Former, and most recently, Civil War Monuments and the militarization of america which one the book award from the society of civil war historians as best book of the year on the issues of the civil war era. Hes been the editor of several influential volumes, including a particularly still relevant and useful set of edited essays on reconstruction originally issued almost 15 years ago, but still relevant today and a topic we wrestle with today. As well as a number of edited volumes. We are delighted to have him join us today. I will lead him with the first question, if you are ready . You might be muted. Things we aret of going to want to touch on in a relatively brief time today. Monograph,arkable you approach memorials and all kinds of interesting ways that we will want to touch on as works of art, what happens if we context in a national rather than bifurcated into , northern, andrn confederate stories. And what cultural readings we can read from them beyond the meaning of the civil
To cut the castro out of their plans this halloween night. Thats where we begin this saturday here on kron 4 news at 9. Thanks so much for joining us. Im Jonathan Mccall justine enjoying some time off. This is what castro street look like today full of festive costumes as well as folks out trick or treating. But once again the city of San Francisco asking folks to stay away because of those climbing cases kron fours dan for longtime the castro looking into the issue with how folks are staying safe tonight jonathan there are obviously people that are still out here tonight a decent amount of people here that are celebrating halloween in the castro. But the key this year is to be doing it safely. The city is asking people to on avoid coming to this area here tonight apd is standing by and they would rather people which is stay home. People clad in costumes make their way along the sidewalks of the castros shops and restaurants covid19 has changed things this year. Halloween masks arent t
This weekend kron fours gayle ong live force and walnut creek with a look at how things are going in Contra Costa County tonight. Yeah. More than half of Contra Costa County residents have already voted im here at the heather farms park and this is one of the sites where people can vote early in person. Im really im glad its done. On saturday lily wescott crossed off voting on her to do list i actually came in with my mail in ballot and didnt realize that i had the ability to just go ahead and vote early so i went ahead and took care of that right away. Early voting in person began friday in Contra Costa County jennifer look many leads the heather farms park site and says so far almost 500 people voted in person by saturday, the crowd tapered off today its been pretty well its not that slow but yesterday was earlier in the morning would have lines all the way around parks with election day fast approaching over 50 of residents in the county already voted. County officials have been enc
A job and so far so good out here tonight of course people are here in the castro celebrating halloween but the city is just asking people not to come together in crowds and also have a huge party out here tonight sfpd is standing by and they are suggesting that people should instead stay home. Halloween in the castro unlike any other covid19 forcing people to wear not just the fun, kinds of masks, but the safe ones. The city would rather people not be out at all definitely need to be safe. I need to be protected. I also got to live our lives. Castro resident l visible thinks his community is responsible enough to celebrate safely but understands there are risks we are in a pandemic you know its like the sfpd has been out in the neighborhood on foot keeping an eye on things summerly trick or treaters tell us they experienced a fun and safe time before the sun went down and kind of cool to see everyone right wearing mask develop still celebrating the 5 even though we couldnt go door to
Shot as you can see of sorry of of the Golden Gate Bridge off to the distance there just a little bit of that haze to start things off. How we deal with those temperatures mostly 40s going on in line nice little cool down 56 San Francisco, 54 oakland, Half Moon Bay by the way we do see some fog there at 46 and 45 inland for livermore antioch at 48, however, these readings are a couple degrees ahead of where we were from yesterday or would have been about about the guess 08 00am at that point a look the wakeup forecast is sunny with temperatures in the 50s approaching 60 or so then about high noon well get some of those 70s working in here approaching 80 and into the afternoon most inland temperatures will be well in the 80s, ultimate highs even along the east bay shoreline should be in the 80s. Well take a closer look at your forecast coming up in just a bit marty. All right. Dave thanks live. We begin the news this morning with breaking news from the south bay where police are investi