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For too many years, she says, critics would question her on Uber, and she stayed silent. She tried to influence the company from the inside, though she didn't see a real will among leadership to change. While \"Silicon Valley prides itself on pattern recognition,\" the letter said, Uber had \"toxic patterns\" that needed to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein thought she was just saying what insiders knew: This is not a one-off. Turns out, her peers didn't like that and wanted her to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I could imagine that they wouldn't love the Uber letter,\" Kapor Klein said in an interview with NPR in mid-March. \"But then that they would decide the next step they ought to do is go after our high growth, hot startups and try to get them away from us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5168-edit_slide-50509cc390e992a3208786f2193a75d5b1a65bc5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Heckman, an associate at Kapor Capital, speaks with Kapor Klein. 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She tells me I should call a shortlist of her most powerful peers and demand they respond on the record. \"Go to Sequoia, go to Benchmark, go to Kleiner, go to Accel, go to Andreessen, go to Khosla,\" she says, naming the kings of much-storied Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's sitting inside the Kapor Center for Social Impact — a name that spells out the intent of the place. Kapor Klein and her husband bought this four-story building in central Oakland — what's become the edge of Silicon Valley as tech expands beyond Cupertino, Mountain View and San Francisco — and it houses an investment arm, research and philanthropic projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein is 64 years old, petite with jet black eyes and curly hair to match. She is tense as she recounts the blowback, her folded hands resting on a conference table made of reclaimed wood. Meanwhile, her dog is napping by her feet, sprawled on a gray carpet made of recycled fishing nets. (She designed the building to be green.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley's snoring breaks her concentration, and she lets out a laugh. He's a rescue dog, but sometimes she claims he's a therapy dog. \"You can see why. Doesn't he make you feel better?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wakes him up and the two go in search of her husband and business partner, \u003ca href=\"Mitch%20Kapor\">Mitch Kapor\u003c/a>. When they find him, he happens to be meeting with the president of Silicon Valley Bank — who is trying to not get in the middle of the couple's conversation. But Kapor Klein reels him in, telling him about the letter and the response. Greg Becker politely offers his take: \"Yeah, people compete ... any way they can, right? That's — unfortunately it's human nature ... .\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein points to her dog, who is now rubbing his enormous cream coat against the banker's leg, and she teases: \"I thought it was just dogs that did that. Dogs, not humans.\" Her husband ends the conversation by saying: \"It's a dog-eat-dog world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is his way of acting as her buffer — she, the one who pushes; he, the one who moderates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11513102 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein talks with her husband, Mitch Kapor, in their shared office space. He founded Lotus, the database company, and is a legend in Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mitch Kapor is a bit of a legend, by the way. In the 1980s he founded Lotus, the famous spreadsheet maker. Some compare him to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulled Kapor Klein into the tech world when he hired her to fix Lotus' culture in 1984, to make it the most progressive employer in the U.S. Quite the job description. She would lecture her boss about how he carried himself at work, how he should be \"more sensitive\" about his power, how he could make or break an employee's day just with eye contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple didn't get together until years later, when she sought him out for career advice, and his first marriage fell apart. He asked her out on a date. He had a son. She was 43 and didn't have kids. She assumed it was a summer fling and warned him, date two, that she's not \"stepmom material.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, it wasn't a fling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her life's work is to change the culture of Silicon Valley — a place she feels has gone backward in time. There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding\">far fewer women in computer science\u003c/a> today than in the 1980s. Blacks and Latinos are missing, too. Kapor Klein faults the investor class, which holds on to the myth of meritocracy, that they are the hyper-rational conduits of capital and it so just happens that white men are the most worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shares a hokey saying she's heard one too many times: \"We don't care if you're orange or blue; the only color we care about is green.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5383-edit_custom-4ce66b07a564a299f156d21191f74ceb83bb9da3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein talks with communications manager Ashleigh Richelle (left) and the summer associates at the Kapor Center for Social Impact. Kapor Klein's life work is to change the culture of Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If all Kapor Klein did was critique, she'd be irrelevant here. This place values people who build things. And that is what she is doing. The building feels like an alternate universe — one where tech somehow looks like the rest of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one floor, there's the investment team. Their portfolio includes Genius Plaza — the hot startup that others now want to poach. It's an online education platform founded by Ana Roca-Castro, a woman from the Dominican Republic (which is exotic in these parts). She's landed major contracts with national agencies throughout Latin America, and is working to get into more U.S. schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro, who is based in Albany, New York, describes Kapor Klein as \"protective,\" an early investor who tries to shoo away others who don't share their values. Asked if that could mean \u003cem>possessive, \u003c/em>the tech founder disagrees. \"When someone is territorial they want nobody around,\" but in multiple instances, Kapor Klein has opened doors she didn't know to knock. \"She'll be the first to push me, saying, 'Don't be afraid.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein keeps an eclectic inner circle. It includes a former head of the NAACP; the woman who filed (and lost) a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit against a leading venture capital fund; and Ulili Onovakpuri. The 32-year-old advises the health care portfolio, deciding which startups get money. But their relationship started when Onovakpuri was a teenager. Her now longtime mentor gave her a scholarship to UC Berkeley. (Kapor Klein launched the IDEAL Scholars Fund, for high-achieving minority students, after California ended affirmative action in schools.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5123-edit_custom-fa5b02a52b3feb72944deb6965ef280ca63c27bd-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictures of Kapor Klein's SMASH scholars and which college they will attend are on display in the office. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the corner, social scientists are running data on why people leave tech, looking for holes in the leaky pipeline, so to speak. (They later published \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaporcenter.org/tech-leavers/\">this study\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Gabriel Chaparro — who ran the center's SMASH \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpfi.org/programs/smash/\">math and science program\u003c/a> for students of color at Stanford — shares the lesson he wants to drill into young minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to step into places where there's a line of people and none of them look like you. But you've earned your space. So get in that line, push them aside,\" he says. \"You can't just look at that line and say I don't fit in there. \u003cem>Make\u003c/em> your fit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a very Silicon Valley way of being. It's how Uber CEO Travis Kalanick broke the yellow cab industry in city after city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Kapor Klein wants young people who grew up poor to channel Silicon Valley's sense of entitlement — the idea that it's OK to fail; that failure is necessary; and that one deserves support anyway. She herself doesn't come from money. She grew up on a U.S. Air Force base in Biloxi, Mississippi, and one of her earliest memories was seeing, at age 3, her 7-year-old brother bloodied, beaten for being a Jew. She knew then that the world isn't fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Uber row isn't her first in Silicon Valley. To some extent, she's used to it. She is rich (she won't disclose how rich) and travels in wealthy circles, where people have strong feelings about money. She remembers a billionaire who suggested she's spending too much on her do-gooder education programs. She recollects telling him, \"Well, you probably write a check that's somewhere between five and 10 times that amount of money for private kindergarten for your child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's quick to point out, though, that she jabbed because she was asking him to donate. If there wasn't a specific ask, a concrete step she was advocating, she said she would hold back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5656-edit_custom-d39a56a9b50ad6ef4870823c4bf22e6be11b1006-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein sits with her rescue dog, Dudley. He acts as the office's therapy dog and follows her throughout the day. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NPR did approach leading investors (as Kapor Klein suggested) to get their take on Uber, her letter, and what's the real problem. One was willing to go on the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are a shareholder in a company and a stakeholder in a company, you would want to speak with one voice and you would want to work on the problem primarily,\" says Jason Calacanis. \"To kind of blindside a company with a post like that means now the company not only has to solve the problem, they have to react to that position publicly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calacanis is an influential angel investor, and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062560711/angel\">a new book\u003c/a> on how to invest. While he respects Kapor Klein's work with the underprivileged (he's invited her to speak about it to his startups), he says that the way she spoke out created a \"negative atmosphere\" — a media circus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Calacanis adds, it takes a hard-charging CEO to build the Uber empire. Soft questions around culture, an inclusive culture — those come later. \"After you've won, or won a decent amount of market share or won the early fights, I think you have to shift gears a bit. And I think that's what Uber's going through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein disagrees — and Uber's monumental meltdown is arguably proof she was right. But when I sit down with her in April, as the drama continues to unfold, she's become hesitant. Uber reached out to her for help, after her letter. Now, as I ask questions about it, she's being tight-lipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if she is uncomfortable, she says she is, \"because my goal now is to help Uber and any other company that really genuinely wants to change. I don't know what snippets you might use, how they might hear that, and whether that's going to hamper the efforts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein wants the world to understand: Yes, she spoke out when others would not. But no, Uber isn't the only problem child in Silicon Valley. They just happened to get caught. This week she and her husband issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaporcenter.org/press-release-posts/statement-from-mitch-kapor-and-freada-kapor-klein-re-eric-holders-uber-investigation-report/\">a statement\u003c/a> to that effect, saying \"the company deserves some room\" to work on itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Uber is a mess — the \"bad boy\" ethos shattered, a nervous breakdown in its place. This week, the CEO announced he is taking a sudden leave of absence. A former U.S. attorney general released a brutal audit of the startup's culture. It's a terrifying moment for many investors who want that $70 billion unicorn to make them rich or richer — not implode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is one Uber investor who stands out for how she decided to speak up. It was not very Silicon Valley-like of her, but Freada Kapor Klein wanted to turn the crisis into a teachable moment. And while \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/13/532751641/ubers-travis-kalanick-announces-leave-of-absence-company-adopts-harassment-polic\">this week's events\u003c/a> could lead her to say \"I told you so,\" she has a different takeaway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's rewind a few months. Kapor Klein decided to write an \u003ca href=\"https://shift.newco.co/an-open-letter-to-the-uber-board-and-investors-2dc0c48c3a7\">open letter\u003c/a> to Uber — which she published with her husband — after a young woman shared an \u003ca href=\"https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber\">explosive account\u003c/a> of sexual harassment at Uber headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/532973451/533102658\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein is a venture capitalist, or a VC. That means she makes money by betting on technology startups. Uber is one of those startups. She has committed to \"impact investment\" — businesses that can turn a profit while also making the world a better place. For too many years, she says, critics would question her on Uber, and she stayed silent. She tried to influence the company from the inside, though she didn't see a real will among leadership to change. While \"Silicon Valley prides itself on pattern recognition,\" the letter said, Uber had \"toxic patterns\" that needed to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein thought she was just saying what insiders knew: This is not a one-off. Turns out, her peers didn't like that and wanted her to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I could imagine that they wouldn't love the Uber letter,\" Kapor Klein said in an interview with NPR in mid-March. \"But then that they would decide the next step they ought to do is go after our high growth, hot startups and try to get them away from us!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5168-edit_slide-50509cc390e992a3208786f2193a75d5b1a65bc5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Heckman, an associate at Kapor Capital, speaks with Kapor Klein. She wrote an open letter to Uber after an engineer shared an instance of sexual harassment at the ride-hailing startup. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She's just learned that other VCs are trying to poach one of her hottest investments, and they're citing the Uber letter to do it, basically saying: this investor throws her own people under the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, it's one thing to go pitch them. It's another to say, 'Get away from Kapor. See, they're going to do this to you,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be counterintuitive, but in Silicon Valley, the land that created tweeting, there is a code of silence among the rich. People are here to make money, not to agitate. She violated that code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she won't back down. She tells me I should call a shortlist of her most powerful peers and demand they respond on the record. \"Go to Sequoia, go to Benchmark, go to Kleiner, go to Accel, go to Andreessen, go to Khosla,\" she says, naming the kings of much-storied Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's sitting inside the Kapor Center for Social Impact — a name that spells out the intent of the place. Kapor Klein and her husband bought this four-story building in central Oakland — what's become the edge of Silicon Valley as tech expands beyond Cupertino, Mountain View and San Francisco — and it houses an investment arm, research and philanthropic projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein is 64 years old, petite with jet black eyes and curly hair to match. She is tense as she recounts the blowback, her folded hands resting on a conference table made of reclaimed wood. Meanwhile, her dog is napping by her feet, sprawled on a gray carpet made of recycled fishing nets. (She designed the building to be green.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudley's snoring breaks her concentration, and she lets out a laugh. He's a rescue dog, but sometimes she claims he's a therapy dog. \"You can see why. Doesn't he make you feel better?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wakes him up and the two go in search of her husband and business partner, \u003ca href=\"Mitch%20Kapor\">Mitch Kapor\u003c/a>. When they find him, he happens to be meeting with the president of Silicon Valley Bank — who is trying to not get in the middle of the couple's conversation. But Kapor Klein reels him in, telling him about the letter and the response. Greg Becker politely offers his take: \"Yeah, people compete ... any way they can, right? That's — unfortunately it's human nature ... .\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein points to her dog, who is now rubbing his enormous cream coat against the banker's leg, and she teases: \"I thought it was just dogs that did that. Dogs, not humans.\" Her husband ends the conversation by saying: \"It's a dog-eat-dog world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is his way of acting as her buffer — she, the one who pushes; he, the one who moderates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11513102 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5709-edit_custom-c10baff1931470d9f2f3c51cc3ee444654b0d2f2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein talks with her husband, Mitch Kapor, in their shared office space. He founded Lotus, the database company, and is a legend in Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mitch Kapor is a bit of a legend, by the way. In the 1980s he founded Lotus, the famous spreadsheet maker. Some compare him to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulled Kapor Klein into the tech world when he hired her to fix Lotus' culture in 1984, to make it the most progressive employer in the U.S. Quite the job description. She would lecture her boss about how he carried himself at work, how he should be \"more sensitive\" about his power, how he could make or break an employee's day just with eye contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple didn't get together until years later, when she sought him out for career advice, and his first marriage fell apart. He asked her out on a date. He had a son. She was 43 and didn't have kids. She assumed it was a summer fling and warned him, date two, that she's not \"stepmom material.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, it wasn't a fling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her life's work is to change the culture of Silicon Valley — a place she feels has gone backward in time. There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding\">far fewer women in computer science\u003c/a> today than in the 1980s. Blacks and Latinos are missing, too. Kapor Klein faults the investor class, which holds on to the myth of meritocracy, that they are the hyper-rational conduits of capital and it so just happens that white men are the most worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She shares a hokey saying she's heard one too many times: \"We don't care if you're orange or blue; the only color we care about is green.