KQED

Skip to main content

Public Media for Northern California

Donate
This Week in Northern California, with host Belva Davis, airs Fridays at 7:30pm on KQED 9HD

Video Archive

Episodes by Date

Calendar is loading...
Loading...

This Week e-Newsletter

Keep up to date with what's coming up on This Week.

Please leave this field empty

Subscribe to This Week

Subscribe

Subscribe to This Week's video podcast and don't miss an episode.

KQED e-Newsletters

Newsletters

Get regular updates on great programs and events

Please leave this field empty

More from KQED

Stories From This Week's Episode

August 3, 2012

null

News Panel: Drought Driving Up Food Prices, Mars Rover Landing, and more

Plans to build a new hospital in San Francisco at Cathedral Hill, currently home to several churches, and to rebuild St. Luke's in the Mission District, are on hold until November. The Board of Supervisors put the decision on the backburner while questions about an escape clause that would allow the hospital to be closed based on weak financial performance by the company raises a red flag. The drought gripping more than half the country is driving up food prices -- including milk, beef, chicken and pork -- due to the scorching heat and minimal rainfall. Drought is affecting over 80 percent of the county's corn crops. Consumers can expect to pay 3 to 4 percent more for groceries next year. Excitement is more than sky high over a large rover NASA is gearing up to land on Mars Sunday night. The 1-ton Curiosity will feed vivid images of the Red Planet back to Earth and work to find evidence of microbial life.

Guests:

  • Rachel Gordon, San Francisco Chronicle
  • Tom Vacar, KTVU
  • Lisa Krieger, San Jose Mercury News
null

Louise Rafkin and Kowana Banks

On the fifth year anniversary of the killing of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey by members of Your Black Muslim Bakery, the woman who exposed bakery owner Yusuf Bey Sr. for acts of sexual abuse, welfare fraud and violence has come forward. Previously identified as Jane Doe #1, Kowana Banks tells her personal story of abuse to Center for Investigative Reporting journalist Louise Rafkin. The story was reported in collaboration with the Chauncey Bailey Project. Belva Davis interviews Rafkin and Banks.

 

Also on KQED.org this week ...

Supreme Court
At Last: Devil's Slide Tunnels Open

Two new tunnels that will replace a cliffhanger drive, known as "Devil's Slide," are now open.

2012 Asian Pacific American Local Heroes
The Glowing Millipedes of Alcatraz

More than a million people visit Alcatraz every year, but a recent discovery has revealed another attraction that lives within the shadows of this historic prison.

Sponsored by

Sponsored by