To prepare now. Got to make sure they have a plan to charge their phones, to get them through two, three, four, five days. They can do that with backup batteries. They can go to Community Centers that pg e will set up around the county. Reporter Fire Departments have been getting ready for this possibility along with county and city officials and School Districts. They say you should make sure you have signed up for alerts from your local agencies. Pg e has not said how long the power will be shut off. Theyre saying at least through thursday afternoon is theld ta several days before they can get the power turned back on. So go ahead and take today to get ready. Live in orinda, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. That is a big deal. Amy, thank you. Bay Area School Districts say they have plans in place to deal with a power shutdown am oakland unified has sent out a warning ten of their schools could lose power this week. The district says any affected schools will close for the day. Plans are i
And in the yellowjersey, colombias egan bernal, looks set to win the Tour De France from team mate ge rint thomas. From team mate geraint thomas. Good evening. In another policy announcement three days after becoming Prime Minister, borisjohnson has pledged to fund a new high speed rail link between leeds and manchester. He says it will turbo charge the regions and unlock jobs, boosting growth. He was speaking on a visit to the north west, with the full details of his proposals, to be published in the autumn. But labour says the plans are a rehash of past failed promises from the conservatives. Our chief political correspondent, vicky young, reports from manchester. Taking his first steps as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson is promising a bright, optimistic future. I wasjust thinking. But he is not the first conservative to come to manchester offering more investment for the north of england. At the science and industry museum, mrjohnson said action was needed to combat the hopelessness f
Complex chemical compound comes from a very simple organism, the sea sponge. Sponges are believed to be the first known a earth. Theyre also in the center of coral reef systems, which are in desperate need of life saving themselves. From hawaiis big island dr. Greg asker asner is on a mission to save coral reefs. Understanding how quickly things are happening can only be done from the sky. From satellite technology, researchers scan the depths creating these technicolor pictures of the ocean floor. Every image is stitched together to make the allen coral atlas, showing conservationists areas that are resilient and the reefs that need life support. Youre kind of like a reef doctor. Yeah. Youre getting the diagnosis. Its kind of like an mri of the reef from up here. Theyve survived heat events. Theyve survived pollution. Theyve survived against all odds and that gives me a lot of hope because were learning from those areas. Reporter the question became how could they use these resilient
Cool for us. Unseasonably cool here. And temperatures yesterday were in the 60s. I dont really see much change here today. Were starting off mostly cloudy. We dont have the coverage on the fog bank, but its a combination of low clouds and some higher clouds. A little bit of activity on the lee side of this year. And you can see the cloud cover coming up. So another day of unseasonably cool temps here, 60s. And thats it. Maybe for a while. All right over to sal now. And quiet or something on your screens. There was a little roadwork steve you know that you see it on the way in. But for the most part, we have a nice quiet commute. We dont have anything major. Lets go right to the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see that traffic is looking good. Weve been kind of looking around. So you get up this early, youre expecting a pretty decent commute right now. Thats what you have. You have most of it is wide open for you. Even the south bay. Theres some road work here on some of the expressways,
The Sheehan Family foundation and mark and pat suen. Many thanks to jack and mary romanos, our sponsors for this gloriouss venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. Wed like to extend special thanks to our literary members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our venue of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have a savannah book festival app for your phonene available this yea. Its very easy to get it from the app store, and there are directions in your programs. Please try to download it. Itll help you today. Before we get started, i have a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, brian curtis will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his books in Telfair Square right across the way. If you are planning to stay for the next author presentation, pleasese move forward to seats n the front so that we can accurately count how many i spas are availa