that people would really identify as sort of classic west-coast species. and so we began thinking about ocean acidification impacting abalone and other species that many people on the west coast, if you're walking along a shore, they're the species that you think of as being sort of characteristically what you would find on this shore. when an abalone or a clam is making its shell, it is essentially pulling components out of the water. it's pulling building blocks out of the water and making a hard part. and what ocean acidification does is it makes it harder for them to find those building blocks, so they expend more energy just trying to make a shell to protect themselves from a predator or a crashing wave or whatever the ocean is bringing. swezey: we're realizing that animals that build shells and hard parts take calcium and carbonate out of the water and build skeletons with it. the calcium carbonate is very sensitive to the ph of seawater, that it's less stable as seawater becomes more acidic, and we've begun to realize that it's much harder for anima

he was once a us citizen, son of immigrants who settled on the west coast now enough tally bennett is going to the white house as prime minister of israel, a key ally of do united states, but whose relations with democrats in the us was somewhat fraught during the premier shape of his predecessor benjamin netanyahu. it's been very clear from the beginning that the goals of both naphtali bennett and foreign ministry, iowa paid, were to rebuild the bi partisan nature of the relationship that they thought was lacking during the 12 years under nathan yow who really focused on the republican party. also of the agenda is iran, israel, opposing efforts made by the, by the administration to return to the 2015 agreement, which by this predecessor pulled out from an after the targeting of an israeli managed ship. and the gulf of oman bennett is trying to bring about an international consensus when it comes to retaliation. but gone other days of trump, when israeli prime minister appeared to be able to dictate the middle east foreign policy of the white house. the bye didn't administration favor

and there was this real concern about the invasion of the west coast. there were japanese submarines sighted out in the pacific ocean and there were some incidents. but nothing -- nothing to implicate japanese-americans themselves. so we have really got to stay on top of this. >> people like my dad were an immigrant from japan. but he wanted to do something to help in the war effort. so he applied to the university of chicago that was running a ram for the army called the astp, army specialized training program, teaching japanese to u.s. army personnel. so that's what my dad did during world war ii. he was allowed to leave camp to go to chicago to be part of that program. and he had asked for my mother and me to leave with him. the army said no at the time. so there were a lot of things that -- and as a result of the evacuation and internment, you know, we were talking about -- about what happened to us to make sure that it doesn't happen to somebody else in the future. and part of that whole action was to make sure the civil liberties act of 1988 was p

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and there was this real concern about that and a vision of the west coast. there were actually some rains, submarines cited out in the pacific ocean. and there were some incidents. but nothing to implicate japanese americans themselves. so, we have really got to stay on top of this. >> and you know, people like my dad -- he applied to the university of chicago running a program for the army called the astp army specialized training program, training army personnel, so that is what my dad did during world war ii. , he is allowed to leave camp to leave chicago, to be a part of that program, he would ask for my mother to leave with him. the army said, no, at the time. so, there were a lot of things that is, the internment... you know, we were talking about -- make sure doesn't happen as somebody else in the future. , and part of that whole action was to make sure that the civil liberties act of 1988 was passed. and yet, our secretary of transportation on 9/11 and and, keep muslims off airplanes. keep muslims off airplanes. don't allow middle east earners to fly

. >>> well, the west coast is not the only place dealing with raging wildfires right now. around the mentorinfie also burning. at least 65 people have died in the fires in nigeria. across the sea in greece, a record-breaking heat wave is fueling wildfires. greece has been one of the worst hit countries. >> >>> more than a dozen hunters from around the world are helping to fight fires including the united dates. >> >>> certainly sunscreen is important this time of year but a new report finds many products on the store shelves don't offer adequate protection or they include potentially harmful ingredients. reporter, bradley blackburn with what you need to look for to keep your family protected. >> reporter: vanessa regularly put sunscreen on her kids whether the family is getting ready for the beach or visiting the park on a cloudy day. why is it important? why should you do that? >> because the son will burn your. >> reporter: they are avoiding sunburns and avoiding certain chemicals by buying mineral based sunscreens. is it hard to find. >> not really. we find them most pl

next friday whenever you walk into a bar or restaurant like west coast wine and cheese here on union street, you will be required to show staff proof of a covid vaccine. >> reporter: for lents months, west coast wine and cheese owner has been working to keep customers safe. >> knowing everyone is vaccinated will help with everyone's comfort level. >> he says the new mandate is good for employees because asking customers about their vaccination status will soon be a requirement from the health department >> how do we read the qr codes? what are we checking for parts we will have a direction and that will make it easier so the conversations are a normal part of the process of going to a bar and a restaurant. >> reporter: palmetto superfood is doing a soft opening today and has their grand opening saturday. owners say training staff to ask for proof of vaccination will be part of opening day process. even though the mandate doesn't take effect until august 20. >>> we are encouraging employees to start making sure they go through the process of asking customers that come into dine in and

