Well, it sure looks like a swastika in the front yard of an east bay home. Tonight the man who put it there says it is a symbol, but not a symbol of hate. His neighbors arent buying it. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney joins us in el sobrante. Terry . You look at it and say that is a swastika, but the guy who built it, johnson says no, it is not. Its an ancient religious symbol from centuries ago. Nobody is buying it, as you mentioned, but also they say this guy means no harm. Iben invented. Reporter thats how Steve Johnson tonight is defending this symbol that he just installed in his front yard in cement at the base of a tattered american flag. It doesnt represent anything. It represents me not having to pull weeds over in that part of my yard. Thats what it represents to me. What does it represent to you . Reporter to neighbors we spoke to its not the tibetan sign as johnson claims, its a swastika. Its offensive. Renee schultz has been a neighbor of johnsons for 27 years, says he has n
At the womens world cup in france. They were 13 0 winners over thailand beating the previous record when germany beat argentina 11 0 in 2007. Alex morgan also equalled the goals in one game record at this tournament set in 1991, by scoring five. With news of that and the other two games played on tuesday heres colm harrison. The United States could not have wished for an easier start to their title defence in the writing was on the wall for thailand from the moment alex morgan headed in the opening goal after 12 minutes. This rout included two goals each from the veil and lewis but morgan surpassed them both. Morgan scored her fourth of the game sending the americans into double figures in the process. After the reigning champions equalled the world cup record of ii champions equalled the world cup record of 11 goals in one match, morgan made sure they broke it as she scored her fifth of the game. The substitute completed the scoring in stoppage time with 13 overall. Unlucky for some.
Accuweather forecast. Meteorologist mike nicco, were all about counting down things today. Counting down to when it gets cool again, right . Weve had enough of the warm weather, one day. Some people are like that. A look at our clear sky. There you go looking from the east bay hills no marine layer clouds yet today but it is coming later. Youll notice it around the bay. Until then were waking up to the mid60s. 77 around the bay. 86. Warm to almost a hot lunch today. 84 to 94 at 4 00. 72 with the breeze coming in. 7 00 still warm inland. 82 degrees. Here is alexis. We are looking good in most areas to kick off the morning drive. 680 through walnut creek no incidents to report. Maybe slowing through the interchange but that is it for you today. Through palo alto just starting to improve. And i believe they wrapped up the southbound side well ahead of schedule, just wrapped up work. As you can see the stretch of red getting shorter. Next traffic update coming up in about ten minutes. This
We have one in the red and one in the yellow. It just changed, two in the yellow. That is news for you. Down from 40 minutes to 39 minds. The freeway is at 22 minutes on your ride. Only 30 minutes and 4h3 coming out of the south bay on 101 towards the airport. The metering lates are on and that backup is lasting all the way to the foot of the maze but the background through the haze and sunshine, it is moving right along which is good news. Bad news for you coming over the sasha. They did have lane closures in effect slowing things down in that direction. The Golden State Warriors are back home for game three of the nba finals against the toronto raptors. Decked out in blue and gold, youre ready to go, jake ky. Reporter i am so ready to go but im too early yet again. I keep messing this memo up. There are no golden tshirts on the chairs this morning, so luckily i am in gold. Crying will sit about here. If you want me to do anything to the chair, i am guessing this is a pretty expensive
We dont know what day it happened . It is monumental history. Why dont we know . The sad reality of it is that this monumental occurrence was so major and unlike anything that had ever occurred before at that scale in the United States , that an effort to eliminate it from records and existence ensued. It persisted. And because of it, watershed moments in the lbgtq Civil Rights Movement followed. Such as the stonewall riots of 1969. So, the idea transgender History Month began to take shape via this train of thought. I thought about black History Month and womens History Month. Now national low recognized months. And the essential education and awareness that they bring to the general masses every year. That knowledge is critical in bringing awareness and understanding of the struggles and history that have taken place to get where we are now. When i wrote this procolumnation i had the honor of serving as director of social Justice Empowerment Initiative the transgender district the wo