Of words with campus officials. Confusion continues to swirl around the event. Today the berkeley patriot told kqed the event was being canceled while may loilo yiannos said it wasnt. Joining me now is the faculty member. More than 200 faculty members signed the letter. Whats your reaction to the confusing developments today . I think this confusion part of the problem. It speaks to the Chaotic Organization of the event itself. That chaos, i believe, breeds danger. I think it breeds threat. It means that this event is going to be hard to contain. Its going to be hard to police. And it threatens the kind of violence that those of us that led the boycott are most eager to avoid. Do you think University Officials should have allowed this event to happen in the first place . No, i dont. I think that the university of california at berkeley is an institution of Higher Learning dedicated to the production, preservation and dissemination of new knowledge. That is our role. And the everyday fr
Today. Right now the storm is over pennsylvania. Torrential rain and in some places, blizzard conditions. Here is the big picture as best we know it. 67 in the caribbean. Close to 8 million customers in 15 states and the District Of Columbia have no electricity. Spent last night in red cross operated shelters. This may be the worst storm ever to hit new york city. One of the Biggest Challenges is where the massive subway system is shut down, tunnels and stations are filled with high water. No idea when the trains will be running again. This is a difficult situation. Take a look at laguardia airport. The runways are submerged and levels were so high they reached the jet lanes where people usually walk on to the planes. An entire neighborhood is destroyed by fire. At least 80 homes burned to the ground in the new york burro of queens. This is an awful image. People are going through hell right now. Tell us about it. You know, they really are. About 80 homes, the fire official telling us
Terror. Our president lies pathologically, then he attacks the free press, he attacks the judiciary, and this is what start s authoritarianism. And betsy devos nomination for education secretary. A nightmare. A nightmare. A series of storms continues to threaten much of the west. S treepoand wer l winesere knocked down and travel was a mess. This doesnt happen very often in seattle. And nobody knows what to do when it shows. Whoo the World Champion patriots are back home in boston. Up parade for that city. History. 172 Million People watched. A police dog grabs a man to the ground. All that you guys seem to get along. We get along. I dontno kw if hell admit it. How do you know . I do that in life. Its like i understand. And all that mattered its nice to see things work out finally for tom brady. He suffered a twoho wle hours before turning around and winning. Theres another inspiring motto in america, that in america, rich white guys married to a model can still make it. It shows up on
Temperatures maybe feeling like 105 especially on monday for dnc. Monday could be the worst of the factoring in humidity. We will get through it. Hot typical humid weekend, you know how to stay cool, stay indoors, hit the pool, hit the shore. Humidity could be worse this time of the year. We are getting a break tomorrow from the humidity but still hot talking about mid to 90 degrees, for the temperatures. Seventyseven, right now in philadelphia right now, light breeze at seven miles an hour, and feels like 79, row 70s in allentown. Mid 70s in reading. We have warm start already to our saturday, doylestown checks in at 73 degrees. Seventyfive in quakertown. The excessive heat warning in red philadelphia surrounding suburbs that will go in effect at 11 00 this morning and areas in orange, south jersey, central and southern delaware is under a heat advisory. Worst of the heat in the city no advisories a at this point to the north and west up toward the Lehigh Valley but there is a excessi
Tomorrow morning. The fencing is up surrounding the Wells Fargo Center. With the Democratic National Convention Starting on monday, the security plan is about to go live. We have gone through a very extensive, ten month planning period and we are down to the final day. Everything essentially goes live tomorrow afternoon. Reporter in an exclusive interview with cbs3, james henry, secret service expect agent in charge of the Philadelphia Field Office says his team is ready to pro tech those vips heading in to philadelphia for the dnc. What are your biggest security concerns. I get paid to be concerned but i have seen this plan evolve over the last ten months and i have been to the Wells Fargo Center i cant tell you how many times ape walk perimeter and walked Wells Fargo Center. Im very confident with the security plan we have in place reporter henry says this plan has been reassessed and tweaked after terror events like the truck attack in nice. We do account for many different things,