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executive order 9066 is this was the ghost town all people japanese ancestry were removed from the west coast meaning, washington, oregon, california and the southern part of arizona. so this was a ghost town and because the close proximity to the union station about four blocks north of here people came from the south to work in the war industries such as the aircraft industry the shipping industry, but they had no place to live and conveniently little tokyo was vacated population about 30,000 at that time, but we had close to 42 as much as 70,000 come from the south to work in the war industries during world war ii and this was renamed bronzeville like old bronze so the blacks from the south incorporated here and then this was the jazz center during world war ii and the nightclubs were called breakfast clubs because the nightclubs were open to the wee hours in the morning. and this is where charlie parker and many of the black jazz artists started here in little tokyo. this photo mirror right here right there. it's unique in that they have. name tags on them. this is to show that during wor

not for sure that was written should back a west coast coordinate tells the answer coalition giving off his thoughts many thanks for joining the program and find me. there's been more drama at the tokyo lympics star us to me now simone biles has sensation. he pulls out of all but one final to focus on her mental health. it's not enough to be seen whether or not so participate in tuesday's balance being final. and while saw him saw the say her move dissolved praise all those claims, she's let down her teammates, when they needed the most. i say put mental health 1st, because if you don't then you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. so it's okay. sometimes the even set out the big competition to focus on yourself on tuesday doing the talk. you're lympics individual, all around competition and women's gymnastics sim on bias. one of the greatest athletes to ever grace the sport for time on the big champion. quite surprisingly, for many decided to withdraw from the, from the round, and eventually the russian team or r o c. if you may, 1 go

couple days now really change things low pressure this whole trough to start to slide in along the west coast as it does, it's going to deepen that marine layer and bring us not only more fog but likely some drizzle along the coast. so a change in the weather pattern at least for a couple of days here. those temperatures will be coming down across the board, especially inland where you're in the hot 90's the past few days. in fact, over a week now those numbers going to come back down much more reasonably in the mid-eighties their 70's inside the bay and 50's and 60's co side next couple days and temperatures actually had a little bit below the average through thursday and then warming up again as we head toward the weekend. >> and now kron 4 sports. >> it wasn't a matter of if, but when and the win was today. steph curry has signed a four-year extension where 215 million dollars steph is the first player in nba history to sign too. 200 million dollar contracts all with the same team. you love to see he is getting paid now, yesterday the dubs made a few waves around the league when they signe

prior to world war ii we had over 40 japan towns throughout the west coast. but during world war ii, the war relocation authorities suggested that the japanese do not congregate into little tokyos or japan towns, but there's three remaining. one here in los angeles, one in san jose, california, and the other is san francisco, california. so, this is a monument dedicated to the three remaining japan towns in the united states. on this historic landmark we have quotes, quotes from people that lived in the little tokyo area and their comment about little tokyo area. so, right here it said that people from the countryside as far away as santa maria used to come to little tokyo, get their japanese ingredients such as soy sauce and saki or tofu because they couldn't get those items throughout southern california. they had to come to japanese town to get those ingredients. right here it's by hashimoto, she's issei or first generation japanese, and she started a food chain here in little tokyo. this was the center of little tokyo. in its peak years in the 1930s, 1940

it's one of the most powerful storms in the region in decades and on the west coast. wildfires burning out of control in california that dixie far has become the 2nd largest ever recorded in the states. for more or less been in michael dorsey, he's an environmental scientist and joins us from detroit in michigan. get to have you with us on the news. mister dorsey, do you think americans doing enough to combat climate change? you know, absolutely not. the rhetoric coming out of the house is sufficient, but the actions fall away short. i think you've got a degree of what you can call paula finance. you know, just the other week secretary lincoln appointed an opportunity from the old gas industry to be his energy advisor. we've got to institution commitments. ready in the current senate passed infrastructure bill to for renewable energy and so forth . so we've got a line up to saying what the actions that they're not taking and we've got to really trust for more serious action, particularly in a lot of the very sobering intergovernmental panel on climate change report. absolutely, and it

