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Ron Snouffer is an insurance expert and public adjuster. He fights for the rights of property owners. Insurers aren't supposed to jack up premiums in random states to make up for large payouts to hurricane victims, but what happens if some insurance companies fail? Could it have a ripple effect on rates across the country? Hurricane Ian is expected to undermine the already precarious market for property insurance in Florida, supercharging premiums and exposing gaps in coverage. Why it matters: Ian's trail of wreckage will inevitably trigger a host of insurance claims by homeowners, saddle those without flood coverage with devastating losses and bludgeon the strained finances of the state's insurers. Driving the news: Property losses from Ian are expected to amount to "one of the largest catastrophic loss events" in U.S. history, likely exceeding $30 billion, says Mark Friedlander, a Florida-based spokesman for the Insurance Information Institute (III).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do you see as the solution to the inciting divisive rhetoric in post 2016 politics? Chatter about a Civil War increases after every major setback Trump faces.  The Trump mimicking candidates are loving it.  The practice is divisive and the exact opposite of One Nation, indivisible.  So, why do the same people that claim to be “patriots” keep doing it? Soon after the F.B.I. searched Donald J. Trump's home in Florida for classified documents, online researchers zeroed in on a worrying trend. Posts on Twitter that mentioned “civil war” had soared nearly 3,000 percent in just a few hours as Mr. Trump's supporters blasted the action as a provocation. Similar spikes followed, including on Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, Parler, Gab and Truth Social, Mr. Trump's social media platform. Mentions of the phrase more than doubled on radio programs and podcasts, as measured by Critical Mention, a media-tracking firm. More than a century and a half after the actual Civil War, the deadliest war in U.S. history, “civil war” references have become increasingly commonplace on the right. While in many cases the term is used only loosely — shorthand for the nation's intensifying partisan divisions — observers note that the phrase, for some, is far more than a metaphor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It is Fleet Week in San Francisco. Are you coming to the city to see the Blue Angels and the ships? What is Fleet Week? San Francisco Fleet Week is one of the country's largest celebrations of the U.S. armed forces. The celebration was started in 1981 by then San Francisco Mayor, Diane Feinstein. Organizers say following the pandemic huge crowds turned out for Fleet Week last year, and they're predicting big crowds again this year.  Where is it? Most official Fleet Week activities take place along The Embarcadero and Marina Greens. If you're looking for the best seating for the airshow, the Marina Green is the place to be. The Presidio Tunnel Tops, Twin Peaks, Pier 39 and Crissy Field will also provide great views. Watching the Air Show is free, but premium seating is available for purchase.  City leaders are advising visitors, as they have in years past, to use public transit and say if you must drive, be sure to not leave any valuables in your vehicle, in fact they're warning people who drive to clear any valuables out of their car even before they park, just in case burglars are watching. What's new in 2022? Organizers say for the first time ever Navy F-35's will be at San Francisco's Fleet Week. Two of the F-35's will be on display for visitors to enjoy.  Say something good about yourself - it's ‘Toot your Flute” DaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Bay Area mayor is being criticized for how he's handling a homeless encampment. The mayor of Richmond shared the addresses of his rivals on the City Council with several people living in RV's along Rydin Road. In an email, Mayor Tom Butt told the residents living at the encampment to park their RV's outside of the council member's homes and said they were "RV-friendly parking spots." Council members wanted to give the Rydin Road residents $1700 to leave the encampment, with the possibility of getting $7,000 if they found other housing. Butt didn't agree with that plan, instead he wanted to open an RV parking site. Neighbors were against that. The city is trying to solve their homeless crisis as the number of people living on the streets has gone from 333 to 632 people in three years.  Did he cross the line as far as telling people to park in front of other council members' homes…or is he working to get things done and making a point while doing it? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Biden convened a meeting at the White House to mark 100 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and assess the impact that has had on the country. He argued that Republicans were doubling down on “extreme” policies, including a national ban at 15 weeks of pregnancy. “It's really scary … that in some states they're already succeeding when the top decision came down,” Biden said. Administration officials focused on a White House report noting that abortion bans have taken effect in more than a dozen states and close to 30 million women of reproductive age now live in a state with a ban. The event comes as Democrats seek to galvanize voters on the issue of abortion ahead of the November midterm elections.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The one and only Jan Wahl returns for her favorite disaster movies to share with John Rothmann, and be prepared for some cinematic treats!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's a question on the mind of many concerned Americans. Should Ukraine be let into NATO, escalating the conflict with Russia to new levels? Or should the country be left in the dark for Russia to stomp over? John gives his thoughts and takes calls from many on this difficult topic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reactions are pouring in from Wednesday's shooting in East Oakland that affected students in several connected schools. John gets the pulse of the public on the issue of gun control and gang activity, and what should be done to prevent this tragedy from occurring again.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

