>> i wasn't. >> the police suggested that she goes back to pittsburgh for a while. so she bought a ticket and flew back home. meanwhile, investigators jimmy turpin and george parnham looked into. this >> it was surprising to us. normally we don't deal with professional people looking to have somebody killed. >> their first priority, locate the elusive ask, the guy who may have been a hit man. they searched out on the bases, knocked on doors, his real name was moataz azzeh or "taz" for shirt. >> and he said, we need to talk. >> we "taz" said they had them all wrong, he was not a hit man, but they were right about leon. he wanted to get rid of meghan. >> the main thing was that she that does not appear in court. that was fine with lee, on up till killing her. >> taz said that he gave her some fans see what things to -- >> his story was that he would play leon, he would never do the hit. >> but taz told police he had no doubt that leon wanted it done. taz also said, he was willing to work with them to help catch leon. so, police told taz to call leon. they recorded the

and what about the piece talks calling clock in pittsburgh? what are the implications of this latest escalation, as far as the piece towards concerned her, and i think the door door, her talks are done. i mean, we're well past the point of no return for thinking about some kind of a negotiated settlement. we can't take the tell them at their word. clearly they're not operating in good faith, just as many predicted myself the entire time, you know, largely looked at the negotiations. as somewhat of the smoke show were of the near to allow the united states to extricate its forces under the top cover of some kind of political negotiation. but it's never really been about that. and clearly it isn't now for him, said i till the dough hard talks done. do you agree? i would say would respect that. we still have a chance to talk what i believe is the standard plan at the end of the day would return to the equalization, able to reach a political system with the government, but held that i believe the reason strategy is to maximize their power. because

a new one up here in pittsburgh. highway 4 westbound east of lovers road.ng to see more traffic collisions across our nphighways heading into the city. no major delays as you're traveling from the east bay. they are 5, 1880, moving along just fine. the san mateo bridge also looks pretty great. a little under 14 minutes there for your drive time and we'll leave you with the richmond. sandra fell commute as you head to richmond a little under 8 minutes daryn. james, back to you. thanks >> so let's talk politics now as california's recall, ballots are starting to hit mailboxes. the republican party is make a concerted effort to target hispanic voters in a bid to unseat governor newsome, get him out of office and we had a recent inside california politics poll that showed the majority of hispanics. >> would vote to recall kron four's ashley zavala has the story. also dozens of california gop volunteers gathered for a virtual workshop thursday. the focus build relationships and gain support for governor gavin newsom's recall from latino voters with this governor

one example just one of the followed in pittsburgh. all jv and varsity high school games were canceled tonight and includes a football team's highly anticipated season opener kron four's amanda hari live for us now in pittsburgh after talking to a doctor about why it's so important to take this level. the smoke in the air. >> seriously. good evening, amanda. >> good evening. i just checked the air quality index here in pittsburgh. it's reading at one 62 50 is considered healthy and safe. the doctor tells me that an air quality index of 200 being continuously exposed to that is about equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. so the one 62 thing that we're seeing here right now is about equivalent to. >> 3 quarters of a >> the smoke in the bay does represent a significant health because we're all breathing and we're breathing the sent a late announcement from pittsburg high school. >> all jv and varsity games are canceled. this included their football home opener. the streets around the school and d school officials say the a

we've got any out pittsburgh and vacaville each in the triple digits. so today our hottest one, the one thing we can hold on to as a positive. today is the improved air quality now tomorrow temperatures do noticeably fall from the upper 90's to low triple digits that are hardest today to just the upper 80's to low 90's that are hardest for the remainder of this forecast skies do remain clear and dry. that's not going to change. they cited coastal areas remain in the 60's to 70's reyna. john, thanks for that. let's look at your traffic on this monday morning traveling from the east bay into the city a little under 11 minutes. so things are looking great. there. let's head over and you look at the san mateo bridge as you're heading across towards the peninsula. no major delays. a little under 13 minutes. the richmond sandra fell bridge that comey also looking pretty nice and light little under on minutes as you're heading across towards san rafale and the golden gate bridge. no major fog to slow you down a little bit. so take your time as you're driving a