new study out today is now leaking last year's west coast.wildfire smoke to thousands of covid-19 cases. the study was released today in the journal science advances, and the authors say it shows that wildfire smoke amplified the coronavirus outbreak. they say the smoke may be responsible for at least 19,000 additional covid cases on the west coast and 700 subsequent deaths. they say they found a pattern of periods of smoke, followed by a spike in cases but did not identify why. the study says it was worse in the sierra foothills and central valley. but in parts of the bay area like sonoma county, 13% of infections were linked to smoke. crews are gaining ground on the fire that forced dozens of people to evacuate in lake county this evening, the coyote fire broke out just about five o'clock tonight. it burned about 100 acres and containment is now up to 60% officials, though, have close state highway 29 near spruce grove road that's between middletown and clear like cal fire says the fire started when a car fire spread from vegetation near. h

again, this is where some of our most intense rain is as while along the bay of been gone, the west coast of myanmar monday next got to go to asia pacific and we're talking about what tropical storm loop it did on the island of taiwan. look at these hundreds of millimeters of rain within a short span of time. roads turned into rivers and holmes just flooded out. so we track where the energy is going rate now headed toward japan, but the bulk of it will actually fit toward the sea of japan. so we thought maybe some heavy rain for tokyo, that's not in the forecast now. but winds will really be the big story. after tropical storm marinate grazed tokyo that dropped about 90 millimeters of rain. so again, this time it's going to be a wind story, 75 kilometer per hour winds on monday. that will persist on tuesday that your weather up, they catch you later. sponsor cut on airways. a secret agent claimed by both israel and egypt. well, any case officer who receives potential or double edged will always assume the worst truth or lies fact or fiction. most of the documents or 40 people of either of

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the west coast of myanmar, over the past 24 hours, we've seen about a 160 millimeters of rank. next we're going to southeast asia. we've got dry spells for malaysia and indonesia, but also storms coming and going as well. so i gotta keep this storm risk in there for bank of coachman city called them poor singapore and jakarta. on saturday we are tracking now tropical storm loop. it has it throws buckets of rain to se china, but it's steering toward the east and it's going to blankets high. want in very intense rain over the next few days, some areas could see about 500 millimeters. and also tropical storm marinate could just graze the eastern portion of tokyo just in time for the closing of the olympics. what and when the conditions on sunday sponsored call cut on airways. north korea. isolated and heavily sanction yet earning billions around the globe bureau. 39 is involved in everything that makes money for korea. they carry different passwords, say, contacts, and the money this year. and it goes straight into the conferences. leadership a to park, people empower investigatio

not just in the west coast, but also in the east coast. we've got a heat warnings and advisory issued and this was the scene in portland, oregon, where they've opened cooling centers to try to cope with those conditions. so we are expecting temperatures to rise well above 40 degrees celsius, not just in the west, but also on that east coast. you can see new york city and washington d. c. edging up into the high thirty's. and we are expecting a lot of heat and humidity with that. we are expecting some thunderstorms to roll into the north east, not just here, but up into eastern areas of canada. and the weather continues in the south west of the us. we seen flash flooding across arizona, we could see that happening in the new mexico. as those monsoon rains continue to fall and the deep south is also looking rather wet. we could see some heavy rains trigger floods here as well. things are also looking west for much of the florida peninsula. that's thanks to tropical depression. fred, it's moving its way across cuba and by the time we get into

a rain picks up once again across the west coast of india, but an area that has just been hammered. with southwest monsoon is around the bay of bang gall areas of bangladesh and beyond march. over the last few days, we've seen 10200 millimeters of brain. and once again, this area look at that. the darker the colors, the more intense the rain is falling on wednesday off to asia pacific and we do have some tropical trouble in the south china sea. it's going to throw heavy rain not only to hong kong, one done, but also fujian, and eventually taiwan. as well in the days to come then east of taiwan, we've got this disturbance which could form into some tropical activity. so we'll keep tabs on that for you as well. next, se, asia, we've seen heavy rain for areas of southern thailand scooping up more than a 100 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. and we've got her storms coming and going here and also sunny's spells but human is wall hoops. human city feeling about $43.00 on wednesday and across the philippines. heavy rain for that west coast. sponsor cut on airways in 2001 friends

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but you know, where the rain has been aggressive is around the be a been goal in particular that west coast of me and bar, or the past 24 hours. some spots in the country have picked up more than $200.00 millimeters of rank. next we're going to asia pacific and we've got to talk about tropical storm loop it as it makes its landfall here on thursday as somewhere between one dung and fuji and provinces in that southeast corner of china. and this is really going to drop some intense rain in the days to come very persistent. and saki conditions ok now an update on se asia. and you can see we've got our storms coming and go in here, which is usual. but we'll also get into some sunny spells where it is also been particularly soggy, is as we had support the west coast of lose on island in the philippines. the rain continues manila, 29 degrees. so we're watching that merrick kina river very carefully as it reaches dangerous levels. sponsor cut on airways. a secret agent claimed by both israel and egypt. well, any case officer who receives potential or double edged will always assume the worst truth

