Thoughts, i know you have a few. Guest im kind of obsessed with looking at this list. I take the bullet for the team. Im always interested and talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up on to kill a mockingbird was a prime example. And we know why the handmaids tale was there this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. This was a book that was written in 1978. He was an english professor and lost his job and was separated from his wife and got in a forward e. , line 1975 van and rode what he called the blue highways. This was before gps and before google maps here he got the map of the country and all the backroads were colored blue. Those were the road he chose to take and so, he went to 38 of the 50 states and just kind of learning america, learning a lot about himself it was a Remarkable Book on the bestseller list in for 40 or 45 weeks were some like that. That. He has written other books in that he he is best kn
Social distancing and masks. The numbers show an explosion of new covid19 cases from sunday until today. Just in the last few days, the number have increased some 69 , to 7149 individuals. Reporter testing is also up to 96,000 over the past 24 hours. Thats a new record. But the rate of positive tests on a steady decline since april are heading back up. Couragely at 5. 3 . Not good but not as bad as states lying texas seeing positive results of nearly 11 . Florida at 13 . But arizona has more than four times our rate of positives at more than 22 . Newsom says, it will get worse because of big crowds at recent one assume, we can increase the Positivity Rate as we do more and more testing. They refuse to enforce masks and social distancing mandates. You can lose access to a 2. 5 billion assistance fund. It seems counter intuitive that you would provide those resources but harmful. James taylor says newsom would rather have cooperation than play hard ball. If necessary, they will take furt
Clearing out, and overall thats a nice day, and that will keep the temperatures down as we reach into the low 80s, and there will be upper 80s but this is nothing compared to the way we started this week, so i think we will enjoy it. Mike, why is the bay bridge commute so light . Yeah, holding study, kari. You have a preview and its a lighter flow over here. The metering lights are on. The traffic held up in this Contra Costa County, theres a break there for the crash, and we have all the traffic feeding in off of pittsburg, and its slowing through walnut creek. The other crashes are cleared to the shoulders. 6 01 right now. New details. Bart could soon become safer. We are joined live at the warren station in fremont. The agency Just Announced they hired a lot more Police Officers, i understand. Reporter correct. Bart tells us they hired 40 new Police Officers so far this year alone, and to give you perspective thats the same number of new officers from the previous two years combined
Damian we begin today with changes to the College Financial aid application process. Sonia ramos joins us now, shes with calsoap, and Sergio Diaz Luna is with the east Side Union High School District in san jose. Welcome to the show. Sonia ramos thank you for having us. Damian tell us first of all, sonia, about the calsoap. Tell us what you all do with calsoap. Sonia so, calsoap is the California Student opportunity and access program. We are a state funded program through the California Student Aid Commission, which is our state agency which administers all state Financial Aid to our students here in california. And so, calsoap serves regions across the state focusing on increasing the College Going rates and access to Financial Aid for low income and first gen students. And our san jose calsoap Program Works here in san jose specifically supporting students in east Side Union High School District. Damian and well get into the these changes first, but you gave me a startling statistic
Flags magic mountain. Our sister station knbc. You can see those flames continue to burn there. Burning pretty much anything in its path. Here is the latest information that we have on that fire. Burning in ventura county, Officials Say 45,000 acres have burned. 27,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. At least 150 structures are destroyed. Fire Officials Say the fires burning so fast to give you perspective, its essentially expanding by the size of a football field every one second. You heard me, one second. This is affecting many homes in that area. And our nbc bay area intern amy joins us now on the phone. Amy lives in ventura and her father is the fire captain there in the county. I know youre a student at san jose state, but you were actually at home for your fathers birthday, which is today. So explain to us, you were with him at the fire station last night and he got that called call. What happened next . Yeah, so i was with him. He got a call they had to cover a stat