Day Around the Bay: Part of Highway 37 to Close This Weekend For El Nino Upgrades

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Local:

  • Caltrans will close both directions of Highway 37 between Mare Island in Vallejo and Sears Point in Sonoma County from Friday night through early Monday to raise portions of the flood-prone roadway ahead of potential heavy rains and El Niño conditions. [KRON4]
  • Safeway will close its San Jose store on Bollinger Road on November 13 after 57 years, and it’s shutting down its Richmond bakery on December 20, affecting 92 employees, as the grocery chain continues to shrink its Bay Area footprint. [Chronicle]
  • Thirteen-year-old North West, child of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, dressed for Halloween as Baddies reality star Natalie Nunn, who’s Bay Area-born-and-raised, complete with a chin implant. [The Cut]

National:

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff damaged a historic globe reportedly used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower after attempting to move it into Hegseth’s office without trained curators. The Pentagon acknowledged the mishap, which left a hole near Antarctica and detached it from its rotating mount. saying the globe is being repaired. [Washington Post]
  • Kansas megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton, a former Republican running as a Democrat, is running an impressive campaign against GOP Senator Roger Marshall in a state that hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932, potentially putting Republican control of the Senate at risk. [Yahoo News]
  • Actor Tom Skerritt, most known for his roles in Aliens and Picket Fences, has died at age 93. [CNN]

Video:

  • So, apparently the Internet Archive makes statues of employees who have worked at the organization for a while, and the statues all congregate near some pews because the office is in an old church. Kind of creepy, but also — jealous.
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