She is a former senior fellow with the Ford Foundation and advisor to the world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work and new book, being human. She will be in conversation with our very good friend Pamela Edwards and abc news anchor of the morning addition. Duty and pam, the screen is yours. Andy, this new age of social distancing is great to see we can get it done. Duty, it was an honor to read your book. It is a running theme in the book, how often people tell you they should know they had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made. In fact, thats where i want to start, to give people a perspective and i wanted you to compare and contrast what it was like when you are a young person pick you up in the book talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What it was like to be a person coming into the world then with a disability a
Think. That is wonderful with social distancing its great to see we can get it done and it was an honor truly to read your book it is a running theme people who should know say i had no idea people joining the conversation tonight on what your fight has been about and the changes you have made to give People Perspective compare and contrast what it was like as a young person coming into the world with a disability and what it is like now. On the one hand the difference is very significant because i had polio 1929 in brooklyn just the beginning of television and to recognize the Important Role so there were no lies that protected the rights of disabled people there werent that were protecting the rights of other minorities there werent that were protecting the rights of other minorities point it was unusual but people were looking at disability as a medical issue and not carrying it so there wasnt a lot of activity going on to look at discrimination as that componen component. So the be
We are looking a the a system moving in this time tomorrow to bring mr. Rain showers. We will track it in a few minutes thank you. One of the top tourist destinations could become home to a pop medical Marijuana Dispensary but wharf officials are saying no way. Foot traffic, no longer for rent. This is a waiting area for the patient. A former yogurt shop, and a store, now you want to sell what . Medical cannabis. Hes drawn up rendering of what his pot shop would look like. One big problem, no license yet and a Fishermans Wharf Business Group that wants to keep it that way. We dont fool it fits within the neighbors Family Friendly atmosphere. Is there an objection to having a medical marijuana business at all on the wharf or where it is located . Specifically where it is located. When he asked members about pot moving in, he heard what we heard from this owner. Ray said the 1,000 signatures he got on the street and the more than 6,000 he got online into thing his venture proved people a
Minute now. Actually the next halfhour. We are much cooler compared to where we were yesterday at this time. 10 degrees cooler in napa and some areas five to four degrees cooler compared to yesterday at this time. Temperatures will be lightly below normal this afternoon, as we look for the live view from emeryville, out toward the bay. You see some clear skies over parts of the bay area. And this afternoon look for inland numbers to reach the upper 70s along the coast. In the 60s, and near 70 around the bay. Ill tell you about a warmup with the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up. Frances, thank you. Dealing news this morning. We are waiting for the condition on two men who were rescued from the ocean in santa cruz last night after one of them drove their car off the wharf. Crews pulled the car out of the water after the man was rescued. The victims crashed through a fourfoot fence. The victims were under water nearly 20 minutes. They were rushed to the hospital. No information has
This is abc7 news. Good morning, everybody. Im carolyn tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, october 18th. Lets start with a quick look at the weather. We have meteorologist Frances Dinglason in for lisa argen. Good morning, everyone. In napa visibility is now only a fourth of a mile. And its also cooler in a lot of spots. San francisco currently 60 degrees. San jose 62. Compared to 24 hours ago, many locations are cooler. 8 degrees cooler in napa, even three degrees cooler in mountain view. A pretty picture from emeryville. We do see some clouds out there, even some breaks already. Inland, we will see more sunshine, mostly sunny with temperatures in the mid70s. A long the coast the clouds will stick around. Partly cloudy around the bay of the reaching the low 70s. I have a big warmup to tell you about coming up in the forecast. Carolyn. Frances, thank you. Developing news this morning. We know one of the two men who was rescued from the ocean in santa cruz last night has died a