life and also coming out of control while far as ravaged parts of southern europe and america's west coast, forcing thousands of people to abandon their homes. the corolla was president, daniel ortega may run virtually unopposed after the main opposition party is disqualified from the members election. plus, i'm very subtle in the town of nick oakley in columbia worth. thousands of people are stranded in the red temple. migrate to north america. me afghan, a son is heading for a catastrophe, so serious that it would have few if any parallels this century as the morning from the un special ed voice have canister to the security council for the 1st time since withdrawal of us and nato troops. the taliban have captured a provincial capital, their fighters shirts, images of themselves at the airport on the entrance to the city of iran, the capital of minerals province in the so they're, they're also making gains elsewhere. afghan officials say the group know controls, most of lush car got. that's the capital of hell. mans province. that nature, 60 to boot, lead commandos have been deployed to

we're broiling in the heat for both the west and the east coast senior toward the west. excessive heat alerts in play, washington state, idaho, oregon, and also for northern california. meantime toward the east, it's about the heat. yes, but also the humidity as to washington d. c. on thursday, we'll feel about 40 terms of the active weather. we've got some showers and storms running through the prairies, the great lakes, the northeast, the mid west, straight down to the gulf states. not everyone is going to catch a shower a thunderstorm. certainly the potential is there, central america for the west coast. mexico. southern areas is wal concentrated rain and we do have a mess here, but it is pushing out toward the pacific. so no major threat. meantime, for the antilles there is about a $5050.00 shot. this could turn into something impacting puerto rico and then onwards to his van jala has been dr for bolivia and peru. and for that reason we're seeing wildfires a rough or them 500 firefighters trying to tame the flames. here in the ku sco region of peru and look at this 17 degrees in li

you cannot keep shipping them all out on the west coast or east coast.e have enough knuckleheads out there already. host: when you talk about learning english, before they get a visa they have to speak english? or before they might eventually become a citizen at some point -- how would you set that up? caller: i would hope for them, and i would help them one way or another to become citizens of the united states and to be good people. these people that are fleeing, i am sure there are probably some bad apples, and i think they could probably weed them out, but i would be more than willing to take a family here. i have room for them. a job, and i really believe it could do a good job with them getting them settled in this country. host: don. a republican. good morning. caller: good morning how are you doing? host: good. go ahead. caller: the show is great. it is good to get different ideas paradigm know it is weird you have to call in certain line. the last time we let people get here after 9/11 it was a big refugee thing -- or read before 9/11, and then

we're going to start on the west coast of canada right now where vancouver is locked into it's dry stretch. in 35 years, there are signs we may see some wet weather as we get toward the end of the week. the heat alert has been dropped, but we have an air quality statement just for wildfire, smoke drifting in and out. for us. there are more than $85.00 wildfires burning across the western us. this is a snapshot of one of them and what crews are up against. meantime, further toward the south, the desert southwest, we may see some flash flooding induced by a monsoon brains, as we hit toward new mexico and colorado on tuesday. you know what were have the potential is some strong storms for the u. s. gulf states as a cold front slices across giving us that instability in the atmosphere to set off the storms like that. meantime, for central america or heavy bouts of rain, we can see them scattered through mexico also as we checked through honduras, nicaragua, costa rica rate into panama. okay, south america, your temperatures there bouncing back quite nicely after that cold snap, a rio de janeir

we have the latest on the wildfires burning all across the west coast where the firefight stands this morning. welcome back to the kron 00:00am morning news. i'm reyna harvey. it is 04:29am. approaching 4.30, and it is also friday. the 13th. so we've got some tips for you for you to stay safe out there. no walking under any letters pending any black cats seattle our producer catherine don't step on any cracks. hopefully that covers it all good morning. nice. good advice. stay in the ac. haha. >> because if you are stepping outside todayrare going to feel some more 90's out there and of course, on friday, the 13th it's always just safer to stay inside. stay cool and maybe taking a little bit easier, as has been all week long. if you don't like the heat looking outside this morning. we do have some low gray out there but not near as much cloud cover is what we saw yesterday. this is your view from have been great bay right here. conditions out. there are breezy, but certainly not as drizzly nor as humid feeling as they were yesterday. winds will be pushing in from the coastline. a prett

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 went back yesterday. students in piedmont going back and the same thing for castro valley, sam around and east side -- san marrone, and east. reggie: lover for -- level for covid list for israel and others. you must be vaccinated first. kumasi: number

