I am laura shepard, director of events and im pleased to welcome you to our author event for comers new book grothman. In conversation with San Francisco columnist, we are pleased to have them here for the first time. I would like to find out how many of you have been to the Mechanics Institute before and how many are new . Please come back and we will give you a free tour of the library and show you the Incredible Library on the second and third floors. The International Chess club is down the hallway and we will tell you about our history. We were founded in 1854 and at the Mechanics Institute we have ongoing author events like this one, the International Chess club with their ongoing lectures and tournaments and book clubs and writers groups and on friday nights, we hope you will join us for all our cultural events. I would like to introduce our guest Roland De Wolk, an Investigative Reporter in print, broadcast and online journalism and a historian university adjunct and author. Du
Pg e heading back to the drawing board and why governor adam newsom said they plan to have thousands of wild fire victims taken care of. Getting to San Francisco from the north bay just got easier and the new option for commuters in marin and Sonoma County. 6 00 a. M. Im emily turner to start out with your weather. Its been wet and we catch a little bit of a break. However we have more warm showers before that happens. Not a whole lot to see out there doing zooming into the east bay and we have one cell of showers out there. To the east moving their way out of our area at the south bay is where we are only seeing some showers lingering making their way onshore here toward the san jose area and just to the east of san jose as well. That will dry out into the afternoon hours and your current temperatures now chillier than yesterday. 53 degrees in concord in oakland and 45 in santa rosa in those areas where it is clear we see cooler temperatures dipping down into the 40s and it will be co
Things like our Body Worn Camera program, our Community Lead Partnership Around cease fire. Our effort to combat implicit bias as well as our transparent and open data. Oakland City Council Member larry reid called it a, quote, sad day for the city. He said he spoke with the chief about his resignation. When i talked to the chief, the chief is very hurt. Andings certainly someone that i have respected and admired. Ive been around here for a long time, chief hart, all the others in between. This chief was getting us into compliance with the negotiated settlement agreement. If i was the chief, why would i resign . I dont think shes being forthright when she said the chief resigned. Reid would not speculate on why he thinks whent stepped down. Ben farrow will serve as interim chief. Hes got more than 20 Years Experience with opd and said that he will, quote, hit the ground running. The city said it will begin a National Search for a new chief. Henry lee joins us. This comes around so much
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