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Environment and a huge Cultural Community and worldwide Cultural Community. The benefit was called next week. Nicely dropped a blanket, find out more about that. Our guest sponsor will be interviewed by garrett graff, a bestselling historian who covers politics. He is a contributor to wired and cnn. Including the national bestseller, the only plane in the sky, and oral history of 9 11. Inside Robert Muellers fbi, governments also at the north shire bookstore, and they do things like that and will do that again. I am so pleased to welcome tim weiner. And the last four books. And the wonderful Richard Nixon biography. I remember it very fondly. And National Security and intelligence, he covered the cia, war in afghanistan, 14 nations for the New York Times, at princeton and columbia, to talk about his brandnew book the folly and the glory america, russia, and Political Warfare 19452020. Please join me in welcoming tim weiner and garrett pratt. America, russia, and warfare, the history of
Fours will tran in napa county and reyna harvey is in the east bay, but first want to start in the weather center. With the forecast john travel has that yeah guys its already nice and sunny out there conditions, calm and cool for the time being but thats not going to last the beautiful start to the morning. Sets us up for more fire danger ahead of us right now were in the midst of continued red flag warnings in the north bay adding to that list though in addition to it red flag warnings taking effect tonight for upper elevations in coastal peninsula areas and inland east bay areas. Daytime highs will be warm enough combined with those winds gusting as high as 40 Miles Per Hour and continued dry conditions that yes fire danger does remain of concern we may be calm right now, but winds pick up this afternoon. Tomorrow a little bit cooler, but winds even breezier come the afternoon. Thats why these red flag warnings extend not just through today, but on into tomorrow and even into friday
Across the bay area. Dry skies out there contributing to to it just as much as the winds in the heat too can see how clear dry it is all the way out to the coastline, so red flag warnings continue this morning for the same spots in the north bay as they have throughout the course of the week were adding on to that later today our inland, the east bay areas and coastal and upper elevations on the peninsula itself that includes areas like Half Moon Bay into the Santa Cruz Mountains. This is due to winds picking up this afternoon into evening and into tomorrow too gusting as high as 40 Miles Per Hour in spots and with temperatures as warm as they will be getting that is also contributing to it right now are fairly calm for most areas winds pick up later today and will continue to see high fire danger for north bay mountains. Inland east bay areas daytime highs upper 80s to low 90s today. That means extreme fire danger back in play. After this tomorrow will be a touch of a cooler day, but
Investigates the ivory trail theyve tried to seize it. Burn it but nothing has stopped the terrible trade in the legal ivory. Now. New tools straight from the lab that could find a crime thats brought elephants to the brink of extinction getting a seizure is a great victory but that owns are already dead. From rita davis and is an environmental biologist i am holding a tray of an elephant who should show us the high tech plan to stop the killing. Then celine stranded along the california freeway yes freeway doctor should do some r. Is a mechanical engineer chill show us whats been done to find out why this is happening at this thanks dave feeling distressed and im still taurus im an entomologist vamps our team then we. Know its do some science. Welcome to techno on phil toys joined by maria to davison and dr shu some laura because there were outlaws out there who are working in the shadows committing horrible acts against the fence list yet majestic animals were talking about the ivory