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it's the 1st of august here here, whether headlines for the america as we start on the west coast of canada dry, a stretch, and 35 years for vancouver. there has been no measurable rain. now in 47 days, you just saw as a scattered showers, but nothing that we could measure and that energy has now moved on to the other side of the rockies for the canadian province of alberta. now for the us, there are more than $85.00 wildfires burning, including this one in the pacific northwest in the us state of oregon. just give you an idea of what crews are up against their quality, a big factor, not only in the us, but canada as well. now, further south into the desert southwest, we're getting these pulses of intense rain flash, flood warning. still widespread across this region. pull out, give you a wider look of north america. right now, we're watching this quote, trend race across to the south producing some big thunderstorms here as well. so we'll continue to keep tabs on that central america. we're dialing back our rain as we head toward contours. and nicaragua, on monday, but still non sto

so let's end there for traders individuals on africa's west coast and details about the trip across the atlantic. >> okay, everybody. greetings. good morning. our subject for today is the atlantic slave trade. and the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject, a tremendously important subject, and truly a difficult subject to deal with today. its importance lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era. by that, i mean essentially three things. first, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic beginning in the late 16th century and continuing thereafter to the present. secondly, the establishment of european dominance around the world. this is another major theme to which the slave trade is connected. and then, finally, we are talking today about one of the very foundations of american history. america is the result of the meeting of three very old cultures. and you might say continents. people from europe, people from west africa, and people from native america. today we are going to talk about one of those th

mention anything west of the appalachian mountains much less western mississippi, the rockies of the west coast. typically speaking this course runs from the contact of the indigenous people in 15th century to 1763 the end of the seven years but is now the territory called the united states of america. obviously this hundreds hundreds of years, millions of lives, half of which were women. people from africa, mostly enslaved. and not of their own volition as well as multiple countries and empires in europe england being one among these but not the first to establish a permanent settlement as we discussed as well as indigenous people in durham mingling with africans on what is now the united states of america but racially with indian territory. stretching from the atlantic to the pacific including hawaii and alaska. we don't even called the american revolutionary era. i did that on purpose because it tends to suck all the air out of the room let me recommend i teach a class specifically on that. it does tend to overshadow the rest of the colonial era if included. and most of you, like most americ

on the west coast, they weren't sure who to use. they couldn't find enough workers. they had open calls to workers, but approximately 500 showed up. they knew they needed a minimum of 5,000. some suggested the chinese, but they were hooted down because the average length of a railroad rail is 10 to 12 feet and average weight is 500 pounds. it was believed the chinese were too physically small to do this behavior. here we have one of the people who made a difference. this is a picture of charles crocker. was a member of four men, mr. hot kins, stanford, mr. huntington, mr. crocker. they were rich when they began and became very, very litsch later. chinese built the great wall of china as a possibility it could do this. others tried trial gangs, 20, 30 men at a time and discovered something. they immediately elected their own foreman/spokesman. a man's only job was to boil water and prepare food. the boiling water was only for tea and amazing. that saved them a lot of problems later. in the end, 12,000 chinese men were hired to work on the trans pacific railroad. here

i think differently more knowledge on the west coast than other parts of the country those of us that grew up on the west coast and whether it was seattle or the bay area or los angeles i think for the most part we had some awareness of the japanese american story during world war ii i find as you go further east with some exceptions it's less known the fundamentals of the experience. so i do notice differences in questions in terms of the amount of detail of people that come to the story with. >> let's get into the making of the book but before i do that i want to congratulate you yesterday i was informed although it's just the first week your book is on the new york times bestsellers list, congratulations that is pretty cool. >> that's always a good thing that something that you hope for in the first week or so in the first ten days, i was very happy to see that. >> i want to share with audience in the genesis of this book years ago dan and i met in seattle we were out of mears arts award indian was receiving an award for the boys in the boat and i was pretty excited to be to the bo

the tables of west coast wine and cheese are packed in the evenings. the owner said while it is great for business, his top priority is keeping everyone safe t. it will help with everyone's comfortable. >> the mayor said the new rules are so slow the spread of covid- 19 and keep businesses open. >> we are not out of the woods as it relates to covid-19. we are still going through it. we are stick and tired of it but it isot tir rter: starting people will have to show proof of being fully vaccinated to go into indoor venues of the it will also apply to indoor events with a crowd of more than 1,000 people like warriors games but it is up to individual businesses to choose how to go about checking for vaccinations. >> if somebody wants to sit at the bar we are asking for proof of vaccination as well as a picture i.d. so we know the vaccination card belongs to you. >> something customers say that they support. >> i love it. we are all in this together. >> it is important. we need to keep everybody safe and be mindful of everyone's health. it is the only way