of humanities tennessee are key sponsors the metro arts commission tennessee arts commission, and parnassusks. thank you so much for making this possible in these extraordinary times. let's see we are going to be in conversation tonight with two extraordinary african immigrants. one is shugri said salh and the other is mondiat dogon. his book is throw those we throw away our diamonds. hi everybody. welcome to the southern festival of books. >> thank you. can everybody hear me? >> okay. can you hear me? >> i can absolutely hear you. >> i can hear both of you. >> this is great pretty want to tell you bookseller is parnassus books repurchases of the books of any books from any part of the festival help keep this festival free. humanities, tennessee staff will place the book by links for that session and the top of the chat. the festivals of free nonprofit event sponsored in part of you appreciate the event want to support it you can do that in the app or by visiting the website www.hq mtn.org. let's talk a little bit about her authors, shugri said salh was born in semi is an immigrant first to

particularly the 6 parnassus service.o assuming this, tell me how the two sort of other alternatives -- tell me how a person would be able to get to that essential medical facility is this -- facility? >> mr. kennedy, you're on mute. >> yeah, sorry. trying to find the mute button. okay, so thank you, director, for the question. so by two other alternatives, the alternatives where the 6 does not return to service, is that what you're asking? >> director hinze: yes. >> so, there is right now basically the 52 and the 66 are filling in for the 6 on that part of the route. and so i think what the caller pointed out. he was talking about his trip where he had to transfer, he took the 52 and had one options. one was going to forest hill, taking that inbound and transferring and coming outbound. you know, that's a very great point. those are the very types of comments that we're trying to get through this process. and figuring out where we made -- where we missed some of the trip patterns and where things are very important to ma

we saw fire crews cutting one up at belvidere street and parnassus avenue. one block away, another tree came down right on top of a car. in alameda county, the fair reopened after it was forced open -- forced to close yesterday. you can see some of the damage the storm caused. if you had a ticket for yesterday, you can use it for any day. the fair will be open following this sunday. commuters were forced to find alternate routes at stanton street and it was completely closed because of the flooding. >> traffic is moving again on 80. it was a different story this morning after flooding on the fremont got so bad drivers had to abandon their cars. ryan curry shows us the mess and has advice for drivers from the chp. >> it was a slippery morning commute from the south bay. >> lots of rain on the ground. it started to flood. >> at least half a dozen drivers sold their cars stranded on high water. so high that the chp shut down the freeway in both directions >>. our officers started putting out early on, this is going to be bad leader. -- to be bad later. >> a lon

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we saw fire crews cutting up one of those trees in belvidere street and parnassus avenue. another tree came down on top of a car. these were just a few of the downed tree calls for san francisco fire. flooding remains one of the biggest problems as the rain keeps on coming down. this is what it looked like earlier. contra costa county off interstate 80. streets look like a river, and drivers got stuck in it. in millbrae, a lane has flooded and there is a lot of standing water. that's where our reporter tim johns is, tim. >> yeah, jr. in millbrae, the water is currently up to about my ankles. several hours ago, it was up to my shins. earlier in the day, it was knee-deep residents tell me. for people living on the street, the past 24 hours have not been easy. >> my whole garage is up to my kneecaps. >> everything is floating around. >> this house for decades, that was a result of the storm slamming the bay area. it is facing flood damage. >> the fire department came out, they told me they couldn't do anything about it because it was high tide. and the city's pumps were doing