one of the games cancelled was the rivalry between pittsburgh high school and sarah high school in san mateo. brentwood's liberty high, antioch, and deer valley high school also cancelled their games. the starting quarterback for pittsburgh high tells us he was looking forward to playing the first game of the season. >> i know they just do things to protect us. >> i think i speak for every parent, there was a lot of anticipation and excitement starting off the season. so it's a downer. you know, i think the -- you know, the biggest thing is how we adjust moving forward. >> we're told some of the games that were cancelled will be rescheduled. >>> now if you can take a look at this. wow, the smoke covering south lake tahoe, the glow is so eerie, you can see how much smoke is rolling in. new evacuations were order for parts of eldorado county. so far flames from the caldor fire have burned more than 140,000 acres. as the smoke continues to spread you can track it from your home go to nbcbayarea.com, see the air quality in your neighborhood. click the link on our trending bar and type in y

veterans stadium in philadelphia. >> yes i want to see pink floyd. >> three rivers in pittsburgh.andlestick in san francisco, horrible place. and there were plenty of others. actually, even worse was the later part of that generation when they foolishly thought that the way to solve the problems of those things was to put roofs on them. so we got things like the king dome in seattle, which is truly the worst place i've ever seen a baseball game in my life. and many others, so, that was a grim time. it was also based on a myth. talking a lot about myths tonight. >> baseball is all about myths. >> yes, there are good myths and bad myths. maybe i should have said fallacy. it's a fallacy that you can have football and baseball in the same ballpark. you cannot without compromising both of them a lot. >> here's where we come off looking semi decent or even better than that. >> kansas city was the only smart city in america in the 1970s, actually, in that it is the only place, other than l. a., where the dodger stadium was built for baseball only, but between -- in the post war era for s

pittsburgh been at 67 all morning long.it's not like you've seen a lot of changes as we push of the 8 o'clock hour. i'm going to be talking a warm afternoon just around the corner and even hotter weekend. all still to come yet a lot issues yesterday on u.s. it was. yeah, it was a lot yesterday. we do have some traffic collisions today. nothing like yesterday, though. >> highway 4 westbound east of bailey road in pittsburgh. you've got an accident there. and so we're seeing just a slight delay along highway 4 as you're traveling down crockett towards the maze. it will now take a little under 12 minutes to make that drive. 2.30 northbound south of his very boulevard right here in there's an accident. you seen that slowdown that are also seen a delay along 8.80, as you're driving traveling into the city. no major issues. it looks like they've kept the metering lights off for the most part, all throughout the morning. the senate hill ridge. also a great commute for you. a little under 14 minutes, although i saw there was a disa

inland, milder in places like antioch, pittsburgh. the rest of us will fall back into the 50's near 60. the weekend, above average is to start and then we will ease the heat down to average levels. it is this area of high pressure that will bring us a heat wave, not only here but the entire west coast. if we had set highs last month, this would have done it. that gives you an idea of how hot it is going t be. 80 to 90 down in the south bay. 70 worked 85, most the mid to upper 70's on the peninsula. mid to upper 70's along the coast. northbay, mid to upper 80's. cloverdale north, 90's to 100. as you head inland, 94 to 98 degrees. here is my seven day forecast. two to four degrees and tomorrow before you know it, in the 80's and then staying in the 80's and 90's before sunday and then 60's at the coast. 80's and 90's inland. kumasi: can can can can c reviews? the shady things happening to customers. and the final rose, happily ever after kumasi: seven things to know this morning. number one, back to school for bay area students. oakland

plus pittsburgh could see cannabis stores popping up in parts of the city. we'll let you know what leaders are saying about their plans to make it happen. plus, it's not just spirit airlines dealing with these crazy cancellations. another major airline also dealing with them as well. what passengers are now saying about their experiences. they try to get back home. stay with us, everyone. you're watching welcom everyone. the city of oakland taking part in national night out tonight is chief leronne armstrong marked the day by giving an update on oakland crime trends. he says when he. >> took over as chief in february. the department was saying a 500% increase in violent crime shootings were up 100%. now he says rates are down to about 50% and he credits more focus on violent crime, including the creation of a violent crimes operations center. >> and what that essentially did was centralized. all of our crime reduction teams and the one command structure so that we could be more focused and more nimble. that has produced significant outcomes in terms of recov

