From coronavirus and ready to go back on the front lines to help others. And thanks for joining us this saturday morning, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher today is expected to be a nice sunny day and the bay area. And across california for that matter and that has governor Gavin Newsome concerned that people will go outside and potentially ignore social distancing was wondering on about that this morning as i went down the embarcadero and saw a nice sunrise. They still want people to stay home now is not the time Health Experts say. To let up on our efforts to flatten the curve. Were walking into a very warm weekend. The most beautiful weekend to the extent we love our weather. Since january at least or since arguably last summer the state of california. That means people are prone to want to go to the beaches parks playgrounds and go on a hike. I anticipate will be a significant increase in volume. But i also think if there is and people are practicing physical distancing, ill be
Haunt candidates in 2020. Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. On tuesday, four more states have their say at the polls. Arizona, illinois, ohio, and florida all have president ial primaries. One platform democratic hopefuls agreed on Environmental Justice. Swing voters named Climate Change as a key issue, one that could win or lose their vote. While this green revolution might seem new, it has deep roots in places like the far south side of chicago. During our listening tour last fall, our special correspondent joie chen learned the forgotten history of the Environmental Justice movement, and one woman who made it happen. Joie the tears fall hard here, and often, at this streetside memorial to all the lives lost in a poisoned community. Do you think you know most of them . Cheryl yeah, i know charles lamb senior, because i knew his son chilly. He was sick. He died of cancer. Joie the browns. The smiths. The rays. So many more. This is a lot of sufering. Cheryl this is
Is a 10 . I know it is 10. Bowie has no music coming out. Nice. And i guess they found a vat of old recordings and im excited because i always liked boeing music. It has been 4 years since he has been gone. I cant believe it. It is cloudy and gray outside, the time of year children are thinking about entering college, taking tests and filling out applications. The organization that administers the a. C. T. Is telling the region why they should keep using the test. They say many underserved students greatly benefit from standardized testing. Some students sued the region saying the a. C. T. And s. A. T. Illegally discriminate against africans that cant afford the prep price and some of which can run into thousands. The region expected to decide whether they will keep the test, make them optional or do without them altogether at the meeting in may. Several students were great students, great people but horrible testtakers and it hurt their chances of getting into their dream college. Thi
She has a check on the morning commute. How is it going . Its going much better, mike, after we had major issues on the roads in the south bay this morning. Things are looking good. All green here excluding our little area that matches my jacket, the Altamont Pass, commuters coming out of tracy. This is the dprigolden gate bri. I can see some droplets on our camera. Overall a smooth and clear wide. Same thing here in San Francisco. Were looking at our king street camera there. Nice and clear for you all. Just nice clear ride across our bridges. Everything is green. Thanks. The San Jose City council is backing the mayors proposal to turn pg e into a customerowned utility. The Council Voted to support the resolution mayor liccardo recently introduced. It follows pg es Public Safety power shutoff that left thousands in the dark in the bay area and beyond. It appears san jose elected leaders are not the only ones fed up with the utility. 90 of you want to get rid of pg e. This is according
If youre wondering what that is, so are we. And just now, ceo and president bill johnson explained what that is. He says that the jumper is a piece of wire that basically jumps the conductor over the insulator. We know that it was broken. We also know according to johnson that this is a 43yearold tower that had been inspected four times. Now as you said, this transmission line was not deenergized, and johnson explained why not. Transmission lines in the area remained energized during the wind event consistent with our established protocols and procedures. In other words, they did not meet the conditions that we forecast for transmission level outages. We didnt see the wind speeds in the forecast that we typically would see for transmission outage. And so we relied on the protocol, and we still at this point do not know exactly what happened. The utility turned off power in the area at 9 48 last night, nearly half an hour after the fire started. Pg e is working closely with cal fire to