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513103\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5383-edit_custom-4ce66b07a564a299f156d21191f74ceb83bb9da3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein talks with communications manager Ashleigh Richelle (left) and the summer associates at the Kapor Center for Social Impact. Kapor Klein's life work is to change the culture of Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If all Kapor Klein did was critique, she'd be irrelevant here. This place values people who build things. And that is what she is doing. The building feels like an alternate universe — one where tech somehow looks like the rest of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one floor, there's the investment team. Their portfolio includes Genius Plaza — the hot startup that others now want to poach. It's an online education platform founded by Ana Roca-Castro, a woman from the Dominican Republic (which is exotic in these parts). She's landed major contracts with national agencies throughout Latin America, and is working to get into more U.S. schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castro, who is based in Albany, New York, describes Kapor Klein as \"protective,\" an early investor who tries to shoo away others who don't share their values. Asked if that could mean \u003cem>possessive, \u003c/em>the tech founder disagrees. \"When someone is territorial they want nobody around,\" but in multiple instances, Kapor Klein has opened doors she didn't know to knock. \"She'll be the first to push me, saying, 'Don't be afraid.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein keeps an eclectic inner circle. It includes a former head of the NAACP; the woman who filed (and lost) a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit against a leading venture capital fund; and Ulili Onovakpuri. The 32-year-old advises the health care portfolio, deciding which startups get money. But their relationship started when Onovakpuri was a teenager. Her now longtime mentor gave her a scholarship to UC Berkeley. (Kapor Klein launched the IDEAL Scholars Fund, for high-achieving minority students, after California ended affirmative action in schools.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5123-edit_custom-fa5b02a52b3feb72944deb6965ef280ca63c27bd-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictures of Kapor Klein's SMASH scholars and which college they will attend are on display in the office. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the corner, social scientists are running data on why people leave tech, looking for holes in the leaky pipeline, so to speak. (They later published \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaporcenter.org/tech-leavers/\">this study\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Gabriel Chaparro — who ran the center's SMASH \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpfi.org/programs/smash/\">math and science program\u003c/a> for students of color at Stanford — shares the lesson he wants to drill into young minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to step into places where there's a line of people and none of them look like you. But you've earned your space. So get in that line, push them aside,\" he says. \"You can't just look at that line and say I don't fit in there. \u003cem>Make\u003c/em> your fit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a very Silicon Valley way of being. It's how Uber CEO Travis Kalanick broke the yellow cab industry in city after city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Kapor Klein wants young people who grew up poor to channel Silicon Valley's sense of entitlement — the idea that it's OK to fail; that failure is necessary; and that one deserves support anyway. She herself doesn't come from money. She grew up on a U.S. Air Force base in Biloxi, Mississippi, and one of her earliest memories was seeing, at age 3, her 7-year-old brother bloodied, beaten for being a Jew. She knew then that the world isn't fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Uber row isn't her first in Silicon Valley. To some extent, she's used to it. She is rich (she won't disclose how rich) and travels in wealthy circles, where people have strong feelings about money. She remembers a billionaire who suggested she's spending too much on her do-gooder education programs. She recollects telling him, \"Well, you probably write a check that's somewhere between five and 10 times that amount of money for private kindergarten for your child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's quick to point out, though, that she jabbed because she was asking him to donate. If there wasn't a specific ask, a concrete step she was advocating, she said she would hold back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11513104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11513104\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/n0a5656-edit_custom-d39a56a9b50ad6ef4870823c4bf22e6be11b1006-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kapor Klein sits with her rescue dog, Dudley. He acts as the office's therapy dog and follows her throughout the day. \u003ccite>(Talia Herman for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NPR did approach leading investors (as Kapor Klein suggested) to get their take on Uber, her letter, and what's the real problem. One was willing to go on the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are a shareholder in a company and a stakeholder in a company, you would want to speak with one voice and you would want to work on the problem primarily,\" says Jason Calacanis. \"To kind of blindside a company with a post like that means now the company not only has to solve the problem, they have to react to that position publicly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calacanis is an influential angel investor, and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062560711/angel\">a new book\u003c/a> on how to invest. While he respects Kapor Klein's work with the underprivileged (he's invited her to speak about it to his startups), he says that the way she spoke out created a \"negative atmosphere\" — a media circus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Calacanis adds, it takes a hard-charging CEO to build the Uber empire. Soft questions around culture, an inclusive culture — those come later. \"After you've won, or won a decent amount of market share or won the early fights, I think you have to shift gears a bit. And I think that's what Uber's going through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kapor Klein disagrees — and Uber's monumental meltdown is arguably proof she was right. But when I sit down with her in April, as the drama continues to unfold, she's become hesitant. Uber reached out to her for help, after her letter. Now, as I ask questions about it, she's being tight-lipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if she is uncomfortable, she says she is, \"because my goal now is to help Uber and any other company that really genuinely wants to change. I don't know what snippets you might use, how they might hear that, and whether that's going to hamper the efforts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:40 p.m. Thursday, June 15:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers issued a “Stink Alert” late Thursday afternoon about its corpse flower, which has been on the verge of blooming for days: Terra the Titan has started to open. It might not totally unfurl this evening, but its stench — which has been likened to rotting flesh — will be the strongest tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservatory will be open until 9 p.m., with the last entry at 8:30 p.m, to accommodate visitors to Terra, and will reopen at 10 a.m. Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s happening,” said its Facebook post. “Smell you soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plant will reek for only a few days, but its collapse will also be something to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, June 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no prouder parent than Sidney Price. On Monday morning, he savored a private visit with his “baby” at the \u003ca href=\"http://conservatoryofflowers.org/\">San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always thought she’d be an early bloomer,” said Price, as he gazed at Terra the Titan, a 9-year-old corpse flower poised to unleash an overpowering stench that has been compared to decaying animal flesh, filthy socks, rotting garbage and human feces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t repel people. Quite the contrary. When a corpse flower blooms, it is always a botanical blockbuster, drawing thousands of people who can’t get enough of its putrid smell and unearthly beauty. The last time this rare event occurred at the conservatory was in 2005, drawing about 16,000 visitors in four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbKOVv5GII0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest unbranched inflorescence — or flowering structure — in the plant world, the corpse flower is also known as an \u003cem>Amorphophallus titanum\u003c/em> (giant misshapen penis) or \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagobotanic.org/titan/about\">Titan Arum.\u003c/a> When one bloomed at the \u003ca href=\"http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/\">UC Botanical Garden\u003c/a> in Berkeley in 2010, Price witnessed the phenomenon at its olfactory peak, which is usually no more than 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was love at first sight,” recalled Price. “I’d never seen something so beautiful and that smelled so much. It was huuuuuge, as our president would say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The odor reminded him of roadkill. “It smelled like dead possum,” Price said. “It was pretty pungent and intense. I grew up in Arkansas, so I know what dead possum smells like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he lives in a small apartment in San Francisco’s Mission District, Price \u003cem>had\u003c/em> to have a corpse flower of his own. He bought a pot with two small plants at the shop in the botanical garden. The sprouts, the offspring of Trudy and Titania, had been propagated at UC a year and a half earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were sickly-looking, spindly and yellowish,” said the 64-year-old Price, a retired IT worker. “But I wanted one because they’re getting destroyed in their native habitat in Indonesia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He placed them in his kitchen window, but the northern exposure wasn’t kind. Two months later, Price moved them to his bathroom, where bright sunlight transformed them from wimps into amazons, and a third sibling emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shower mist didn’t hurt either. “I’m very clean,” Price said. “I take a shower in the morning and another in the evening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plants’ rampant growth began to resemble something out of a science-fiction movie. Price was thrilled but stunned, as he watched Terra overtake his bathroom. He also fretted about the consequences of an untimely bloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was worried I’d be away on a trip and somebody would call the police and tear down my door because they thought a dead body was inside,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, when one of the gigantic leaves reached 7 feet, he realized it was time to say goodbye. One day in 2014, he called the Conservatory of Flowers. Three years later, Terra is poised to become its first permanent corpse flower to bloom — its 2005 predecessor was borrowed from UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508296\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11508296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors take advantage of a rare open Monday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers on June 12, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors take advantage of a rare open Monday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers on June 12, 2017. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Price visited Terra on Monday, he noted that he’s 5-foot-8 and the plant’s phalluslike spadix is just under 6 feet, and rising. He still can’t believe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mothered this plant,” he said. “I just wanted it to survive so badly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price knows a thing or two about survival. The Ozark Mountains native moved to San Francisco in 1975 during its gay heyday — “Harvey Milk even hit on me” — and retired in 1996 when he was diagnosed with AIDS. But his timing was good: A new class of drugs kept him alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like all the conditions came together for my survival,” he said. “And later, for the plants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Price refers to Terra as a she, he’s well aware that the plant is a hermaphrodite, with male and female flowers. “It’s perfect for gay pride month,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terra produced its first-ever bud on May 1, and is growing 1 to 3 inches a day. The flowers reside out of sight in the base of the spadix, which looks like a baguette and is encircled by a spathe that resembles a ruffled, pleated skirt and will turn the color of red meat when it unfurls. The odor and color lure pollinators in the form of carrion beetles and flies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s total deception on the plant’s part,” said Lizzie Roeble, education coordinator at the conservatory. “We are ecstatic. We can’t talk or think about anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Spellmann, a nursery specialist at the conservatory, helped relocate Price’s plants from their bathroom habitat to their tropical oasis in the Richmond district, where Terra is about to attain superstar status. “Now it needs to be wet all the time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, or even hours, it will likely bloom, but Titan Arums are “notoriously unpredictable,” according to Roeble. Terra’s celebrity will be short-lived — just a few days — before it goes limp and collapses into total anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508300\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11508300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-160x284.jpg\" alt=\"The Titan Arum plants that Sidney Price purchased as sprouts eventually outgrew the bathroom of his Mission District apartment.\" width=\"320\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-160x284.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-375x667.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-520x924.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Titan Arum plants that Sidney Price purchased as sprouts eventually outgrew the bathroom of his Mission District apartment. \u003ccite>(Sidney Price)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Titan Arums grow on the hillsides of Sumatran rainforests, and “corpse flower” is the translation of its Indonesian name, \u003cem>bunga bangkai\u003c/em>. They’re vulnerable because their habitats are being wiped out by agricultural production and timber logging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me incredibly sad,” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roeble agreed. She hopes that the hordes who descend on Terra will learn a bit about the plight of its relatives in the wild, as they sniff and marvel and recoil and take selfies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservatory is extending its hours for Terra’s coming-out party. It is usually closed on Mondays, but it opened at noon on June 12 so that people could visit the Titan Arum as it inched ever closer to blooming. The plant’s progress will be charted with regular updates on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=conservatory%20of%20flowers\">Facebook,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zqAGa9EDih4\">YouTube,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/conservatoryofflowers/\">Instagram\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFConservatory\">Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the doors opened Monday, Terra was holding court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only thing that’s smellier than me,” said Tom Calder, a swimming-pool retiler from Australia. “She’s just a prize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is as good as April the Giraffe,” declared another patron, referring to the ruminant that gave birth earlier this year as the world watched on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt McAndrews, a marketer from Philadelphia in town for a few days, heard about Terra from a friend and raced over to the conservatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like plants but there’s nothing like this,” he said. “It’s pod people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:40 p.m. Thursday, June 15:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers issued a “Stink Alert” late Thursday afternoon about its corpse flower, which has been on the verge of blooming for days: Terra the Titan has started to open. It might not totally unfurl this evening, but its stench — which has been likened to rotting flesh — will be the strongest tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservatory will be open until 9 p.m., with the last entry at 8:30 p.m, to accommodate visitors to Terra, and will reopen at 10 a.m. Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s happening,” said its Facebook post. “Smell you soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plant will reek for only a few days, but its collapse will also be something to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, June 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no prouder parent than Sidney Price. On Monday morning, he savored a private visit with his “baby” at the \u003ca href=\"http://conservatoryofflowers.org/\">San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always thought she’d be an early bloomer,” said Price, as he gazed at Terra the Titan, a 9-year-old corpse flower poised to unleash an overpowering stench that has been compared to decaying animal flesh, filthy socks, rotting garbage and human feces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t repel people. Quite the contrary. When a corpse flower blooms, it is always a botanical blockbuster, drawing thousands of people who can’t get enough of its putrid smell and unearthly beauty. The last time this rare event occurred at the conservatory was in 2005, drawing about 16,000 visitors in four days.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/EbKOVv5GII0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/EbKOVv5GII0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The largest unbranched inflorescence — or flowering structure — in the plant world, the corpse flower is also known as an \u003cem>Amorphophallus titanum\u003c/em> (giant misshapen penis) or \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagobotanic.org/titan/about\">Titan Arum.