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Will. Hello, everybody, welcome to the National Book festival. One thing we can do and i know you are all loving it as i am is to read a good book. I wrote a book that was published about a certain struggle with one of the central problems of our times, knowing what is true and what isnt. It is my pleasure to have with me today to people that wrote two of the very best books of the summer related to the world on the dangers. First i want to introduce Barton Gellman my colleague at the Washington Post who wrote an extraordinary memoir of the feelings with Edward Snowden that led to the revelations about the nsa, technology and surveillance and the subtitle of the book says the american surveillance state. And i also want to interview another outstanding offer, thomas ....
Its going to be into the afternoon. Afternoon hours so the rest of us from the bay to our inland valleys bringing plenty of sunshine and most importantly, some slightly cooler temperatures many daytime highs fall from the 90s to the 80s, 50s and 60s is where were at across the bay right now berkeley, San Francisco timber on 50s. Well fairfield conquered pittsburgh in dublin on the 60s. Later today, it will be 60s for San Francisco, well low 70s in oakland and mid 80s in san jose, dark. Thanks a lot on and lets start off with looking at what the coronavirus is shaping up that like this morning. There are 33 states now seeing cases on the rise from week to week. And this shows you that there are 8 states in the red that means more than a 50 increase in cases and where that vote in california. There are 25 states showing a 10 to 50 increase. Right now more than 3. 3 million infect ....
Announcer now from abc 7 live breaking news. Tonight themriville chilling images. Store after store being hit by looters. We saw people running in, grabbing what they could, and then dashing out. This played on for hours. It is the day after in oakland. Businesses are picking up the pieces after the protests over the death of george floyd took a dark turn. There was looting and arrests. But the damage has been done. Emotions still running high across the country as is the anger. Were seeing more protests tonight that have taken a violent turn. And a federal officer is dead in whats being called an act of terrorism. Investigators are look into whether his death is directly linked to the chaos that unfolded last night in oakland. Now, the action picked up as the sun went down in San Francisco as well as across the bay area in emeryville. There is now a curfew until 5 00 a. M. In San ....
Can blockes this drug the virus. Now for my daily report, as the governor shared, our hospitals reported 4628 hospitalizations and persons of covid19 and under investigation. 1416 individuals in critical care, with 74 on ventilators. The governor reviewed the new cases reported today. In terms of deaths, the breakdown by race and ethnicity basically unchanged. White, 52 point 5 . Black, 19. 2 percent. Hispanic, 17. 5 percent. Asian, 17. 3 . Other, 5. 4 percent. 515 longterm care facilities in our state now reporting covid19 cases. 173tate veterans homes, residents, 362 have tested positive. We are reporting a total of 129 deaths of those residents today. Our state psychiatric hospitals are reporting 12 deaths today. Yesterday, i reported the deaths of a fouryearold with underlying conditions. We have no indication at this time in our investigation that the death was related to kawasaki disease. The cumulative percent Positivity Rate< ....