By japanese military. Melissa kane is at that statue in st. Marys square. Reporter we are here at the comfort Women Memorial in San Francisco. When the statue was unveiled about a month ago this whole area was private land. Because of an unrelated transaction this whole area just became public land. That means that is a public statue and it is an expression of the citizens of San Francisco. That change the facts is what has the mayor of osaka threatening to sever sister city ties with San Francisco. You would say it is just a statue however i think that we can see from all of the stuff going on around statues in the country about the confederacy how important that user. Reporter judith is the president of the comfort women justice coalition. They deny the they flamed women for sex and world war ii claiming that they were not coerced or numbers were very small. This started in 2013. The then mayor of osaka said that it was right to have comfort women. That soldiers needed comfort women.
Traditional life safety. Already in the state of florida as well. 34,000 troops. One hundred helicopters and crews are ready to support our state. Be ready today. Do not sit and wait. Prepare right now. The strongest hurricane ever reported. Monster Hurricane Irma killing ten people in the caribbean. She is now barreling towards florida. Starting on saturday from the safe lentic coast. And then present trumpet declaring the state of emergency for South Carolina allowing that state to access federal funding. Welcome to risk and reward. Category five Hurricane Irma is racing towards the eastern seaboard she is expected to hit florida on sunday. I mandatory evacuation is in effect for the florida keys and the mayor of miami is calling everyone to evacuate as well. People are looking to get out of the way. There was already a path of wide spread destruction. Nearby the small island of barbuda left basically uninhabitable. They suffered damage in about half of that residence there are now h
Meteorologist chris sowers is here with the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Chris that doesnt look pretty, man. Reporter its not going to be dreary with rain, its going to be dull and cloudy and fog, kind of a miserable start to the weekend, when you look at all the sun weve seen this week, you you can count them on one hand, almost like seattle. Lets go over to the visibility report. You can see we have dense fog settling, especially the outlying suburbs where the visibility is reduced a half mile. 1. 5 in millville. Lots of headaches out there. The fog doesnt look like it wants to lift anytime soon. This is midday, still under a mile. Throughout the afternoon, the visibility begins to improve only to see the fog roll back in overnight tonight. When you look at the upper levels we can only lift that fog we can get into sunshine, it doesnt appear that will happen, youll see gray skies and areas of fog. A dull start to the weekend. 53 degrees, it will be on the mild side. When
Sowers is here with a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast as you plan your weekend. Reporter have you ever been to seattle . No i have not. Reporter this is what it looks like in seattle. That is what it looks like all morning log. We have a lot of fog that is settled in. On a positive note, the good news it kept the temperatures on the mild side. Later this afternoon youll see gray out there, with low level clouds and the rain moves in sunday, it does not look like a nice weekend overall. We issued an alert this morning, use extra caution, the visibility is greatly reduced. Were seeing dense fog along with patchy mist. Slow down the traveling speeds with the fog this dense its easy to out run your headlights. Half mile in reading. 3 in lancaster, and 1. 3 in millville. We have clouds in place, because theres so much fog the clouds are close to the ground even though were seeing breaks in the cloud deck its difficult to see the sunshine threw that today. The call from a
Thomas jefferson to steve jobs. People with character disorders that had difficulty butting to other people were amazing movers and shakers. I wrote a chapter on jefferson. Jefferson, of course, is americas most articulate proponent of freedom and most articulate enemy of tyranny. With his own daughters, he was a control freak. He told them what to do, what to wear. Jefferson also was an amazing politician. We all know how brilliant he was. Election ofut in 1804 he was jefferson was a great visionary thinker and a great leader, but as a dad, soso. He also neglected his daughters a little bit. Paris come heo sticks them at a convent school. One of his daughters famously had to be shepherded from london when she comes to visit him in paris. This question of how one leads a nation and a family sometimes there is a big disconnect between the public and the private man. Another example would be franklin roosevelt, who was a great communicator. He was one of the great president s of the 20th