\u003c/a> When one bloomed at the \u003ca href=\"http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/\">UC Botanical Garden\u003c/a> in Berkeley in 2010, Price witnessed the phenomenon at its olfactory peak, which is usually no more than 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was love at first sight,” recalled Price. “I’d never seen something so beautiful and that smelled so much. It was huuuuuge, as our president would say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The odor reminded him of roadkill. “It smelled like dead possum,” Price said. “It was pretty pungent and intense. I grew up in Arkansas, so I know what dead possum smells like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he lives in a small apartment in San Francisco’s Mission District, Price \u003cem>had\u003c/em> to have a corpse flower of his own. He bought a pot with two small plants at the shop in the botanical garden. The sprouts, the offspring of Trudy and Titania, had been propagated at UC a year and a half earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were sickly-looking, spindly and yellowish,” said the 64-year-old Price, a retired IT worker. “But I wanted one because they’re getting destroyed in their native habitat in Indonesia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He placed them in his kitchen window, but the northern exposure wasn’t kind. Two months later, Price moved them to his bathroom, where bright sunlight transformed them from wimps into amazons, and a third sibling emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shower mist didn’t hurt either. “I’m very clean,” Price said. “I take a shower in the morning and another in the evening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plants’ rampant growth began to resemble something out of a science-fiction movie. Price was thrilled but stunned, as he watched Terra overtake his bathroom. He also fretted about the consequences of an untimely bloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was worried I’d be away on a trip and somebody would call the police and tear down my door because they thought a dead body was inside,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, when one of the gigantic leaves reached 7 feet, he realized it was time to say goodbye. One day in 2014, he called the Conservatory of Flowers. Three years later, Terra is poised to become its first permanent corpse flower to bloom — its 2005 predecessor was borrowed from UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508296\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11508296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors take advantage of a rare open Monday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers on June 12, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors take advantage of a rare open Monday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers on June 12, 2017. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Price visited Terra on Monday, he noted that he’s 5-foot-8 and the plant’s phalluslike spadix is just under 6 feet, and rising. He still can’t believe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mothered this plant,” he said. “I just wanted it to survive so badly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price knows a thing or two about survival. The Ozark Mountains native moved to San Francisco in 1975 during its gay heyday — “Harvey Milk even hit on me” — and retired in 1996 when he was diagnosed with AIDS. But his timing was good: A new class of drugs kept him alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like all the conditions came together for my survival,” he said. “And later, for the plants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Price refers to Terra as a she, he’s well aware that the plant is a hermaphrodite, with male and female flowers. “It’s perfect for gay pride month,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terra produced its first-ever bud on May 1, and is growing 1 to 3 inches a day. The flowers reside out of sight in the base of the spadix, which looks like a baguette and is encircled by a spathe that resembles a ruffled, pleated skirt and will turn the color of red meat when it unfurls. The odor and color lure pollinators in the form of carrion beetles and flies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s total deception on the plant’s part,” said Lizzie Roeble, education coordinator at the conservatory. “We are ecstatic. We can’t talk or think about anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Spellmann, a nursery specialist at the conservatory, helped relocate Price’s plants from their bathroom habitat to their tropical oasis in the Richmond district, where Terra is about to attain superstar status. “Now it needs to be wet all the time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, or even hours, it will likely bloom, but Titan Arums are “notoriously unpredictable,” according to Roeble. Terra’s celebrity will be short-lived — just a few days — before it goes limp and collapses into total anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508300\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11508300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-160x284.jpg\" alt=\"The Titan Arum plants that Sidney Price purchased as sprouts eventually outgrew the bathroom of his Mission District apartment.\" width=\"320\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-160x284.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-375x667.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-520x924.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Titan Arum plants that Sidney Price purchased as sprouts eventually outgrew the bathroom of his Mission District apartment. \u003ccite>(Sidney Price)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Titan Arums grow on the hillsides of Sumatran rainforests, and “corpse flower” is the translation of its Indonesian name, \u003cem>bunga bangkai\u003c/em>. They’re vulnerable because their habitats are being wiped out by agricultural production and timber logging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me incredibly sad,” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roeble agreed. She hopes that the hordes who descend on Terra will learn a bit about the plight of its relatives in the wild, as they sniff and marvel and recoil and take selfies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservatory is extending its hours for Terra’s coming-out party. It is usually closed on Mondays, but it opened at noon on June 12 so that people could visit the Titan Arum as it inched ever closer to blooming. The plant’s progress will be charted with regular updates on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=conservatory%20of%20flowers\">Facebook,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zqAGa9EDih4\">YouTube,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/conservatoryofflowers/\">Instagram\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFConservatory\">Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the doors opened Monday, Terra was holding court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only thing that’s smellier than me,” said Tom Calder, a swimming-pool retiler from Australia. “She’s just a prize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is as good as April the Giraffe,” declared another patron, referring to the ruminant that gave birth earlier this year as the world watched on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt McAndrews, a marketer from Philadelphia in town for a few days, heard about Terra from a friend and raced over to the conservatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like plants but there’s nothing like this,” he said. “It’s pod people. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunnyvale’s San Miguel neighborhood, with its leafy trees and modest houses, is home to hundreds of families and four schools for young children. Underneath these quiet streets lies a shadow of Silicon Valley’s past: groundwater contaminated with a solvent once used to make computer chips, and known to cause cancer and birth defects. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That chemical, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/trichloroethylene-tce\">trichloroethylene or TCE\u003c/a>, was as crucial to chipmakers in the 1960s and 1970s as yeast is to a bakery. TCE is a powerful solvent used to clean silicon wafers before the chip design is etched onto them. And it’s responsible for nearly half the federal Superfund sites in \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_California#Santa_Clara_County\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>. These are areas the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designates as the nation’s most toxic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara has 24 Superfund sites, according to former EPA regional director Jared Blumenfeld. The neighborhood of San Miguel is located within one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When TCE is present in groundwater, it can turn to vapor, seeping through cracks in building frames and into homes and classrooms. Short-term exposure can cause slowed breathing, light-headedness and headaches; over the longer term, TCE exposure causes cancer, particularly kidney cancer and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">non-Hodgkin lymphoma\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And in 2011, a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339451/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">study appeared to show \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that fetuses exposed to TCE in the first trimester have a higher risk of heart defects at birth. Socioeconomic differences could have influenced the results, though researchers tried to account for that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_388759\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 378px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-388759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-800x1445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-800x1445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-160x289.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-768x1387.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-1020x1842.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-960x1734.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-240x433.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-375x677.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-520x939.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the Triple Site area in Sunnyvale, Calif. \u003ccite>(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Years of Contamination\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A half-mile south of the San Miguel neighborhood is Lowe’s Home Improvement, built on the site where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signetics\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Signetics Inc.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—which became \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usa.philips.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philips Semiconductors\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 1975—left massive amounts of trichloroethylene in the soil and groundwater from nearly 30 years of chip manufacturing. Next to Lowe’s is a large, vacant dome of soil carpeted with dry grass.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s where we have the highest concentrations of TCE,” says EPA site manager Melanie Morash, gesturing at the mound. This is essentially Ground Zero for what the EPA calls the Triple Site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Triple Site gets its name from the three chipmakers responsible for the contamination: Philips, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amd.com/en/home\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advanced Micro Devices\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/vwsoalphabetic/TRW+Microwave,+Inc.+(Building+825)\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TRW Microwave\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In the 1960s and ‘70s, these companies stored TCE in underground tanks for later use. But the tanks and pipelines sometimes ruptured, leaking TCE into the soil and groundwater. It wasn’t until the 1980s, when the EPA launched its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Superfund program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to clean up the nation’s most toxic sites, that these properties began to get attention. By then, the TCE had spread through groundwater a mile to the north, underneath hundreds of homes and apartments and all four schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cleanup Begins\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1980s, the EPA worked with the manufacturers to clean up the toxic plume by excavating soil and treating the water. One method decontaminates the water by exposing it to ultraviolet light; the other oxygenates the water, releasing the TCE into the air, where it disperses. Although it isn’t ideal to make TCE airborne, it reduces concentrations enough that it isn’t a health risk to people, Blumenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_410384\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-410384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"EPA Triple Site site manager Melanie Morash at the dome of earth near the former Philips Semiconductor property, where TCE contamination is concentrated. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EPA Triple Site site manager Melanie Morash at the dome of earth near the former Philips Semiconductor property, where TCE contamination is concentrated. \u003ccite>(Beth Winegarner/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the street from Ground Zero, in the parking lot of Planet Granite, gym-goers breeze past a fenced-off cluster of machinery. The systems hum as they pump groundwater from beneath the soil, aerate the water to disperse toxic chemicals, and return the water to the aquifer. This is one of the Phillips treatment plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the early 2000s, AMD and TRW switched to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/news/1997/april23/tce.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a method pioneered at Stanford University\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in which natural bacteria break down the TCE. The bacteria are fed molasses, lactose or vegetable oil to boost their population, creating enough microbes to transform TCE into harmless components, according to Michael Calhoun, a geologist with Haley & Aldrich Inc. and a consultant for AMD.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bioremediation has been successful for TRW and AMD. Philips—which is now responsible for the remaining cleanup at the Triple Site—held off, sticking to traditional methods. It wasn’t until 2016 that Philips began testing bioremediation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokeswoman Silvie Casanova declined to comment on why Philips waited so long to try the method. It’s unclear whether it will work as well now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a contaminant released into the ground and it sits there for a while, it can diffuse into the soil, and then it’s more difficult to get back out,” Calhoun said. “Even if you clean up the groundwater, it will continue to diffuse from the soil back into the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_388757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-388757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two air monitors inside a classroom at San Miguel Elementary School in Sunnyvale. The devices monitor inside buildings for signs of TCE vapor. They must be in place for at least 24 hours to get accurate results. \u003ccite>(Beth Winegarner/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Fighting to Protect Public Health\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the 2011 study revealed \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=171&tid=30\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the risk for birth defects from TCE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the EPA worked to update its process of notifying people about contamination. Previously, the agency tested buildings in Superfund zones quarterly, and then notified occupants of the results four to five months later, said former regional director Blumenfeld. But the risk to fetuses is highest in the first trimester, meaning pregnant women needed the information much sooner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QIiBrV7DZWww9hv35669NPpPlzzmI7hs\"]Getting the agency to change was an uphill battle. Chipmakers hired lawyers to fight back. EPA headquarters in Washington D.C. told Blumenfeld to hold off because it was working on new national guidelines, but they never materialized, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blumenfeld eventually won. Under the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/3dc283e6c5d6056f88257426007417a2/6a24ed351efe25b888257d16007659e8/%24FILE/R9%20TCE%20Action%20Levels%20and%20Recs%20Memo%207_14.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">new notification requirements\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> adopted in 2014, the EPA is required to test air quality inside buildings vulnerable to TCE vapor, install mitigation measures “quickly” and retest to make sure they’re working. When exposures reach a certain level, those mitigations must happen immediately, and residents aren’t allowed back in until it’s safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Knocking on Doors\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing all that testing, though, meant getting permission from property owners. The schools within the Triple Site complied quickly, but residents were another story. EPA workers, led by Morash and Alejandro Diaz, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator for the site, began going door-to-door to ask if they could test the air inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Miguel neighborhood includes mostly small, single-family homes with grassy front yards. Sprinkled among them are several modest-sized apartment buildings. During the day, the streets are quiet; almost nobody remains outside. The neighborhood is also extremely diverse, with large concentrations of Latino, Asian and South Asian residents. Diaz said the EPA did outreach in several languages, including Vietnamese, Tagalog, Punjabi and Urdu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_410388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-410388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"This riser pipe and fan are part of a system that diverts TCE vapor from underneath a building to its roof, where it’s released into the air rather than going inside the building. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This riser pipe and fan are part of a\u003cbr>system that diverts TCE vapor from underneath a building to its roof, where it’s released into the air rather than going inside the building. \u003ccite>(EPA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to remove any barriers and make it the least scary possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since early 2015, the team has knocked on more than 500 doors—every property in the Triple Site zone—and tested every school building. About 225 households have allowed testing. The team has detected concerning levels of TCE vapor in 55 households and 37 school buildings, Morash said. Buildings at Rainbow Montessori, San Miguel Elementary and King’s Academy all tested positive for TCE vapor; mitigation systems are in place in the schools now, and their air is monitored regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 30 properties, which include some 100 households, have refused air testing, Huitric said; those who said no haven’t told the team why. The EPA keeps in touch with the property owners, ready to act if they change their minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shashi Jaggia, who has owned a 12-unit apartment building on Duane Avenue within the Triple Site zone since 1999, cooperated with the EPA when they came calling. Jaggia had no idea her tenants were being exposed to TCE until the EPA contacted her a couple of years ago. But she wasn’t surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in the real estate business,” she said. “I know there’s lots of contamination in the groundwater in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first year after installing the systems, the EPA tests the air frequently to make sure levels remain safe. If they do, the tests are less frequent in following years. That’s the protocol for all properties in the Triple Site, Huitric said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For now, cleanup, testing and mitigation at the Triple Site is expected to continue indefinitely, until the TCE levels in both groundwater and indoor air are safe. President Donald Trump’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/trump-epa-budget-noaa-climate-change/527814/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">proposed budget\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> includes a 31.4 percent cut to the EPA, including $330 million in cuts to the Superfund program. Philips is bankrolling cleanup costs at the Triple Site, but other elements of the process could be in trouble, Blumenfeld said, including enforcement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not planning for anything until we know for a fact what’s happening,” said Caleb Shaffer, section chief for Superfund’s California Cleanup Section. “We can’t predict the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>UCSF's Maria Glymour contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunnyvale’s San Miguel neighborhood, with its leafy trees and modest houses, is home to hundreds of families and four schools for young children. Underneath these quiet streets lies a shadow of Silicon Valley’s past: groundwater contaminated with a solvent once used to make computer chips, and known to cause cancer and birth defects. