This has been a journey of love for me. I grew up in southwest iowa in a very rural part of the state and the perseverance, the dedication, the hard work my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime, opportunities in my lifetime and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting certainly. People will face challenges through their lifetime, but we all should understand those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. Im just blessed to live in the great United States of america and to have these opportunities presented to me and that is what i hope to share in the story with other people. Host the book is relatively revealing and we will go through some of those things you thought was that tough to expose your self like that . Guest it was. It was very hard. I went through a number of challenges in my lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman with my first boyfriend and really suffered from that, but then moving on, going thr
More than a 157,000 acres which is contra costa Alameda Santa clara status, la and san joaquin counties and then if you look to the south at the bottom of the map. Thats the c august lightning complex fire it is from 48,000 acres in san mateo and santa cruz counties homes just completely destroyed thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. Well now were going to focus on the czu lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. Take a look at this map all the red shows the thermal activities from the flames now we do know this morning that several homes have been destroyed 64,000 people have been forced to evacuate from both of those counties kron fours reyna harvey now live in Santa Cruz County she has the latest for us you know this fire has been devastating for a lot of the families thousands of people who had to evacuate right here in scott valley right behind you were going to show you theyre having their meeting this is the First Responders that have be
To hot weather expected although not quite as hot as we were early in the week. Temperatures similar to yesterday after taking a little fall. Temperatures around antioch in the upper 90s. Pacifica and Half Moon Bay in the mid to upper 60s. The cloud and fog is back. What to expect for this afternoon, coming up. Lets check on the highways now. Good morning. We have traffic doing very well. I want to talk about the east bay where we still have slow traffic that wont go away, it seems. Theyre clearing a crash that was a hitandrun at south 81 near whipple in that house traffic going slow. Otherwise, San Francisco had a stalled vehicle in an earlier accident that excluded. And traffic into San Francisco from east bay looks okay. No problems on the Richmond Bridge this morning and on 880 in oakland, this traffic is moving along very nicely. Brick newsprint more destruction caused by the walbridge buyer, part of the bigger lmu complex fires in the north bay. This video from this morning showi
Its a hard time and everyone is feeling it in different ways, and a lot of folks are reluctant to tune into a Political Convention right now, or politics in general. I am here tonight because i love this country with all my heart, and it pains me to see so many people hurting. I have met so many of you, heard your stories, and through you i have seen this countrys promise. Thanks to so many who came before me, thanks to their toil and sweat and blood, i have been able to live that promise myself. Thats the story of america. All those folks who sacrifice and overcame so much in their own times because they wanted something more, Something Better for their kids. There is a lot of beauty in that story. There is a lot of pain in it, too, a lot of struggles and injustice and work left to do. And who we choose as our president in this election will determine whether or not we honor that struggle and chip away at that injustice and keep alive the very possibility of finishing that work. I am
This year, it really is. The past few months have tested us all. We have lost more than 170,000 family members and friends to covid. This tragedy is compounded by the loss of jobs and income. But it is not just the past few months. The past four years have left us, as a nation, diminished and divided. And yet in the middle of the fear and sorrow and the uncertainty, people have come together. Because they know we are better than this. America is better than this. And so we choose to act, inspired by the three sacred words that breathe life into our nation. We the people. Ok. I am ready. Lets go. Are we ready . I think i learned it in middle school. Can i say this in spanish . Line,uld i read just this or the whole thing . Strength. Liberty. Lets do this. We the people. We the people. We the people. We the people. We the people. We the people of the United States. In order to form. A more perfect union. Establish justice. Tranquility. Provide for the common defense. Promote the general