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 conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
The rest of the bay area the next several hours. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im veronica de la cruz. Darren peck is showing us what high def doppler looks like right now. We all agree, we need the rain. But this storm just has some of the most inconsiderate timing. Look at high def doppler, the yellow and orange shows the strongest rain. Its lined upper up perfectly along the 101 corridor. Thats where the heaviest is now and has been the last 45 minutes to an hour. Hang out if youre on the 80 corridor or any of the others that work their way through the east bay or south bay, that band of rain is headed your way. Thats what it looks like when you time lapse it. Ill be back with more in the complete forecast and go into the all the details. See you then. All right, darren, thanks. 2019 will go down as a deadly y theres a shocking number of pedestrian deaths this year. Kpix 5s andria borba live in San Francisco with whats being done to address the rising numbers. Reporter ken, im a
Okay. , good afternoon okay, good afternoon. Im sorry, what . Okay, good afternoon. Welcome to the july 9th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of San Francisco government television, lawrence and alexander and jesse who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes. We received a communication from the office of supervisor Catherine Stefani who anticipated being out of town today and requested to be excused from this meeting. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani from the meeting . Motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor safai without objection, sup
Welcome to the july 9th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of San Francisco government television, lawrence and alexander and jesse who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes. We received a communication from the office of supervisor Catherine Stefani who anticipated being out of town today and requested to be excused from this meeting. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani from the meeting . Motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor safai without objection, supervisor stefani is excused. So, madame clerk and colleagues, before we move on, i wo
Because the controversy of the day is the notion that the bureaucracy and the input is slowing down the building. I wanted to say for the record, what is slowing it down is not community input. Everybody saluted the fact that neighborhood input made to the project back better. It is the lack of actual funding that is why i am affixing my name to this measure today because 600 million, over half a billion dollars of the public s money that we will all pay for it, that we will all work to get past this november, that is where the rubber hits the road, that is where we actually build Affordable Housing. And given that it takes a long time to raise those funds, we have time to have Good Community process and Good Community input , so lets not wreck what makes projects better and lets fund what builds these projects. Thank you. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I just want to add my excitement about the bond and i want to thank president yee for working so closely with the mayors office, but a