. >> at bailey road here in pittsburgh. we have a traffic collision there. slowing us down a bit. also 80 westbound east of cleveland avenue in albany. we have a traffic collision there and we're seeing some delays along 5, 1880, another one in oakland highway 13 northbound at lincoln avenue keeping a close eye on those things here. doesn't look like that was too bad along highway 13 heading into the city from the east a little under 11 minutes traffic's starting to improve at this hour. the san mateo bridge as up to about 20 minutes in the last hour. now we're back down to 13 will have more on that coming up daryn. james, back to you. thanks a lot. let's continue our team coverage of the conditions today because parts of the north and the east bay. >> are under a red flag warning. there's dangerous fire conditions. yeah. and that's going to be an issue for us, least for the next few days. the city of concord is taking some extra steps to try to protect. >> against the threat of wildfires and that's the story. the kron four's camila barco is on for us now live from carter to expla

several games cancelled including the big rivalry faceoff between pittsburgh high and tom brady's hold high school in san mateo. cheryl hurd is live where friday's fun is just a bust. >> reporter: it is a ghost town tonight. it was cancelled because of bad air. the air is noticeably bad tonight and school officials around the east bay are not taking any chances against anyone's health. >> it is a bummer that it had to get ended like this. >> reporter: the starting quarterback for the pittsburgh high school pirates got to scrimmage last week and looking forward to playing the first game of the season on tv tonight against the rival team, sarah high school, san mateo. all that went up in smoke because of bad air quality. >> reporter: games all cancelled because of the air quality index was above 150. >> i think i speak for every parent, there was a lot of anticipation and excitement starting off the season. so it is a downer, you know, the biggest thing is how we adjust moving for ward. >> reporter: high school coach victor galli says preparing for the next game is difficult when you can

he's a pittsburgh legend he's one of my all-time favorites. michael keaton will be here.is new movie, "worth," is going to be out on netflix next week, and i can't wait to talk to him. and you know her from "mad men," "if beale street could talk," and last year, she was monica rambeau in "wandavision." she's in "candyman," which is out friday, teyonah parris will be here. a future "avenger," according to shoemaker. that's a shoemaker pick. and he is a grammy, acm and cma award-winner, whose latest album, "starting over" is out now. we'll have music from chris -- oh, this is the actual -- guys -- guys this is not - [ laughter ] i literally thought this was now, this is on chris stapleton. but this is his album and i do want to give him my apologies. this is what it all ways looks like [ laughter ] and then today i was like, "oh, look at that now they're going to write what it is on the card for me. [ laughter ] this is a new way of doing things." oh, no, i'm sorry, chris [ laughter ] guys, chris stapleton, he's great. he's got a new album, "starting over." it's out now he

and that's livermore antioch in pittsburgh today. everywhere else. it's mostly either 70's or 80's the late show at 74 napa. really nice 77 after a hot weekend for you. tomorrow is going to be even cooler yet. we'll keep that cooling trend going through thursday. before we start to rebound a bit into the weekend by the time we reach sunday of next week. it's back to the 90's. we go. also likely to see some haze reworking its way back into the bay area. so enjoy this break from the heat and enjoy especially the break from the smoke reyna. tom, thank you for that. so we have a few hot spots to tell you about. >> this one. 80 westbound east of highway 4 hercules. 2 lanes are blocked another accident just behind that will san pablo avenue would be a good way. a wound it around that rather out here discovery bay. we have a traffic collision. the drawbridge they're open. so all lanes eastbound and westbound are currently closed because of that. so you can't cross that we're keeping a close eye on that. we're going to tell you when that changes as you head

