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Before we proceed to todays hearing id like to take a moment to recognize last monday was memorial day. It was a different memorial day for me and other americans than normal and it was more difficult for us to gather together. But last monday gave us an opportunity, an opportunity that we should take every day to pause and remember the brave americans who gave their lives in defense of our country. And we honor the sacrifices they made to keep us free. While let me start by saying that the vete...

That they are going to open up. So look for that website to go live actually the website is live now. But look for the forms to go live soon. Great. And over time, mayor, i think were going to try to inventory try to provide parents with as much information as we can about all of the camp opportunities because we have to think about it as a network this summer because of t hable to have a list and some reference materials for not just rec and park camps, but all of the private camps happening ar...

Clouds and areas of fog around the bay. Check out our daytime high. 92 in concord, heating up to 93 in livermore, mid 70s in oakland and upper 60s in San Francisco and 63 for pacifica. Because of those hot temperatures inland, heed the advisory once again is in effect for all the inland locations from 11 am until 7 pm. I will let you know when we will cool down with our next chance of showers coming up in a few minutes. Were following those new unemployment numbers that just came up showing that...

We are going to have rain on saturday. We will have more on that in 10 minutes. 60s, 70s and 80s. A soft 90 and livermore. All right, lets get over to sal to see if there are any updates. Steve, thank you, we have traffic that is doing well on the bay area, it is not too slow and most places. Lets go to 80 westbound, it is a 19 minute drive from the cockiness bridge. There is a little bit of a backup developing at the bay bridge toll plaza, nothing major there. The san mateo bridge traffic looks...

Californians who have filed has fallen to the lowest rate in two months. The Labor Department says 212 thousand workers in the state filed for firsttime Unemployment Benefits last week. The Development Department is looking to boost staff to handle the flood of unemployment claims brought on by the shutdown. The department is looking to hire 1800 people along with the 3000 workers on the job. The edd needs people to help process claims and handle phone calls. They are looking for people with acc...

Company. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Welcome everybody, i am the dean at the Journalism School and im very pleased to welcome you to tonights conversation with the 2020 prizewinners, i am sorry we are conducting this conversation virtually rather than in the room at columbia, i hope her back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generatio...

Good news good news folks i know youre worried that everyone is suffering during this pandemic were lonely were scared and if i have to teach my mother how to use zoom one more time im going to throw her out a window not the real her but the laptop with her on it so she sees it as it goes down and smashes into the ground and maybe that will stick with her for a bit but no is not true not everybody is having a rough time some people are doing room only well americas billionaires have seen their w...

Morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium, which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John morehead iii is from a famous North Carolina family. His grandfather was governor of North Carolina. John motely morehead iii attended carolina as an undergraduate in the school of chemistry, made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab as an undergraduate that ultimately led to the founding of union carbide, and he became an extremely wealthy man. In the 1930s, when he conceive...

At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of...

Businessman in the San Francisco bay area back in the 1800s. His fortune was over 3 million back in the 1860s. And he wanted to be remembered. And george davidson, the president of the California Academy of sciences and george madera, an astronomer, who showed him what saturn looked like through a small telescope, were some of the factors that convinced him that a scientific monument that would make great discoveries was the right way to go. So he decided he wanted the greatest telescope superio...