votemarie.com  jillyee.com Why moderate candidates Jill Yee & Marie Hurabiell have visions on how to solve the systemic CCSF issues rather than kicking the problems down the road. The moderate candidate uphill challenge: the incumbents and the Union slates having different positions on how to solve CCSF issues. Jill Yee: Was born in San Francisco and raised in the Western Addition. Her parents were immigrants and City College was her only option for college. She credits City College as the springboard for all of her successes. She knows first hand how City College can change lives and its benefits extend across generations. She was honored to have the opportunity to return to City College to teach Psychology, she earned tenure, was later elected Department Chair of Behavioral Sciences and was then selected to serve as Dean of 11 Departments in the School of Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Ethnic Studies and Social Justices. Jill also has a law degree.  Jill has extensive experience at City College, spanning over 40 years. She has an insider's perspective. Her dedication and commitment to the college speaks for itself.  Marie Hurabiell: is an eighth generation San Franciscan, is a founder and board member of Ellipsis Health, Inc., a technology company using speech analytics to gauge the behavioral health of patients in real-time. Following a federal clerkship in Los Angeles, she started her law career at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in San Francisco. She later served as General Counsel at both Knight Ridder Digital and Red Herring Communications and ran her own law firm. Ms. Hurabiell has led fundraising efforts for organizations such as Georgetown University, San Francisco Ballet, Wender Weis Foundation for Children, Phillips Exeter Academy, The Hamlin School, and the International Museum of Women. Ms. Hurabiell has served on numerous boards, including the Presidio of San Francisco (Chair, Vice Chair and Chair of the Audit & Finance Committee) , Georgetown University Board of Regents, where she engaged in crafting the successful Design Curriculum initiative; Holy Family Day Home (President & Chair of the Capital Campaign); San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary (President); National Charity League Golden Gate Chapter (VP); and Hamilton Family Center. Hurabiell received her B.A. with Honors from Georgetown University and her J.D. with Honors from the University of Pennsylvania. When not working to improve San Francisco, and more specifically CCSF, she enjoys time with her family, travel, adventures, gardening, reading and laughing as much as possible.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are we impotent? Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday recognized the independence of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, hours before holding a signing ceremony to incorporate them into the Russian Federation. Putin signed a decree recognizing the two southern Ukrainian regions as independent states on Friday. He also signed a similar decree earlier in February, when he recognized two breakaway regions in the east of Ukraine, Luhansk and Donetsk, as independent states. Kyiv and Western powers do not recognize the two self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as sovereign states.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Judge Aileen M. Cannon told Donald Trump's lawyers Thursday that they did not need to comply with an order from special master Raymond J. Dearie and state in a court filing whether they believe FBI agents lied about documents seized from the former president's Florida residence. Thursday's ruling was the first clash between Cannon, a Trump appointee who has generally shown the former president deference in litigation over the Mar-a-Lago investigation, and Dearie, a federal judge she appointed as an outside expert in the case, who appears to be far more skeptical of Trump. After Trump's lawyers requested a special master, Cannon chose Daerie to review approximately 11,000 documents seized Aug. 8 from Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club and residence and determine whether any should be shielded from investigators because of attorney-client or executive privilege. An appeals court separately overruled Cannon's decision that about 100 additional documents that the government says are classified — some of them top-secret — should be part of Dearie's review. Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, reiterated her belief that the 2020 election was stolen during her interview Thursday with the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to the committee's chairman, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If it seems like the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian came on quickly, you're right. In just two days, the storm's maximum sustained wind speed more than doubled, from 75 miles per hour on Monday morning, to 155 miles per hour just before landfall on Wednesday morning. "It doesn't really get much worse than this, to have a strengthening, possibly rapidly intensifying hurricane landfall," said Brent Hewett, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Twin Cities. Though devastating, Hewett says the changes weren't entirely surprising based on the conditions in the Gulf of Mexico that the hurricane encountered during those 48 hours. Moist air and low wind shear both contribute to rapid intensification, and unseasonably warm water provided even more fuel than normal. Hewett says a very quiet hurricane season prior to hurricane Ian is partially to blame. "When you don't have a lot of tropical systems in a season, the water is allowed to warm kind of continuously without anything mixing it up," Hewett said. And if you add those seasonal conditions to years of warming brought on by climate change, experts say this storm had even more fuel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Photojournalist Aryk Copley went to Ukraine as a way to better understand international photojournalism as a career, to get international reporting experience, as well as to try to help out as much as he could. He was there for two weeks and followed around three different organizations to see and document the work they were doing.  Consider supporting www.underakindroof.com Also the latest on Ukraine.