in pittsburgh, cloin clark. -- colin clark. the head of the international relations apartment at a university. welcome to the program. victoria, i would like to start with you. you are there right now in afghanistan. feeling it, living it. tell us what it is like. what are people thinking? where is this heading? >> while, many are quite concerned about the security situation. a lot of my colleagues now are trying to leave the country. it did not fall to the taliban. it has given them quite some hope. all in all, -- the fears that the population of urban centers is not going to let the taliban take it so easily. >> one of those urban centers, thousands are trapped and fleeing for their lives in the province. the taliban continue their advanced bodies in the streets and it is a troubling situation, isn't it? >> indeed, it is. 2000 400 people were only displaced yesterday and there are 40 civilian deaths or more than that. casualties. this is almost the seventh day that this was going on. it is not completely under hold of the tal

a lot of 60's on the map pittsburgh. you're at 71.t things up later on today, especially for distant land

that's livermore pittsburgh in antioch.as like oakland and san leandro, you'll be at 72 with walnut creek at a warm. but definitely more comfortable 86 vallejo at 74 today and center fell at 79 degrees. you look ahead at our next 7 days shows cooler weather and then warmer weather was a bit of a down and then followed by an up in this forecast today, tomorrow thursday. some of our nicest of weather days. friday is also a great start to the weekend with highs maxing out in the mid 80's likely still some pretty good air quality around that time. i'm expecting hayes to gradually make its return and the beginning of next week as temperatures build under increasing high pressure reyna. john, thanks for that. so traffic, for the most part, pretty light at this hour. but we do have some accidents that just popped up. >> like 2, 80 northbound at south bascom avenue. and san jose. thankfully, we're not seen that spill over on to any of the adjacent highways like one. oh, one heading into the city. a little under 15 minutes for you t

terrible. >> -- in pittsburgh. oh, candlestick in san francisco, a truly horrible place. and there were plenty of others. and then actually even worse was the later part of that generation when they foolishly thought that the way to solve the problems of those things was to put roofs on them, so we got things like the king dome in seattle, which is truly the worst place in which i have ever seen a baseball game in my life, >> went there. >> and -- you know, and many others. so that was a grim time because -- and it was also based on a myth. i'm talking a lot about myths tonight. i didn't mean to, but -- >> baseball is about myths. >> yeah. that's true. there's good myths and there's bad myths. maybe i should have said fallacy, the fallacy that you can have football and baseball in the same ballpark. >> and here's -- >> you can't -- you can't, without compromising both of them a lot. >> and here's where we come off looking semi decent or even better, we didn't do this. >> kansas city was the only smart city in america in the 1970s, actually, in that it is the only place, o

a lot of 60's on the map pittsburgh. you're at 71. so enjoy a little time outside before we do heat things up later on today, especially for distant land reyna dom things of that starting to the bay bridge where traffic is about 16 minutes westbound as you travel into the city. we do have an accident on the lower deck east down. >> as you're heading across back towards oakland near the lower deck there knew that treasure island, texas. so again, things are slowing down just a bit on the eastbound side. that's for your commute into the city. once you reach the maze, you can make that an under 17 minutes headed across towards the peninsula under 13 forced no major issues there. the richmond sandra fell commute. nice and light for you in this 9 o'clock hour and a little under 9 minutes and highway 4. that's where we're seeing some traffic collisions here. this one highway 4 westbound at san marco boulevard and they point another one in pittsburgh at railroad avenue we'll have more coming up. the darya james, i'll send it over to you. tha

analyst and lecture on transitional justice at the american university of afghanistan, and from pittsburghrector of policy and research at a security and intelligence consulting firm. from doha, the director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute. thank you all for joining us. let me start with you. obviously, a horrible situation in afghanistan right now with the aftermath of this attack and lots of worries about what will happen next, security, not just around the airport, but throughout the country as a whole. >> yes, what happened yesterday was a shock to all of us. the shock was everyone was talking about it. there were intelligence reports indicating something like that could happen. it was a very soft target, and it still happened. the little glimmer of hope the youth, the educated youth had was that despite everything we had traded in -- peace, the scale of the killing that happened every day and afghanistan would not be seen anymore. >> let's turn to our guest in pittsburgh. could an attack like this happen again? >> yes, and that is what everybo

