Officials here. First of all, it is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute catastrophic damage that we thought was likely based on the forecast we had last night but we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage and we have thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens whose lives are upside down because their businesses and or their homes have been damaged and we have lots of challenges around the state to say the least with a variety of things whether electrical power, Water Service or you name it and we have a lot of work to do but we are in better shape today than might have been the case and so we have a lot to be thankful for as well. As you know by now im sure hurricane laura made landfall as predicted last night or i should say this morning at 1 00 a. M. As a very strong category four hurricane with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. This was most powerful storm to ever make landfall in louisiana and it is still a powerful storm that is in the state of lou
Stay. What you have to member joe biden have been forced out of the race in september 87 by a series of revelations, none of which individually were an almost laughable when you look back at them. But, by the time they were digested to the great long snake of the press corps seems to constitute an elephant of a character flaw. So biden had dropped out. He really did not come out speaking again until the turn of the year, 1988. It was february the first time that he had been out talking on the College Campus pretty went to the university of rochester as a matter fact periods see when did you go there . Guest no i was not there i was in New Hampshire with all of the good members of the pack. And joe gave his speech at the university of rochester. I then was questioned for several hours. When he got back to his motel room all the sudden bang, he got hit by a brick in the head. He was dizzy, he was nauseated he could barely see. He didnt know what was happening but it couldve been a heart
Thoughts. Are you comfortable with the idea of sending children back to school . Head to our twitter or facebook pages to weigh in. And elizabeth cook, San Francisco wont consider any additional reopenings until at least the other side of the holiday weekend. The citys hospitalization rate has jumped by nearly 50 in the past week and it is recording about 50 new cases a day. An average of 5. 8 for every 100, 000 residents. City, county Health Director says that is very near the threshold that could land San Francisco on the states watch list. We dont know whether this is going to be a onetime blip or whether this is the tip of the iceberg and were going to have rapid increase in cases and hospitalizations. It is too soon to tell. Here is some good news. San francisco hospitals are still doing okay in terms of available beds, but the doctor says that wont last if we dont stay vick lant. Veronica . Big news from the governor. He plans to pull back on the states reopening plan and will ma
Im bradley graham, coowner of the store along with my life and we are delighted to have Joshua Hammer back with us at pmp. Josh was here for his last book about four years ago and matt was the bad ass librarians of timbuktu which told the riveting story of how an archivist in timbuktu managed with some very brave helpers to smuggle more than 350,000 historical manuscripts out from under militant jihadist to safety about 600 miles away and the book was a bestseller and established at joshs someone for a night with an eye for really truly read story. Hes done it again with his new book, the falcon thief which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure. This one, about wildlife. E t josh is a journalist by training and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himselfgl working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined newsweek and the late 1980s as a business and media writer but within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world on postings that paste them in
Business is off by 75 to 80 percent because of fears over the coronavirus. Weve been hearing that before the visit. Thats why i thought it was urgent to make the visit. Reporter the owner of the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company kevin chan says the effect on the bottom line of his business is real. 500 a day, 600 a day. Reporter even tourists noticed the unusual quiet in the neighborhood. This place is dead right now. Every restaurant is empty, every shop is empty. Theres no tourists Walking Around here. Reporter the speaker is urging people to come out again and not be afraid. Also to say to everyone, you should come to china town. Precautions have been taken by our city. We know that theres a concern about tourism throughout the world, but we think its very safe to be in china town and hope that others will come. Reporter while there are 21 active cases of coronavirus in the state of california right now, those are in hospital isolation or in quarantine. At this point there are no a