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Six people were injured in a school shooting Wednesday in Oakland's Eastmont Hills, police said. Oakland police officials said the shooting took place at the King Estate campus on Fontaine Street, which houses multiple schools. Officers are looking for at least one shooter, but add other suspects might be involved. The school has since been cleared by police. Highland Hospital in Oakland confirms it is treating three of the victims, who all are in critical condition with gunshot wounds. The other three victims were transported to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, according to the hospital. Police in a late afternoon briefing said all victims are adults affiliated with the school and provided the following updates on their conditions: two are suffering from life-threatening injuries one victim has been released from the hospital two victims are pending release from the hospital one victim has injuries that are non-life threatening See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gov. Ron DeSantis warns Floridians to be prepared for a "major water event" including heavy rain, flooding from Hurricane Ian. Hurricane Ian's forecast track shifted again to the southeast late Tuesday, increasing the danger to Florida's southern Gulf coast as South Florida prepared for squally, rainy weather. The storm's top wind speed held at 120 mph but was expected to rise to 130 mph, the threshold for Category 4 strength, by the time the hurricane approaches landfall Wednesday afternoon somewhere on the Gulf coast. Earlier forecasts predicted the storm would weaken before hitting the coast, but the newer track predicts it will make landfall at the peak of its power. The National Hurricane Center's 8 p.m. update said Ian will reach Florida's west coast as “an extremely dangerous major hurricane” as it re-strengthens over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Denmark said Tuesday it believed “deliberate actions” by unknown perpetrators were behind big leaks, which seismologists said followed powerful explosions, in two natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. European leaders and experts pointed to possible sabotage amid the energy standoff with Russia provoked by the war in Ukraine. Although filled with gas, neither pipeline is currently supplying it to Europe. “It is the authorities' clear assessment that these are deliberate actions -– not accidents,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said. But she added that “there is no information indicating who could be behind it.” Frederiksen also rejected the suggestion that the incident was an attack on Denmark, saying the leaks occurred in international waters. Giorgia Meloni scored a remarkable success in yesterday's Italian election – and is all but certain to become prime minister. Her post-fascist Brothers of Italy party's 26% of the vote makes it the largest party nationally. Overall, the rightwing coalition it now leads will have a considerable majority in both houses of parliament. Part of the explanation lies in the weakness of the opposition. The eclectic Five Star Movement (15%) and the centre-left Democrats (19%) did not join forces and, after years of failing to improve working-class living standards, were unable to rally the left's historic base. Turnout was easily the lowest in the republic's history, with only 64% of Italians voting.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The death of a young Iranian woman from a head trauma after her arrest by a hijab enforcement patrol has sparked anger and some protests in the capital Tehran. The 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was arrested on Tuesday by the morality police was taken to hospital two hours later from Vozara Detention Center after losing consciousness. She passed away Friday afternoon at Kasra Hospital in northern Tehran. Originally from Saqqez in Kurdistan province, Amini was arrested in her brother's car on a visit to the capital to see their relatives. “Mahsa Amini's death after injuries sustained in custody for an “improper” hijab is appalling. Our thoughts are with her family. Iran must end its violence against women for exercising their fundamental rights. Those responsible for her death should be held accountable,” US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley tweeted Friday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There was an asteroid, but it wasn't threatening the Earth. And there was a spacecraft, relying solely on sophisticated technology. The human heroes of the mission were actually at a physics and engineering lab between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. And there was a collision. In this case it was the final act of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, a spacecraft that launched in November and then raced around the sun for 10 months as it pursued its target — a small space rock, Dimorphos, seven million miles from Earth. “For the first time, humanity has demonstrated the ability to autonomously target and alter the orbit of a celestial object,” Ralph Semmel, director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said during a news conference after the crash. The laboratory managed the mission for NASA.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The official release date is Oct 15 but he's having a special pre-release show for his hometown at Amoeba this Thursday, Sept 29 at 5pm  FREE  ALL AGES at Amoeba Music 1855 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117 Little Village presents a special kick-off to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and release party for singer-songwriter Maurice Tani's new album, All In!, at Amoeba Music in San Francisco on Thursday, September 29th at 5pm! All In! is a cross-genre roux of the diversity of the Little Village label set in the framework of Tani's imaginative, romantic, and social writing. Joining Tani live on the Amoeba stage will be award-winning jazz-blues guitarist Chris Cain, sacred steel artist DaShawn Hickman, vocalist and folk singer-songwriter Aireene Espiritu, Bollywood Bluesmaster Aki Kumar, and more. Get the album at Amoeba SF that day to get into the signing line and meet the band!  You must wear a mask to enter the signing line at this event. Founded in 2015, Little Village is an arts non-profit that uses music as a tool to increase cross cultural understanding. They record and produce underground artists whose music has not yet been discovered outside of their communities. Through sharing multicultural music with American roots, Little Village works to deepen understanding and promote empathy.  ALL IN! The official release date is next month but advance copy CDs will be available at a special in-store event/release party at Amoeba Music, SF! Go All In! with them on Thursday, September 29, as Sacred steel artist DaShawn Hickman (who'll be in town for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass), master jazz-blues guitarist Chris Cain, folk n' soul songstress Aireene Espiritu, and Bollywood Bluesman Aki Kumar join Maurice, starting at 5 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Saturday, a tweet that contained a picture of an on-duty San Francisco firefighter wearing a "Let's Go Brandon" t-shirt began making rounds on Twitter — which has since prompted SFFD to take disciplinary actions against the City worker. The "Let's Go Brandon" chant — a rallying call that gained cultural prominence when a reporter interviewing the Sparks 300 race winner Brandon Brown at Talladega Superspeedway incorrectly described the chant in the background as "Let's Go Brandon" — has grown into a politically subversive slogan. The meme-able phrasing is now commonly synonymous with "F**k Joe Biden," though just a more family-friendly version of the profane sentiment. Recently, a San Francisco firefighter was photographed wearing a t-shirt with the slogan splayed across the top on the back.