Lunchtime. Still breezy enough as you can notice though just not as windy as this morning as and winds remaining with us enough into the early evening that yeah, fire danger is still of concern today, especially when youre talking temperatures as warm as we will have them again. 60s 70s and even some 80s to kick off this morning. Berkeley conquered Fairfield Beach at 77 degrees falling out of the 80s in berkeley just minutes ago. Alameda at 75 right now. Later todays daytime highs still in the upper 90s inland, mid 90s by the bay and some mid 80s right along the coastline. Robin. All right, thank you for the update lets update the morning commute which is off to a very quiet start to like what i see out there and checking the drive into San Francisco. So lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza there it is traffic nice and smooth here at the pay gates easy going across the upper deck and no major issues there downtown San Francisco, heres 92. Its our busiest yes, we have a bi
Today, david. David this no argue about it. We were supposed to have the second president ial debate last night. Instead we got dueling town hall meetings. One moderated by abc news George Stephanopoulos and form Vice President joe biden. The other Savannah Guthrie and featuring donald trump. The contrasts were sharp including the economy and the president s response to the coronavirus. President trump i now it was a big threat. At the same time i dont want to go out and say everybodys going to die. We make up 4 of the worlds population. We have 20 of the worlds deaths. We are in a situation where we have 210plus thousand people dead. Whats he doing . Nothing. President trump we had the greatest economy in the history of our country last year. Including the state of florida where we are now and pennsylvania and North Carolina and every place. We had the greatest economy we ever had. We had to close it down. We saved two million lives. We are opening it up. We have a vshape and its comi
Pizza. One stock serving up serious game thanks to leftovers the dow was up over 500 points the rally, driven in part by President Trump who made an about face on stimulus, putting aid back in play before the november election. So, can we expect this rally to continue you know what struck me about todays rally is that we what is that, mel that we closed nine points higher than when we closed yesterday. We are better off today hoping for piecemeal parts to the stimulus plan than yesterday i made it a point, albeit clumsy, that President Trump, in my opinion, is extraordinarily focused on the stock market. The administration has said it for years, the stock market is a report how well hes doing so for him to tweet something and then watch the dow jones g straight line, it had to be upsetting. I thoughi didnt think it wouldn six hours later, but we are here i think they have learned how to speak the language of the stock market to your point, nothing has changed, but here we are increment
Candidate, eugene debs. This is a class at columbia university, of course i called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict and the gilded age, the populist movement, and now we are sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, a lot of labor unrest, Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the four. Municipal reform, many other things, but today our subject is, the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in new early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States, but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particu
Orinda with more dan. Well this is literally the calm before the storm right now there is absolutely no wind at this point but theyre expecting gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour in this region and other regions throughout the bay area beginning tomorrow night that coupled with possibly triple digit heat has firefighters on alert. As the sun bear down on Contra Costa County friday winds remain calm with temperatures in the 70s. But come this weekend a recipe for disaster high temps low humidity and winds gusting to 50 Miles Per Hour. Looking at very high fire danger and as you point out. We got an awful lot of dry fuel out thats just waiting to burn it was last october when Contra Costa County experienced similar conditions. And had a fire siege, 10 major fires and 15 hours including one that jumped the carquinez bridge. Sleep with one eye open. Those who live in Contra Costa County have been through this before and are ready, we know or pc is and all of our personal documents and should be