it was westboro failing to live up to its own standards. that was where, you know, i eventually came to realize like this is not -- it's not biblical. there is no real justification for this, and i can't keep doing it >> your family's quite educated. >> yeah. >> a lot of law degrees. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, education is very important. you know, it was something that i understood that i was going to be going to college. i actually thought -- i had planned to go to law school for a long time to kind of follow my -- in the family's footsteps. eventually i didn't do that because the apocalypse was coming. westboro believes that the world will end imminently, they say. it is one of those things i think people have a hard time believing that educated people could really believe these things and to be kind of, you know, how can they be indoctrinated if they are so smart? my answer to that is, you know, almost everyone who is in the church was raised in the church. and so from a very young age, they learned to -- we all learned to marshal all

westboro had been my only...felt close to in any way. and so, the fact that among this deluge of hostility, the fact that there were also these very kind people asking questions, and trying to — i was seeing parts of their humanity in a way that i never had before, and they were seeing mine, and it enabled this conversation that eventually led to them finding internal inconsistencies in our doctrine. the leader of the anti—defamation league, jonathan greenblatt, wrote last year, "social media companies have created, allowed and enabled extremists to move their message from the margins to the mainstream." yet your experience of social media is more hopeful, and certainly very different. it suggests that it's possible for closed minds not to necessarily just become more closed, but potentially to open. absolutely. you know, i had visited twitter in 2016 for the first time, and i was talking to the woman who, when i was first on twitter, she was showing the e—mails that she had written to the other twitter executive

this is your alternate between 35 and you can come up westboro and get down to highway 1. getting away from the rest of or looking at the rest of the peninsula it looks all right and here at the bay bridge we have a crowd. it's a little windy out there right now. 4:51. >>> our system is making its move also up towards lake county sonoma and just on the move but you will feel the wind and that's what it is. it's a cold front that moves through 6:00 at about 9:00,, 10:00. but already this is pretty intense here still making its move. you can see some of those cells moving on shore especially in marin county. and half moon bay is 35 out of the south. hayward's 25. so just keep in mind. you might encounter some winds. the wind is a little easier than rain. don't get surprised by it. we do have that system making its move and probably by the time we get to 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 rain and the sierra's okay right now. it will downhill punt intended. it has warmed up with that south wind and then maybe some mid 50s to the south a lot of cloud cover. a weak little system looks dry >>> th

if you need to get to pacifica from daily city you have to go down to westboro and use that off of 280ocal you know how you can get in through manor drive. the west of the peninsula doesn't look too dry. it's windy all over the place as we look at some of these commutes, the bay bridge, you can see there's a back up here. 6:40. let's bring steve in with today's weather. >> our system has slowed down a little bit. those bands are just making a move on shore. first we start with our toyota tahoe report. a strong south wind has pushed temperatures up. warmer truckee 37. south lake tahoe 38 degrees but this system has already started with the winter storm warning so there will be snow on the go, feet measured fod and if you're heading up there today tomorrow will be better and on the weekend it doesn't look bad. so if you can delay it today it looks good. you'll have lots of powder or lots of snow to deal with. nothing yet but it's on its way. as far as some of the impacts. also same can be said. look at that heelsburg. santa rosa north. now moving into marin county. there's some pretty go

can also use sharp park road as you drive from skyline and if you're driving on 280 you can take westboro into sharp park. the rest of the peninsula is not so slow at all. but it's not going to be a good driving day as we go and look at the east bay. today's the day that if you can, you might want to use transit or work from home, avoid driving. the rain hasn't quite reached the bay bridge. when it does we're not going to have commutes. we're already going to have windy commutes on bridges that people are going to comment about. you might want to think about doing something else. >> 5:00, 10:00, let's bring steve in with today's weather. >> our system has slowed down a little bit so that might help you. if you're leaving now. 1/2" to 2". the system looks likely during the morning hours. that's when we'll start to move south. may not make it to san jose until about 10:00 in the morning. the rainfall still looks pretty good. the santa cruz mountains also up towards marin county. here's your timeline. there it is by 7:00 a.m. it's really just slicing through sonoma county also marin county.

>> i said earlier about a westboro baptist, not that kind of baptist.laughter] fought for religious liberty here in america in the colonial age and we didn't get everything right in that time that we were going without preaching the lessons and we never want that to happen to anyone else in this illegal but it's important that everybody has the same freedoms. there's no such thing as a second-class citizen or second-class religion. .. >> as an african-american i don't like anything that doesn't give me full freedom. i want that biblical noose around my neck and loose change around my feet and want to practice within the next day then really i'm not free i want everybody to have that freedom. [applause] >> how do you fight climate change we work locally and promote clean energy and site dirty energy. you'll see on our website we use every tool in the toolbox we hold rallies and litigate and get creative we get as creative and if it doesn't work we engage in a nonviolent civil disobedience as an effective strategy. >> and you had a few this year? >> we di