The wind of change was up early and it has been kicking up its heels here for many, even gus 37 at the altamont pass. Cordelia reports sometimes and it doesnt last. I thought it was 37 miles per hour. Some of the bridges, you will feel that breeze come up in asia bridge, maybe. Morning fog, hazy, below average High Temperatures today, but they are ready to get above. Well have more that in about 10 minutes. Over to sell now. The bay bridge toll plaza is that better or worse . We have better news there, steve. Better news at the bay bridge. That crash that we had on the st. We do have a bigger backup than normal, but at least things are moving now. The crash is gone. It was a motorcyclist and a car that got into it at about the 6 00 hour. It was clear just about 10 minutes ago. It is better now. Because of todays volume, if this were the pandemic, we would be done before the pandemic, we would be done for the morning, but this is just lighter than usual conditions, even at the bay bridg
There are now more than 3 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus and as numbers continue to go up. The debate and how and when to reopen continues. Camilla bernal has the latest. 19 cases in the u. S. Hits new records. The White House Coronavirus task force needs at the u. S. Department of education is time for us to get our kids back to school the briefing focusing on reopening schools and doing it safely. They must fully open and they must be fully operational and how that happens is best left to education and community leaders. Before the meeting President Trump tweeting his disagreement with cdc guidelines for opening schools and in another tweet saying he may cut off funding if the schools dont open all this as the country reaches 3 million covid19 cases and at least 2 dozen states have paused or rolled back reopening plans new cases in the u. S. Continue to rise at a record rate with the country reporting more than 16,000 cases tuesday. Its highest single daily count. Since t
Forefront of this, so the book became a story about that point. Susan how did the idea come to you for telling this story . Jeff this is my 22nd book. What i try to do is go everywhere the people i write about went. Id rather drive, and that way you really get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted we are going to get in a car and go everywhere we want to. Since i did not know, i thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that. As always happens when you look into history, there is more to it than you ever expected. Susan your book begins and ends with someone thats a minor character in the book by the name of jep bisbee. We are going to show his picture on screen. Who was he and why was he interesting to you . Jeff one of the things that struck me as i researched the book was how the vagabonds, for ford, edison, whatever friends might be with
Susan jeff guinn, what is the story you tell in the book, the vagabonds . Jeff the story i meant to tell is how america morphed into a car culture, from horse and wagon to everybody wanting cars to go places. I did not know until i started researching that henry ford and Thomas Edison were at the forefront of this, so the book became a story about that point. Susan how did the idea come to you for telling this story . Jeff what i try to do is go everywhere the people i write about went. I always use my car. Id rather drive, and that way you really get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted we are going to get in a car and go everywhere we want to. Since i did not know, i thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that. As always happens when you look into history, there is more to it than you ever expected. Susan your book begins and ends with
Sunnyvale, upper 80s near 90. 84 in the city and 72 and pacifica. Napa, 88. Proffered, crawford, 89 degrees. A little fog. There are some 40s to the north. Did not take long to start warming up. The city is still a 63, even though the buoy temp is 54. Note breeze whatsoever. Mid50s and the upper hills. Is warm but even the coast, bay, and lynn temps will be well above average today. The high kicking in for 2 1 2, three days. Just like that, it will start to cool down on sunday. A big change on monday. More that coming up in the next couple of days. May be our first rain of the season for some on monday. 70s, 80s, 90s today. 7 01 am. A little hiccup or two early. Now, it is better. It is better than it was. We had a couple of things, as we mentioned. We have not had a lot of serious crashes. Yesterday and today, weve been okay when it comes to super serious things. List begin with the east bay commute. Some people leaving the east bay. You can see a little bit of a backup at the east ba