[inaudible conversations] thank you all for joining us for an evening of active democratic voting for go this marks the oneyear anniversary of our series on leadership as some of you know that the purpose of the series is to call on leaders of National Politics education and advocacy the question is what is the characteristics that allow some people to leadership and some that struggle to overcome those obstacles that are part of eddie dynamic and true democracy so we are truly fortunate to have our anniversary with three legislators who live this question every single day. Also to note we are very proud to name the series in honor of those out that our proud partisans that have overcome a lot of diversity and show the confidence and creativity to build coalitions and as we enter the discussion that when the senator joins us to help found the center there are a few ideas and to provide some context but the first is we are aggressively bipartisan or not post partisan but actually recogn
Library district and the friends of the Morgan Library the prudent leather Library Friends in the trust, the murray family, the holding her confluence, can you see, Old Firehouse books and all of those who are here tonight who contribute to these events. Pat. Thank you david. We got some really great events coming up for you. Tonight again i want to remind you that our commitment to you is to get really great authors to you to come and talk to you. We can enjoy differences of opinion and provocative authors and i think youre going to hear the time. We welcome that. On friday and saturday october 18th and 19, is going to be the fort collins book festival we have various menus in old town. The theme is readable feast. Culinary arts hospitality and food systems. For more information you can visit ww w. Im sure you can find that on a variety of websites. And on tuesday october 29,. Will have Jonathan Waterman author of chasing denali. It investigates the reporting some hunting of the Mount
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The hearing will come to order. Good morning. Protecting american seniors from scammers who seek to defraud them is a central goal of this committee. In the past six years, we have hearings on frauds and scams we must find ways to combat those who steal billions from our seniors and block moving and robo calls. Callers generated more than 26 billion unwanted calls that reached mobile phones. When land lines are included, the number source to 48 billion. Alone, residents received 93 million robo calls last year. Of 73 callsverage to each person in our state. So far, scammers are on pace to generate more than 58 billion billion unwanted calls. Scammers are initiated by offshore robo callers using new theirlogies to perpetuate schemes. We will focus on a practice called spoofing. Scammers to mask their identity by replacing their caller id with one that fits their story. See the internal sheriffservice or department pop up, they understandably understand answer the phone. They are worried
Well get you out the door. This is the time of morning parents are planning the day for their kids so lets talk about the temperatures. Currently at 60 degrees in the south bay, but lets get right to that San Francisco unified school day, because were going to keep a lot of the cloud cover early on by about 10 00 a. M. Look at that 61 degrees and well stick to the low 60s, it isnt until 2 00, 3 00, well start to climb into the mid60s. So a little bit of a breezy day in San Francisco. Might even feel a little chilly at times and of course, west Contra Costa Unified School day getting warmer a lot quicker than San Francisco for sure. 10 00 a. M. , 68 degrees and then were talking 70s by the time the kids head out to lunch, at about 12 00, 73 degrees. Topping out in the 80s, parents. I bet the parents are happy to have the kids back in school. Is that so, mike . Probably so. It will also affect the parents and their commute. Toward the bay bridge where even though San Francisco is coming