Laura . Hi, larry. As are on the road getting Business Done on the field, those deciding their fate are having a hard time getting their act together. We dont have a staff report we cant vote on this it was on the agenda. Joint Powers Authority board was set to approve a new 10year Lease Agreement with the as. The panels two City Council Members were no shows. So im frustrated. The city council made a decision. They voted not to have their colleagues come to this meeting today. And that to me is troubling. Among the missing are the oakland counsel members kaplan and reid. To have officials act as second and third graders and not showing up today to me is outrageous. I asked the supervisor mily not to have the meeting schedule today because there are still outstanding issues were surprised given they just handed us 40 pages the day before. Youre rewarding an owner. Others blasted jpa for considering a deal with the as. Prospects of building a stadium at the coliseum site. You need to ta
This is something you grew up wanting for people to understand and teaching them to. I dont have the excuse of a lot of other white people. I grew up in a diverse place. I have flavor all over my life. It is the family i have chosen and i love it so deeply. But i am looking at the Teddy Roosevelt statue now differently than i have before. The president saying Something Like black lives matter is you know, a symbol of hate. I dont understand that, chris. Yeah you do. I understand why perhaps he is saying it. But in the grand scheme of things, three words, black lives matter. How many other times or instances have we had three words be used and valued and reviewed. We the people, justice for all. The idea that suddenly these three words black lives matter is so toxic that we cant say and put them together in a sentence. It is just so absurd to me. You think about the power of language and why these three words have become such a battle. And it just goes along with what we are talking abo
Gavin newsom has Just Announced that most of the states schools will not reopen for inperson classes as the state reports nearly 10,000 new cases and 130 deaths in just a single day. The house education committee, meanwhile, plans to hold a hearing next week on reopening schools but now accuses the white house of blocking the cdc director from appearing. Our National Correspondent athena jones begins our coverage this hour. A Record Number of new coronavirus cases as this pandemic race as cross so much of the United States. Reporter hi, wolf. Thats exactly right. The picture here in america is not a pretty one. As you mentioned we just learned more than 230,000 new covid19 cases have been reported to the World Health Organization in the last 24 hours. The u. S. Accounts for about a third of those cases. And it really boggles the mind to think that the most powerful country in the world is so far failing to get the coronavirus under control. Thats because too many leaders and too many i
Vossoughian. We are going to begin with northward recordsetting day for new cases of the coronavirus here in the United States. Nearly 73,000 new infections were reported yesterday, breaking the record. 71,000 were reported ten days ago. Seven of the last ten days have been among the worst of the new cases since the start of this pandemic, and florida reported the highest number of deaths and hospitalizations in a single day. 495 people were hospitalized, according to state data released yesterday while 156 people died, the most deaths since july 1st. Florida officials also reporting that nearly one in three children who tested in florida have come up positive for the virus. While they show little or no symptoms, the longterm effects are unknown. Doctors say theyre running low on the drug remdesivir, which has been proven effective in treating the virus. However, theres no shortage here in the United States. The Trump Administration stockpiled it earlier this month. Florida doctors are
Language ratings. Good morning. It is sunday, july 19. Were going to begin on the west coast with some breaking news thats been developing and weve been keeping eyes on it. Its portland, oregon. What youre looking at is the Police Portland Police Association building, and at one point clear it was on fire. Officially overnight the Police Department there in portland declaring a riot. That fire, by the way, has now been put out. This is all happening, by the way, all this unrest as calls are growing to stop a crackdown by federal agents who have actually taken to the streets of portland. Some of them are in camouflage, in tactical gear, using tear gas on protesters, even pulling some of them into unmarked vans. That just resulted in more and more people hitting the streets of portland overnight. It was a 52nd night of protests. All of this as the New York Times claims it retained memos that refers federal officers deployed in portland apparently didnt have proper training. The governor