that venture called motional is texting robo taxing in boston, pittsburgh, las vegas and singapore. the company and partner lyft plan to start a robo taxi service in several u.s. markets in the year 2023. the initial tests around the l.a. area will take place in santa monica with a driver safety concern there being alleviated with the driver at the wheel. the u.s. postal service is proposing some temporary price hikes during the holiday season and going to be in effect from october 3rd through december 26th. the increases would mostly affect online sellers who print their postage online with priority mail prices going up by roughly 6%. the postal service says the rate changes are similar to those from last year. now marcus and laura, i've gotten used to paying higher prices for just about everything shipping wise during the holidays but feels like this year i'm going to be more attune to how much it costs to send things to like my folks in california. >> hopefully you should come visit them. you should be the gift. >> it is. i'm going to try to bet gak. we'll see what happens with t

as for current temperatures, it's 50's and 60's livermore in san jose at 62 pittsburgh. you're just shy of 70 right now while oakland and alameda at 60 berkeley and san francisco each at 58. i'm talking more about what exactly to expect as we do work our way through the start of this new week and when temperatures will cool down. still to come in your forecast, rain, a topic. so that all right. as you're hitting the road this monday morning. let's start with the bay bridge heavy from the east bay into the city. a little under 11 minutes for you to make it to that fremont street exit. so things are looking great. >> it's also having to look at the san mateo bridge as you're heading across towards the peninsula. looks like we have some activity happening there. however, you can see traffic still moving along there. we'll continue to follow what's going on there. looks like an emergency team currently crossing the bridge there as well. so i'm not tracking any major delays across the san mateo bridge. still about 10 minutes for your drive time. we'll keep a close eye on this

a little bit more mild in areas like livermore dublin and pittsburgh in the mid 60's where you can step outside actually feel pretty comfortable, which is that lightest of jackets on this morning by the time we reach the afternoon any sort of fog cloud cover is pretty much gone unless you're right along the immediate coastline and daytime highs rise. well back into the upper 90's. some upper 70's to low 80's right along the bay staying cool in the 60's for the most part near the coastline will be talking exactly what to expect, not just for the rest of today, but rest of the weekend into next week, too, in the forecast to come reyna. tom, thanks for that. so we do have a hot spot in the south bay. this is one. oh, one southbound at our lock avenue. >> in san jose in at least one to 2 lanes are blocked there. we're going to keep a close eye on. that doesn't seem to be causing much of a delay along 6.80 it looks like it is just a secluded to that one location. let's get a look at the bay bridge really quiet this morning. a little under 11 traveling from the east bay into the city. the san

also barely 90's for danville, walnut creek and concord as well as antioch pittsburgh in vacaville. just each barely reaching the low 90's today. it's pretty much the warmest number that we're going to be looking at in today's forecast. as for temperatures. the next 7 days really not a whole lot of change here. look at this. we're settling in to some seasonably warm conditions highs in the upper 80's to low 90's remain inland all the way into the first full weekend of august bayside areas in the 70's well, coastal areas in the 60's. lots of sunshine. the dry skies. obviously not ideal, but it is nice paired with those 70's right at john, thank you for that. things are looking great out there on your morning not seen any. >> major hot spots at this hour head into the city right now at and it's a little under 9 minutes for you to make it to that freeman street exit once you hit the may's 5, 1880, are traveling pretty light at this hour as well. it's also had a look at the san mateo bridge as you head across towards the peninsula. no major problems there. a little under 14 minutes for