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That chemical, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/trichloroethylene-tce\">trichloroethylene or TCE\u003c/a>, was as crucial to chipmakers in the 1960s and 1970s as yeast is to a bakery. TCE is a powerful solvent used to clean silicon wafers before the chip design is etched onto them. And it’s responsible for nearly half the federal Superfund sites in \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_California#Santa_Clara_County\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>. These are areas the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designates as the nation’s most toxic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara has 24 Superfund sites, according to former EPA regional director Jared Blumenfeld. The neighborhood of San Miguel is located within one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When TCE is present in groundwater, it can turn to vapor, seeping through cracks in building frames and into homes and classrooms. Short-term exposure can cause slowed breathing, light-headedness and headaches; over the longer term, TCE exposure causes cancer, particularly kidney cancer and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">non-Hodgkin lymphoma\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. And in 2011, a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339451/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">study appeared to show \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that fetuses exposed to TCE in the first trimester have a higher risk of heart defects at birth. Socioeconomic differences could have influenced the results, though researchers tried to account for that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_388759\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 378px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-388759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-800x1445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-800x1445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-160x289.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-768x1387.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-1020x1842.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-960x1734.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-240x433.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-375x677.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0-520x939.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/10-Triple-Site-Map-page-0.jpg 1113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of the Triple Site area in Sunnyvale, Calif. \u003ccite>(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Years of Contamination\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A half-mile south of the San Miguel neighborhood is Lowe’s Home Improvement, built on the site where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signetics\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Signetics Inc.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—which became \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usa.philips.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philips Semiconductors\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 1975—left massive amounts of trichloroethylene in the soil and groundwater from nearly 30 years of chip manufacturing. Next to Lowe’s is a large, vacant dome of soil carpeted with dry grass.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s where we have the highest concentrations of TCE,” says EPA site manager Melanie Morash, gesturing at the mound. This is essentially Ground Zero for what the EPA calls the Triple Site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Triple Site gets its name from the three chipmakers responsible for the contamination: Philips, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amd.com/en/home\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advanced Micro Devices\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/vwsoalphabetic/TRW+Microwave,+Inc.+(Building+825)\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TRW Microwave\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In the 1960s and ‘70s, these companies stored TCE in underground tanks for later use. But the tanks and pipelines sometimes ruptured, leaking TCE into the soil and groundwater. It wasn’t until the 1980s, when the EPA launched its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Superfund program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to clean up the nation’s most toxic sites, that these properties began to get attention. By then, the TCE had spread through groundwater a mile to the north, underneath hundreds of homes and apartments and all four schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cleanup Begins\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1980s, the EPA worked with the manufacturers to clean up the toxic plume by excavating soil and treating the water. One method decontaminates the water by exposing it to ultraviolet light; the other oxygenates the water, releasing the TCE into the air, where it disperses. Although it isn’t ideal to make TCE airborne, it reduces concentrations enough that it isn’t a health risk to people, Blumenfeld said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_410384\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-410384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"EPA Triple Site site manager Melanie Morash at the dome of earth near the former Philips Semiconductor property, where TCE contamination is concentrated. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/6-melanie-dome-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EPA Triple Site site manager Melanie Morash at the dome of earth near the former Philips Semiconductor property, where TCE contamination is concentrated. \u003ccite>(Beth Winegarner/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Across the street from Ground Zero, in the parking lot of Planet Granite, gym-goers breeze past a fenced-off cluster of machinery. The systems hum as they pump groundwater from beneath the soil, aerate the water to disperse toxic chemicals, and return the water to the aquifer. This is one of the Phillips treatment plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the early 2000s, AMD and TRW switched to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/news/1997/april23/tce.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a method pioneered at Stanford University\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in which natural bacteria break down the TCE. The bacteria are fed molasses, lactose or vegetable oil to boost their population, creating enough microbes to transform TCE into harmless components, according to Michael Calhoun, a geologist with Haley & Aldrich Inc. and a consultant for AMD.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bioremediation has been successful for TRW and AMD. Philips—which is now responsible for the remaining cleanup at the Triple Site—held off, sticking to traditional methods. It wasn’t until 2016 that Philips began testing bioremediation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokeswoman Silvie Casanova declined to comment on why Philips waited so long to try the method. It’s unclear whether it will work as well now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have a contaminant released into the ground and it sits there for a while, it can diffuse into the soil, and then it’s more difficult to get back out,” Calhoun said. “Even if you clean up the groundwater, it will continue to diffuse from the soil back into the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_388757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-388757\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/9-image-tester-in-classroom.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two air monitors inside a classroom at San Miguel Elementary School in Sunnyvale. The devices monitor inside buildings for signs of TCE vapor. They must be in place for at least 24 hours to get accurate results. \u003ccite>(Beth Winegarner/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Fighting to Protect Public Health\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the 2011 study revealed \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=171&tid=30\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the risk for birth defects from TCE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the EPA worked to update its process of notifying people about contamination. Previously, the agency tested buildings in Superfund zones quarterly, and then notified occupants of the results four to five months later, said former regional director Blumenfeld. But the risk to fetuses is highest in the first trimester, meaning pregnant women needed the information much sooner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Getting the agency to change was an uphill battle. Chipmakers hired lawyers to fight back. EPA headquarters in Washington D.C. told Blumenfeld to hold off because it was working on new national guidelines, but they never materialized, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blumenfeld eventually won. Under the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/3dc283e6c5d6056f88257426007417a2/6a24ed351efe25b888257d16007659e8/%24FILE/R9%20TCE%20Action%20Levels%20and%20Recs%20Memo%207_14.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">new notification requirements\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> adopted in 2014, the EPA is required to test air quality inside buildings vulnerable to TCE vapor, install mitigation measures “quickly” and retest to make sure they’re working. When exposures reach a certain level, those mitigations must happen immediately, and residents aren’t allowed back in until it’s safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Knocking on Doors\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing all that testing, though, meant getting permission from property owners. The schools within the Triple Site complied quickly, but residents were another story. EPA workers, led by Morash and Alejandro Diaz, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator for the site, began going door-to-door to ask if they could test the air inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Miguel neighborhood includes mostly small, single-family homes with grassy front yards. Sprinkled among them are several modest-sized apartment buildings. During the day, the streets are quiet; almost nobody remains outside. The neighborhood is also extremely diverse, with large concentrations of Latino, Asian and South Asian residents. Diaz said the EPA did outreach in several languages, including Vietnamese, Tagalog, Punjabi and Urdu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_410388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-410388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"This riser pipe and fan are part of a system that diverts TCE vapor from underneath a building to its roof, where it’s released into the air rather than going inside the building. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/3-Riser-pipe-and-fan-inside-the-box-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This riser pipe and fan are part of a\u003cbr>system that diverts TCE vapor from underneath a building to its roof, where it’s released into the air rather than going inside the building. \u003ccite>(EPA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to remove any barriers and make it the least scary possible,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since early 2015, the team has knocked on more than 500 doors—every property in the Triple Site zone—and tested every school building. About 225 households have allowed testing. The team has detected concerning levels of TCE vapor in 55 households and 37 school buildings, Morash said. Buildings at Rainbow Montessori, San Miguel Elementary and King’s Academy all tested positive for TCE vapor; mitigation systems are in place in the schools now, and their air is monitored regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 30 properties, which include some 100 households, have refused air testing, Huitric said; those who said no haven’t told the team why. The EPA keeps in touch with the property owners, ready to act if they change their minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shashi Jaggia, who has owned a 12-unit apartment building on Duane Avenue within the Triple Site zone since 1999, cooperated with the EPA when they came calling. Jaggia had no idea her tenants were being exposed to TCE until the EPA contacted her a couple of years ago. But she wasn’t surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in the real estate business,” she said. “I know there’s lots of contamination in the groundwater in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first year after installing the systems, the EPA tests the air frequently to make sure levels remain safe. If they do, the tests are less frequent in following years. That’s the protocol for all properties in the Triple Site, Huitric said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For now, cleanup, testing and mitigation at the Triple Site is expected to continue indefinitely, until the TCE levels in both groundwater and indoor air are safe. President Donald Trump’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/trump-epa-budget-noaa-climate-change/527814/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">proposed budget\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> includes a 31.4 percent cut to the EPA, including $330 million in cuts to the Superfund program. Philips is bankrolling cleanup costs at the Triple Site, but other elements of the process could be in trouble, Blumenfeld said, including enforcement.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not planning for anything until we know for a fact what’s happening,” said Caleb Shaffer, section chief for Superfund’s California Cleanup Section. “We can’t predict the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With air horns blowing, music pumping and blue and yellow confetti raining down from the sky, Dub Nation celebrated the Golden State Warriors’ NBA championship at a rally and parade in Oakland on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fans came from all over the Bay Area — including Vallejo, San Jose, San Francisco, Redwood City, Novato, Union City and Oakland — to celebrate with their team and fellow fans. They chanted “Waaaaarriors” and sought out photos with many of the players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The championship is the Warriors’ second in three years. They won the Finals in a 129-120 win on Monday night over the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5, when Kevin Durant capped his spectacular first season with Golden State by scoring 39 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a heartbreaking Finals loss in 2016 to the Cavaliers, fans and the team were more than ready to celebrate. Here are some photos and videos of Thursday’s festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1551-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant takes in the sights in downtown Oakland at his first championship parade. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512500\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/steph-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry brings the NBA Championship trophy to the people during the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2274-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry (bottom left) is surround by a crowd of screaming Warriors fans during the championship parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"11512524,11512523,11512522\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/adamgrossberg/status/875465806959620096\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11512507 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A2430-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Steve Kerr poses for pictures with fans at the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11512632 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A1385-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Draymond Green hopped off his double-decker bus to high-five Warriors fans along the parade route. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/adamgrossberg/status/875426141611335680\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512631\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1459-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klay Thompson takes in the scene at the Warriors championship parade. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_frame-qut.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Ballard, Alicia Hope and Tena Carney brought homemade frames to the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/adamgrossberg/status/875426632592310272\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/adamgrossberg/status/875427066128211968\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_hands-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_hands-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_hands-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_hands-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_hands-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_hands-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_hands-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_hands-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_hands-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beth Marinas, Jeannel Tan and TinkerBhey Castillejos said they’re never washing the hands @Money23Green touched at the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/IMG_1487-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and MC Hammer rode a fire-breathing iron snail vehicle for the second time in three years. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qutl_Levi_SJ-qut.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Collins, Mekuanent Alemu, Cindy Lopez and Krisha Patel made the trek from San Jose to be a part of the unity of the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/tribune-confetti-800x533.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/tribune-confetti-800x533.gif 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/tribune-confetti-160x107.gif 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/tribune-confetti-1020x680.gif 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/tribune-confetti-1180x787.gif 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/tribune-confetti-960x640.gif 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/tribune-confetti-240x160.gif 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/tribune-confetti-375x250.gif 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/tribune-confetti-520x347.gif 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Confetti falls in front of the Oakland Tribune building during the Warriors championship parade. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Levi_see.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Mendoza has trouble seeing, so her son Rodolfo describes Warriors games to her. @KDTrey5 and his mom are inspirations to them. Seen here at the Warriors parade on Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/adamgrossberg/status/875384749912543233\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ryan_levi/status/875383084559982594\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ryan_levi/status/875376188075593728\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Vallejo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vallejo is representing at the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. Raul Valderrama and Jeremy Vitug made the trek with a couple of familiar faces. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512143\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut_Levi_RedwoodCity.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irma Contreras is taking her daughter, Monica, to their first Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. The whole family in Redwood City are huge fans. