Days after libyas u. N. Recognized government made significant gains the head of the rival administration its always has arrived in moscow for talks. Also had the coronavirus reaches another milestone 7000000 confirmed cases worldwide a record surge isnt stopping india lifting restrictions. Ok lets get going with this half hour with the unveiling of legislation in the u. S. Congress that could change the future of how Police Departments in america operate it follows protests demanding justice over the death of george floyd 2 weeks ago house members paused for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to on a mr floyd was pinned to the ground by a Police Officer with a need to his neck for the same time the democrats are proposing legislation that would make it easier to prosecute Police Misconduct several cities and states already to take action including minneapolis where mr floyd died. The justice and policing act of stablish is a bold transformative vision of policing in america never again should t
Of america in shackles. We know we have a long way to go and we are living with the legacy of slavery and jim crow and racial oppression that continues to permeate every aspect of american life. And we have seen that over the last several months in such a stark and striking fashion. The covid19 pandemic, the Public Health crisis and the economic crisis, has impacted everyone, but disproportionately impacted the africanamerican. Ommunity in terms of pain, in terms of suffering, in terms of economic. Islocation, in terms of death and then, of course, were dealing with the continued epidemic, at the same time, of Police Violence, Police Brutality, police abuse. All across the land. Every aspect of our lives. Shopping while black. George floyd. Sleeping while black. Breonna taylor. Jogging while black. Ahmaud arbery. The names are too numerous to mention. But those tragedies are just a microcosm of what we confronts in our communities ideally a daily basis and we want to have a discussion
Welcome to mornings on 2 and during this coronavirus pandemic unexpected side effect of the pandemic shut down is getting rid of cash tolls and the toll takers on the bridges. The chronicle reports this has been in the works for some time and efforts to put the plan into action have been ramping up. Leaders from the metropolitan Transportation Commission hope to have an all electronic cash plan to look at. The ultimate goal is to make the switch by the end of the year. We drive across bay area bridges and it will be weird you know to have this Going Forward where we will not have any people in those little booths. I am assuming thises has to do with financial and health. But especially these days, more and more, i seek out human contact and i chose to stand in line at target to be cashed out instead of self check out. So, i think about the people who have been working as toll takers and may look for Something Else to do. You never want someone to lose their job. I remember when the Gol
Or whatever the processes would be, for a more permanent way of making sure that hiring is really more effective as you have shown . Thank you, commissioner, for that question. Just so you know that part of what we did is that we dismantled some of the norm processees that we used in hiring. But even with that, if you looked at just the nursing, for instance, that theres some things that we did which we can keep as we go forward. And im hoping that it will also blend and lend into the rest of the type of hiring that we do. With the directive from the mayor we were able to bypass some of the Civil Service rule processes in terms of hiring. But what we did specifically is to start looking at with the nurses and hiring without having to wait for the supervisor who is doing the clinical work to do the interviews and the processing. And h. R. Took control of that. And those are some of the things that we can do and to look at in the future as we start in our hiring process. One of the key t
Running last night . How did you guess . We had a fan in our room and the boys his room, and it was still too hot. Well Steve Paulson is here with what we can expect today. Hang in there for one more day, gasia. We have a bit of fog on the coast, emphasis on a little bit. Theres just not a lot, but there is some, so we might be cooler by the coast. 50s, 60s, livermore, 62, plus 5 livermore, santa rosa, also 4. So today will be warm to high, but by tomorrow, temperatures will start to cool down, we could have a good 20, 25 degree drop. We have 70s, 80s, also 90s. Over to sal now and an update on traffic going on out there. Anything you would like to start with sir . The east bay usually, steve, because that is where all the slow traffic is, the east bay and the bay bridge, of course. That is one of the places where we do see a lot of slow traffic, and we have also seen more congestion on a 80 in oakland. But really it is the bay bridge, i dont think i showed it enough. If you are lookin