jobina: number six, we have a crash right now in pittsburgh and according to the chp it involves major injuries. it does not look like we are seeing a slowdown right now. kumasi: the san francisco great highway is reopening to cars today. going forward weekends and holidays will be the only times that vehicles are restricted. julian: today any gma first look as kids head back to class, school districts across the country are struggling to hire bus drivers. here's geo bonita as. >> a school bus driver shortage. >> it's a perfect storm of everything that's going on. >> as children had back to school, it's fast becoming a nationwide issue. pennsylvania to florida and colorado, local officials are in a search to fill open slots. >> a lot of these districts that ended up not keeping their bus drivers on the payroll are having problems. >> savanna was short by 110 drivers to start the year, pittsburgh delaying the start by two weeks because they don't have enough drivers. those aren't the only areas struggling with a shortage. coming up we will tell you the dramatic steps other cities and to

and certainly there is john woodruff who is from the university of pittsburgh and a middle distance runner. who essentially came out of nowhere to win to win gold in the 800 meter race, he would also go on to be a tuskegee airmen. which means he was a fighter pilot for the us military doing world war ii and and that's really important because at the time being a fighter pilot was one of the most prestigious jobs that you could have and as african-american's tried to tie their their war service to to the fight against racism in the united states people like john woodruff who won the olympic field also was a symbol of black black american achievement also was a symbol doing the war giving his his ability to to occupy this very prestigious and and demanding job as a as a tuskegee airmen. and less people look back and think that they were just part of the general fight. i want to remind our viewers also that the united states military was still segregated at the time so part of why you have a unit in fact the reason that you have a unit like the tuskegee airmen is because african-american pilo

pittsburgh, cleveland, up through new york state and new england facing severe weather. and tonight, the tropical storm watch also just issued for parts of florida. rob marciano is live there to time all of this out. >>> news tonight about an arrest in one of the most harrowing attacks during the january 6tol. the suspect accused of assaulting officer daniel hodges. >>> the new census report tonight revealing are changing portrait of america. >>> there are late developments tonight involving britney spears and her legal battle. what her father has just revealed. >>> and america's field of dreams. if you build it, they will come. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy night of news. two major stories unfolding. the fda expected to announce a booster shot to fight the virus. who will it be for and could everyone be next? dr. fauci is here to answer key questions. but first tonight, the rapidly deteriorating situation unfolding in afghanistan. the pentagn tonight has now revealed it is kabul hpmo a significant number of u.s. embassy person p

let's turn to call and clock in pittsburgh could, could an attack like this happen again? it could happen again, and that's what everybody is concerned about. i think tensions are high right now. you know, the intelligence bells were ringing and they were right. you know, administration said an attack was eminent and we saw one. we know that i s k has the capability. we know that they have the intent and they're very likely planning the next round of attacks. this could be the beginning of a sustained terrorist campaign, bias k. and then so tom bought a car. is this a glimpse of more chaos to come? it's actually a reminder to the on that now that locked into cover. and there is no way to secure the city without working with everyone else, whether the city, the city of 6000000 people and on territory to them. and without a serious condition where the leader is on the ground, i think i'd like to see more of this kind of insistence falling between the lines of mandate and to toria, security between probably been under united states. and this is, i think what's happened, a sma

oakland and pittsburgh each at 58 degrees right now berkeley and san francisco at 55 while alameda in concord during sitting at 57. also looking at those low clouds over sfo right now, cloud cover burns off towards the late morning and by noontime. we're sitting under sunshine, something that continues into the afternoon. temperatures will range from the 60's at the coast 70's along the bay to upper 80's to low 80's inland. i'm talking cooler weather in this forecast. still to come right now. john, thank you for actively keeping a close eye on your morning commute. not seen any hot spots. >> all major delays are starting with the bay bridge as you're heading from the east bay into the city. once you reach the maze to that fremont street exit a little under 11 minutes for your drive times. so things are looking great. there. let's head over and check out the san mateo bridge as you're heading across towards the peninsula. you can do that. it under 13 minutes of things are looking great this morning the golden gate bridge. look at that. about 20 minutes into the city. we're not seeing a

