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CalMatters Commentary: California’s 21st century witch hunts Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary © Jeff Chiu/Associated Press Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, smile as they prepare for a speech in San Francisco in 2016. Nearly 70 years ago, Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible,” a play ostensibly about the 17th century Salem witchcraft trials, in which about 25 people, mostly women, were accused of consorting with the devil and suffered horrible de...

Foreign Policy magazine in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds. Each episode focuses on ordinary people across the globe who have found ways to fight back against the seemingly insurmountable challenges of climate change. In this selected episode, host and CNN climate change analyst John Sutter interviews Daniel Schrag, the director of Harvard University’s Center for the Environment, about the role of technology in combatting climate change.  Solar and wind are now cheaper than nat...

Californias shortest highway leads to gold | Bartells Backroads What Highway 153 lacks in its length it makes up for in its historic importance. It leads to the gravesite of California’s most famous prospector, James Marshall. Author: John Bartell Updated: 3:04 PM PST December 17, 2020 COLOMA, Calif. — The California State Highway system is made up of about 51,000 lane miles of road. The longest state road is Route 1, measuring in at 695 miles. The shortest s...

What it will take to make it happen? thats coming up. >> im laura anthony in danville where dozens of protesters showed up at the home of a local sheriff. that story coming up. im chris reyes in san francisco. indoor shopping is back. what you should expect. "abc7 news" starts right now. >> build a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is "abc7 news." [ applause ] >> positive moments. this black lives matter rally started just hours ago in fremont as a peaceful protest against pol...

The world has just 11 years to get climate change under control or face devastating consequences. cnn investigative reporter, john sutter, focuses on climate issues here at cnn. and so john, weve talked. youve traveled the world, tracking climate change. what are these dire consequences in a matter of years? >> yeah, i mean, i think its hard to overstate. and each time one of these warnings comes out, when these alarm bells are sounded, i think of places ive been around the world, like the marsh...

I dont think we were prepared. we didnt realize we needed to have inventory, manufacturing for a major catastrophe like there. a lot of mismanagement. >> reporter: but power was just one snafu. shelter was another. a month after the storm, i found anita sleeping on a bed soaked with rain water, the smell of mold thick in every room. what is your biggest frustration today? what do you need more than anything else? >> blue tarp. >> reporter: blue tarps, the mayor told me. i need a thousand. its be...

>> reporter: but given that hospitals remained dark, hot, and unsterile for weeks, given that hundreds of thousands were drinking dirty water and sleeping on soaking beds under broken roofs, few believed the body count could really be so low. >> and that sort of raised a lot of red flags for people. >> reporter: including cnn investigative reporter john sutter. >> because what we were hearing anecdotally was that there were hospitals where the morgues were overflowing with people. there were cer...

>> what is your biggest frustration today in? what do you need more than anything else? >> blue tarp. >> blue tarps the mayor told me. i need a thousand. its been raining a lot. operation blue roof was supposed to fill that need. but when cnn investigative reporter john sutter dug into arm corps of engineers records, he found nearly 50,000 requests for tarps still unfilled almost three months after the storm. including carman who had broken her arm sweeping water out of her living room. [ speaki...

17? >> 16 certified. >> 16 people certified. 16 people versus in the thousands. you can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together. >> but given that hospitals remained dark, hot, and unsterile for weeks, given that hundreds of thousands were drinking dirty water and sleeping on soaking beds under broken roofs, few believe the body count could really be so low. >> and that sort of raised a lot of red flags for people. >> including cnn investigative reporter john sutt...

Really hard to find anybody on the island who would agree with that, even some of the presidents supporters. fema boasts like a record number of flights, a record amount of food and water sent, but unfortunately, as we learned tonight, it came too late. too much came too late, and its all about timing for these folks who were, as we found out, by suing the puerto rican government, dying of water borne illnesses because there was no fresh water for them. there are 300 schools now have closed due ...