The city is officially 51 and cell southwest and the pressure is up and its still very close. Low clouds continue and it left behind a lot of loud cover so that will take a while to clear from northwest to southeast and look for the neck system to go up but highs today are inching closer that average and 880 s. Is still picking up. Thank you very much, we do have slow traffic here that i want to mention which is quite shocking for some people. Maybe youre just listening but look at the slow down it 880 northbound driving past the coliseum because of road work so not the way to get to downtown oakland. Does a pretty good alternate on 580 westbound or if youre going a short distance use international and that of using the freeway, southbound is not affected but dont let this catch you by surprise, its been a minute, not literally been a while since weve had slow traffic so use 580 westbound. Lets go back to dave. We are starting with breaking news in the east bay city of richmond where f
Its my pleasure of author miriam horn choices even. Shes author of two previous books including a New York Times bestseller. She pretty worked for the u. S. Forest service and spent 15 years writing numerous newspaper articles and for magazines including the New York Times, u. S. News, world report, smithsonian. Tonight were celebrating the most release and recent book, rancher, farmer, fisherman. During the conversation we are glad to ian frazier. But first tell us a bit about her book, lees welcome miriam horn. [applause] thank you for welcoming us to this incredible row at the strand and for keeping the strength such a vital part of our lives. Thank you for joining me here. I have been a group be of ian frazier for 25 years since i first read great plains which remained one of my most beloved books ever. If you havent read great plains and you should pick it up on your way out. I wanted to do a couple things before we start the conversation. When its just to its blame a little bit a
Its my pleasure to have miriam horn joining us this evening, the author of two previous books including the bestseller earth to peopler. She works at the Environmental Defense fund. Miriam previously worked for the u. S. Forest service and spent 15 years writing numerous newspaper articles and for magazines including the new york times, u. S. News world report, smith soap january and vanity fair. Smithsonian. Tonight were celebrating rancher, farmer, fisherman, its about conservation heroes of the heartland. Joining miriam in conversation, were glad to have ian frazier, best selling author. But first, to tell us a little bit about her book, please welcome miriam horn. [applause] thank you, kaylen, and thank you, eddie sutton, for welcoming us to this incredible room at the strand and for keeping the strand such a vital part of our lives. Thank you, ian frazier, for joining me here. I have been a group by of ians groupie of ians for 25 years since i first read great plains. If you haven
This is real money. You are the most important part of the show so skroin our live conversation on twitter or facebook. We have talked about it a lot on this show, the safety of americas growing oil traffic is in the spotlight again. A barge carrying more than 21,000 barrels of oil collided with another vessel in the allimportant ship channel. The United States coast guard. Take a look at that. The United States coast guard has shut the 53mile texas waterway to traffic as responders scramble to clean up an estimated 4,000 barrels spilled into the bay. Eight local refineries are now cut off from new oil deliveries. And the spill threats a nearby oil sanctuary. This has america remembers the exxon valdez paster 25 years ago today. A quarter of a cent think later, the shale boom are putting pressure on this countrys road, rails, and waterways. Tankers and pipelines still transport the majority of oil to the refineries. But in 2012 the movement of oil by trucks trains, and river barges ros
We have talked about it a lot on this show, the safety of americas growing oil traffic is in the spotlight again. A barge carrying more than 21,000 barrels of oil collided with another vessel in the allimportant ship channel. The United States coast guard. Take a look at that. The United States coast guard has shut the 53mile texas waterway to traffic as responders scramble to clean up an estimated 4,000 barrels spilled into the bay. Eight local refineries are now cut off from new oil deliveries. And the spill threats a nearby oil sanctuary. This has america remembers the exxon valdez paster 25 years ago today. A quarter of a cent think later, the shale boom are putting pressure on this countrys road, rails, and waterways. Tankers and pipelines still transport the majority of oil to the refineries. But in 2012 the movement of oil by trucks trains, and river barges rose to a Million Dollars a day, a 57 increase since 2011. Thats because construction of pipelines isnt keeping pace due to