i remember reading the official circulation of the pittsburgh courier then was about a quarter of a million but that represented only a fraction of the newspapers. copies would have been pass from friend to friend within restaurants, border shops, families, neighbors. so many more people were read being this debate. >> yes. >> dineen, before i turn back to you, i want to offer special thanks to partners and friends who helped us prepare for today's episode. thank you to the -- and joe wilson, who wrote a book about the 784th tank battalion that we will learn more about in a moment for the insights and information that they shared with us. we are grateful for your support. dineen, let's put another face, another personality, to these experiences. last year you interviewed a gentleman named dr. james baldwin. tell us about dr. baldwin and his path to military service. >> yes. dr. james baldwin, he was born in 1924, in north carolina. we see a picture of him there as a young man. in north carolina, he attends segregated schools. he's living in a segregated society, segregated by race. we know

then, of course, came forbes field in pittsburgh. >> right. >> and then fenway, tiger stadium, ebb bots -- ebbetts, wrigley. >> which of those is the greatest? by what are your standards of judgment? you develop a clear standard way of thinking about ballparks in the book and maybe you could explain that to people what you think is good? >> it's a combination of things. first, is it a nice civic piece of architecture that feels at home in a city, belongs in a city, enriches a city. because a ballpark among other things is an important part of public space. it's part of a thesis of the book is to say that, you know, along with parks that we were beginning to develop in the mid-19th century and even cemeteries, strangely enough, but the ball park was one of the ways in which working class immigrants or working class people in general could experience some bit of of the countryside. if you worked in a factory, you probably worked six days a week, had nothing but sundays off. you had no way to go to the country. you know, going to the ballpark was one of the experiences you could have. that

i remember reading that the circulation the official circulation of the courier the pittsburgh courier than was about a quarter of a million, but that represented surely only a fraction of the number of readers copies of newspapers would have been passed from friend to friend, you know within a restaurants barber shops families neighbors so many many more people were reading about this debate. yes. janine before i turn back to you. i want to offer some special thanks to partners and friends who helped us prepare for today's episode particularly to thank the embassy of the kingdom of the netherlands for their assistance the afro-american historical and genealogical society and also an author named joe wilson who wrote a book about the 784th tank battalion that we'll learn about a little more in a moment for the insights and information that they shared with us. we are grateful for your support. janine let's put another face another personality to these experiences. just last year you interviewed a gentleman named dr. james baldwin. tell us about dr. baldwin and his path to military serv

the not too bad either. 81 certainly beats pittsburgh antioch in vacaville. all cities in the upper 90's this afternoon. here's your look ahead. daytime highs. the next 7 days not changing too much here, especially not tomorrow which could be even a degree or 2 warmer than today. thursday and friday. we stepped back a little bit, but still hot saturday and sunday. also looking hot as we work our way into the weekend. reyna. tom, thanks for that. starting on the bay bridge this morning heading into the city. traffic is building. >> a little under 30 minutes for your drive times. so no major delays there. the san mateo bridge and across towards the peninsula. you can make that drive in a little under 13. so that's a nice light commute for us. our richmond, sandra fell commute. let's check out the bridge there. a little under 11 minutes. its traffic starts to get a little sluggish. there are some accidents like on 80 westbound east of gilman street that's out in berkeley and then another 1, 5, of the east, but east everett avenue in oakland causing a little dela

three years ago, of course we , had the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh. in may 2021 alone, the adl recorded 221 discrimination instances. and that is just what is reported. to protect community centers and other nonprofits, the nonprofit security grant program makes grants available to eligible , nonprofit organizations for target hardening and other security enhancements. so despite the alarming rise in , anti-semitism, ngsp processed less than half of the applications that it received for grants this year, far outstripping the 180 million dollars appropriated by congress in fiscal year 2021. so i really want to thank you for speaking to the importance of doubling the funding from $180 million to $360 million in your opening statement. it's critical to meeting the growing needs of the program to keep all of our needs secure. i just want to follow-up on many of the discussions we've had so far. rural communities, suburban communities, they often, historically experience resource , gaps. they face challenges in accessing nonprofit security grants to protec