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The mayor's office initially defended the practice, saying Saturday in an email statement to The Chronicle that accepting such letters is “reserved for the most dire situations of inappropriate behavior or dereliction of duties.” But to Supervisors Dean Preston and Hillary Ronen, the fact the letter was undated and issued as a condition of his reappointment appeared to be a controlling mechanism by Breed. “If she is really calling all the shots, then genuine, independent oversight is not happening,” Ronen told The Chronicle, adding it appears as though Breed is “holding the resignation letter over his head.” After the dustup, Breed's office issued an updated statement to The Chronicle on Sunday saying she would drop the practice. NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) has successfully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos. Data obtained from DART's crash will be compared to the data from various computer simulations run by scientists to ascertain whether this kinetic impactor method will remain a viable option in case of an actual threatening asteroid. Scientists don't yet know the exact mass of Dimorphos but it is estimated to be around five billion kilograms. The DART spacecraft weighs around 600 kilogramsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday rolled out an agenda he says House Republicans would follow should they retake control of the chamber after this year's midterms. The plan, dubbed the “Commitment to America” marks McCarthy's most concrete attempt to outline a policy agenda to try to persuade voters ahead of November's races, in which the GOP is favored -- but not guaranteed -- to flip the House. The proposal seeks to replicate former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America," an agenda released in 1994 when Republicans won control of the House for the first time in decades. McCarthy's blueprint, first posted online on Thursday, contains four overarching goals: creating "an economy that's strong," "a nation that's safe," "a future that's built on freedom" and "a government that's accountable." An Arizona Superior Court judge ruled Friday that a 1901 ban on nearly all abortions in that state can be enforced, a decision that is likely to see an appeal and is all but certain to galvanize female voters to turn out in greater numbers in the state's closely contested US Senate and governor's races. In ruling that Arizona's near-total ban on abortion could take effect, Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson granted a request by the state's Republican attorney general to lift a court injunction that had barred enforcement of Arizona's pre-statehood ban on abortion after the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade in 1973. "The court finds that because the legal basis for the judgment entered in 1973 has now been overruled, it must vacate the judgment in its entirety," Johnson wrote in the ruling released Friday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump are engaged in a behind-the-scenes legal struggle to limit the scope of a federal grand jury investigation into the role he played in seeking to overturn the 2020 election, according to people familiar with the matter. The closed-door battle, unfolding in Federal District Court in Washington, has centered on how far Mr. Trump can go in asserting attorney-client and executive privilege as a means of keeping witnesses close to him from answering potentially damaging questions in their appearances before the grand jury, the people said. The issue is important because it will determine how much evidence prosecutors can get from an inner circle of some of Mr. Trump's most trusted former lawyers and advisers. The outcome will help to shape the contours of the information that the Justice Department will be able to gather, as it looks into Mr. Trump's involvement in the chaotic events after the election that culminated in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. That process continues even as the Justice Department also pursues a separate criminal investigation into Mr. Trump's handling of government documents that he took with him when he left office, including hundreds marked as classified.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whether the panelists decide to endorse direct-cash payments or other forms of compensation, such as land grants and subsidized education, could have wide ripple effects as the task force is the first state-led reparations effort in the nation. But the path forward is fraught. Beyond external opposition from conservative critics of reparations, bitter internal disputes have spilled over into heated exchanges that overshadowed several of the task force's past meetings. Task force Chair Kamilah Moore, an attorney and scholar on reparations, said she hopes the committee can reunite around a common purpose after it took a five-month hiatus and issued a sweeping interim report in June. “I definitely am hoping that things can become more collegial,” she told The Chronicle. “Reparations is a very controversial topic, it always has been. That might explain some of the passion.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is calling lawmakers into session to take up a constitutional amendment allowing statewide referendums, citing support from Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson for a public vote on the issue of abortion. The amendment would ultimately give the public a say in whether abortions should resume in Wisconsin by allowing residents to bring referendum questions to the ballot — a practice known as direct ballot initiatives that is not allowed in Wisconsin. But Republican lawmakers who control the state Legislature immediately rejected the idea. If they had agreed, Wisconsin would have joined 26 states that allow referendum questions driven by the public. "At the end of the day, Wisconsinites and women in particular, are not only stripped of their reproductive freedom, they currently don't have a right to enact the change that needs to protect that freedom without having to get permission from the Legislature. That's just wrong and it's time to change that," Evers said.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Insults, accusations and talk of war crimes and nuclear holocaust dominated the world's premier diplomatic stage on Thursday, as the United Nations Security Council met to debate how and whether anyone would be held accountable for the war in Ukraine. Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov called Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a “bastard,” but was not around long enough to hear what many of his counterparts had to say. After arriving 90 minutes late to the meeting — and missing the briefings given by António Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, and Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court — Mr. Lavrov left early. The U.S. secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, denounced President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for saying on Wednesday that he could use all arms available to him in the war, interpreted by officials in both Russia and the West as a veiled reference to nuclear weapons. “Every council member should send a clear message that these reckless nuclear threats must stop immediately,” Mr. Blinken told the Security Council, in some of his sharpest comments since the war began. “Tell President Putin to stop the horror he started.” “One man chose this war. One man can end it,” he added. “Because if Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In his first TV appearance since a court-authorized search of his Florida home last month, Donald Trump reasserted Wednesday that any documents taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago were declassified while he was in office, adding that a president can carry that out “even by thinking about it.” The warrant authorizing the search of former president Donald Trump's home said agents were seeking documents possessed in violation of the Espionage Act. “There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity. Prosecutors have said that about 100 of the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago were marked classified, including some labeled top secret. “If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified,” the former president added. “You're the president — you make that decision.” Trump's comments were made ahead of a Wednesday appeals court decision that the FBI can use the seized documents in its criminal investigation. His appearance also followed an announcement earlier in the day that New York Attorney General Letitia James was filing a lawsuit accusing him and his three children of manipulating property values to deceive lenders, insurance brokers and tax officials.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Supervisors have approved a trial run allowing police to monitor in real time private surveillance cameras in certain circumstances, despite strong objections from civil liberties groups alarmed by the potential impact to privacy. San Francisco, like many places across the country, is struggling to balance public safety with constitutional protections. The ability to monitor in real time was requested by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and supported by merchants and residents who say police officers need more tools to combat drug dealing and retail theft that they say have marred the city's quality of life.  It is temporary and will sunset in 15 months. The vote was 7-4, with some supervisors astonished that the governing board of politically liberal San Francisco would consider granting more powers to law enforcement in a city that celebrates its activism. Others pushed back, saying they were tired of sophisticated criminal networks taking advantage of San Francisco's lax attitude toward retail theft and other property crimes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 A federal appeals court on Wednesday restored the Justice Department's access to documents with classified markings that had been seized last month from former President Donald J. Trump's Florida residence, handing a victory to federal investigators in their efforts to examine Mr. Trump's hoarding of sensitive government records. In a strongly worded 29-page decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit blocked part of an order by a federal judge that had temporarily barred the department from using the classified materials in its inquiry into whether Mr. Trump illegally retained national defense documents and obstructed the government's repeated efforts to recover them. At times in his pre presidential life, Donald Trump represented himself as a real-estate mogul, a television star, a business visionary, and a salesman par excellence. But according to a complaint filed today by NY AG Letitia James, the Trump Organization was actually just a massive fraud with incidental sidelines in property development, merchandising, and entertainment. The basic scheme alleged in the complaint is straightforward. Trump would use different valuations for properties depending on what he needed: When he wanted to lower his taxes, he'd claim a low valuation; if he wanted to obtain loans on more favorable terms, he would inflate the valuation. His overarching goal was to inflate his claimed personal net worth year over year, which in turn allowed him to obtain better loans by personally guaranteeing them—all built on bogus claims about his assets. “Claiming you have money you do not have does not amount to the art of the deal,” James said at a press conference. “It's the art of the steal.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday morning announced a “partial mobilization” in Russia to replenish the ranks of a “special military operation” meant to be long over by now. Yet few observers or political stakeholders in the West think this half-cocked call-up will fundamentally alter the calculus on the battlefield, where Ukraine's counter offensives have been surprisingly effective. Moreover, Putin's vague threats against the “collective West'' have been met with more shrugs and yawns in the United States and Europe. If anything, there is more panic in Russia. Partial mobilization, Russia's first since World War II, falls well short of mass conscription and is likely to be confined (for now) to the country's 300,000 reservists. Contract soldiers already deployed in Ukraine will see their service indefinitely extended just as the weather cools and winter approaches. “This is a very risky step from Putin,” a senior Western intelligence officer told Yahoo News. “There are big doubts whether this call-up will succeed in the first place, and if not, what message will it send. It also increases public antiwar and anti-regime sentiment throughout Russia.