I worked for many years in los angeles at the Los Angeles Times. I have written for the new york times. Currently i write for the los angeles review of books and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of a book lapoetry, that deals with causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former Pulitzer Prize winning editor. She spent 25 years working at newsday and to the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of cesar a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the charismatic leader. She has written the union of widely acclaimed into nuanced history of chavez is United Farmworkers Movement and nuanced history of a United Farmworkers Movement. She recently received an endowment for her work on the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. [applause] thanks, gregg. Gregg hi miriam. Gg. Iam hi, gre gregg i want to ask you something i feel is important what brought you through the writing about cesar chave
My name is greg barrios. Im a former book editor of the san Antonio Express news. I worked for many years in los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times, currently, i right for the los angeles review of books, and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of the book of poetry that deals with la causa. In fact, its called la causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former pulitzer prizewinning editor who spent 25, with the Los Angeles Times. The crusade of cesar chavez, a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the iconic, charismatic leader. She has also written the union of their dreams, a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of chavezs United Farmworkers Movement. She recently received a humanities endowment of fellowship to support the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam powel. [ applause ] thank you. Hi, miriam. Hi, greg. Thanks. Can you hear me . Im on. I want to
Take a live look at santa cruz. The county beaches are back open today. There are some restrictions out there including the boardwalk. It will remain closed for the foreseeable future. But, if you want to put your toes in the sand, you indeed now have the green light out there in Santa Cruz County. We cant take the show on the road we can still zip trip away, welcome along. Look, our first two zip trips we saw focused on education. We focused on the food industry. Today its all about summertime. I think about summertime, today, i think about going to the community pool. Unfortunately for some folks, that is not going to happen this summer. I think about backyard grills, not a halfdozen people, talking 50 people with red solo cups, that is not going to happen. Live music, i was supposed to see a concert next thursday. That is not going to happen. But besides all that, you can still go do things. The most important part about this, like many we have each other. We have family. I think it
29,000 people Alyssa Carlson from station k g e t in bakersfield joins us now with more alyssa this is your territory ridgecrest even though its 90 minutes away is your backyard. You cover that area what kind of reports are you getting were trying to determine the number of injuries, the amount of damage its dark there and i know its hard to get that information right now. The city fanned into the newsroom. Asked if we had any updates on the amount of injuries and they are telling me dont theyre saying dot. Multiple injuries have been reported as well as multiple fires by r county Fire Department and of course Emergency Responders are trying to get to those people as fast as they can but we dont know the severity of the injuries at this point the good news is at this point we do not have any reports of fatalities. So im sure that those First Responders have their work cut out for them. So what did you exactly seal. Tonight and can you compare that to the earthquake that you felt yester
Street on ramp. And you can see the flares that are across the street. They also have a chp officer stationed right there to block off the access this. Is how it has been tonight for the drivers trying to make it home, they encountered some heavy traffic. We got video earlier from the highway. There was a shooting, were told, that happened around 7 00 this evening on the eastbound lanes of 580. The chp spokesperson i just spoke to this past hour, she said they goat multiple calls from people around 7 00. They have transported two people to a hospital. They do not know what the condition of the two people are. She says she believes they are adults, but theyre trying to get information, theyve not yet made identification of those people. Now, as for the traffic, that snarling traffic all around the mcarthur maze, up and down the highways. We talked to several drivers about the frustration of getting around this. Here 1 what one had here is what one had to say. I getting theyre stock an i