Continues. Good morning. Heres a live look at the bank of america in vallejo. Alex savidge is out there with more on what you need to know. It is monday, december 2nd im pam cook. And good morning, im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Steve is not fooling, today will be nice. But tomorrow. I will give you a heads up. All the ladies out there by wednesday i will use a phrase i havent used in a long time it will be crazy cold. Crazy cold. So today is that between day. We have fog coming back in. Some of that is really thick; right pam . Yeah. Yes very thick. System move into Mendocino County and lake county giving them partly cloudy skies. More clouds. 30s and 40s. If you think its cold now, wait a couple days. There is some rain. In fact its 39 in seattle. Portland has had rain. The big news will be the cold air. Today we will cool off a little bit. It will be tomorrow we drop five to ten degrees. By wednesday into thursday some inland temps the high temps will struggle to get
It is my great pleasure to introduce the chairman of the Kennedy Library Foundation Board of directors who gives endlessly of his time and extraordinary talents to both this institution and to our country. [applause] to welcome everybody here this morning. This is one of the great highlights of the year for this Great Library and we are honored to have all of you here with us today to celebrate a very special day. As we begin the ceremony, i want to acknowledge a couple of people who are pivotal and we are pleased that they are here today. First, my close friend and a man hisgives whatever he asked, vision, his work indispensable to this institution. Not do not know this but it is said that designed the tiffany lantern we will be presenting to our distinguished awardees. That is one of the many things that it does for us and i appreciate that. And rosewelcome Ed Schlossberg is here today. We are happy to have jack schlossberg. Shy in ourt deliberations. We will hear more about jack and
An expert in hand surgery without knowing much about the rest of the human body, so also one can become expert in various segments of the law without knowing much about the rest. We should call the former a hand surgeon rather than a doctor; and the latter a realestate conveyancer, or h r block, but not a lawyer. Those of you who have walked the streets of paris may have noticed signs here and there. Jurisconsult. Not avocats, lawyers. I am not even sure whether one must pass an exam or have any special training to work in such hang out a sign. I suspect not. None of you who are being graduated today is being certified an expert in patent or employment law. You are instead receiving degrees that attest to your successful completion of a sustained threeyear study of law. The mastery of that subject is what turns the student into a legal professional. This is the traditional view, well expressed by an earlier, and wiser, aba panel in 1921. And i quote Legal Education , should produce a r
Money comes and goes, but if you get an Honorary Degree attached, that stays with you until the end of your days. There are certainly speakers who are brought in because there is a hope that they have a particular interest in a program that will be initiated or is ongoing at the university. The university is honoring them because of the shared interest and hoping they will be donating to the university in the future. Many cases were Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degrees are targeted to people of means in the hope they will work with the university in building some particular program. Typically, they will not be offered any fee at all. The University Needs their money. Carey nelson is former president of the American Association of University Professors and he serves as an english professor at the university of illinois and our viewers can find out more at your website. I also think once you have announced the commencement speaker, withdrawing it is an act of cowardice. That has ha
Plant open. We are breaking down the pros and cons. This is nbc bay area news tonight. Im raj mathai. We will go to the two exclusive stories in a moment starting with updates on this incoming heatwave. Potential for 100 degrees, maybe more, in parts of the bay area over this labor day weekend. Right now we are being asked to conserve energy. We are under a statewide flex alert to 9 00 a. M. Cal iso says to expect more in the coming days. Pg e is preparing all hands on deck. Staff meteorologists are tracking the weather conditions from a command center in san ramon. They will stage crews in areas that their forecasters say will be most impacted by the heat. There are no planned pg e power shutoffs. Of course, that could change. And in Contra Costa County an unprecedented move. The county is closing hiking trails in concord and walnut creek at the request of the fire department. This weekend is not the weekend that we want the public hiking in the open space where you are far from the p