Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
My pleasure to be here with the author and really, wonderful person to talk about history and race, and just challenges during this time, Erica Armstrong dunbar. She is the author of one of my new favorite books. She came to sleigh. It is the life and time of Harriet Tubman. Thank you so much for doing this. Your book is really groundbreaking. And cute and first of all let me thank you for inviting me on. I really taken the time to have this conversation. I love to talk about history. But more importantly about the lives of africanamerican women during the 19th century. And harriet have one just became very clear early on that it was time to kind of do a bit of a refresher on Harriet Tubman. And to think about her as a person. Hennepin as an activist bird right now were thinking about about what social justice and activism looks like. I think theres no better representation of it, at least in the 19th century than Harriet Tubman. Its wonderful to be able to talk about her. Host what is
Sonoma counties right now temperatures are in the 50s and 60s pittsburgh conquered livermore all at 63 degrees. 50s and timber on San Francisco berkeley as well as up into napa and santa rosa. Later today, those 50s and 60s become 70s to 80s for most of the bay, a few 90s inland. Ive got more on your forecast still to come james. Very much john time now is 4. 31 our big election headline this morning. Presumptive democratic president ial nominee, joe biden is expected to announce his choice for Vice President this week. Hes promised that his running mate will be a woman and among the top candidates. In contention are california representative karen bass, former National Security adviser susan rice and california senator kamala harris. California representative Maxine Waters believes that biden will pick a black woman to be his Vice President. Its going to be stored or whoever it is do i believe that is going to be an africanamerican woman. I certainly do wait African American women hav
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, we are looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look out and see that lowlying fog and still the haziness in the air. It is friday, august 21st. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. Lets good to our coverage of the fires. Five have been killed. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes. The lightning complex fires are around 656 square miles this morning and that is about 14 times the size of francisco. We will have all the latest on the fires but first, lets go straight to mary lee with the look on the air quality of the bay area. We are tracking those hazy and smoky skies for unhealthy air quality, so checking air quality conditions of this morning, looking at unhealthy air from livermore, concord and for fairfield and unhealthy air for rio vista. A spare the air alert, once again in effect today and that will continue all the way through
15 years ago an explosion ripped through lebanons capital killing Prime Minister graffiti and 21 others now the special tribunal for lebanon in the hague will deliver its verdict on august 7th find out what this means for lebanon and for those indicted and follow all the developments on a. Dog for 300 years the most powerful nations on a screw richer and strong go in the profits of the slave trade of a 12000000 men women and children with philosophy transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south America Today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a law if it is thriving and it is bigger than ever. Amid the ruins of a devastating earthquake the human tragedy plays out in the slums of the caribbean island states of haiti and. It goes by another name but its amounts to child slavery. And instead. Read by names as alaska. Nothing is soon 1000000000 man. Very poorl