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512145\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-bucketlady-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-bucketlady-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-bucketlady-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-bucketlady-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-bucketlady-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-bucketlady-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-bucketlady-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-bucketlady-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-bucketlady-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Life is short and so am I.” – Bucket Lady trying to give smaller fans a boost at the Warriors parade in Oakland, June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_BART-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_BART-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_EB.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Bay native Jill Jenkins is literally decked out head to toe in Warriors gear for the Warriors parade in Oakland, June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Family-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Family-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Family-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Family-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Family-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Family-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Family-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Family-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Family.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It’s a family affair at the Warriors parade. These folks have been at the parade route since 6 a.m. in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11512149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512149\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/qut-Levi_Sick-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Galeana just moved to the Bay from North Carolina. Nekea Mozeke is a native. They called in sick to attend the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:35 a.m. Thursday, June 15:\u003c/strong> San Francisco police have identified the victims and gunman in Wednesday's attack at the UPS shipping facility at 16th Street and San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who died, all UPS drivers, were:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wayne Chan, 56, San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michael Lefiti, 46, of Hercules. In a profile, the San Francisco Chronicle says family and friends remember Lefiti as a man who \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UPS-shooting-victim-Mike-Lefiti-was-always-11220588.php\">was always there\u003c/a>\" for others.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Benson Louie, 50, San Francisco. The Chronicle profiles Louie as a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UPS-shooting-victim-Benson-Louie-was-beloved-11222400.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beloved volleyball coach\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Police identified the attacker, also a UPS driver, as Jimmy Lam, 38, of San Francisco. Lam \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/shooting-san-francisco-ups-center-police-48036518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly\u003c/a> filed a recent grievance citing excessive overtime. A union official familiar with Lam said, \"I never knew Jimmy to not get along with people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (last updated 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, June 14):\u003c/strong> A UPS employee shot and killed three co-workers at the company's main shipping facility in San Francisco Wednesday morning before turning his gun on himself and taking his own life. Two others, also UPS workers, were wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a late-morning media briefing, San Francisco Police Department Assistant Chief Toney Chaplin said officers sped to the scene after receiving reports of gunfire at 8:55 a.m. at the UPS building -- which covers the block between 16th and 17th streets and Utah Street and San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin said one police response team encountered the gunman, whom he said was armed with an assault pistol. When officers confronted the attacker, Chaplin said, he shot himself in the head. The man died after being taken to San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPS spokesman Steve Gaut told The Associated Press the gunman was an employee who opened fire before drivers were sent out to do their normal daily deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they had not determined a motive for the attack, but that it was not considered a terrorist incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions of the two surviving victims, who were also UPS employees, was not immediately known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0607-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UPS workers cross 16th Street shortly after a shooting at the companies' facility at 17th and Utah Street. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officer Tracy Green of SFPD's Bayview Station told KQED just after the incident unfolded that an active shooter was \"down\" at the scene and that officers were sweeping the UPS shipping facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green said the shooter was found with a self-inflicted wound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of police officers, including members of the SFPD's SWAT team armed with semi-automatic rifles, swarmed the area just before 9 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UPS employee who asked that her name be withheld told KQED's John Sepulvado that she was in a break room when the shooting started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard 'boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,' and I’m thinking, 'OK, it’s either boxes falling or gunshots,' \" she said. \"And then I heard another boom, and then I hear someone screaming, 'Everybody run, everybody run.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPS driver Marvin Calderon said he was at his truck when he heard a series of shots. He told reporters he didn't see the shooting because his vehicle was between the shooter and him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just started screaming, 'Get out! Get out! There's gunfire, gunshots. Go! Go!'\" Calderon said. \"And then everyone started running. It was too quick. Less than 30 seconds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon estimated he heard seven shots in an initial round of firing and that the gunman fired another five or six shots near the corner of 17th Street and San Bruno Avenue. In the hours immediately after the shooting, two bodies lay under yellow tarps at that corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Kim, who runs an auto repair shop in the neighborhood, told the AP he heard at least five gunshots and saw UPS drivers running down the street screaming \"shooter, shooter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Cook, who described himself as a UPS human resources manager, told KQED he was interviewing people in a conference room when he heard five gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that as the shots came closer, he moved people into nearby offices to \"hunker down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he heard another series of five shots before the area fell silent and he escaped from the building with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressroom.ups.com/pressroom/ContentDetailsViewer.page?ConceptType=PressReleases&id=1497461182413-836\">a statement\u003c/a>, UPS said: \"The company is saddened and deeply concerned about affected employees, family members and the community we share. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those touched by this incident. To assist our employees during this time, UPS has made professional counseling available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-1920x1329.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-960x664.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/GettyImages-696000642-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UPS workers leaving the company shipping facility where a fellow employee opened fire early Wednesday. Four people, including the gunman, were killed and two others wounded. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Dianne Feinstein also issued a statement late Wednesday morning, one that recalled San Francisco's worst mass shooting -- 1993's 1\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/101-California-shooting-shocked-S-F-1993-4097305.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">01 California Street attack\u003c/a>, in which nine people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was heartbroken to learn that yet another senseless act of gun violence has marred our wonderful city,\" Feinstein said. \"My heart goes out to the victims and their families, and to everyone affected by this despicable act. I can’t help but recall the 101 California Street shooting in 1993, when eight people lost their lives. Violence is never the answer, but the continuing scourge of gun violence is particularly disheartening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/egB1ceOgBHY\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0568-e1497469236381.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/0M6A0568-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD officers and emergency responders outside of the UPS facility at 17th and Utah streets shortly after a shooting at the facility on Wednesday morning. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated. KQED's Holly Kernan, Ted Goldberg, Ryan Levi, John Sepulvado, Miranda Leitsinger and Adam Grossberg contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET on June 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump dismissed a potential obstruction of justice investigation into his conduct, calling allegations of collusion between him, his campaign or people associated with him and Russia a “phony story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/875305788708974592\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, it’s possible to obstruct justice without colluding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump was responding to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-is-investigating-trump-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice/2017/06/14/9ce02506-5131-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.db67d5d0b0b9\">Washington Post\u003c/a> report that special counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the Department of Justice Russia investigation, is looking into whether Trump attempted to obstruct justice. An hour later, Trump was back at it, calling the investigation the “single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history.” (People who followed McCarthyism closely might disagree.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/875321478849363968\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president also appeared to undermine Mueller’s leadership, saying the “witch hunt” was being “led by some very bad and conflicted people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been an effort on the right to try to undermine Mueller to de-legitimize his potential findings …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/875314161345077248\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/875314527583260672\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… even though some of the same people just a month earlier had been praising the former FBI director for his esteem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/864998445244743684\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of Mueller looking into potential obstruction comes after former FBI Director James Comey testified last week. He said he didn’t know if Trump obstructed justice, but said it was for Mueller to decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey testified that he told the president he was not personally under investigation three times and confirmed that Trump was not under investigation at the time of his firing on May 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, “Officials say that changed shortly after Comey’s firing,” the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It stands to reason that the circumstances surrounding Comey’s firing would now be at the center of Mueller’s query. That’s particularly the case since other high-ranking administration officials have declined under oath in open testimony to provide more details about whether Trump asked them in any way to influence Comey or the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers and Rogers’ former deputy, Richard Ledgett, agreed to be interviewed as part of Mueller’s investigation, according to five people “briefed on the requests” who were “not authorized to discuss the matter publicly,” the paper reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, Mueller spokesman Peter Carr told NPR’s Carrie Johnson, “We’ll decline to comment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines told NPR’s Phil Ewing, “NSA will fully cooperate with the special counsel. We are not in a position to comment further.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Trump’s personal lawyer in the Russia matter, Marc Kasowitz, said, “The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”dZ5hkz8sRYhFsYhCEFfq4GQ2Wu3es6K6″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey’s firing is a “central moment that’s being looked at” in the investigation, \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> reporter Devlin Barrett told NPR’s Ari Shapiro on \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, “but it’s not the only thing.” Investigators are also considering the conversations Comey and the president had leading up to that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony on June 8, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he believed Trump had fired him over his role as lead of the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election and Trump campaign associates’ possible ties to Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has been inconsistent with its public messaging about the dismissal — initially saying Trump took the recommendations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about Comey’s management of the FBI and his handling of the Clinton email investigation. But then the president himself said he had made up his mind prior to receiving the recommendations from the two top lawyers at the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey testified that initial explanations that he was fired because of poor leadership were “lies, plain and simple.” He also said Trump had privately urged him to pull back on the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/18/528989289/president-trump-holds-press-conference-with-colombias-president-before-overseas\">a claim that the president has denied\u003c/a>. Comey said he declined to tell agents working on the case about his conversation with Trump to shield them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/22/529586885/report-trump-asked-intel-heads-to-push-back-on-fbi-russia-probe\">The Washington Post previously reported\u003c/a> that Trump also asked Rogers and Coats to push back against the FBI’s investigation. The intelligence chiefs \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/07/531851337/intelligence-chiefs-wont-discuss-private-conversations-with-trump-in-open-hearin\">declined to discuss\u003c/a> their private conversations with Trump during a Senate panel hearing on June 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether Trump’s actions rose to the level of obstruction of justice, Comey testified last week: “I don’t know. That’s Bob Mueller’s job to sort that out.” But Comey \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/10/532321287/is-trump-guilty-of-obstruction-of-justice-comey-laid-out-the-case\">did lay out facts that a prosecutor could use \u003c/a>to try to prove obstruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his supporters cast Comey’s testimony that he had told the president he was not personally under investigation as vindication. Trump disputed, though, Comey’s assertion he had asked for a pledge of loyalty. After Comey’s much-watched Senate testimony, the president said in a press conference that he would testify \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/09/532273772/trump-says-he-is-100-percent-willing-to-testify-about-interactions-with-comey\">under oath\u003c/a> regarding his interactions and conversations with the former FBI director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, frankly, our story shows that the president is by no means out of the woods as far as the investigation goes,” the \u003cem>Post’s\u003c/em> Barrett told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatter surfaced earlier this week that the president was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532763717/trump-considering-firing-special-counsel-just-another-example-of-stirring-the-po\">considering firing Mueller\u003c/a>. After a day of speculation, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “While the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/us/politics/robert-mueller-special-counsel-trump.html\">The New York Times reported\u003c/a> that Trump had been waved off the idea by advisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528846598/former-fbi-director-mueller-appointed-special-counsel-to-oversee-russia-probe\">who appointed Mueller\u003c/a> on May 17, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532756387/rosenstein-says-he-wouldnt-fire-special-counsel-without-good-cause\">testified on Tuesday\u003c/a> that he would not fire the special counsel without “good cause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is not the only one under scrutiny, Barrett said: Investigators are also looking into the finances of Trump associates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes what happens, frankly, in counterintelligence investigations is you start looking at sort of a core intelligence question — What did the Russians do and did they do it with any Americans? — and it grows into: What did any of those Americans do in their financial matters that may also raise alarms with the FBI?” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller’s investigative team has expanded in recent weeks. \u003cem>The National Law Journal\u003c/em> reported on June 9 that Mueller has brought Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben onto the team on a part-time basis. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202789177543/Mueller-Enlists-Top-Criminal-Law-Expert-for-Russia-Probe?et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20170609&src=EMC-Email&pt=Daily%20Headlines&slreturn=20170509104942\">Reporter Tony Mauro noted\u003c/a> the addition of Dreeben may signal that “Mueller may be seeking advice on complex areas of criminal law, including what constitutes obstruction of justice.” At the end of May, the chief of the Justice Department’s Fraud Section, Andrew Weissman, also joined the team, NPR’s Carrie Johnson reported at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department policy is that a sitting president cannot be indicted by a grand jury, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/special-counsel-is-investigating-trump-for-possible-obstruction-of-justice/2017/06/14/9ce02506-5131-11e7-b064-828ba60fbb98_story.html?utm_term=.6069366b7243\">the Post also reported Wednesday\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>… even though some of the same people just a month earlier had been praising the former FBI director for his esteem:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>News of Mueller looking into potential obstruction comes after former FBI Director James Comey testified last week. He said he didn’t know if Trump obstructed justice, but said it was for Mueller to decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey testified that he told the president he was not personally under investigation three times and confirmed that Trump was not under investigation at the time of his firing on May 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, “Officials say that changed shortly after Comey’s firing,” the \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It stands to reason that the circumstances surrounding Comey’s firing would now be at the center of Mueller’s query. That’s particularly the case since other high-ranking administration officials have declined under oath in open testimony to provide more details about whether Trump asked them in any way to influence Comey or the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers and Rogers’ former deputy, Richard Ledgett, agreed to be interviewed as part of Mueller’s investigation, according to five people “briefed on the requests” who were “not authorized to discuss the matter publicly,” the paper reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, Mueller spokesman Peter Carr told NPR’s Carrie Johnson, “We’ll decline to comment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines told NPR’s Phil Ewing, “NSA will fully cooperate with the special counsel. We are not in a position to comment further.