And behind it a few breaks of sunshine will stay unsettled with pockets of shower lingering through the course of the day. It could be worth having theumbrella with you. Areas of rain will expresident through New Hampshire and northern massachusetts for the evening commute with lighter rain in place. Highs well below average today. Its muggy and we only top out in the lower 70s through lunchtime with a scattered shower lingering into the ride home. I will let you know when we britten up coming up brighten up coming up with the newest member of the teem brianna pitts. Reporter the morning is off to a wet start. Crews working to fix a major water main break on route 1 north in dedham right now. This is happening near the Tesla Dealership that is live look and you can see a lot of water on the road as repairs are being made. Dedham Fire Department says traffic is down to one lane in this area so this will impact the morning commute for some you can see the expressway still in great shape.
Have prevented the protesters from taking over interstate 580 because the crowd was just too large, even if he had gotten mutual aid early. He also said that the late response, if i may, the late response to the looting was because his officers were everywhere. They were spread thin and they just couldnt be at this particular location. But the chief said he was pleased with the strategy last night, because the demonstration was mostly peaceful. The rally in front of city hall was loud, boisterous and peaceful. When protesters began marching, a few smashed windows and sprayed graffiti on buildings. Some marchers stopped others from vandalizing. Their numbers grew as they got closer to interstate 580. They blocked intersections. Suddenly, they rushed on to an onramp to the highway. Protesters stopped traffic for hours in both directions before police in riot gear forced them off. Once on the street, a phalanx of Police Ordered the crowd to disper disperse. Protesters stood their ground,
Graffiti is a crime and it requires money and it requires attention from the officials, not just from covering graffiti . Is there an answer . Can you give me some sort of whats a good direction . [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. Basically the task force, theyll put together and try to convince the citizens something is happening, then it will go away. Its no longer a political issue. What turned the corner for us, we had a mayor go out during one of our zero tolerance on blight mayor. She went out on a clean up day. The people from the Better Business bureau went with they are and started dragging her through the streets and started showing her the [speaker not understood], showing her the graffiti all over and what an impact its having on them. Yeah, one person goes up, couple people go up, even the police go up and they believe it. You dont get a lot of interest from city hall on that. You get the Business Community and convince them the importance of dealing with
Is diminishing, when you can show them how different it can be, that suddenly makes Good Business sense to them and theyll dedicate the resources to you. So, thats whats worked for me. applause anybody else up there . Everybody okay with that answer . I think were pretty grateful here in San Francisco that we have a mayor that was actually the director of the department of public works. So, we know hes totally on top of it and involved. Do you have another question . This isnt geared towards any particular speaker, but it is geared towards abatement. We have an annual volunteer event where graffiti is removed citywide. In an effort to encourage youth to participate we are considering a flash mob where all volunteers will abate graffiti at the same time on the same day along major thoroughfares. Is this a good idea or does it detract from the issue . Thoughts . Okay, yes. Thats a great question. Thank you. My experience is its really hard to paint while youre dancing. [laughter] but on
[speaker not understood]. Do we have anybody up there . We have one pioneer over here thats willing to take on that one. By the way, is that oakland, that accent . [laughter] i guess from my perspective, it never hurts to ask. We have a huge variety of sponsors. For example rona who is like a lowes or home depot who is supplying or providing paint. They are a sponsor of my program. So, they provide me a 45 discount on paint as well as they give me a 25 discount coupon that we give to everybody. They supply the materials for my wipe outs, they supply the paint for my wipe out. Cis not cis, seco paint has been providing paint the last number of years for wipe out. I know its discouraging, but i think what ive found in terms of getting corporate sponsorship is starting at your local store and working it that way, trying to get them on board. And once you get them on board on small little events, then piece them off to get the bigger ones. So, for example, glad bag sponsors our 15 to clean