same thing for highway 4 out of pittsburgh and bay point.ws a smooth drive for highway 4 and south 242, 680 towards walnut creek. over here a little more slowing just a bit but not as much as we did a half hour ago. the big burst of traffic looks like it's smoothed out towards livermore or 580 out of brentwood, byron, discovery bay. 580, typical pattern out of the altamont pass. we still have a couple minutes more on vasco. nothing major there. also we're having the big build start over here for 84 as well as 880. we'll start again. the first half in the 5:00 hour, the second one should be kicking in about 20 minutes. that crash not a problem for san jose, north 101 just around alum rock. it's on the shoulder. back to you. >> thank you. >>> next on "today in the bay," nbc bay area responds. >> with the recent surge, more and more people want a covid-19 test and it should be free. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura, we'll show you how next. >>> our team is on social media. meteorologist kari hall posted beautiful pictures of our daughter'

current temperatures are in the 50's to 60's pittsburgh back to being our warmest spot. much as you were yesterday morning. right now at 68 while berkeley san francisco and san mateo and much cooler range of 50's. just don't forget the light jacket this morning. i'm talking a hot afternoon and hot weekend in general still to come down. thanks for that. starting in the south bay where we do have a traffic collision this morning. one. oh, one northbound south of mckee road. and we're seeing just a little delay. >> along one. oh, one of our other adjacent highway 8782 have been impacted heading from the east bay into the city a little under 11 minutes, no major delays. the of the bay bridge. things are looking great there this morning. also moving quickly along 5, 1880. the san mateo bridge. no issues 13 minutes as you're traveling across towards the peninsula. another accident. we're keeping a close eye on, but it doesn't seem to be causing much of a delay this morning on redwood city south bound to a bed world and again to 80 looks great. one to one. but if you look at th

organization, the pittsburgh regulation falls, if the question is about, if a state legislature wantscreate more rights than with the state legislature would protect that is within the domain of what states would do. if states want to say we offer conceal gun carry everywhere, don't need a license, they don't have the authority to do, that not because the second event requires it. >> one of the great choice about working on this issue as a historian is you get to push the -- the trope of the historian. the great irony about this debate is when you talk about guns and the second amendment so many of the things that you could have protected no longer start to play out the way you expected. so constitutional conservative theory for a long time has been focused on reducing power and restoring powers to states. that was the driving force behind federalism. when you look at reciprocity you have a conservative holders of gun rights -- what made very goldwater just basically have a stroke. so the idea that once upon a time many, many gun regulations were done either locally or at the state le

i'm a clevelander your pittsburgh. that's a whole other session of conversations that we could have and maybe sometime next time you visit us we will but without further ado if you don't mind todd, let's wait into the questions. i think the way we'll do. this is i'll probably we'll have some back and forth for 30 minutes. perhaps they're about and then we know there's gonna be a lot of interest in this particular topic and there's a lot of people out there too. so we'll go to the the moorhead predictable, but but perhaps even more of a fun and and exciting aspect of the program and that'll be answering viewers q&a if that's good with you. that's great. that's out anyone who's at all familiar with world war ii knows bill mauldin and his cartoons up. he's got the grunt side view of the war. his heroes are two dog named willie and joe. now tell us about bills early life. he's obviously got some kind of sense of the the common man. this is a kid from pretty tough origins in new mexico. wasn't he? tell us a bit about that?

oakland, you'll be at 72 with concord and an ability to 88 antioch in pittsburgh in the low 90's.l, valais how at 74 santa rosa through nevado each in the low 80's. here's a look ahead in our next 7 days. temperatures tomorrow and thursday. some of our most comfortable friday. certainly not a bad start to the weekend either skies will be a whole lot clear for the remainder of the week so far as bay area weather goes, we're looking at some really good stuff. some much more enjoyable weather than what we had this weekend. reyna don, thank you for that. we have a couple of traffic collisions to tell you about. first one is in oakland. >> 5, 8, eastbound at 98th avenue. again, as you can see, we're not seeing much of a delay along 5.80. also looking pretty nice at this hour. if you want to go ahead and jump on that to try to get around that. also another traffic collision. this one is 2 42 southbound at concord afternoon on in concord. so again, that one just popped up at least one lane there is currently blocked at this time. also highway 4 pretty slow as well as you're heading into