Comments, what President Trump is saying about civil rights icon john lewis, days after lewis funeral. His answer when asked whether lewis was impressive. Police storm a bank where a man holding a hostage claimed he had a bomb. Ellen under fire. New claims about her show and the allegedly toxic Work Environment as ellens wife breaks her silence. From the swimmer balancing a glass of milk on her head in the pool to 6yearold taking the boxing world by storm. All the trending stories for your Tuesday Morning. Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. We begin with hurricane isaias making landfall overnight packing winds over 80 Miles Per Hour. The eye of the hurricane is visible on radar right now. The storm came ashore near shington to new york are in the bullseye. Overnight heavy wind and rain brought down trees and power lines in North Carolina leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. Isaias is now taking aim at the midatlantic. Preparations under way with floodwalls and sand
No choice. We are one week from school and no plan to reopen our schools. Reporter part of a national day of action happening in 30 cities across the country. Educators fighting for a safe and equitable start to the school year. No inperson learning until is proven safe and cleaning and ppe and access to online learning. The biggest fear is that this district doesnt care shone this for many years they dont care about the students or the workers enoughhe udts safe. The naacp issued a stern letter speaking out against the plan. This is not the way to do it. My concern is if you have children and these folks are out there demonstrating, you may traumatize those children. Both myself and the Teachers Union president received public threats on facebook and in order to keep our community and everyone here safe, we decided to change the route of the caravan to avoid a possible conflict. Reporter Oakland Unified School district told abc7 they will not make any comments about demand with labor
That had 0. 07 of notice we barely get to 80 inland and 72 around the bay and everybody in the 50s and 60s with those breezy conditions at 7 00. Even cooler tomorrow with more drizzle on the way. Ill have that coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. First i want to get over to jobina who has a traffic alert. Jobina. Thank you, mike. Im tracking a sig alert right now in oakland that is causing a major backup on westbound 24. I want to bring you to the maps because it and this started as a multicar crash involving three vehicles and then a second crash in there and you can see the speeds are low down to 4 and 11 Miles Per Hour in the area. Again westbound 24 before College Avenue. Avoid this if you can and ill give you an update when the chp has opened the roadway. Reggie . All right, thank you, jobina. All this week abc7 news committed to building a better bay area by looking at education and how School Districts are handling going back to school. The San Jose Unified School dis
Georgia and her work to later organize unions. History, a in georgetown history professor talks about culture and society in the 1920s. So now, civil war fashion. Investigating the power of objects to be emblematic of Historic Events and to help us understand the past. As a historian at new york historical, i work alongside these treasures every day, and its my great privilege to use them in exhibitions as well. The inspiration for our program, civil war in 50 objects how do only 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . As the cover shows, we managed tactile objects and images. The hardest thing to preserve the civil war in 50 objects the hardest thing to preserve are textiles. The objects we discussed today, some are extraordinary in terms of how they survived. Absolutely, and without further ado, lets get to our four things. We have some military buttons, a footlocker, a drum, and a uniform. Ery interesting in aggregate, they do tell the story of uniform, outfitting a civil war soldie
Now to the race for a vaccine for covid19. It comes amid new guidance about sending kids back to school. Earlier i spoke with dr. Imran ali. Thank you for joining us this morning. New jersey will now require kids to wear a mask in School Buildings even while social distancing. I want to know, what are your thoughts on that . Well, a lot of schools want to open, a lot of parents want their kids to get back to school. And some places are definitely hot spots. For example, mississippi. 1 out of every 5 covid tests are positive, and icu beds are filling up. Governor tate tomorrow is going to talk about schools reopening, and i think masks are going to be a big factor. We know cdc guidelines are people, kids over the age of 2, 2 and above, should wear a mask. And the mask should be wellfitting. I recommend parents not to get the ones that go around the ears because then kids fuss around with them. Theyre either too tight or too loose. Get a nice, colorful, comfortable mask, but it is now im