How hate groups target vulnerable people. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone, to the Commonwealth Club california. Just a quick housekeeping, of course, if you have anything that mix noises cell phones, beepers, husbands, whatever if you could just put them on silent for the rest of the program. Of course, recording this for tv and podcast, so we appreciate the nonbeepingness. And now i would like to turn it over to our, my ecohost and the person whose name is on the show, michelle meow. [laughter] thanks so much, john. Thank you. Welcome to michelle meow show. If youre here for the first time, its your az covering the ag, l, m, n, o, p and everyone in between. [laughter] our special guest tonight is the finder of the free radicals prompt, a Global Network of former extremists who work on deradicallizing others trying to lee the movement leave the movement hes a proud father of two, a husband and an author, and here to talk about his new book, braching hate confronting the new
Putting the chaos behind us. Putting the corruption behind us. Putting the tweets behind us. [laughter] mayor buttigieg but honestly, the reason i am asking you to picture this is not just to give us something to look orward to. The country will be better off when we no longer have a divider in chief occupying the office. That is beginning of the work that must come next. If you could picture what it will be like in this country on that day, the sun will come up over a United States that is even more divided than we are right now. Even more polarized, even more torn up over politics. With everything we have been through, with everything we are about to go through, that day our country will be exhausted from fighting, and more in need of unity than ever. And yet, Something Else is also going to be true that day, which is the problems we are up against as a country will be more severe. None of these issues that helped us get to this point are taking a vacation for the impeachment process
That there are still some fire crews on scene, starting to bring out some of the debris from inside that middle business where it appears that that fire originated. I just talked with the fire captain in the last 45 minutes, and he said that one business in the middle is where it started, but the businesses on either side are also damaged. This is a salon and also a boutique and some sort of ice cream shop as well. Firefighters got the call just after 1 30 this morning and because of the roof structure, the captain tells me it took about an hour for firefighters to put it out, and it had to be unnerving for one business in downtown los gatos, double ds sports grill, which is down the road, but in the same block. It only recently reopened after it was gutted by a fire back in 2016. That business was unscathed. We expect to see three businesses will be out of commission for a while until they can repair some of that smoke and water damage and of course some of the fire damage from the mi
San francisco low 70s, with some low 80s in the south bay. Well talk more about whats going on this weekend. Mike has a look at that morning drive for you. Well, easy drive. Look at this, the bay bridge toll plaza this is great. This is a live picture its 6 01 and we see a smooth flow of traffic, no metering lights, no pausing even for the cash lanes. You have to pause to pay, you pay cash but everyone else flowing smoothly through the fastrak lanes. Contra costa county looks great. A little blip shows up north of the benicia bridge. There may be an issue. There say crash on the shoulder 242 at grant, and a couple of crashes here 680 around capitol expressway and montague, both out of the roadway but look the at the Speed Sensors are all green, guys. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Breaking news this morning, out of the south bay, there is damage to at least three businesses this morning, after an overnight fire in downtown los gatos. Today in the bays kris sanchez joins us live from the sc
Hillside. I seen smoke up here while driving and it was right here where our apartment complex is. Its t wk hill where all those weeds are. Its all catching on fire. Reporter san jose fire alon fireworked ob getting this fire out. Police say one structure burned attached garage but they were able to save the main house. No injuries were reported. This as we said one of three brush fiers we saw in the area. They all seemed to start around the same time. We saw two on northbound highway 87. They brought traffic on the highway to a stop. Im going to bring it back out live right now. We have eyes and our camera on highway 87. Traffic is again moving. That is good news. We still dont know how these fires started. We do know illegal here. It really is a reminder to stay vigilant and safe during our july 4th celebrations. Liz kreutz, abc7 news. We appreciate the update. Thank you. No major injuries but there was damage after a 6. 4 magnitude quake hit 125 miles east of bakersfield this mornin