celebrating women's history month on kqed. >> here is tonight's lineup on kqed it made possibl by yoursupport. >> here is a classic movie quiz. 1983's tender mercies stars robert devol. >> i'm not going to start singing again. i have lost its. echo how many oscars has devol one? one for this role. >> don't feel sorry for me rosalie. i'm not dead you know. >> you provide the popcorn, couch and tv and we will provide great movies like tender mercies. >> unexpected bonds and a second chance saturday night at eight. >> bank failures expose economic concerns and ukraine exposes gop divisions. and the t takes extraordinary efforts to prevent further financial turmoil. >> americans can rest assured our banking system is safe. your deposits are safe. william: the administration tries to calm concerns with all eyes on a key federal reserve meeting next week. plus -- >> was it intentional or not? we don't know, we know the aggressive behavior was intentional. william: tensions between the u.s. and russia at a new high after russian jets take down the u.s. drone, the first direct

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. >>> tonight on kqed newsroom , another california bank is in trouble. we talk about the turmoil at first republic bank and the collapse of silicon valley bank with congress member rochon a. plus over, lift and store dash just scored a big win in the courts. we will discuss the future of gig workers with our panel of financial experts. and we visit the largest animal shelter in the bay area in tonight's look at something beautiful. coming to you from a kqed headquarters in san francisco, this friday march 17th 2023. hello and welcome to the show. i am priya david clements. tonight we are focusing on the regional banking crisis which began with the sudden collapse of silicon valley bank one week ago. we have been learning more this week about what sparked the bank run and why they were bailed out. joining us now to discuss the federal government's intervention in the national picture is congress member rochon whose district includes silicon valley. representative, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> we are going to start here in calif

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>>> tonight on kqed newsroom, an abortion pill move by walgreens leaves california to cut ties with the pharmaceutical giant. we check in on the latest fight surrounding women's reproductive rights. >>> the california environment a protection agency often leads policies that are ahead of the nation in the fight against climate change. we sit down with the newest cal epa secretary to discuss what she plans to accomplish. >>> we take a trip to the chinese culture center of san francisco, and arts institution built on five decades of activism. >>> hello and welcome to the show. nearly 10 months after the supreme court decision that overturned roe v. wade, the fallout continues. this week, walgreens finds itself engulfed in a firestorm over its recent decision to stop providing a widely used abortion pill, method pressed on. they will stop providing it in states where republican officials have threatened legal action. in response on monday, california governor gavin newsom tweeted that california won't be doing business with walgreens or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts wo

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so i think it's funny that and i went and talked about this in palo alto and talked about it kqed and there are a number of people who upset that i didn't credit the countercultural history of palo alto more because there's a countercultural history of palo alto, sure. but i was more interested in the new left and writing what i thought as they see is this historical wrong. and so maybe i come out a little harsh against the counterculture, separating it from the new left. but if that needs to be done, that needs to be done. the important thing is to see, to understand that the grateful dead, the band, the grateful dead was not the most important thing that was happening in the world at the time. they are not mentioned the book. i'm sorry if there are any grateful dead. the most important thing in the world was the cold war was the struggle over u.s. imperialism. that's what the air as a product of. that's what this book is about. now we're going to have some questions. we're going to take some questions. we're you do mention the grateful dead in the book. you credit them with having.

. ♪ >> >>> tonight on kqed newsroom, an abortion pill move by walgreens leaves california to cut ties giant. we check in on the latest fight surrounding women's reproductive rights. >>> the california environment a protection agency often leads policies that are ahead of the nation in the fight against climate change. we sit down with the newest cal epa secretary to discuss what she plans to accomplish. >>> we take a trip to the chinese culture center of san francisco, and arts institution built on five decades