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two people were shot outside Oakland City Hall Tuesday afternoon, an Oakland city official confirmed to KRON4 and one of them has died, according to a tweet from Oakland PD. The second victim was transported to the hospital and is undergoing surgery. The incident took place while a city council meeting was happening in the building. Gunshots were heard outside the building at about 2:15 p.m. The city official confirmed that two people were shot at Frank Ogawa Plaza. OPD confirmed the shooting on Twitter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former President Donald Trump's battle with the FBI over its search of Mar-a-Lago has moved from South Florida to New York City, where a court-appointed “special master” on Tuesday indicated he has a very simple test for whether he sides with the Department of Justice. The special master, Raymond J. Dearie said Tuesday that if Trump's lawyers don't officially counter whether the documents the former president took are classified, then Dearie will side with the DOJ. “As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of it,” he said. Dearie, a semi-retired federal judge in Brooklyn who's playing the role of temporary referee, wants to speed up the process and get federal agents back on track. And while Trump has been alleging on social media that he already declassified the records he swiped from the White House, Dearie is demanding that Trump put up or shut up. The senior judge is asking that Trump's team assert—in sworn affidavits where lies could mean jail time—whether or not Trump actually declassified them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Joe Biden says the discovery of top-secret documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate raised concerns that sensitive data was compromised and called it “irresponsible.” Biden, who rarely does interviews, spoke to CBS' “60 Minutes” in a segment that aired Sunday. He said that when he heard about classified documents taken from the White House, he wondered how “anyone could be that irresponsible.” Biden added: “And I thought, what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods?” The president said he did not get a heads-up before the Trump estate was searched, and he has not asked for any specifics “because I don't want to get myself in the middle of whether or not the Justice Department should move or not move on certain actions they could take.” The FBI says it took about 11,000 documents,including roughly 100 with classification markings found in a storage room and an office, while serving a court-authorized search warrant at the home on Aug. 8. Weeks after the search, Trump lawyers asked a judge to appoint a special master to conduct an independent review of the records.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three blockbuster storms struck different coasts this weekend, causing widespread damage in Puerto Rico, Alaska and Japan. Their damage offers examples of what we can expect more of in a rapidly warming world. In Alaska: The most intense storm ever recorded in the Bering Sea during the month of September blasted communities across a 1,000-mile stretch of Alaska's western coastline with hurricane-force winds and record storm surge flooding. The villages hit include names familiar to the climate community for being vulnerable to erosion and seeking to move to higher ground, such as Kivalina and Shishmaref. Severe flooding was also seen in Nome, the endpoint of the Iditarod sled dog race. The flooding there beat any seen since November 1974. By battering already vulnerable coastal communities, the storm will make them more susceptible to the Bering Sea's notorious winter storms. In Puerto Rico: Hurricane Fiona struck on Sunday, causing an island-wide blackout that illustrates the country's challenges with repairing its electrical grid in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Hardening infrastructure against increasingly potent extreme weather events is a major challenge facing the U.S. At one point Sunday evening, nearly the entire island was under a flash flood warning, with "catastrophic" flooding underway. In Japan: Typhoon Nanmadol, the country's fourth-most intense typhoon to make landfall, struck the island of Kyushu on Sunday morning eastern time. The storm dropped more than two feet of rain in 24 hours on parts of that island, threatening to cause landslides, along with wind and storm surge flooding. Climate change is enabling hurricanes and typhoons to dump more rainfall and stay stronger further north. Prior to its landfall, the storm had rapidly intensified — a process with climate change ties and reached Category 4 intensity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

US President Joe Biden has again said the US would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by China. Asked in a CBS interview if US troops would defend the island, Mr Biden said: "Yes, if in fact, there was an unprecedented attack." The remarks prompted the White House to clarify that the official US policy - which doesn't commit to military action on Taiwan - had not changed. Beijing said it "deplores and firmly opposes" Mr Biden's pledge of action. The foreign ministry said it had lodged "stern representations" with Washington over the remarks, broadcast in a CBS 60 Minutes interview on Sunday. Taiwan is a self-ruled island off the coast of eastern China that Beijing claims as part of its territory. Washington has always walked a diplomatic tightrope over the issue. On the one hand it adheres to the One China policy, a cornerstone of its relationship with Beijing. Under this policy, the US acknowledges that there is only one Chinese government, and has formal ties with Beijing rather than Taiwan. But it also maintains close relations with Taiwan and sells arms to it under the Taiwan Relations Act, which states that the US must provide the island with the means to defend itself.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Biden's off-the-cuff comment during a “60 Minutes” interview that “the pandemic is over” has sparked outrage from all sides. Republicans are accusing Biden of hypocrisy as he asks Congress for more covid-19 funding, while some on the left point to the disease's continued death toll as evidence that the pandemic is nowhere near its finish line. These criticisms don't detract from Biden's point. He's right. By multiple definitions, the pandemic is over. That doesn't mean that the coronavirus is no longer causing harm; it simply signals the end of an emergency state as Covid has evolved into an endemic disease. A pandemic is something that upends our daily lives and profoundly alters the way that we work, go to school, worship and socialize. That was certainly the case in March 2020.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Biden was asked a very simple question in an interview that aired Sunday: Had he decided whether to run again for president in 2024? The answer he gave was anything but straightforward. "Look, my intention, as I said to begin with, is that I would run again," Biden told "60 Minutes." "But it's just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen." Which is an interesting way to answer that question! Especially when you consider the following: 1) Biden, currently 79, is the oldest person ever elected to a first presidential term. 2) He repeatedly cast himself as a "bridge" candidate to a younger generation on the campaign trail in 2020. 