Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
The senate. Votes on confirmation 4744. Live coverage on the senate on cspan two. Next, Congressional Black Caucus chair representative karen bass talks about Police Reform efforts in virtual discussion with the National Press club. Welcome to the National Press club. I am lisa matthews. Vice president of the club and Associated Press u. S. Video assignment manager. The killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis on may 25 convulsed the nation in black lives matter protests and renewed an urgent outcry for Police Reform. At the same time, our nation has struggled to contain the coronavirus, which has struck communities of color disproportionately. Today, we welcome Congressional Black Caucus chair, representative karen bass, a democrat from california. She has devoted her decade in congress to issues of criminal justice and disparities in health care. Representative bass chairs the Judiciary Committee subcommittee on crime and was passed by House Speaker nancy pelosi and judiciary
Coronavirus, which has struck communities of color disproportionately. Today, we welcome Congressional Black Caucus chair, bass, atative karen democrat from california. Chairs theive bass Judiciary Committee subcommittee and was passed by House Speaker nancy pelosi and judiciary chair jerry nadler, shepherding the George Floyd Justice in policing act, through the legislative process. T, which passed the house in late june, bans chokeholds and no knock warrants, as well as lowering the legal barriers for bringing civil and criminal charges against police for misconduct. A Police Reform bill offered by a republican senator, tim scott, has stalled in the senate after democrats complained it did not police abusesurb and key components, including an end to qualified immunity for police. Senator scott and representative bass have tried to negotiate a compromise. It is something representative bass can claim is a bit of a specialty. To congress in 2010, inresentative bass served the californi
Those to notice how they collect appearance a lot of county where although the reporting com out of fairfield now you can see the winds that are up there from the color is a shun thats going to be the case through the next about 48 hours or so and Solano County particularly temperatures for us now were in the midfifties lining up the east bay shoreline 58 for oakland, 59 conquered and the aac up to 6454 for livermore and up to the north bay. We had a hodgepodge of 50s 56 also for san jose, a touch cooler it is around the immediate they although inland notice, how it really increases thats due to the winds supporting temperatures because of dry air you tend to see temperatures kind of tumble. What we have going on here is a red flag warning is until thursday at 1 oclock is officially when it expired the cover so model county. Elsewhere not directly impacted, but we will see some dry air with all of that were going to show you that coming up in a bit for today, were at 64 an atm by 11 at
We will get decent rainfall out of this shower, possible thunderstorm activity, and before it gets here, low clouds are in place. Look for a cooler trend today, cooler and the wind will pick up. We have a delta wind, but tonight, bella will get closer, the coast, and the hills, the wind will crank up area out of the west southwest, the aforementioned low is on its way. It will go over the bay area and it will start to move north. This could give us lightning and thunderstorms. Scattered showers and brief heavy downpours for some. We will finetune this in the coming rainfall projections and 10 minutes. 60s and 70s on your temperatures. Over to sal, lets talk about that. 1978 was a long time ago. Way before my time, sal. I remember it well, steve. Good morning everyone. All right, we have a nice looking commute. One thing is that we dont have slowing at the bay bridge. The first four days we did, but on fridays, even during the pandemic we have friday like traffic, it looks like we have