In conversation. Part of our ongoing Virtual Event series. Were so fortunate to be able to be here with their authors and their writing. Every week we will be hosting an event via zoom. This evenings event well have your questions available. If you go to the check section. They have also included in the chat. And lastly. The technical logistics may come up. We apologize in advance for that. We will do our best to recall any issues. Im so pleased to introduce tonights the speaker. With the graduate school of the arts. In taught at yale university. It is featured there. With the national footwear. With the basic works before joining that. The captivating portrait. They were spinning the first. With the morning in protest. May it not be confused with the construction. The result is a book that is exactly dash matt elegantly crafted. It was called a bridge. With politics and culture. We are so honored to host this event tonight. Im gonna turn the event over to kelsey. How are you doing ton
Were still expecting highs, upper 90s to 110. That means the risk of heat related illness and heat advisory in effect for the coastal areas. We expect wind to increase tonight and tomorrow raising the fire concerns. A red flag warning for high fire danger will be effect for our hills and mountains from 10 00 p. M. Tonight until 8 00 a. M. Wednesday. We have a wind and vise ri in effect for the north bay and east bay hills and mountains. Ill have the full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Well look forward to that. Thanks. People triped to save energy to avoid blackouts. Abc 7 News Reporter with more. Twice theyve said its leaking. Reporter he said his airconditioner has been broken its bad timing with the triple digit heat. My wife is a teacher. She teaches from home. My kids are home schooling and its an absolute mess. How do you keep cool in this heat . I notice the pool behind me was open. Reporter bryan wh lives in an apartment complex says he was glad to see the pool being us
Economics, state and city news, immigration, law and education. In her career at the wall street journal emily is held reporting and editing positions in new york, london, pittsburgh and atlanta. Tonights featured offer, melissa korn reaches a Higher Education were reported for the wall street journal previously she wrote for dow jones newswire she is a graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University graduate school of journalism. Also we have jennifer levitz. She is a National Reporter for the wall street journal. Previously schroepfer the providence journal. She has been a member of two Pulitzer Prize finalist teams prayed she graduated from loyola university, maryland. And theyre reviewed of unacceptable, they wrote the authors highly readable expose goes well beyond the tabloid level. A capable examination of the seeming intersection of ambition, money, and Higher Education. Library journal calls it a fastpaced account of the massive College Admission scam designed by br
All safe. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 10th. Thank you for starting your week with us. And we do begin with schools ng a as coravirus cas millionaon be Holding Classes online today and tomorrow, while the building is disinfected following an outbreak among students and staff. In bigtime College Football, the power five conferences may be considering moving their season to the spring. Meantime, the pandemic has prompted some top ncaa players to call for the creation of a union. Abcs Andrew Dymburt has more. Reporter the u. S. Now surpassing 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus. Kansas city among nine cities warned by the White House Task force they are in danger of becoming new hot spots. Were seeing a lot of activity that has been against Public Health advice. House parties of up to hundreds of people, a lot of backyard parties. Reporter chicagos mayor threatening to shut down the lakefront, posting these images on social media after witnessing what she
Picked for the Vice President ial nomination and the first woman of color. The announcement came in a text and then a tweet. Xhar Kamala Harris known by so many locally as the daughter of oakland has officially been tapped as Vice President bidens running mate. She is the first black female and the first Indian American on a president ial ticket. This news was overwhelming to the cocalifornia state director of south asians for biden in the bay area. For those of us who worked on her campaign, as a woman of chore, as an Indian American, i cant tell you what this feels like. Im happy. Reporter senator harris was among several women biden was considering for the vp position including Elizabeth Warren and karen bass. In a tweet biden explained why he picked harris saying she worked closely with his late son beau when she was attorney general of california. I watch as they took the big banks, lifted up working people and protected women and kids from abuse. I was proud then and im proud now