Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Truman Library. Im kurt graham. Im the director here, and its always such a pleasure to welcome a crowd out to another one of our wonderful programs, especially on a rainy kind of dark and scary night and that youve driven some of you, some length i know to be here. And so we know youre going to enjoy what you what you hear. And we appreciate you, you being here and supporting us. And weve had its just so great to be back in business and to have these programs and to have these prominent authors from all over the country want to come here and share with this amazing audience that supports the president ial libraries. And youre a unique a unique crowd. And people do enjoy being able to speak to you. Pleased to introduce to you tonight, mr. Steve drummond, who is an author, educator and for more than 20 years, a journalist at npr in washington, where he is currently a Senior Editor and executive producer. His work has been recognized wit
Through tomorrow. The poor air quality for both days. And were going to take a look at that visible satellite picture because one thing you may notice is there are multiple fires burning, not just around. And the oregon area, but we also have fires burning right around Northern California. So when you take a look there, you have that one right there around the western side of oregon. We have another one, northwestern california. And that smoke is just coming into our area. So were going to have to deal with it. In addition to all of this fire danger will be elevated for the north bay mountains, lake and solano counties starting at 11 p. M. Tonight when that red flag warning goes up. Ill be back with a closer look at that fire danger and when air quality will improve in just a minute larry. All right, sandy, thank you. Well see you in a few minutes with the seven day forecast. Sandy just mentioned the wildfires causing our bad air are pretty far away. You can see up on the map here, thi
Chance to pencil out if they put in 20 for low income and very low income. We have redevelopment dollars. If we wait for the state to give us redevelopment dollars, we will not do much. I believe we are all in this together. Supervisors are meeting with city leaders and Construction Experts to chart a path forward. The fires destroyed more than 5000 homes in Sonoma County alone. This is the first of several workshops that will be held. County leaders are discussing how to deal with the housing shortage. This morning they got a dose of reality from a Builders Group in the northbay. He told supervisors that rebuilding all the homes that were lost could take as long as a decade. A lot of fire victims may decide it is not worth it. The estimates im getting from contractors architecturesa architects and developers are telling me we could have 35 to 40 of people that decide im going to sell my lot and do something else. This is even up in fountain grove. People are taking this opportunity, t
Kathleen kane, is facing criminal charges. Montgomery countys top prosecutor just made the announcement in norristown and john rawlins is there with more details on the case against kane. Reporter well, crime and a coverup, that is the alligation it is alleged that the attorney general is at the center of a conspiracy and the attorney general was behind it. The case was announced by the da in the last hour. This team determined that attorney general, Kathleen Kane deviced a scheme to leak confidential information and secret grand jury materials direct books directly to political operatives in the hopes of embarrassing whom she believed made her look bad. She says its a revenge plot because of bad press that embarrassed kane. These facts exposed by the evidence we gathered and in the attorney generals own word this is war. This was her war based on the evidence conducted without regard to the rules and without regard to the law and without regard to any collateral damage. Reporter a sho
So. We we again with the concerns of the little guy Small Business owners. They make up more than 99 of all u. S. Businesses. As kate rogers reports in this weeks cover story, they are the engine of the economy. Americas 28 million Small Businesses are truly the backbone of the economy. Accounting for more than half of all u. S. Sales according to the Small Business administration. Theyve also created 66 of all net new jobs since the 1970s and have created some 8 million new jobs since 1990. But running a Small Business is no easy task just asktamara kennedy she started as a secretary for a franchise and bought a taco johns location in 1999. Shed grown to 14 restaurants but had to close four during the downturn the hardest part was letting 50 people go not an easy thing to do. Part of communities that that income made a difference in. But shes persevered with nine locations across minnesota and iowa resilience is important for Small Companies which face a myriad of challenge from the e