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Trump’s personal lawyer in the Russia matter, Marc Kasowitz, said, “The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey’s firing is a “central moment that’s being looked at” in the investigation, \u003cem>Post\u003c/em> reporter Devlin Barrett told NPR’s Ari Shapiro on \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, “but it’s not the only thing.” Investigators are also considering the conversations Comey and the president had leading up to that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his testimony on June 8, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he believed Trump had fired him over his role as lead of the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election and Trump campaign associates’ possible ties to Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has been inconsistent with its public messaging about the dismissal — initially saying Trump took the recommendations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about Comey’s management of the FBI and his handling of the Clinton email investigation. But then the president himself said he had made up his mind prior to receiving the recommendations from the two top lawyers at the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey testified that initial explanations that he was fired because of poor leadership were “lies, plain and simple.” He also said Trump had privately urged him to pull back on the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/18/528989289/president-trump-holds-press-conference-with-colombias-president-before-overseas\">a claim that the president has denied\u003c/a>. Comey said he declined to tell agents working on the case about his conversation with Trump to shield them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/22/529586885/report-trump-asked-intel-heads-to-push-back-on-fbi-russia-probe\">The Washington Post previously reported\u003c/a> that Trump also asked Rogers and Coats to push back against the FBI’s investigation. The intelligence chiefs \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/07/531851337/intelligence-chiefs-wont-discuss-private-conversations-with-trump-in-open-hearin\">declined to discuss\u003c/a> their private conversations with Trump during a Senate panel hearing on June 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether Trump’s actions rose to the level of obstruction of justice, Comey testified last week: “I don’t know. That’s Bob Mueller’s job to sort that out.” But Comey \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/10/532321287/is-trump-guilty-of-obstruction-of-justice-comey-laid-out-the-case\">did lay out facts that a prosecutor could use \u003c/a>to try to prove obstruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his supporters cast Comey’s testimony that he had told the president he was not personally under investigation as vindication. Trump disputed, though, Comey’s assertion he had asked for a pledge of loyalty. After Comey’s much-watched Senate testimony, the president said in a press conference that he would testify \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/09/532273772/trump-says-he-is-100-percent-willing-to-testify-about-interactions-with-comey\">under oath\u003c/a> regarding his interactions and conversations with the former FBI director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, frankly, our story shows that the president is by no means out of the woods as far as the investigation goes,” the \u003cem>Post’s\u003c/em> Barrett told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatter surfaced earlier this week that the president was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532763717/trump-considering-firing-special-counsel-just-another-example-of-stirring-the-po\">considering firing Mueller\u003c/a>. After a day of speculation, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “While the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/us/politics/robert-mueller-special-counsel-trump.html\">The New York Times reported\u003c/a> that Trump had been waved off the idea by advisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528846598/former-fbi-director-mueller-appointed-special-counsel-to-oversee-russia-probe\">who appointed Mueller\u003c/a> on May 17, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/532756387/rosenstein-says-he-wouldnt-fire-special-counsel-without-good-cause\">testified on Tuesday\u003c/a> that he would not fire the special counsel without “good cause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is not the only one under scrutiny, Barrett said: Investigators are also looking into the finances of Trump associates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes what happens, frankly, in counterintelligence investigations is you start looking at sort of a core intelligence question — What did the Russians do and did they do it with any Americans? — and it grows into: What did any of those Americans do in their financial matters that may also raise alarms with the FBI?” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mueller’s investigative team has expanded in recent weeks. \u003cem>The National Law Journal\u003c/em> reported on June 9 that Mueller has brought Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben onto the team on a part-time basis. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202789177543/Mueller-Enlists-Top-Criminal-Law-Expert-for-Russia-Probe?et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20170609&src=EMC-Email&pt=Daily%20Headlines&slreturn=20170509104942\">Reporter Tony Mauro noted\u003c/a> the addition of Dreeben may signal that “Mueller may be seeking advice on complex areas of criminal law, including what constitutes obstruction of justice.” At the end of May, the chief of the Justice Department’s Fraud Section, Andrew Weissman, also joined the team, NPR’s Carrie Johnson reported at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>You probably never want to hear you've been fired. If you've heard those words, you know they feel like a punch in the gut. Now, imagine that instead of your boss telling you face to face, you get the news from a pop-up alert on your smartphone. That's how it works at Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Huestis didn't realize that, until it happened to him. At first, there was nothing unusual about that day in April. He took his Chrysler 300 to a Burlington, Vermont, car wash. He bought the used car specifically to drive for Uber. After the car wash, he slid into the front seat and tried to open his Uber app. Nothing. He'd been \"deactivated,\" as Uber calls it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber has created one of the fastest-growing workforces in American history. And to recruit drivers, company leaders are fond of saying you can \"Be Your Own Boss.\" But through dozens of interviews and an informal survey, NPR found that hundreds of drivers feel the company is not living up to that promise. They say the San Francisco-based startup sets strict rules and punishments, just as other bosses do, but it's eerily distant. Even in dire situations — like when you've been axed — it's impossible to reach a human in charge. This facelessness is decidedly unlike other workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with NPR, Uber officials acknowledge that the company has to improve its communication with drivers and that in the initial years of growth, it was not a top priority. Now, they say, that's going to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/531642304/532100148\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huestis found himself locked out, he wasn't sure if it was just a software glitch. He recalls the app alert told him to \"please contact customer support.\" It's counterintuitive, but again in Uber-speak, the driver is the \"customer.\" Drivers rely on the company's service — the now iconic black app — to match them with riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis hit the button on the Uber app, which directed him to a form (not a person). Moments after hitting \"submit,\" he got a message from a company Uber uses to do criminal background checks. Checkr, another Silicon Valley startup, told him he had a marijuana record that needed to be reviewed before he could drive again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing threw Huestis off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 42-year-old, who lives with his girlfriend and her child, indeed \u003cem>had\u003c/em> a record for three marijuana possessions — spanning from 1993 to 2010. He says when he started driving for Uber in early 2016, he passed the background check. The only thing that has changed since is that on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2017, Huestis \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/821533/shumlin_pardons.pdf\">was pardoned\u003c/a> by the governor of Vermont, clearing his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't a DWI. It wasn't a felony. It wasn't a rape charge. It wasn't a kidnapping,\" Huestis says. \"It was nothing violent or anything that would stop me from being a Uber driver. So I was like, 'Why is this happening?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11508376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-800x800.jpe\" alt=\"Eric Huestis was blocked from driving for Uber in Burlington, Vt., after he received a governor's pardon for past marijuana possession convictions. Uber later restored Huestis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-160x160.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-240x240.jpe 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-375x375.jpe 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-520x520.jpe 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-32x32.jpe 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-50x50.jpe 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-64x64.jpe 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-96x96.jpe 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-128x128.jpe 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-150x150.jpe 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Huestis was blocked from driving for Uber in Burlington, Vermont, after he received a governor's pardon for past marijuana possession convictions. Uber later restored Huestis. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eric Huestis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huestis felt like he was invested in Uber — he even runs a Facebook page for local Uber drivers to bond — but the company isn't invested in him. Uber is among the largest private companies on earth and is currently valued at about $70 billion. But it didn't even have a number for him to call. Uber doesn't offer that kind of customer support. Huestis did manage to contact state officials, he says, but they didn't have a way to call Uber either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Huestis found himself trapped in a maze of online forms and generic emails. At first, the notifications told him it would take 15 days to review his case; then, 30 days. If that doesn't sound like a big deal, he puts it in perspective: \"What if you got booted off your cellphone provider? That [would] change everything. I mean, I got booted off my income provider, for no reason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of this Uber driver may be a window into the future of work. For years, workers have enjoyed the way technology creates distance from the boss. You can join meetings from home, or from Hawaii. But with Uber, we are coming to a strange inflection point. The company has designed an app that is so efficient, cheap and scalable that it manages 600,000 drivers in the U.S. Yet there's an underside to distance. It can create a system that lacks the most basic sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR conducted \u003ca href=\"#methodology\">an informal survey\u003c/a> of Uber drivers, using email lists and social media. It's not a scientific poll. Respondents are self-selected, and possibly more negative toward Uber than the average driver. Still, it's a window into how hundreds of drivers feel; and an Uber spokesman says many of NPR's survey results track the company's own findings about its driver workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis' experience is clearly not unique. Of the respondents, 193 said they were able to speak with a person at Uber to get the help they needed. But 688 said they were not — no human was available. In phone interviews with NPR, drivers shared examples of how they couldn't reach Uber after an accident on the job (one man contacted Uber's insurance company, which then became the conduit to Uber), or after being kicked off the platform (drivers typically don't get a hearing).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/532120218/532120219\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis lives week to week. After his deactivation, he managed to make a bit of money by picking up scrap metal from nearby farms and recycling it. Only he can't do that work alone. He needs a friend to help because he's an amputee. He lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis contacted NPR the same day he was axed and, over the weeks, we followed his ups and downs. On May 1 he texted, \"i'm in tears today, rents due, no income from uber in over 20 days.\" He spent day and night checking his Uber app, waiting to learn the fate of his career the way some people check Facebook to see if a selfie got liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber says the proper appeals procedures were followed with the third-party background check company in Huestis' case. After nearly a month, he was allowed to drive for Uber again. He says he would like to sue Uber for about $3,000 in lost wages. That's a lot of money for him, but not enough for a lawyer to bother with his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Be Your Own Boss' or 'Do What I Say'?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Uber's tagline — \"Be Your Own Boss\" — is an invitation as empowering as Nike's \"Just Do it\" and Apple's \"Think Different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Uber's case, though, it's more than just savvy marketing. Being one's own boss is the legal argument that underlies Uber's entire business. The company says drivers are independent contractors — not employees entitled to expensive benefits. An Uber-commissioned \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uber-static/comms/PDF/Uber_Driver-Partners_Hall_Kreuger_2015.pdf\">study says\u003c/a> 87 percent of drivers joined because that's what they want: to be their own boss and set their own schedule. Uber lawyers cite that statistic in court as evidence when drivers sue the company for employee benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber leaders have not publicly asked an obvious follow-up question: At Uber, do you feel like your own boss? So NPR asked drivers, in the informal survey. A little more than half of respondents — 491 total — said they did; and, perhaps unexpectedly, nearly half — 436 — said they did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't feel like your own boss at all,\" says driver David McKee from Vista, California. \"The only thing you control is the time when you sign on and sign off. Other than that, Uber controls everything. It's 'Be Your Own Boss' and 'do what I say.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9aG9dyMgkpsf2wBJ47tLcYLs9BmJY9xx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few workers can drop their kids off at school every morning and then run errands as needed before clocking in. The power to set one's own hours is rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While McKee and other Uber drivers appreciate that flexibility, they say it is important to not overestimate it. A total of 779 survey respondents — more than 80 percent — say that to make enough money as an Uber driver, they have to work peak hours, like morning rush or weekend nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unparalleled freedom, which is hardly surprising. After all, Uber is a transportation service that relies on customer demand, not a coding job where you can flip open your laptop and work anytime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But drivers go a step further and say they are not just subject to market forces. At Uber, they are also bound by the company's determination to protect the brand by tightly controlling driver performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber uses the sensors in drivers' own smartphones to monitor their turns and lane changes and rolling stops. Of the survey respondents, 116 (more than 10 percent), say they didn't realize Uber was doing that (they may have missed that line in the very long contract) and 433 (nearly half) would like Uber to stop it. Uber's competitor. Lyft, does not do such tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKee says it is the job of the government to license you, penalize you and take away your license if warranted. He says Uber is making a power grab and \"becoming the police.\" He and other drivers also don't trust the company's intentions with their private data. Many Uber drivers work for more than one ride-hailing service, and they fear the tracking is a way for Uber to collect intelligence on smaller competitors like Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber says smartphone tracking is good for safety and protects drivers against unfair complaints from passengers. If you want to drive, opting out is not an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"dQ5lL0oOaXahUFQ949zsUdQXDUtUIcTA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers also don't have a choice when it comes to UberPool — the service where you can share a car with others. Drivers say they feel Uber is coercing them into offering it. They say while passengers get to pay much less, drivers also make much less — it is a money loser. In the NPR survey, 7 out of every 10 respondents who offer UberPool say they do not like it and wish they didn't have to provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they do. Uber has bundled its products, so if you want to drive for Uber's standard service (UberX), you have to offer Pool, too. For many, that doesn't feel very being-your-own-boss-like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dynamic pricing: Keep 'em guessing, and driving\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The way pricing works at Uber also subjects drivers to a kind of control that's novel. While people who are independent contractors typically set their own price for services, at Uber the company sets the price. And it's dynamic, able to change second by second according to a calculation that is secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While economists marvel at dynamic pricing — it's a superpower that the smartphone and algorithms make possible — drivers scratch their heads. It leaves Uber all-knowing, and drivers clueless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other jobs, they're not sure what they'll make per hour, and so they can end up on the road far longer than expected. Seventy-nine drivers tell NPR they have driven shifts 14 hours or longer. That means being in the car, Uber app on, either driving a passenger or waiting for work. Three people showed NPR documentation for driving 20 hours in a single day. Uber does not limit how many hours a driver can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is clearly a public safety hazard. But at Uber, drivers talk about it as though it is normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510928\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Reninger sits in his car in Muncie. He drives for Uber part time, typically on weekend nights, so he is more likely to pick up surge prices, which earn him more money. He also drives for Lyft, an Uber competitor. