Introduce myself first. So you know not who to complain to later. My name is gregg barrios. Former book editor of the express news, worked for many years and los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times, currently i write for the los angeles review of books. I am on the board of directors for the National Book critics circle. Im also the author of the book of poetry that deals with cute its called look house. This time i would like to introduce iowa miriam pawel. She is the former Pulitzer Prize winner and spent 25 years working at news day and the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of Caesar Chavez, a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the iconic leader. She is also written the union of their dreams, a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of Caesar Chavez united form workers move. She recently received the National Endowment for the fellowship to support her work in the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. applause thank you
Not much of a breeze. 50s, 60s on the mild side. Southern california, beginning to pick up in intensity. The moisture moving in. If you have travel plans eye o looks lakeththunderstorm activity, Sierra Nevada, a lot of show. For us, this low will play in our weather tomorrow, with a big cooldown. Warm and muggy at times. Mix of fog is sun and higher clouds. Wednesday this to friday, a cooldown. 60s, 70s, 80s to near 90 degrees for some. After today we will start a significant cooling trend. Sal is here. The usual busy or something new . A couple of items out there, steve, that slowed things down. The usual is the bay bridge. You can see traffic is backed up as it normally is for a 15 minute wait before you make to it the span. Northbound 880, oakland, there is a crash near 23rd. Beginning on northbound 880. Northbound 880 slowing fromel the colosseum. The crash is here at 23rd. Use 580 westbound. A crash on the sanol. Looks good in to san jose. No problems on the peninsula or the south
The Us First Lady Melania Trump Takes Centre Stage at the Republican National convention and calls for people to come together over racial differences and while debate rage on about issues of race, lets focus on the strides we have made and Work Together for a better tomorrow for everyone. And coming up. Do friendships fizzle out if you dont see people for more than three months . An academic well be speaking to says yes. Plenty of you say say thats just not true. Well talk to him in 45 mins. Hello. A third night of protests against the shooting of an unarmed black man by police in the American City of kenosha has ended in violence. Three people have been shot, and one has been killed following an apparent gun fight between rival groups of protestors. Jacob blake was shot several times by police on sunday opening the door of his car. His lawyers say at least one of the bullets went through his spinal cord and he will need a miracle to walk again. Cbs reporter pauline le gave us the lat
Giveback in the markets, happening as the tenyear yield was climbing and that was concerning a lot of watchers of the market. The dow futures are indicated down by 70 points. The s p futures are dune by about 8. 5. These are some bigger movements because the dow was down by about 25 points yesterday. Giving back all of the gains that had it had made this week. Gains have been modest and this morning you see some red arrows. Didnt get out of hand yesterday, got down 50, 60 points a few times that i saw. And it closed down a little. Pretty good numbers, though, yesterday, to be down. And i dont know if there is anyone today reporting that could turn that minus 70 around at this point. I dont know. I dont know. Would have to be a good report by facebook was really good. And it makes sense because no one likes likes the stocks anymore. The shares traded higher after the earnings and revenue beat the street. The social network reporting an uptick in daily visitors to its service, also sayin