Give a warm welcome to the stage. [applause]. I hope you are having as much fun as i am at this festival. [applause]. I think of students in college a few of you were in college a few years ago as the best thing to do is to take the teacher not the course and here i think of things to take these incredible authors and be in a room with them. Whatever theyre talking about. The only problem is there is someone in every room. That you want to be with. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. They have also done some the other interesting things. American shots. He is the cn and historian. He has a little bit of basement studio and envy of john meacham. Whos got that at msnbc. Of course the great tester in 1919. Just a transformative book that is so important. Many of us know him from his basement with morning joe. The assignment is to talk about who is your favorite historical figure. I want to make that a free and fun thing. Maybe later we would get into other elements. W
Necessary in order to help reduce the spread of coronavirus kron fours will tran. Is following that part of the story for us this morning, joining us live with the latest on how this is going to be impacting. Everybody will. Its already impacting millions of people on the 7 Million People a lot of them are still out and about but lets face it the bulk of them will be at home look at this and we want to give you this great Vantage Point to show you the traffic and to San Francisco. Yes, thousands of cars clearly but the volume nothing that we would see on a normal Tuesday Morning. But people are still coming in because essential services, including you can see the truck driver because groceries and other goods are heading to the Grocery Store. So you dont have to rush. A lot of places have made drastic changes. Let me show you some video all over the bay area. Restaurants, including San Francisco, san jose all across Alameda County. They are either shutting down our drastically reducing
This crisis. This Opioid Crisis that has taken hold starting in Rural America and you do such a great job of telling the story maybe i could begin by asking you why the title dope sick. What is dope sick mean . Its kind of an inyourface title. We need a reality check on how bad this issue is gotten. I think a lot of our leaders and a lot of people in our country still dont have. Dope sick is the word that her number number from users. It is the word they use to describe the very painful withdrawal when they cant get the opioids that they are now addicted to. Its like the worst flu times a hundred. His diarrhea, vomiting, nauseating restless leg and somebody early in the book says, at the end of the journey, you are not doing drugs to get high, you just doing it not to be dope sick. I was in importance concept. The people and get. Says not only to get that but try to not get sick. In an ironic way. Right you started out this journey as a reporter in virginia. You discovered that there w
Longer commute. Yes, were talking about folks driving in for stockton and tracy and everything is moving smoothly. The live shot a good amount of traffic coming through the area. On a very early commute like we have now, before 6 00 in the morning, you may see a little more traffic on the roads, some folks try to edge in, get in early, get out early if youre looking at perhaps shorter hours this week. A lot of vacations floating around. South bay along the peninsula no problems but slowing as they clear through derek and menlapark, no problems for the bay bridge. Back to you, laura. Thanks, mike. 5 01, breaking in afghanistan, dozens are feared dead after a powerful explosion and military assault. You can see the huge plume of smoke from kabul. A car bomb exploded outside a Defense Ministry building. Militants then fired on that same building following the blast. So far theres no official announcement on the number of dead but the New York Times spoke to one source who says at least 40
Go. And well speak to folks who rode the gondola and what they had to say about the center reopening. I thought it was great. It is a nice way to go up and it adds another feature. Sort of like an Amusement Park ride. It has been a long time since ive been to disneyland. It reminds me of that. Very short. It is good. A little shaky but it is cool. Yeah, yeah, i like it. Reporter now there were infrastructure issues, one of the reasons why Transit Center was closed to close for eight months. They found two beams on the third level bus deck at fremont street but after a review by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and the metropolitan Transportation Commission they concluded the issue was specific to the fremont street location and that is why the Transit Center is reopened to the public. So today the rooftop park, the grand hall, food trucks and arte spoke to, theyre glad everything appears to be back to normal. I was frustd that they had to spend money and time fixing it but im glad n