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kyle Reninger is an Uber driver from Muncie, Indiana. The 32-year-old works weekend nights because, he says, that's when he is most likely to pick up surge fares — the higher prices (two, three, five times the regular rate) that passengers hate to pay and that drivers live by. They are the nuggets of the Uber gold rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of several weeks, he kept an audio diary for NPR, sending WhatsApp messages and screenshots between rides. His voice memos become a way to peer into his modern workplace and observe how the nights stretch out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reninger says he feels like his own boss: He chooses when to turn the Uber app on and off. And it's a side gig. He and his wife run a vegan bakery. As that business gets off the ground, Uber is a way to make quick money and also advertise to his passengers. He keeps vegan cookies in the car. (An Uber spokesman says it's OK for drivers to advertise another business in their own cars, so long as it is not an Uber competitor.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Reninger and his wife, Amanda, prepare baked goods for their vegan bakery business. 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(Right) Reninger stocks homemade cookies in his car and gives them out while he is driving for Uber. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One Friday, Reninger sets out to make $200, not counting the cost of gas. He is on Uber and competitor Lyft, though the vast majority of his business comes from Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business is slower than he would like. It takes him 98 minutes on the road to get his first payment of $14.14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount is less than he expected. The Uber app estimated he should bring in $7 more. He says he is used to Uber playing this game — suggesting one fare, then paying another. He sends a message in the app basically saying: I got underpaid; fix that. Then, he keeps waiting for his next passenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the hard part, the in between,\" he says in his voice memo. \"Not really sure, you know, if I should drive around, hope to get another ping. Or if I should head back north.\" He had driven down to Indianapolis, a little more than an hour from home, hoping for a busier night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between the waiting, the passengers he does get make him laugh, think or sometimes cringe. One man is a globe-trotter who talks about his forays in Europe. Another sneaks an open beer can into the car, even though it's against the law and Reninger asked him not to. \"That was kind of a jerk move,\" the driver says. By 1:42 a.m., nearly nine hours into his shift, he is only about halfway to his $200 goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour later, he gets another passenger who says over and over, \"I'm so drunk; I'm so drunk, man.\" The passenger wants to go to IHOP, which is typical. A bit less typical, Reninger says in another voice memo, is that the drunk man got out of the car, \"zipped down his pants and started to urinate, right in front of IHOP. Then walked in, like nothing happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Cars drive through Muncie at dusk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510931\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive through Muncie at dusk. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By 6:11 a.m., you can start to hear Reninger's voice fading. And there is something he doesn't admit in his voice memos while he is on the road: He is having a hard time staying awake. He sips water and rolls down his window to help him. He waits until he gets home to mention this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the Uber driver was in his car 14 hours, 9 minutes, and covered 401.2 miles. He got only one small surge fare. If you put aside the cost of gas, he made $165.30. Including tips, he nearly hit his goal. It just took a couple of more hours than he had hoped (and it was by no means his longest shift).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it goes. Each night for the Uber driver is a gamble. The hours go by — just like in a casino. Only here, you could get tired and kill someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a problem that Uber could solve. It designed the app to lock out drivers if they don't accept a certain number of passengers (kind of like being put in the digital corner). It could design a safety feature to lock out drivers after a certain number of hours. (Lyft does that.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber lacks the will to do so. A company spokesman says in an email, \"Uber is a flexible work opportunity, so people can drive whenever they want.\" Also, according to Uber data, more than half of U.S. drivers use the app less than 10 hours a week. (Uber declined to disclose data on how long full-time drivers have the app on.) And finally, the spokesman says, Uber is testing out a new app alert in some cities, to remind drivers about the importance of getting enough rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Uber's awakening\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hype around Uber is that the company doesn't need drivers because it is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/03/522099560/pittsburgh-offers-driving-lessons-for-ubers-autonomous-cars\">developing self-driving cars\u003c/a>; and the biggest workplace crisis is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/06/531806891/uber-fires-20-employees-after-sexual-harassment-claim-investigation\">sexual harassment\u003c/a> — the way women in the corporate office are treated. But according to current and former employees as well as investors, Uber feels far more threatened by its broken relationship with drivers. This is the existential threat to the business, because self-driving fleets won't be ready anytime soon. Uber needs the human workforce now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Uber hired Janelle Sallenave to improve the way it responds to drivers' and riders' needs, disputes and accidents. \"How could my job not exist? How could there not be somebody whose job it would be to oversee the support of our drivers?\" she says in a phone interview with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sallenave says Uber, which began service in 2010, has grown so fast, it just didn't have the time to \"marinate\" — like older companies — on some of the basics. The focus has been on launching in more cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, she says, drivers are a top priority and Uber will be announcing changes. \"I think in the coming months some of the improvements we are making directly address feedback that our drivers have been giving us for the last year plus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sallenave acknowledges that getting an Uber representative on the phone six months ago was a feat that, she says, \"frankly I don't know I would be able to do.\" She says Uber has a lot of work to do to improve communication with drivers, and the company is doing that. It's staffing more than 200 physical drop-in centers (called \"green light hubs\") and introducing new dedicated phone lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers' complaints about poor communication are no surprise to Sallenave. She says Uber needs to revamp the way it \"deactivates\" drivers and that the company faces \"some serious work\" in how it handles those situations. Sallenave says Uber is undertaking significant policy changes, though she declined to provide details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also maintains that drivers are their own boss; that Uber is a digital platform (like eBay), not an employer; and that drivers are a lot like her own husband, who recently started a consultancy business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't get benefits. He doesn't exactly know what he's going to make. I mean, that to me is all of the risks, but also the potential reward, of being an individual small-business owner,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A case study in disruption\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A former federal regulator strongly disagrees with the Uber official's position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I can't just declare a pigeon a duck because I think it should be a duck,\" says David Weil. He was head of the Department of Labor's wage-and-hour division under President Barack Obama. It was Weil's job to investigate companies that misclassify workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510933\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the driver's view of the Uber app measures brakes and accelerations while Reninger drives.\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11510933\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85-160x284.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85-240x427.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/kyle-driver-app_custom-d35e2f6f448a4b993aa78c730e096ea2bb48a190-s400-c85-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the driver's view of the Uber app measures brakes and accelerations while Reninger drives. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kyle Reninger)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Weil visited Silicon Valley. He came with then-Labor Secretary Tom Perez (who is now head of the Democratic National Committee). And something struck Weil: While people in tech talked like they were all disruptors in the same boat, they weren't. At a startup like TaskRabbit, for example, the people providing a service set their own price and define what work they'll do. The company doesn't control those things. But at Uber, the company sets the price and designs the services (like Uber Black, X and Pool), \u003cem>and \u003c/em>those services are core to the brand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it looks a lot like an employment relationship. It looks like a very sophisticated, branded product provider,\" Weil says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weil's opinion, which is not based on inside knowledge, strikes at the heart of a number of legal battles and court cases in which workers are suing Uber, saying they are employees entitled to benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Weil didn't publicly express his opinion about Uber as a regulator; and he didn't put resources into investigations or outreach to Uber drivers. He says that is because although these drivers were a rapidly growing workforce, they were still a tiny sector, compared with janitors or nurses aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the head of the agency, I every day dealt with this reality. We were responsible for 130 million workers in 7.3 million workplaces,\" he says. \"When you face those kinds of numbers you have to think every day very strategically about, where will you put your very limited resources?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this respect, Uber becomes a fascinating case study in how disruption works. While the tech startup pursued aggressive growth — move fast, think later — public officials describe their collective response as cautious. \"You don't want to be seen as stopping progress,\" another former federal labor official told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"methodology\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the survey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR conducted an informal survey of Uber drivers from May 20-21, 2017, based on questions developed in consultation with a nationally recognized survey company. NPR distributed survey invitations to Uber drivers through an email list and through popular and active general online forums. We avoided recruiting from any forum focused on complaints or negative topics to avoid unduly biasing the responses. The survey respondents are not a scientific sample and not representative of all Uber drivers nationwide. They are self-selected and therefore represent the views of drivers who chose to participate. For example, drivers may be more likely to respond if they are more comfortable filling out an online survey or if they have more negative feelings toward the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To verify that survey takers were indeed Uber drivers, NPR included questions in the survey that require intimate knowledge of how the company pays drivers. Of the 1,158 respondents, NPR determined 943 responses valid. This is just a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who drive for Uber. Not all respondents replied to every question. Percentages may not total 100 because of rounding. NPR asked about length of service, to ensure a diversity of driver experiences with Uber. NPR solicited contact information of drivers surveyed and called dozens of drivers for follow-up interviews. The drivers were almost all still active; a handful had stopped driving in the last three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR Business Desk intern Mollie Simon, Senior Research Director Lori Kaplan and News Apps Developer Brittany Mayes contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Faceless+Boss%3A+A+Look+Into+The+Uber+Driver+Workplace&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huestis found himself locked out, he wasn't sure if it was just a software glitch. He recalls the app alert told him to \"please contact customer support.\" It's counterintuitive, but again in Uber-speak, the driver is the \"customer.\" Drivers rely on the company's service — the now iconic black app — to match them with riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis hit the button on the Uber app, which directed him to a form (not a person). Moments after hitting \"submit,\" he got a message from a company Uber uses to do criminal background checks. Checkr, another Silicon Valley startup, told him he had a marijuana record that needed to be reviewed before he could drive again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing threw Huestis off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 42-year-old, who lives with his girlfriend and her child, indeed \u003cem>had\u003c/em> a record for three marijuana possessions — spanning from 1993 to 2010. He says when he started driving for Uber in early 2016, he passed the background check. The only thing that has changed since is that on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2017, Huestis \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.state.vt.us/media/821533/shumlin_pardons.pdf\">was pardoned\u003c/a> by the governor of Vermont, clearing his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't a DWI. It wasn't a felony. It wasn't a rape charge. It wasn't a kidnapping,\" Huestis says. \"It was nothing violent or anything that would stop me from being a Uber driver. So I was like, 'Why is this happening?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11508376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-800x800.jpe\" alt=\"Eric Huestis was blocked from driving for Uber in Burlington, Vt., after he received a governor's pardon for past marijuana possession convictions. Uber later restored Huestis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-160x160.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-240x240.jpe 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-375x375.jpe 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-520x520.jpe 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-32x32.jpe 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-50x50.jpe 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-64x64.jpe 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-96x96.jpe 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-128x128.jpe 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/eric_custom-98cf0648b2c68232d42fa5956e58d1577c07b7c2-150x150.jpe 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Huestis was blocked from driving for Uber in Burlington, Vermont, after he received a governor's pardon for past marijuana possession convictions. Uber later restored Huestis. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Eric Huestis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huestis felt like he was invested in Uber — he even runs a Facebook page for local Uber drivers to bond — but the company isn't invested in him. Uber is among the largest private companies on earth and is currently valued at about $70 billion. But it didn't even have a number for him to call. Uber doesn't offer that kind of customer support. Huestis did manage to contact state officials, he says, but they didn't have a way to call Uber either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Huestis found himself trapped in a maze of online forms and generic emails. At first, the notifications told him it would take 15 days to review his case; then, 30 days. If that doesn't sound like a big deal, he puts it in perspective: \"What if you got booted off your cellphone provider? That [would] change everything. I mean, I got booted off my income provider, for no reason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of this Uber driver may be a window into the future of work. For years, workers have enjoyed the way technology creates distance from the boss. You can join meetings from home, or from Hawaii. But with Uber, we are coming to a strange inflection point. The company has designed an app that is so efficient, cheap and scalable that it manages 600,000 drivers in the U.S. Yet there's an underside to distance. It can create a system that lacks the most basic sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR conducted \u003ca href=\"#methodology\">an informal survey\u003c/a> of Uber drivers, using email lists and social media. It's not a scientific poll. Respondents are self-selected, and possibly more negative toward Uber than the average driver. Still, it's a window into how hundreds of drivers feel; and an Uber spokesman says many of NPR's survey results track the company's own findings about its driver workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis' experience is clearly not unique. Of the respondents, 193 said they were able to speak with a person at Uber to get the help they needed. But 688 said they were not — no human was available. In phone interviews with NPR, drivers shared examples of how they couldn't reach Uber after an accident on the job (one man contacted Uber's insurance company, which then became the conduit to Uber), or after being kicked off the platform (drivers typically don't get a hearing).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/532120218/532120219\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis lives week to week. After his deactivation, he managed to make a bit of money by picking up scrap metal from nearby farms and recycling it. Only he can't do that work alone. He needs a friend to help because he's an amputee. He lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huestis contacted NPR the same day he was axed and, over the weeks, we followed his ups and downs. On May 1 he texted, \"i'm in tears today, rents due, no income from uber in over 20 days.\" He spent day and night checking his Uber app, waiting to learn the fate of his career the way some people check Facebook to see if a selfie got liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber says the proper appeals procedures were followed with the third-party background check company in Huestis' case. After nearly a month, he was allowed to drive for Uber again. He says he would like to sue Uber for about $3,000 in lost wages. That's a lot of money for him, but not enough for a lawyer to bother with his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Be Your Own Boss' or 'Do What I Say'?