Is our smoke forecast, those red and purple colors end lating that intense smoke for us. More on a heat wave in store for us in the extended forecast coming up. Gianna . Good morning. A Traffic Alert continues sow to 1 connector to south 808 is completely shut down as fire crews and emergency crews work on an accident involving an overturned vehicle. Theyve got a lot of activity there on scene. They have called out tow crews to the scene as well. So hopefully theyll be clearing this shortly. But in the meantime, traffic is still closed in that area for that connector south 101 over to south 880. Were starting to see a few brake lights also northbound 101 working your way out of the south bay in that area as you approach the 280 and 680 connector. Traffic is getting busy in the Altamont Pass. Ill take a look at the bay bridge coming up in my next report. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are continuing to follow this shooting investigation going on right now in san jose. Thi
Traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning everybody. The topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. But gold played a very, very Important Role in American History. Think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinating about was the quest for gold. An unquenchable desire for Precious Metals, gold above all, but also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold wa
But also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold was discovered and people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold would make them wealthy quickly. Until then this had been an area really beyond the line of settlement. But suddenly now the White Settlement catches up very quickly. Here is the governor, george gilmore, describing what it was like meeting the georgia miners in 1829. Many thousands of idle people flocked into georgia from every point of the compass whose pe
Announced it filed an Involuntary Manslaughter charge against officer jason fletcher. He shot and killed taylor on april 18th at a walmart. Body camera footage released by the department shows Taylor Holding a bat moments before he was shot. The District Attorney said an investigation determined officer fletcher first used a taser gun twice on taylor. She says taylor then pointed the bat at the ground and was stumbling. At the time of the shooting it was not reasonable to conclude mr. Steven taylor posed an emnent threat of death or Great Bodily Injury to either officer fletcher or to anyone else in the store. The second responding officer is back on duty. Now to what could be a Pivotal Moment in the fight against covid19. Labor day weekend begins in 48 hours. It is going to be hot. People will want to have fun. The top leaders like the governor are saying now more than ever we need to be vigilant. The importance this weekend of trying to avoid and minimize outside of your household mi
In the east bay, the Richmond Police department is welcoming its newest chief come the saturday although she is a veteran of the department the new chief will be making history in the top position. On force theresa spoke with the new chief about her life and how it has prepared her for this moment. They have been the interim chief for now almost 11 months, ive already had a kind of a head start moving forward. Richmond police chief besa french on stepping into the official role as the police chief affective august 1st, there will be several first when she assumes the role she will be the youngest chief on record. And the first female chief. I think that bring a unique perspective this position, especially here as police chief has are africanamerican and latina. Female thats from this i think i bring a perspective too. Our department that nobody else has brought before and so im going to use my personal history and experiences really try to integrate the cultural. Competencies that i th