Coming home. A san quentin inmate who is up for parole in just a few months is dying of covid19 at a bay area hospital. His daughter now forced to make a very difficult decision tonight weather or not to keep him on life support kron fours michelle kingston is at san quentin with more on this heartbreaking story. Want to swartz is father has been battling coronavirus for weeks now he told his daughter with a nod of his head that he doesnt want to live like this anymore. My dad is not brain dead that he is there he just has control of his body and he will not back to want to short his father is 74 years old she says he contracted coronavirus at san quentin in june and has been fighting for his life for weeks unable to speak he listens to his daughter on facetime calls every day and nods in blanks to communicate the 2 of them are very close despite his incarceration there are so many people that are dying alone and so it is. The hardest part of the as of tuesday, there are more than 2200
Lets get a look at the forecast. Kari hall has a look at that for us. How are you doing, kari . Im doing good. Starting out this morning with nice, cool temperatures, which is always great. Were going to have another really nice day as we check out whats going on in dublin, looking at our temperature trend. Upper 40s is the way we start the morning. We go into early in the afternoon with upper 60s. We continue to warm up a few more degrees from yesterday. Overall were looking at a pretty pleasant afternoon with a breezy wind, sunshine, and high temperatures across the bay area. Well reach anywhere from the low 60s to the low 80s for the east bay valleys. We have a pretty significant heatup in the forecast. Ill talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. All right, sounds good. Thank you so much, kari. Its cinco de mayo, a holiday a lot of people like to celebrate together but officers are hoping to avoid what happened this weekend when a huge crowd gathered for an impromptu celebr
It reminds me of a nice stroll through golden gate park. Good morning, we have quite a lot to to on the show. Do you run the along time ago so and right now a special breaking event in San Francisco for the presidio tunnel is underway. This will expand the park was built on top of the parkway. From the presidio, good morning christina. Reporter good morning, you can see the stage right behind us, a lot of people are setting up for what will be a really cool event. The park is going to be finished at 14 acres. This its right on top of the freeway, and todays event is getting underway pretty soon. Community leaders will be here and i want to show you some of the renderings of what this will look like. We understand this will feature a Gateway Plaza and food, as well as a campfire circle and picnic grounds. Perhaps one of the biggest draws will be the panorama view. To date we have raised 88 million of what we need to build this part. We are getting close, our Campaign Goal is 98 million.
Apollos oxo a half mile and san jose temperatures are in the 40s to near upper 30s. Gilroy is 40 degrees in upper 40s and 50s. 40 in santa cruz, and sonoma at 46. It is sunny and mild and temperatures will rebound in the city. Everyone else will be above average they will be below here not only with a high of 62, but the low is 49 and the average is 51. 30s for very few, lots of 40s, 42 in fairfield, even around the bay and the coast, there is fog and it is cold. Once it burns off, everything will go up and over the 50s and 60s for the rest of the week. We will discuss this. We have a problem in pleasanton affecting the region. Pleasanton sonoma road at cooper and road, there is a crash with a deadly crash with a headon collision and visibility was bad in the area. The fog is lifting. The accident happened two hours ago and visibility was bad. It was a headon collision. It takes a lot of traffic here. It looks small but a lot of people use it and there are the vehicles in the backgroun
Shows but honestly a former independent bookseller. [applause] but i could not hack in the tough independent world so i joined the confines of forprofit corporations where things seem easier now i can oversee shows like this and talk to all of you. But i will not delay the amazing lineup of authors we have coming up. I just wanted to take a moment to tell a story and acknowledge a friend that many if not all of us have in common. Talking my way to get a job into running and independent bookstore in my hometown st. Paul i didnt know anything about independent bookselling unlike the other luminaries i knew woebegone but shortly after i took this job i got a call in the famous person in the book world into call me to meet the nondescript meeting at a hotel in january in minnesota. [laughter] so this chilly introduction was how i first got engaged with the American Booksellers Association and in that room were people that soon became my luminaries ken white before he was famous himself i a