3) Speculation has swirled almost since the day he took the oath of office about whether he will run for reelection. Biden has to know that an answer like the one he gave on Sunday will only fuel the whispers that he may not be running again.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are literally hundreds of movies, TV shows and documentaries about Queen Elizabeth the Second, British royals..and royals from all over the world.  Here are a few of their favorites: 1/  The Queen 2/  Mrs Brown 3/  The King's Speech 4/  Nicholas & Alexandra 5/  The Lion in Winter 6/  The Little Princess 7/  The King & I 8/  The Private Lives of Elizabeth & EssexSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Inviting a mob to return to the streets is exactly what happened here on Jan. 6, 2021. This president knew what he was doing...and we saw the results,” Durbin added. “His careless, inflammatory rhetoric has its consequences.” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), a Trump ally and member of the Homeland Security Committee, said after the briefing that the Justice Department needed to be more transparent about the justification for the search in order to push back against “conspiracies.” “You have to give people good information so these rumors don't continue,” Scott said, condemning attacks on law enforcement. “I don't know why they raided the former president's house ... They know the conspiracy theories that are out there. So convince people that they're not true.” The FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida sparked a political firestorm last month. According to a Justice Department court filing released in August, prosecutors obtained a search warrant for the estate after receiving evidence there was “likely” an effort to conceal classified documents at the residence in defiance of a grand jury subpoena. Agents recovered highly classified records mixed among personal items, in addition to dozens of empty folders with classified markings. The DOJ and Trump's lawyers are now in the midst of legal deliberations on an outside review of the seized documents.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John explores a comparison to the Holocaust Joining CNN's John Berman Thursday morning to discuss his new documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” Burns took aim at the Florida governor for flying two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard this week, calling it a “disturbing” play of political theater. “All of your documentaries are about history,” Berman began, “but all of them also make you think about where we are. We woke up to the news this morning that Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida sent two planeloads of migrants to Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, including kids and whatnot. And I'm not saying, this is not a 1-for-1, this is not a parallel here in any way, but it does address some of the same themes that are part of this documentary.” Sitting with co-director Lynn Novick, Burns agreed. “Well, it's the abstraction of human life. It's basically saying that you can use a human life that is as valuable as yours or mine or Lynn's and to put it in a position of becoming a political pawn in somebody's authoritarian game. This is coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook,” he said. The documentarian then pointed to other instances in DeSantis' governance that has highlighted his refusal to participate in the democratic process. “This is what's so disturbing about DeSantis, is to use human beings, to weaponize human beings for a political purpose – it's like when somebody disagrees with him in Florida, like the Walt Disney Company, he punishes them,” Burns continued. “This is not the actions of a person participating in a democratic process in which there's an exchange of ideas. This is about punishing political enemies, putting on shows, political shows, political theater. And in this case, this is with the lives of human beings.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Opposing sides came out to rally outside the offices of the Castro Valley Unified School District Wednesday. The cause? A series of progress pride flag murals that are being painted on the grounds of every school in the district. "All this project is about is creating a safer school environment for every kid," said Austin Brucker of Castro Valley Pride. The idea for the murals began as a student-led initiative - and the school board approved the plan earlier this year. Supporters say they'll be a sign that the district is an inclusive and safe place for everyone. Especially during a time when many in the LGBTQ community feel like they're under political attack. "I'd say 80% of the school is supportive. Like, very supportive," said student, Nolan Stoneburner. The murals have gained national attention in recent days after the story got picked up by multiple right wing outlets. "For the past week, the school district as well as Castro Valley Pride, have been the direct targets of hundreds and hundreds of hateful comments and emails and calls," said Bruckner. Pride flag murals at Castro Valley schools cause opposing rallies, gain national attention.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Brooklyn-based federal judge was selected on Thursday to serve as an independent arbiter to review the materials seized in the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home.  The special master will be Senior Judge Raymond Dearie, who was put forward as a possible candidate for the special master role by Trump, who had sued in court to obtain the review. The Justice Department also endorsed Dearie's appointment.  US District Judge Aileen Cannon also rejected the Justice Department's bid to resume its criminal investigation into classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago last month. The denial sets the stage for the department's dispute with Trump over the search to move quickly to an appeals court and potentially the US Supreme Court. An intelligence community review of the documents has been paused since last week when Cannon ordered the criminal investigation to stop for the moment. DOJ says the two reviews cannot be separated and plans to appeal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two planes carrying migrants were sent by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday night, his office said, infuriating Democratic politicians and prompting a frenzied response that included humanitarian aid by locals and assistance by Massachusetts officials. It's the latest in a series of moves by Republican governors to transport migrants to northern liberal enclaves to protest what they say are inadequate federal efforts on southern border security. Located off the coast of Massachusetts and long known as a posh summer destination for wealthy vacationers, Martha's Vineyard provided an unusual and unexpected place for the migrants to be sent. "We are not a sanctuary state, and it's better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction, and yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures," DeSantis said on Thursday, a day after claiming credit for sending the two planes to the island. "Every community in America should be sharing in the burdens. It shouldn't all fall on a handful of red states."