Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
Hotter. Really concerned about the hot weather again because we just had it not that long ago. This heat wave could be dangerous, and now the governor has declared a state of emergency to shore up the States Energy capacity as the grid gets a work out. My electric bill is definitely going up because of the ac, and i cant be without it. It just gets too hot. Some Hardware Stores already out of large fans. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im larry beil. Im ama dates. Lets get right to meteorologist sandhya patel. Its the kind of heat wave that will be potentially dangerous. It is going to be stifling and an excessive heat warning has been posted from 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow to 9 00 p. M. Monday. It covers all inland areas upper 90s to 110 degrees or higher. And that means heatstroke, heath exhaustion certainly possible. It is going to be warmer than average for this time of year. Records are certainly possible. Tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. Youre already seeing those temperatures mainl
Were seeing just a couple hours ago. But come sunrise tomorrow, all of the citys beaches will be blocked off and closed. Yet, that wont be the case up the road in half moon bay. Conflicting messages between two coastal cities a mere mile apart. I think the whole things been confusing. It gets confusing. Pacifica has closed a lot over weekends recently. And i get the closures because of the fire evacuations and all that. But it gets confusing. Reporter surfs up in pacifica for now. But it wont stay that way for Labor Day Weekend. All four of the citys beaches will be closed. We are urging people to just stay home this Labor Day Weekend. Reporter there will be enforcement, but theyre hoping for voluntary compliance. Well have officers monitoring the beach. And well have additional park rangers augmenting our efforts and discouraging people from coming on the beach. Reporter yet, just a mile u tide in half moon bay. The sandy beaches will all be open. Now hearing that the other beaches ar
History of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of enslaved women. We already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduced us, if you will, to that dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women, and that is sexual violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also looked at the wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those narratives was the extent to which some issues, including sexual violence, violence generally, and sexual violence, in particular, was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here we have an with this case to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. So, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery . As you have all begun to see in your readings for today, there are ma