Back in the 1980s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. And i was reading the book, the slaveship clotilda and the makers of africa town. That is how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. When i was reading her book, i was like oh wow, our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. How did you come up with your program . Well, growing up here in africa town and attending the missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudgel lewis in front of our church all of my life, and back in 2002 that bust was destroyed by some kids acting up, and they decided to vandalize, and later, they put up a Historical Marker, and this Historical Marker had the founders of Union Baptist church, and there were several names on there, and growing up, i always heard about cudgel lewis,
Fresh produce, which is a wonderful contribution. Fresh produce is something that low income people and people in need often dont buy because its expensive and they have to decide how to spend their funds. However, it is some of the most nutritious food we provide. So the 15,000 allowed us to contribute about 60,000 worth of produce by the way in which were able to make a dollar stretch. And you can also help toys for to the. Now through december 134th visit shop disney. Com toys for to the and disney will donate 1 for each toy. Find out more about how to help any organizations we support. Go to abc7news. Com take action. Another great local organization. We want to talk about. The organization is known as alas. Helping latinos to dreams. Joining us to talk more about this, the executive director Belinda Hernandez and an eighth grade volunteer, el kin lopez. Good afternoon to both of you. Good afternoon. I like your tshirts. Dont think i dont notice that. Your organization is based on
A massive iceburg is bearing down on an island in the south atlantic. It is officially known as a68a and is about the size of delaware and about 200 miles from the island of south georgia and closing in. Scientists say it could endanger sales and penguins and threaten the areas ecosystem. A major recall has been issued by video Doorbell Company ring due to fire hazards. The company says the Second Generation ring doorbell can overheat and possibly ignite. At least 23 incidents have been reported so far causing Minor Property damage and minor burns. You can visit rings website to determine if you have an affected device. Many covid19 infections stem from visits to hotels, restaurants and bars. It comes amid new concerns over pfizers new vaccine. I spoke with dr. Ali. Dr. Ali, theres been a lot of talk in the last 24 hours about Pfizers Covid vaccine. Dr. Fauci says we could all be vaccinated by april. What concerns do you have about the distribution of the vaccine. Weve heard it has to
Tuesday. The entire bay area, high salvations we are talking about sustained wind, 25 to 40 miles an hour with gusts 67 miles an hour, and even a lower terrain, the valleys and along the coast, sustained went 20 to 30 miles an hour and gusts up to 50 miles an hour so this includes everyone. We start 2 00 sunday afternoon, technically under the red flag warning at that point, nothing too low. What happens as we had into sunday evening. The committee is the north bay, dropped around 10 , and the wind arrows are moving a lot faster. The peak of the offshore wind will be sent and into early monday morning and the humidity will be bone dry, the fire fuels our new record levels in terms of how dry they are, this is a very dangerous combination and the dangerous fire weather conditions are going to continue to the day on monday, even as the wind begins to slack off just a little bit. Look at those numbers, 3 to 6 relative humidity levels, any motion atmosphere. We take a look at the specific
Into the weekend. Gusty offshore winds will be back by sunday. In fact, we just got word that regional parks in east bay hills will close on sunday due to dangerous fire weather conditions. Likely some of the strongest offshore winds we have seen so far. Fire season a big concern we are watching this closely. A fire weather watch in effect from 11 am sunday through 11 am tuesday for the areas in yellow. East bay hills, diablo range and Santa Cruz Mountains are all under a fire weather watch which will be upgraded into a red flag warning. We are talking gust 60, 70 Miles Per Hour especially in the Higher Elevations with humidity values down to the Single Digits and the teens. We also have a high wind watch sunday 4 pm until monday at 10 am for the entire bay area because of the strong winds, possible downed trees and power lines. We will talk more about this in detail coming up. Pg e is warning more power shutoffs are possible sunday through tuesday because of the high fire danger. So f