As the beginning of the womens Suffrage Movement. However, it took until 1920, over 72 years later, for women to earn the right to vote. During those years, organizations such as the National American womens Suffrage Association and National Womens party would form, creating a national movement. Yet, it was women in every community who lead the effort in their towns and states to demand rights. Through the work of cspan cities tour, we will introduce you to some of these women who dedicated their lives to this cause, from a pro suffrage newspaper publisher in oregon, to a 23yearold montana and arrested for protesting on the white house lawn. You will learn why western territories and states were on the leading edge of the movement, and you will hear how a letter from a mother to her son would help lead to the ratification of the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. We begin in syracuse, new york, where author Carol Faulconer talks about one of the movements lesser known figu
With high winds and low humidity. The areas shaded in red included in that red flag warning until 6 00 this evening as those winds continue to gust. As we start out this morning some mild temperatures but very smoky and its going to be another smoky and a hot day. Well have more on this as well as a look ahead to the weekend. Mike, whats the update on the morning commute. We continue to follow the fire zone and the evacuations, stay away from those areas marking the top of your map. The latest traffic issue southbound 101 continues with the closure into petaluma at north petaluma north because of the deadly crash. After that they have to do the investigation. North 880, that will take a while. Another hour until they clear those lanes to 23rd. We are down to one lane which we know to expect. Marcus . Thanks, mike. Back to that breaking news from overnight President Trump and the first lady bothiepotts, wha for the president , the country and the campaign. Tracie . Reporter hey, good mo
Clearly, his bright light will continue to shine. Rest in peace, ronnie chapman. You will be missed. Clerk supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, im introducing a resolution along with supervisor ronen urging the association of bay area governments, abag, in its up coming Regional Housing needs allocation, or rhna, to maintain their current housing level needs in San Francisco. The California Department of housing and Community Development recently assigned the bay area a new region wide rhna Housing Production goal that is 2. 35 times more than our existing one, or our goal of producing nearly 500,000 new homes in eight years throughout the bay area. San francisco should take a position on how the numbers will be allocated to local jurisdictions, as it will have a real impact on Speculative Development in our city if the goals are not met. If our housing goal is artificially too high, it will trigger s. B. 35. We know that socalled streamlining woul
Pg e is preparing for power shut off this fire season, but they vow that this year will be different. California Public Utilities commission and pg e will hold a meeting this morning on the companys preparedness for the upcoming shut off. The press democrat report says pg e will cut the number of customers to lose power down by onethird because it made smaller sectors in the electrical grid. Many states grappling with covid cases and businesses struggling to stay afloat, the medical community is forging ahead on their search for a vaccine. Today in the bay Cierra Johnson is live in San Francisco to explain where researchers are in that search. Cierra, how can they be a part of it . Yeah, definitely. Were going to have more information and as those researchers are working to find that vaccine that uses that type of technaology, that new Type O Technology theyre looking for a group of people to go forward with the study. Africanamericans and latinos this call for participants being made
San francisco has shareholdeou much of the housing load and are already at 140 of our market rate housing goal in our current cycle, which goes until 2022. We do not need to increase our market Rate Housing Development goal, especially now as we see an exodus of hilowincome works out of San Francisco. The Affordable Housing needs are great, as we all know. San francisco has roughly 49,000 extremely rent burdened households in 2015, the overwhelming majority of housing facing cost burden, are very lowincome and extremely lowincome households, and a majority of lower income households are house burdened. During the covid19 pandemic, the Housing Needs of low to moderate Income Housing workers have become increasingly evident. So this urges abag and rnha to focus on current Housing Needs in San Francisco [inaudible]. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, mr. President , i have a number of items that i would like to presen