1990s as a successor to the organization of the same name that originally built and administered grants tomb in new york city until it was transferred to the National Park service. The gma is dedicated to the preservation of grants tomb, the largest monument in the western hemisphere. Grant, the principal author of Union Victory in the civil war, and our nations 18th president. We revived the gma tradition to commemorate grants birthday with a dinner in new york city. The program each year has been an educational one, highlighted by a hollow a colloquy in which general David Petraeus interviews a historian about different aspects of grants story. Another celebration is the commemoration of grants birthday at his tomb. Because of the pandemic, we are advanceriencing, both if vince have been canceled, but we thought it was important to celebrate grants birthday. It also means we can reach a great many people who otherwise would not have been able to make it to dinner in new york. For tho
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Lets check in with our friend mike nicco. I think that rainy weekend really helped us keep away from each other. It really did. It was the first time i got a little stir crazy to be honest with you. I wanted to go outside and every time i did i looked at the radar, but i found plenty of stuff to watch on tv. We still have that wet weather around and not quite as wide spread but just as intense, if not more intense in some areas than it was yesterday. So, one on the storm impact scale for showers, thunderstorms and some small hail and snow level down to 3,000 feet. You can see right now mainly across the monterey bay and creeping northward as an area of low pressure and counterclockwise hurling up some showers and thunderstorms off the Santa Cruz Mountains there to the southwest earlier this morning. So, that gives you an idea of how much energy is in the atmosphere. Heres a look at the quiet sfo this morning and you can see wet weather possible all day today with temperatures well belo