A record breaking heat last week now expect uh they see you can see some fog hanging out across the bay making. Visibility on our bridges a little bit lower we saw last week when were so fog free so bay bridge as well as Golden Gate Bridge to have an impact their air quality is good all across the board across the bay if you head out to the central valley, couple of moderate pockets to know this morning. But all in all a pretty solid start to this morning, were back in the 40s and 50s for current temperatures, doubling your at 53 right now oakland and concord 58 few 40s up in the north bay, especially cool up there. And later on today 70s and 80s for almost all of our daytime highs, ill get to that still to come robin all right, thank you john were checking in on traffic. We want to update your commute into San Francisco. And it is packed right now at the bay bridge toll plaza so if you need to get into San Francisco. You got to have to sit in this line so make sure you get out there e
Is no longer very visible at the bay bridge but certainly is right along the coastline, so if youre near the coast watch out for those low visibility spots. Good air quality for most of the bay area improvements from last weeks moderate pockets of air. And temperatures this morning as i mentioned have that cool crisp feel to them especially in the north bay, were starting things off in the 40s in Santa Rosa Petaluma nevado and since elmo 50s for most of the rest of us later today at 70s and 80s for most of our daytime highs nothing wrong with that. I am talking slightly warmer days come tuesday and wednesday. Still ahead robin. I thank you john were heading back to the bay bridge toll plaza where we have a couple of trucks blocking right now this is right at the pay gates westbound as you approach i notice a truck thats been sitting there in that middle lane for quite some time and then i thought it was a stall, but check this out this truck. Its not moving either. So this may be a cra
There this morning, nothing active in blocking right now, but we had a crash that was lingering at the pay gates for over an hour. Weve had several stalls on the bay bridge and the skyway and traffic has not recovered the drive time looks a little better because it was 30 minutes. Now were down to 60 minutes, but its still crawling from west grand all the way up to the suspension span so get out there early and be prepared for that we had a crash here at the san mateo bridge that cleared we caught a traffic break in my last check. Now we have a stall westbound mid span. So the 14 minute trip may get a little better in the next hour from hayward off to the peninsula and one more all lanes blocked here leaving sunnyvale into Mountain View north what i wanted to 37 multicar crash still active so take to 80 instead of one oh one well check more problems coming up back to you. All right, thank you very much robin at 9 oh one we are now less than 15 days away from the november election today
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Not kovach. We were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called. Its the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was the game changer. The advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. So by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and a bit of an issu