This morning, japan has marked 75 years since the unleashing of the worlds first atomic bomb on hiroshima. 140,000 people were killed, nearly half the citys population. A scaledback, social distancing event was held with survivors and relatives marking the 8 15 a. M. Blast anniversary with a moment of silence. This morning, were opening up the abc news vault to august 1995, the 50th anniversary, with abcs carole simpson. 4,000 americans were there the day the bomb fell. Only 1,000 of them came home. Abcs deborah amos looks at how two of them are faring today. Reporter every other year, for nearly 20 years, kay yoshioka and jack diruike spend a day in a San Francisco clinic where a team of visiting japanese specialists check for cancer, blood diseases, and anything else that might be traced to what happened 50 years ago. Kay was 8 years old then, americanborn, but living in japan because her family had moved back to care for her grandmother. That summer, with american planes firebombing
Its sunday, july 26. Well get to those scene nz js just a moment, but first we want to get to your weekend forecast. Good morning, lisa. Good morning. Waking up to fog and milder temperatures out there. Mainly the mid to upper 50s. You can see the fog. The sun was up at 6 08. 57 downtown. 62 oakland, san jose 59. As we look at emoryville, clouds in santa rosa, concord and livermore with the wind at 15 miles an hour. Clouds giving way to sunshine in the city with an afternoon sea breeze, but as we go through the noon hour, were already in the 80s inland towards 90 by the afternoon. Upper 70s around the bay. The fog comes back tonight. We do have some minor change for the week ahead with cooling and warming in the 7day outlook. Ill have it for you, coming up. Liz . Lisa, thank you. It started in downtown oakland to lake merritt. We have a birds eye view of demonstrators marching in support of black lives matter in portland. You can see protesters holding up peace signs as they walk aroun
People that were gathered i saw people from all different backgrounds, people from all different parts of this nation that came to honor an American Hero as he made his final journey across this bridge. And you know, back in march, john lewis was here and he gave some parting advice to the next generation to get in good trouble. To get in the way. And so many people that came out here today say they want to continue on his legacy. They wanted to come here to say goodbye and let him know that we got it from here, george. Thomas, one of the last of his generation. George, the greatest generation of civil rights leaders, were losing them one by we lost reverend lowery in march. In the past days we lost c. T. Vivian. John lewis believed that this new generation could take on the torch and get the job done, continue to push forward. We shall see, george. And byron pitts, it comes at a time when america as i said is so divided and is trying to figure out where the fights are for this new gen
About her life and time in the white house. And now the person you all came to see. [ cheering ] Michelle Levan robinson obama. [ cheers and applause ] she is a lawyer, she is an author and she is the wife of the 44th president of the United States barack obama. [ applause ] throughout her initiatives as first lady, she has become a role model for women and for girls and an advocate for healthy families, Service Members and their families, Higher Education and international adolescent girls education. Her muchanticipated memoir, becoming, will be published in the u. S. And canada on november 13, 2018 by crown, a division of Penguin Randomhouse and it will be released simultaneously in 24 languages. Considered one of the most popular first ladies [ cheers and applause ] mrs. Obama invites readers into her world chronicling the experiences that have shaped her from her childhood on the south side of chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her
Thing a thousand times every day all day, over and over again. So i got to put the little metal thing in a hole and then pass the cardboard over to the guy that would slam it down. So my job was to take the metal thing and put it in the hole. The cardboard over to the guy that would slam it down. For the first day even. I thought, you know, im going to i was aiming at finishing it. I thought there would be an end to it. Thousands of them, and i would prove to the bindery people that i was so fast that i could complete it and i would be done and i just realized it is never over. They just kept coming, the little pieces of cardboard and the little thing, and that went on for weeks and weeks doing the same thing and i thought, my god, im ready for college. Can i do this. But it taught me Great Respect for the men and women who do that work every day. That thankless work that makes it possible for us to have books and folders, and i learned work ethic at the bindery. The dozens of people i