Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
Today in the bay starts right now. And very good tuesday, goodness gracious, its already thursday. Only go back to see how far youve come. Good thursday morning to you, thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im in for Marcus Washington on this thursday morning. Nice to see all four of you, kari. I know you have a forecast that looks gorgeous for the weekend. Yeah and hot, too. Weve been talking about how this weekend were going to be heating up. Excessive heat warnings will go into effect this saturday. So what well want to do is enjoy today because its still going to be really nice as we ith temperatures in the upper 50s. As we go toward our lunch hour, take it outside. Well be mostly in the mid 70s for many of our spots in the inland valleys. And then as we go into the afternoon, or this afternoon well see those temperatures in the low to mid 80s. Well talk more about this and that high heat ahead, thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the Early Morning commu
Mary lou im afraid. Lemonis listen, listen. Listen, come on. Mary lou im afraid. Lemonis my name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. Were not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. Were gonna wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. Its not always pretty. Everythings gonna change. Everything. But i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. This. Lets go to work. Is the profit. Chuck lets take a look at this because this fits well. Mary ellen yeah, this looks great. Lemonis swim by chuck handy is a familyrun Swimwear Company focusing on plus sizes. Mary ellen how does that look . Chuck yeah, i like it. Lemonis chuck founded the company in 2010 when his wife, mary lou, complained that plussize swimwear was hard to find. Chuck i love the cut. Its very slenderizing. Lemonis chuck was one of the leading salespeople in the swimsuit industry for decades. But when he started this company, he appointed himself a des
President follansbee this is House Services Board Meeting for the Public Awareness follansbee was connected and is having technical issues and call the meeting to order. We will await his arrival. Madam secretary, please call roll. [roll call] Vice President canning, you have a quorum. Vice president canning pleas e call the next item on the agenda. My apologies, given the fact that we are virtual, if you would please review the details for the publics awareness for participating in our virtual meeting. Due to covid19 Health Emergency and to protect our Board Members City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Community Room are closed. However members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken prestudent to the local state and federal orders. Community members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting. We have a few courtesy reminders. You can see on the screen now. All Public Commen
Disney shares moving after hours. Obviously, it has been a tough quarter for theme parks. Many theme parks still not reopened around the world. The ones that are open have limited capacity. Missing estimates on new streaming subscribers for the disney plus service but estimates but subscribers still coming in huge. Abigail doolittle has been following the market overs. Disney and activision as well. What are the theme this you are pulling out here . Abigail the bulls are just out. Nasdaq 100 for the on tech strength. Bonds slightly higher as well. That points to the uncertain d, will a deal get done . Down into this quarter about 20 year on the year. They just reported what some are calling a doomsday quarter. However, it is not as bad as feared. A big piece of it, those subscriber and streaming numbers. A modest miss, but right in the ballpark. Million more than 100 streaming subscribers. The fact that it is less bad, you have that stock up. A good quarteron but not quite enough. The