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Rothmann defends Roe v. Wade with KGO 810 listeners.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Members of one union rejected a tentative deal with the largest U.S. freight railroads Wednesday, while two ratified agreements and three others remained at the bargaining table just days ahead of a strike deadline, threatening to intensify snarls in the nation's supply chain that have contributed to rising prices.  About 4,900 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 19 voted to reject the tentative agreement negotiated by IAM leadership with the railroads, the union said Wednesday. But the IAM agreed to delay any strike by its members until Sept. 29 to allow more time for negotiations and to allow other unions to vote. Railroads are trying to reach an agreement with all their other unions to avert a strike before Friday's deadline. The unions aren't allowed to strike before Friday under the federal law that governs railroad contract talks, which include BNSF, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, CSX, Kansas City Southern and the U.S. operations of Canadian National.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marc remembers cooking for Queen Elizabeth. www.chefmarc.com Marc Vogel, (ChefMarc) a native San Franciscan, started cooking early, inspired by his mother who was a scratch baker. Having seven brothers and sisters, it was vital that he could fend for himself in the kitchen. Opening his first restaurant, Wolfmans in San Francisco, at the age of 21, he had an early immersion in the business. Seeking more challenges he started entering local, regional and national cooking contests with his recipes. He won the Napa cook-off five times in several categories and best of show, and the Lamb town contest in Dixon. His ‘Walnesto' recipe took first in a national contest by the California Walnut Board and Colavita Olive oil. In addition, his lamb recipes are in several thousand markets, supermarkets and gourmet stores throughout the U.S.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Should a former president promote Q-Anon? Donald Trump embraced QAnon's “The storm is coming” meme as he went on a “retruthing” spree on his social media website Truth Social. The one-term president re-posted an image of himself wearing a Q pin on his suit jacket above the “storm” caption and “WWG1WGA.” Trump has in the past promoted QAnon accounts, though the recent flurry of posts was Trump's strongest embrace of the right-wing conspiracy theory movement yet. Both phrases are commonplace in the QAnon-sphere. The “storm” is a conspiracy theory that eventually Trump will release his secret plan to defeat the deep state and MAGA opponents and sweep back into power. It is at this moment that the deep state's leaders are arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay, according to research on QAnon. The second phrase stands for “Where we go one, we go all” and is a rallying cry that comes from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure White Squall. Trump's followers on Truth Social appeared to love the re-truths. “God is bringing the Storm, DJT is rallying the troops,” one wrote.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Florida prosecutor said responses from various allies of former President Trump to reports that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had issued dozens of subpoenas in its Jan. 6 probe show Attorney General Merrick Garland's prosecutorial strategy has given Trump allies “a false sense of security.” “The fact that [Stephen] Bannon and other MAGA leaders seem shocked that this happened shows to me that Merrick Garland has lulled many in Trump World into a false sense of security,” Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County, Fla., said on CNN's “The Situation Room” on Monday.  “This is the kind of slow build that Attorney General Garland has been known for in his prosecutorial career. It's like that boiling frog that doesn't recognize the temperature has been turned up until it's too late,” he added. The Florida prosecutor's comments come amid reports that the Justice Department issued around 40 subpoenas in the past week as part of its investigation into efforts by Trump and his supporters to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At least 97 current members of Congress bought or sold stock, bonds or other financial assets that intersected with their congressional work or reported similar transactions by their spouse or a dependent child, an analysis by The New York Times has found.  U.S. lawmakers are not banned from investing in any company, including those that could be affected by their decisions. But the trading patterns uncovered by the Times analysis underscore longstanding concerns about the potential for conflicts of interest or use of inside information by members of Congress, government ethics experts say.  Times reporters analyzed transactions between 2019 and 2021 using a database of members' financial filings called Capitol Trades created by 2iQ Research. They matched the trades against relevant committee assignments and the dates of hearings and congressional investigations.  When contacted, many of the lawmakers said the trades they reported had been carried out independently by a spouse or a broker with no input from them. Some have since sold all their stocks or moved them into blind trusts. Two said the trades were accidental.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is escalating his feud with Republican-led states that have restricted access to abortion after the Supreme Court's ruling earlier this summer rolling back the federal right to those services that was enshrined in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. As part of his effort to make California a safe harbor for women seeking abortions, Newsom, a Democrat, launched a new state website on Tuesday aimed at connecting women who live out of state with reproductive health care, including a tool that would help them find a provider and how to seek financial assistance for those services. In a video introducing the site, the California governor touched on the privacy concerns many of those red state women now face -- noting the website abortion.ca.gov will not track them or their personal information -- as conservative lawmakers in some states weigh laws to prevent their state's residents from seeking care across state lines.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.