Cspan2. Every weekend with the latest nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2, created by americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Good evening everyone and we are live. Im rita and on behalf of our bookstore i welcome you to our Virtual Event with [inaudible]. If you like to ask questions for the q a just ask a question button at the bottom of the screen. If you see any questions that seem interesting you can also vote for them and they will make their way to the very top of the list. If you are considering supporting our bookstore by purchasing a copy of our copy of todays featured book just click on the green below the viewers screen. You will be redirected to our website where you can complete your purchase. Our next Virtual Event is scheduled for tomorrow august 28 and you can learn more about that on a website as well as by following us on a crowd cast that said let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susa
During the colonial era. The Abigail Adams Historical Society cohost of this event. Anne welcome. Welcome to the ham heritage museum. I have the privilege of serving as executive director whose home here is that the hearing im heritage museum. What a treat to welcome you all here tonight in this sold out program. I would like to thank, on behalf of our board of directors and small staff, i would like to thank you all for making us part of your week. I would also like to thank jared hardest ski for travis traveling across the country to see us. For filming us, thank you to cspan. For those who cant see it can see it at a later date. Thank you to Abigail Adams and their board of directors who offered us this wonderful opportunity and to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker edith. Abigails rich history in this region inspires us every day. Thank you. The hingham Historical Society helps us understand all voices. We are currently in the midst of a campaign for the linco
Little bit of drizzle. 50s on the temperatures, except livermore and 60 degrees. It is cloudy, santa rosa, the clouds of made a surge up to 33 miles an hour now. Oakland, concord, napa, all at 10 southwest. Thunderstorms over the sierra are pretty active from around this time of year. 60s, 70s and low 80s. Over to sal, he will tell us. San jose, that is where we are starting. There is a crash, i can put it on the map, a car ran off the road and had a pole. The pole came down on the freeway. Northbound 85 near the expressway, traffic is relatively light. It is nice and early in the morning. If you want to avoid 85, you have plenty of good options like 280, into the west valley. That is nice and light. You can look at the bay bridge. The bay bridge is light. It is early enough for you to get a decent commute. Lets get back to the headline. The Oakland City Council, after a nine hour marathon meeting and said no to making more cuts to the Police Budget. Mayor libby shaft had a key vote. A
Actually fine i mean it depends on what direction youre driving morning. John where words when coming from yeah so fast as i like know yet we are definitely seeing some windy spots but others some of the place you would suspect that would be the windiest. At all as windy. So this is your look outside this morning. Weve got some clear skies definitely not a whole lot of fog wind right now is mostly coming in from the west but that definitely depends on where youre talking weve got to southwest steady breeze out in the east bay currently and from san jose its from the north so its a pretty mixed bag right now these are low wind so theyre definitely being disrupted by the terrain of the bay area so some areas are just more exposed some of you might notice that other areas going to be more on the calm side as we work our way through the course of your morning youll continue to see the steady wind its going to take us on into the afternoon eventually too. Today clear skies and comfortable t
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