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Flag warning was extended through monday, triple digits extend into monday and possibly even into tuesday. Overall, though, what were dealing with today is going to be the gusty offshore winds, low humidity, and those hot temperatures. So Current Conditions right now humidity tends to recover overnight but a live look over san jose. You can see were starting out hazy and there is a spare the air alert. Yesterday was an air quality advisory. The bay area district decided to go ahead and update that, now turning that to a spare the air alert. So ill have more details on what were monitoring, wha...

Emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, weve examined various disasters. First of all the psychological and physical problems at jamestown, disaster sermons in responses to fires, hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party, the potato family, disaster of tourism, the impact of the triangle shirt waste factory and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. Today were discussing polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted and im enterintereste this topic because i teach a seminar in the 1950s. Looking at polio rev...

People in Santa Clara County are already registered to vote and the registrar of voters hopes by the end of today that number will jump to more than a million. Recently became a u. S. Citizen and register fing to vote for t first time ever. He doesnt want to throw away his shot. So just want to make sure that i proactively be a part of that voting process and make a difference. Reporter across the bay area on this National Voter registration day we saw stepped up efforts to get people to vote including this teen Voter Registration event in richmond. 16 and 17yearolds can even preregister. In S...

Senate in 1919 and ratified in 1920. Here we are 100 years later. The 116th congress has the highest the percentage of women making up roughly a quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speaker for the second time. And we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points for women in american politics. I want to introduce our panelists and then well come back through and have each of them talk about the books or the period of time they are writing about for about five minutes. And then well open up the conversation ...

So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy bring...