A somber ceremony marking the 19th anniversary. Of the september 11th terror attacks but this years rememberance has a different look because of the pandemic good evening. Everyone, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us tonight at 8 our top story this evening. Still smoke from those wildfires raging across california and oregon leaving the bay area with some of the worst air quality in the world tonight. And that smoke is expected to linger through the weekend. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with the details on what we should expect lawrence we need that out of here. Yeah we certainly do and to get that out of here we need really a push for some good gusty winds right now were not getting that we just got a light breeze so there you go youve got sites like this all around the bay area that smoke. Just sitting right down on the ground and its unhealthy all around the bay area in fact right now youre looking at some very unhealthy smoke sitting acros
Bay area. Im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus but the man we really need to know is our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow because if this weather is going to stick around lawrence tells us going to get that yeah i think its going to get better just going to be slow going this is going to be just slowly. Stay. I think we saw some improvement up above we had some mix in the atmosphere bit. Little more sunshine pop up in spots still some very poor air quality no getting around it that sits there tonight you can see up toward sfo you see the light you see all the smoke down below and as we look toward the Golden Gate Bridge weve got some fog rolling on shore thats good. Unfortunately. It just kind of a thin marine layer so there again nice pressure off the ocean but that is just mixing with some of the smoke out there as well and theyre just so small so much smoke around right now back weve got some very poor air quality in quite rapidly in fact last hour it was all across the bay into
A realisation and deeply how the leave that for the west democracy is not a value its not the goal its not something that they lead by its actually an instrument its in to all of many places and its as theyve i think totally wrong about that. Tell me a little bit more because i dont really see why democracy would be a stick of the west so tell me a little bit more about where that perception comes from well he your book is not very flattering to you after it terry ends but i think youre ultimately confirmed that a deeply held believe that everybody almost everybody uses different kinds of tricks and manipulation studio and you kind of subvert the house and take expression of political will and based on his democracy is i doing it in certain the way they are relying on laws and regulations to ensure that self interest authoritarian nations may be doing that and more in crew there are ways but ultimately i think the conclusion of your book is that everybody doesnt. No really i mean i don
A permanent and deliberate handicap. Absolute academic concert as i have to say the kind of is that is the option that some less let me in between those 2 extremes i think you know we go back to the seventys or eightys if we were talking then about exactly this question these countries going through growing pains and i think by the time weve got 2020 we need to recognize that countries that are stuck in this kind of middle ground between terrorism on the one hand and democracy in the other they hold elections but they rig the elections the same government a leader is in power for very long its im these countries arent simply having growing pains that are on the way to some wonderful democratic future need for a day you know complete or talk or sees that have no ability to have any criticism whatsoever they seem to be reasonably stable countries that are stuck in between these 2 extremes so. It would be i think we should expect countries like russia to look roughly the same intensity in
These 2 extremes so. It would be i think we should expect countries like russia to look roughly the same intensity in 20 years time and its going to take quite a lot to shift russia even to a complete or a terran state that doesnt hold elections rule or to a much more Democratic State where we could genuinely talk about some of the troops and losing power i was drawing of a after the soviet union and i remember very vividly this transition from infuse the absentee anyone if you see as and for democracy to see a lot of cynicism not only among the people but also among the leaders and when it comes to the latter and. It was primarily driven by a realisation and deeply held belief that for the west democracy is not a value its not the goal its not something that they lead by its actually an instrument its in to all of many places and its as theyve i think totally wrong about that. Tell me a little bit more because i dont really see why democracy would be a stick of the west so tell me a l