Controversial, emotional, and something we need to talk about. And from time to time when ive done this panel with friends and colleagues, ive called it on or off their pedestals. The debate over statues, memory and meaning. And i discussed this topic maybe twice or three times with edna medford and it is evolving even between us as we proceed over a year and a half. And its a pleasure to welcome not only edna medford, but also liz varon and Gary Gallagher to join the discussion. Of 1728 confederate memorials in 22 states and the district of columbia, 110 have been removed in the past few years. And three new ones have been built. So its good to have the opportunity to take a snapshot. At best, it will be a snapshot. And i think that we all have to agree that however we feel about art, iconography, memorials, icons, history, american heroes and american villains alike, that the controversy over statues and memorials not only tributes to confederates in the south, but also to those, for
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When youre driving at the speed limit, you cannot stop within 50 feet. Heres san rafael this morning. Temperatures in the 40s and 50s. Staying in the 50s at the coast. 60s to 70s around the bay and inland neighborhoods this afternoon. Jobina . Good morning. You can see that gray all over our traffic map, thats because the fog is the big talker this morning. We are looking at a sigalert in santa rosa here. This is westbound 12 before llano. The chp is Holding Traffic right now at fulton road. There are several alternates you can take. I will post those on my twitter account. A live look now at 280. Foggy there and dangerous conditions across the bay area. Please be careful if youre out on the roadways. Thanks. Happening today, it has been one year since the camp fire, the deadliest fire in state history. The town of paradise will hold several events today to honor the people who lost their lives. Lauren martinez covered the fire last year and is now live in the newsro newsroom. This mor
Backed groups and kurdish fighters as they neared the deadline to withdraw from Northern Syria. This is the end of the debate and were going to win. And u. K. Opposition leader jeremy called and gives his backing for a december election pushed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. And in bangladesh said cricket captain even has and has been banned for 2 years for failing to pull approaches by bookmakers and at the Rugby World Cup in south africa. England have the upper hand heading into saturdays world cup final. We begin with breaking news out of lebanon where there is tension on the streets of the capital beirut supporters of hezbollah which is part of the government have been tearing down tents put up by demonstrators police also moved. Breakup bradleys the now its the 13th straight day theres anger over economic mismanagement and corruption Prime Minister saad hariri will address the nation in just under an hour lets take you live now to beirut aljazeera site a horta is this a high tens
About 100 evacuated when the fire started at 1 00 this morning. The captain was telling me how erratic the fire behavior was and how dangerous it was. It was initially about a half acre to an acre. When they arrived it quickly took off. It jumped to 20 acres. They credit stopping the fire they had a lot of resources on the fire. They were staged throughout the area and it goes to show and i was asking about this, the state of readiness firefighters have now begin what happened in paradise two years ago in the north bay. They were prepared for Something Like this. He told me up here he felt the winds had gusted up to 30 miles an hour. You get a sense how steep this terrain is. A lot of work that was done. Officially the containment downstairs is at 60 . The captain said they have fire lines around the entire perimeter of the burn area. They have dozers out here cutting lines. Theyll be able to cut the containment numbers but telling me about the firefight, you can see some of the burned