Evaluated, several factors before lowering americas schedule from aaa to aa plus. The core of the issue is spending, which many say is out of control. Political divisions weigh heavily. Will this downgrade sway investors . What impact will it have in washington, a year before the next u. S. President ial election . We will get to those issues with our guests in moment. This report, first. It is not the assessment the u. S. Government was hoping for, but the Rating Agency fitch is defending its decision to downgrade americas credit score from aaa to aa please standby aa please standby most analysts agree but say the downgrade hurts the u. S. Treasuries ego more than the economy. The way i described it to our clients is if i was a pilot of our airplane and you were the passenger, it is going to get very bumpy, put on your seatbelt, but the airplane is not going to crash. Were going to get to our destination which i think will be higher than today, both the s p and the dow. The reasons fo
To justify enslaving black people. Amy the family of Henrietta Lacks, a black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her consent in 1951, has settled with Pharmaceutical Company Thermo Fisher scientific. We will speak to university of pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts about Henrietta Lacks and other issues including the criminalization of pregnancy following the overturning of roe v. Wade. Then to the pioneering legal school Kimberle Crenshaw about attacks on the teaching of history by Florida Governor and president ial candidate ron desantis and others. Nobody can be surprised when suddenly this effort to snuff out Critical Race Theory turns out to be an effort to make antiracism unspeakable, to make where studies undoable, to make intersectionality, one of the most widespread concepts across the discipline, something that collegedirected students can only take if the states allow them to. Amy we will also talk to Kimberle Crenshaw abou
News in San Francisco. Sky seven is over jennings street and donner avenue in the citys bayview district. About a dozen Police Officers are at the scene of a police shooting. Now, we have few details right now, but a Police Spokesperson says there were no gunshot injuries, even though an officer did fire shots. This happened in an Industrial Area about a block away from third street, next to a food storage facility. Police are expected to release more details soon. We will bring you more information as we gather it. Good evening. Im ama daetz and im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. Were following breaking news in antioch. Thats where a 20 acre grass fire has been putting up a lot of smoke in east contra costa county. The fire is burning near the antioch bart station next to highway four at the hillcrest avenue overcrossing. This is video from an alert wildfire camera nearby. Wind is a problem in that area. Firefighters have declared this a two alarm blaze. No structures are threatene
What are you doing for memorial day weekend . Well, it doesnt matter because we have all the angles covered. You can be flying. You can be driving, you can be sitting at your house, minding your business and living your best life. Good morning. Wherever you are and whatever youre doing, it is friday, may 24th. Hope youre having a great start to your day. Were going to start the check of our forecast with drew. Yeah. So the fog is back this morning and that leads to a cooler afternoon to finish out the week. Heres a live look. Our sfo camera. You can clearly see that marine layer is back. Also at the bottom of your screen you can see the tree is waving in the wind. We have some gusty conditions right now thats leading to a cool morning across many cities. A lot of us starting out in the 40s from sonoma to the city, low and mid 50s for fremont and san jose. But you probably noticed some of that wind and a lot of our cities, its been gusting over 30mph right now across the city. Its breez
Stretch of road slows to a crawl. A man is breaking down your best windows of time to leave today. Good morning. Welcome to friday, may 24th. Happy friday everyone. Were going to start the check of our forecast with drew. All right. So its going to feel a lot cooler out there this afternoon. You can feel those changes out there this morning. And you can see them as well. Heres a live look from the exploratorium camera. It is very foggy right now over the city along the coast and across parts of the bay. Shoreline temperatures right now were in the 40s and low 50s currently, but its not just these Cool Temperatures. The winds are quite gusty in some areas across the city. We have winds frequently gusting over 30mph. Right now, its a similar story through the delta. And this is just that cooler air rushing in to take out that mild pattern we have been in for more than a week. So youre going to feel a cooler afternoon on the way along the coast. Theres a lot of cloud cover today, not near