Day spirit is still bright, just a little subdued. Cornell bernard is live at ocean beach in San Francisco with more. Cornell . Reporter hey, there, happy 4th. Behind me, are cseal aop holida. Beach goers, as you can see, did come out today, but its far from crowds that weve seen during pasepter maryreedn and her two sons, leo and lucas are lugging gear to the field at krissy field because parking welcome back news. Lots are closed. The parkings closed. Instead of kicking back on this independence day, many to the theres a pandemic, but were going to have fun at the beach, no matter what today. Streets. The trumppence outandout reporter w the rise, san protest was held in San Francisco. If you are in the area of 24th francisco officials have urged and mission you might have seen folks to stay home this holiday. The group. E btao rally t the r the parking lots are off limits. The beach is open, but not as crowded as a traditional 4th of july. This year, we asked everyone to stay home. R
Sons are lugging gear to the beach at chrissy field because parking lots are closed. By the looks of it, many people stayed away. Ach, no matter what, today. E p, with covid infections on the rise, San Francisco officials have urged folks to stay home this holiday. The parking lots at ocean beach are off limits. The beach is open, but not as crowded as a traditional fourth of july. This year, we asked everyone to stay home. Pacifica closed all the beaches in her town. Large groups of people, as we know, is one of the top causes of the spread of the virus. So we want to make sure our prabop o o s kept safe. Acul fourth. Kserut dt. Most have been cancelled. No patriotic parades, either. Normally, where you can find a big parade on the fourth, today, the streets are silent. Barely, a hint of red, white, and blue. Today is a little gloomy. Its not the same. You dont see acotions out. Ginger trask says her chocolate store might have been selling ice cream and drinks to parade goers. Its les
President to learn more about president and order your copy today wherever books and ebooksare sold. Now on book tv like to highlight them programs from our archives political satirist p. J. Orourke. Over the past 20 years hes appeared on tv posted 20 times. First up in 2007 when our monthly call in program in that. He discussed his politics, writing and why uses humor to address political andsocial issues. This picture on the left, is that a real picture mark. Oh yeah. Not only area that was i would guess 71. Not quite positive. Floor your politics in 1971. I think a martian left. That would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwinger but i didnt make enough sense to actually be a communist or a trotskyite or anything like that. And the transformation of her it was gradual. The place and back i do about this. There is a book coming out from the huber institution. I was a radical leftist, very much in favor of some sort of marxist socialist thing in america. I got a job. I got
Big changes coming in the next couple of days . Reporter yeah. You can see right now live there are quite a few people at the beach at the moment, but significantly fewer than we saw last weekend. Those changes you mentioned are all part of the newly announced amendments to the shelter at home orders in bay area counties. Now, many residents of pacifica actually tell me theyve been staying away from the beaches on weekends, in part because of so many people here. Today there seemed to be more locals. A special detail of the Pacifica Police department has been going to each group of people and telling them the rules. So far, people who do not live within five miles according to the rules have been leaving with no issues after talking with police. No citations have been handed out. But this weekend officers are giving people a headsup that lounging will no longer be allowed at the beach. For some residents of the area, coming here is a relief, but its still far from normal. Its strange.