How he could think about was how other people have been killed for making the wrong move, misinterpreting his conduct and hes threatened by that. Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick said today, this violation that happened against my brother Michael Bennett is disgusting and unjust. I stand with michael and i stand with the people. Kaepernick and bennett have both taken stands against social injustice. Bennett has sit during the anthem in preseason games this year. Its unclear whether a lawsuit will be filed. Las vegas police said if they believe their officers did something wrong, they will be punished for what happened. The san jose giant are apologizing for a failed pr stunt. Kpix5s kiet do with the teams tweet and the backlash. Reporter by all accounts this year japanese heritage night with the san jose giants was a success. They had tyco drummers and calligraphy lessons and the works, but shortly afterwards there came this tweet of three men on the field in japanese robes. T
Theyre crowded now, but we have a lot of plans of how to increase the capacity of the system. Reporter do we even have the b. A. R. T. Cars to handle the people once they live here . We seem to have a hard no and those b. A. R. T. Cars are coming, albeit very slowly. Reporter now b. A. R. T. Will be getting 169 new cars next year. Those 8 and 9 car trains that you see in the morning will become 10 car trains. If. Reporter but they will still need another 300 cars. We wish we had all the funding today, but we dont. So well need to continue to work on that. Reporter and one of the plans for trying to get that funding is called regional measure 3 and it is something thats making its way through the legislature now and could be on the ballot for us to vote on next year. It would require a 2 increase on bay area bridge tolls run by the state. The idea is to generate money and a good part of that money would go to buy b. A. R. T. Cars and other improvements needed so that people can take b.
Is the bigger fog bank lifting and pushing well inland leading us to a cooler day. 60s on the high side but the lows are mild to warm. I cannot get cool off the house. 61 in kelsey, 68 in napa, 66 novato. Underneath all of this we have a breeze, 25 gusting up to 33, the strongest in a long time. 62 at the San Francisco buoy and 64 at the Half Moon Bay keeping that community high. Cloudy to mostly cloudy with one system moving out and another moving in. Warming up by the weekend, 60s, 70s and 80s now. Not 90s and no 100. I like this. That 80s were good to me. Good morning everyone. Looking at the salon of commute, 80 westbound, vacaville and cordelia, not a bad commute. Interstate 80 has had a challenging few days and today we hope for better. We have had a few minor things, on the road early not much slow traffic coming through. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is light. Driving, we have fog on this picture, interstate 80 northbound and southbound looking pretty good
And on thursday we will be at books smith bookstore in berkeley california historian and activist rebecca talks about the feminist movement. That is a look at some of the programs we will cover this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on booktv on cspan2. And welcome to tucson and the university of arizona campus. This is the tucson festival of books. Booktv is live today from the gallagher theater and for the next 7 and a half hours you will hear from authors and have a chance to talk with them as well. Heres our lineup for today. In just a few minutes the first author panel will begin. It is on japanese internment during world war ii. Followed by your opportunity to talk with historian Richard Reeves. After that a panel on lgbt q rights and a calling program with panelists lillian vitamin and you will hear from authors later today discussing slavery in america, the history of women in sciences and philanthropy. And several other
Over time harry told me. For four years we talked over lunch when we come to japan from his home in california. And finally one day i turned to him and said harry, this is an important story on so many levels. It is an important story for your family. For your generation, for the japaneseamerican community, for usjapan relations. And i dont know if im the right person but if you would consider having a book written i would be happy to try. Only kentucky find someone. But i think you should seriously consider leaving a written record. And by this point i thought that i could document it and he turned to me and he arranged for me to meet his brothers the next day. His brothers who had been conscripted into the Japanese Imperial army. Harry became one of the first japaneseamerican colonels in the us army. He became distinguished member of the military intelligence hall of fame. The 500 military intelligence brigade which is the Pacific Vanguard for intelligence is located in hawaii on awa