You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
He met with Angela Merkel. She also offered help to the kremlin critic. And germinate recording its highest number of new Coronavirus Infections in months as coronavirus cases spike all across europe. And in the United States, the democrats most Unusual Division enters its fourth night. Joe biden will formally accept the president ial nomination later this evening from his home state of delaware. Im brent goff. To our viewers around the world, welcome. Activists in germany are planning to send a rescue plane to bring russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny here to berlin for medical treatment. He was on a flight from siberia to moscow today when he lost consciousness. He was last seen drinking tea at the airport before boarding the plane. Tea that a spokeswoman says was poisoned. Afterward he became so ill the plane had landed early. He was carried off the planes in the city of home skin and taken to a hospital. He i is considered one of president Vladimir Putins fiercest critics. He
Contra costa, santa clara, san joaquin, and stanislaus. Nearly 230,000 acres have burned. The fire election and now 10 contained. Cal from their homes d. The czu complex is burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the southern end of San Mateo County. 50,000 acres have been charred, and the fire is still zero percent contained. 64,000 people are under evacuation orders. Cal fire said at least 50 structures including dozens of homes have been destroyed, but that number is expected to grow. For those frying to get out of the Santa Cruz Mountains today, it has not been easy. Gridlock was described as they tried to leave. You could see people packed up, trucks backed up, trailers backed one motor homes leaving. It was have a very slow crawl. Reporter multiple towns in the Santa Cruz Mountains and toward this coast have been evacuated, including boulder cream, davenport, and pescadero. This is a live picture. This is jonathon cox of cal fire. Lets listen in. So seven clear on what that means
For some time. Now there are questions about staffing and what role that plays for officers on the street kron fours dan kerman is live at Police Headquarters tonight with our top story. Dan. Well the police union is coming forward saying despite the fact that the Police Department has a 122 funding positions they have never fill those positions all at once not placed in the last 10 years and they say that is requiring officers to work overtime and that is putting citizens lives at risk. And understaffed police force is a threat to those that live in vallejo. So says the Vallejo Police union which says citizens are endangered by the citys failure to hire police specifically they say there are not enough cops to cover all beats on a regular basis. The says for 10 years the city has had open positions and because the forces consistently shorthanded there are generally no more than 6 officers on the street at any given time in a city of over 120,000. The says that puts filet o well below
All right, lisa, thank you. What School Looks Like for bay area students of all ages is coming into sharper focus. Districts are detailing their plans for fall. But the push to bring kids back to classrooms is getting push back from many teachers. The debate over education is so important it is a key focus of our efforts to build a better bay area. Kate larson heard from two of the Largest School districts in the bay area, oakland and San Francisco about what they are planning this fall. Reporter in a presentation San Francisco Unified School District laid out a plan for the fall. While staff has not yet agreed the district is recommending almost all students distance learn when School Starts on august 17th. Small groups of priority students may be able to do inperson school. And once data suggests its safe a gradual return to a hybrid distance and inperson plan would begin. I spoke to an sfusd elementary schoolteacher who says shes crushed she cant return to her classroom. I think com