence for it. What weve tried to do is say o kay, maybe if we shift perspective, if we dont simply buy the asumgtss thpgss that we the age of countercultural music i we do that, we may see music engaged in
Today in the bay starts right now. And a good Tuesday Morning to you. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Well check in with mike in just a moment, but first changing weather conditions with kari. Good morning. Good morning. We are seeing some changes in our air quality in parts of the bay area. Take a look at the numbers were seeing right now. Still unhealthy as you head to san francisco, the east bay down to the south bay. We are now seeing moderate air quality for parts of the north bay and even air quality that has improved to the point its unhealthy for sensitive groups but for most other people it is fairly healthy. As we lookality where were heading for the day our temperatures will reach into the mid80s. San francisco will see those 67. Ill be tracking that air quality. What will change it ahead coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the morning commute . Kari, well give folks the big view starting out with a lot of green sensors. Thats what we like to see. What we dont
Weekend. Now a major disaster declaration from the president california has requested 375. Fire engines and crews from out of state. Good evening, everybody thanks for being here 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis thank you for joining us tonight at 9 oclock. The governor says that at this time last year there were 4200 California Wildfires they burned 56,000 acres. So far this year more than 7,000 fires have burned one 0. 4 million acres and most of that within just the last week. The largest fires in the state are burning here in the bay area will begin with the scu lightning complex system that is burning in Santa Clara Alameda contra costa and san joaquin counties. Flames there have burned more than 360,000 acres. Containment is at 15 5 people have been injured. 12 structures destroyed and more than 20,000 other structures are still threatened tonight, the lnu complex those of the fires burning in Solano Sonoma napa yolo and lake counties have ki