Right now this frid morning over e city. We look ahead to the weekend. Good morning. Its friday, january 29th. Another rainy morning. You saw all of that green on the radar. Lets get to meteorologist mary lee to talk about the weather. Hi, michelle. We are looking at light rain. We are dealing with wet weather as we start off the day. Zooming in on hidef doppler, you can see the green and orange colors. Orange and yellow colors. Light rain over san jose and down through 101 into morgan hill. You can see its pouring over you and light rain over fremont, hayward and livermore and san ramon at this hour. A live look at the San Francisco camera. You can see that light rain from concord, oakland and for livermore. Temperatures in the mid40s as well as San Francisco and san jose. 37 in santa rosa. As we head through the day, we are looking at a little bit of sunshine. So, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. Highs in the low 50s on the coast and nd the bay inland. Can see ashead through the
Man who spent almost half his life with the fire department. Oakland firefighters saluting one of their own wednesday may. To sean lafons flag draped casket left senate medical center. Dozens of Police Motorcycles and fire engines hopping escort his body. The procession passing city hall and several fire stations, ending in a chapel of the chimes, funeral home and oakland am aware an American Flag was hoisted by trucks. Laughing, just 42 years old. They died as if it was cardiac arrest. I was hopeful in getting the news five hours later that he passed away when the cardiologist came back to speak to the family and myself, it was pretty knee buckling. We are struggling, coping, grieving. Reporter intern fire chief Melinda Drayton new sean lafons entire 20 year career with oakland fire. He turned to me early in his career when he made the decision to promote. Reporter a decision made out of love and passion for the fire service and oakland. Last year he was promoted to interim assistant
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And working on social welfare issues close to 30 years and those of you who have read my writings know that if you most traditional Welfare Programs have been selfdefeating and have done a great deal of harm that is intended to help i found it fascinating pp on people are happy to criticize but to do welfare for the wealthy and then to have less criticism and less disapproval than those that try to help those that most need the help. Then the freeways people that are millionaires or billionaires. One is wellintentioned although not very effective so with that said we have an interesting form today talking about a new book that is available on amazon called welfare for the rich. And that is on sale right now and amazon. And then beyond that i will turn it over to our guest and show harvey is the founder former ceo and a Charitable Group with familyplanning issues around the world and the head of d kt Liberty Project which is a prominent defender of free speech as an entrepreneur and phi
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