My son becomes not just more confident in socializing, but he becomes so determined in setting and achieving goals, even during this time. Its a total transformation for him. Im so grateful for s. I. For the things they provide for the student community. So i see the immeasurable values of the athletic opportunities that help to bring a strong younger generation. Last, but not least, as a sunset student im proud of s. I. As a landmark in our community. Its architecture and the athletic field, when its lit up during the nighttime it will be such a beautiful work of art and im always proud of to show off to my visitor friends from new york. I used to live in new york and in an urban area and i agree with the former commenters that it makes the city much more urban and topnotch. Which was so quiet and i mean, so dark in the current time, particularly during the winter season. So i hope that this will help to make our town more interesting. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Let
Streets, our cells. We look at the painful past in order to learn i tions, the so controversial, why are so many people calling for it now . To examine that, we have to go back in time. 1526, the spanish bring 100 enslaved africans to what is now the carolinas and georgia. They were the first known slaves on american soil. We know what happened next. For the next 350 years, africans were enslaved, beaten, tortured and killed. They built the white house. They fought in wars. Their labor built the american economy. And then came the civil war and freedom. Promises of 40 acres and later on a mule. They were free, sort of. There were black codes, allowing black people to be arrested for things like being out at night or not working at a servant. And then there was jim crow. A set of laws that denied africanamericans all sorts of rights. If you violated them, it could get you arrested or even killed. Then, there were housing discrimination laws, and a practice called redlining, where federa
The weather. Announcer todays weather is brought to you by the makers of nondrowsy 24 hour claritin. Live claritin clear. All right. Lets look ahead to your weekend. We start off with saturday weve got a much nicer day in the southeast after so much rain record heat continues in the rockies. A fire risk out west wet in the Pacific Northwest sunday, sunday autumnal warmth in the northeast. Much cooler in the plains. And the fire risk unfortunately continues out west thats whats going on across good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Lets take a look at our high temperatures for today. The last, very nice and comfortable day before some high heat comes in. Well see our temperatures in oakland reaching 73. 78 in palo alto. And 85 today in antioch. But then as we go into the weekend, there will be high fire danger for a lot of our bay area hills, especially in the north bay. And there will be a high concern as were going to also have some hot temperatures extending into early next week.
Dplej South Carolina stepping up for its students. Did you want men to put it under the homework drop boxes . Reporter mikalah is determined to graduate from columbia South Carolina even after finding herself homeless during the pandemic. I was terrified, so i just prayed. Id rather be homeless than be in a stocks oic sayings. Hoipts mikalah says she was out of options. In an effort to avoid an abusive home life she slept in her car at night. I wanted to spend days crying and moping. It was challenge having to get up and find a place to brush your teeth. Troipt 19yearold who earned a full academic scholarship worked two jobs and hunted for Internet Access to complete her studies. It was challenging Getting School work done and maneuvering two jobs and everything, it was hard. Reporter the director of o specialized programming. She was in a dire place. She definitely had housing insecurity. She needed food. She need basic necessary. Reporter campus was close bud she arranged to take car
Good to be with you. Miss woodruff lets start with the basics. Where are we right now in the country in the battle against covid19. If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci i would say it is a mixed bag. The numbers are very serious and very concerning. We have had now over 185,000 death, sixplus million infections. The country, a large country, there are some areas doing very well right now, got hitarly those that badly early on. For instance, the new york metropolitan area has for at least one month now been less than 1 test positivity. In contrast in other parts of the country, particularly what we saw in some of the Southern States that had big surges when they tried to open up the economy, that brought our baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to as high as 70,000, we are back now to 30000 and 40,000. In those states, they are starting to level off and come down which is a really good sign. We are setting to see the beginning of surge