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Uber's tagline — \"Be Your Own Boss\" — is an invitation as empowering as Nike's \"Just Do it\" and Apple's \"Think Different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Uber's case, though, it's more than just savvy marketing. Being one's own boss is the legal argument that underlies Uber's entire business. The company says drivers are independent contractors — not employees entitled to expensive benefits. An Uber-commissioned \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uber-static/comms/PDF/Uber_Driver-Partners_Hall_Kreuger_2015.pdf\">study says\u003c/a> 87 percent of drivers joined because that's what they want: to be their own boss and set their own schedule. Uber lawyers cite that statistic in court as evidence when drivers sue the company for employee benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber leaders have not publicly asked an obvious follow-up question: At Uber, do you feel like your own boss? So NPR asked drivers, in the informal survey. A little more than half of respondents — 491 total — said they did; and, perhaps unexpectedly, nearly half — 436 — said they did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't feel like your own boss at all,\" says driver David McKee from Vista, California. \"The only thing you control is the time when you sign on and sign off. Other than that, Uber controls everything. It's 'Be Your Own Boss' and 'do what I say.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few workers can drop their kids off at school every morning and then run errands as needed before clocking in. The power to set one's own hours is rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While McKee and other Uber drivers appreciate that flexibility, they say it is important to not overestimate it. A total of 779 survey respondents — more than 80 percent — say that to make enough money as an Uber driver, they have to work peak hours, like morning rush or weekend nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unparalleled freedom, which is hardly surprising. After all, Uber is a transportation service that relies on customer demand, not a coding job where you can flip open your laptop and work anytime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But drivers go a step further and say they are not just subject to market forces. At Uber, they are also bound by the company's determination to protect the brand by tightly controlling driver performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber uses the sensors in drivers' own smartphones to monitor their turns and lane changes and rolling stops. Of the survey respondents, 116 (more than 10 percent), say they didn't realize Uber was doing that (they may have missed that line in the very long contract) and 433 (nearly half) would like Uber to stop it. Uber's competitor. Lyft, does not do such tracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKee says it is the job of the government to license you, penalize you and take away your license if warranted. He says Uber is making a power grab and \"becoming the police.\" He and other drivers also don't trust the company's intentions with their private data. Many Uber drivers work for more than one ride-hailing service, and they fear the tracking is a way for Uber to collect intelligence on smaller competitors like Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber says smartphone tracking is good for safety and protects drivers against unfair complaints from passengers. If you want to drive, opting out is not an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers also don't have a choice when it comes to UberPool — the service where you can share a car with others. Drivers say they feel Uber is coercing them into offering it. They say while passengers get to pay much less, drivers also make much less — it is a money loser. In the NPR survey, 7 out of every 10 respondents who offer UberPool say they do not like it and wish they didn't have to provide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they do. Uber has bundled its products, so if you want to drive for Uber's standard service (UberX), you have to offer Pool, too. For many, that doesn't feel very being-your-own-boss-like.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dynamic pricing: Keep 'em guessing, and driving\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The way pricing works at Uber also subjects drivers to a kind of control that's novel. While people who are independent contractors typically set their own price for services, at Uber the company sets the price. And it's dynamic, able to change second by second according to a calculation that is secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While economists marvel at dynamic pricing — it's a superpower that the smartphone and algorithms make possible — drivers scratch their heads. It leaves Uber all-knowing, and drivers clueless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in other jobs, they're not sure what they'll make per hour, and so they can end up on the road far longer than expected. Seventy-nine drivers tell NPR they have driven shifts 14 hours or longer. That means being in the car, Uber app on, either driving a passenger or waiting for work. Three people showed NPR documentation for driving 20 hours in a single day. Uber does not limit how many hours a driver can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is clearly a public safety hazard. But at Uber, drivers talk about it as though it is normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510928\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ReningerCar-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Reninger sits in his car in Muncie. He drives for Uber part time, typically on weekend nights, so he is more likely to pick up surge prices, which earn him more money. He also drives for Lyft, an Uber competitor. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kyle Reninger is an Uber driver from Muncie, Indiana. The 32-year-old works weekend nights because, he says, that's when he is most likely to pick up surge fares — the higher prices (two, three, five times the regular rate) that passengers hate to pay and that drivers live by. They are the nuggets of the Uber gold rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of several weeks, he kept an audio diary for NPR, sending WhatsApp messages and screenshots between rides. His voice memos become a way to peer into his modern workplace and observe how the nights stretch out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reninger says he feels like his own boss: He chooses when to turn the Uber app on and off. And it's a side gig. He and his wife run a vegan bakery. As that business gets off the ground, Uber is a way to make quick money and also advertise to his passengers. He keeps vegan cookies in the car. (An Uber spokesman says it's OK for drivers to advertise another business in their own cars, so long as it is not an Uber competitor.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Reninger and his wife, Amanda, prepare baked goods for their vegan bakery business. (Right) Reninger stocks homemade cookies in his car and gives them out while he is driving for Uber.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510929\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/uber-trio_custom-8f4071e98b70220ebcfd6a5c8062a7fe0cd54663-s800-c85-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reninger and his wife, Amanda, prepare baked goods for their vegan bakery business. (Right) Reninger stocks homemade cookies in his car and gives them out while he is driving for Uber. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One Friday, Reninger sets out to make $200, not counting the cost of gas. He is on Uber and competitor Lyft, though the vast majority of his business comes from Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business is slower than he would like. It takes him 98 minutes on the road to get his first payment of $14.14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount is less than he expected. The Uber app estimated he should bring in $7 more. He says he is used to Uber playing this game — suggesting one fare, then paying another. He sends a message in the app basically saying: I got underpaid; fix that. Then, he keeps waiting for his next passenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the hard part, the in between,\" he says in his voice memo. \"Not really sure, you know, if I should drive around, hope to get another ping. Or if I should head back north.\" He had driven down to Indianapolis, a little more than an hour from home, hoping for a busier night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between the waiting, the passengers he does get make him laugh, think or sometimes cringe. One man is a globe-trotter who talks about his forays in Europe. Another sneaks an open beer can into the car, even though it's against the law and Reninger asked him not to. \"That was kind of a jerk move,\" the driver says. By 1:42 a.m., nearly nine hours into his shift, he is only about halfway to his $200 goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour later, he gets another passenger who says over and over, \"I'm so drunk; I'm so drunk, man.\" The passenger wants to go to IHOP, which is typical. A bit less typical, Reninger says in another voice memo, is that the drunk man got out of the car, \"zipped down his pants and started to urinate, right in front of IHOP. Then walked in, like nothing happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11510931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Cars drive through Muncie at dusk.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11510931\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/06062017_reninger_uber_npr_1369-edit_custom-a51ec29fb68147aa4acd4dbe12a5f03e5c52ce54-s800-c85-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive through Muncie at dusk. \u003ccite>(Lucas Carter/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By 6:11 a.m., you can start to hear Reninger's voice fading. And there is something he doesn't admit in his voice memos while he is on the road: He is having a hard time staying awake. He sips water and rolls down his window to help him. He waits until he gets home to mention this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the Uber driver was in his car 14 hours, 9 minutes, and covered 401.2 miles. He got only one small surge fare. If you put aside the cost of gas, he made $165.30. Including tips, he nearly hit his goal. It just took a couple of more hours than he had hoped (and it was by no means his longest shift).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it goes. Each night for the Uber driver is a gamble. The hours go by — just like in a casino. Only here, you could get tired and kill someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a problem that Uber could solve. It designed the app to lock out drivers if they don't accept a certain number of passengers (kind of like being put in the digital corner). It could design a safety feature to lock out drivers after a certain number of hours. (Lyft does that.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber lacks the will to do so. A company spokesman says in an email, \"Uber is a flexible work opportunity, so people can drive whenever they want.\" Also, according to Uber data, more than half of U.S. drivers use the app less than 10 hours a week. (Uber declined to disclose data on how long full-time drivers have the app on.) And finally, the spokesman says, Uber is testing out a new app alert in some cities, to remind drivers about the importance of getting enough rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Uber's awakening\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The hype around Uber is that the company doesn't need drivers because it is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/03/522099560/pittsburgh-offers-driving-lessons-for-ubers-autonomous-cars\">developing self-driving cars\u003c/a>; and the biggest workplace crisis is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/06/531806891/uber-fires-20-employees-after-sexual-harassment-claim-investigation\">sexual harassment\u003c/a> — the way women in the corporate office are treated. But according to current and former employees as well as investors, Uber feels far more threatened by its broken relationship with drivers. This is the existential threat to the business, because self-driving fleets won't be ready anytime soon. Uber needs the human workforce now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Uber hired Janelle Sallenave to improve the way it responds to drivers' and riders' needs, disputes and accidents. \"How could my job not exist? How could there not be somebody whose job it would be to oversee the support of our drivers?\" she says in a phone interview with NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sallenave says Uber, which began service in 2010, has grown so fast, it just didn't have the time to \"marinate\" — like older companies — on some of the basics. The focus has been on launching in more cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, she says, drivers are a top priority and Uber will be announcing changes. \"I think in the coming months some of the improvements we are making directly address feedback that our drivers have been giving us for the last year plus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sallenave acknowledges that getting an Uber representative on the phone six months ago was a feat that, she says, \"frankly I don't know I would be able to do.\" She says Uber has a lot of work to do to improve communication with drivers, and the company is doing that. It's staffing more than 200 physical drop-in centers (called \"green light hubs\") and introducing new dedicated phone lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers' complaints about poor communication are no surprise to Sallenave. She says Uber needs to revamp the way it \"deactivates\" drivers and that the company faces \"some serious work\" in how it handles those situations. Sallenave says Uber is undertaking significant policy changes, though she declined to provide details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also maintains that drivers are their own boss; that Uber is a digital platform (like eBay), not an employer; and that drivers are a lot like her own husband, who recently started a consultancy business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't get benefits. He doesn't exactly know what he's going to make. I mean, that to me is all of the risks, but also the potential reward, of being an individual small-business owner,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A case study in disruption\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A former federal regulator strongly disagrees with the Uber official's position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I can't just declare a pigeon a duck because I think it should be a duck,\" says David Weil. He was head of the Department of Labor's wage-and-hour division under President Barack Obama. 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He came with then-Labor Secretary Tom Perez (who is now head of the Democratic National Committee). And something struck Weil: While people in tech talked like they were all disruptors in the same boat, they weren't. At a startup like TaskRabbit, for example, the people providing a service set their own price and define what work they'll do. The company doesn't control those things. But at Uber, the company sets the price and designs the services (like Uber Black, X and Pool), \u003cem>and \u003c/em>those services are core to the brand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it looks a lot like an employment relationship. 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We avoided recruiting from any forum focused on complaints or negative topics to avoid unduly biasing the responses. The survey respondents are not a scientific sample and not representative of all Uber drivers nationwide. They are self-selected and therefore represent the views of drivers who chose to participate. For example, drivers may be more likely to respond if they are more comfortable filling out an online survey or if they have more negative feelings toward the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To verify that survey takers were indeed Uber drivers, NPR included questions in the survey that require intimate knowledge of how the company pays drivers. Of the 1,158 respondents, NPR determined 943 responses valid. This is just a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who drive for Uber. Not all respondents replied to every question. Percentages may not total 100 because of rounding. NPR asked about length of service, to ensure a diversity of driver experiences with Uber. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 2015, Steven Horowitz was watching one of the summer’s big blockbuster action flicks, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/23/us/ap-us-film-san-andreas-the-facts.html?_r=0\">\u003cem>San Andreas\u003c/em>.\u003c/a> In the movie, the San Andreas fault shifts, triggering a magnitude 9.6 earthquake in San Francisco. Disaster ensues — and for the rest of the movie we watch as all of the West Coast’s greatest landmarks are destroyed one by one in an epic, computer-generated spectacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"size-full wp-image-10628783\">“I was sitting there watching the giant tsunami course through the Golden Gate and into the bay,” he says. “I looked at that and thought: Wouldn’t there be some kind of dissipation coming through the Golden Gate?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked Bay Curious:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If a tsunami were to hit the Golden Gate, what would be its real effect on communities facing the San Francisco Bay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>It’s all about our faults\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the terrifying image of a 250-foot wave about to wash over the Golden Gate Bridge, tsunamis do not actually pose a considerable threat to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all has to do with the kinds of geologic faults that we have (and don’t have).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsunamis are caused when one tectonic plate slides underneath another — a process called \u003ca href=\"http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/eoc/teachers/t_tectonics/p_subduction.html\">subduction\u003c/a>. This slow movement is happening all the time, but sometimes a plate will get stuck and pressure starts to build. When it finally lets go, there’s an underwater earthquake that can move the seafloor up and down, sending a wave to the surface of the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the San Andreas Fault is different. It’s called a slip-strike fault because the two plates slide past each other horizontally. Of course, whenever plates move, the ground shakes. But here, there is no subduction and little displaced ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meaning no killer tsunamis. Even San Francisco’s infamous 1906 earthquake generated only a 4-inch wave at the Presidio gauge station.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Small waves still pack a punch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although they aren’t generated here, tsunamis do occasionally hit our shores. Since 1854, more than 71 tsunamis have been recorded in San Francisco Bay. Most were generated by earthquakes in subduction zones near Russia, Japan or Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Geist, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, says that size is the most important factor in evaluating risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can look at anything, from huge waves to micro-tsunamis, that you’d never see with your eyes but our instruments can detect,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst tsunami to hit the Bay Area was triggered in 1964 by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska, Geist says, that killed 11 people in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2005/11/17/5007860/california-town-still-scarred-by-1964-tsunami\">Crescent City.\u003c/a> That wave rolled in at just under 4 feet and damaged marinas and private boats in Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infamous 2011 tsunami that devastated parts of Japan also \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2011/03/17/the-san-francisco-impact-of-the-japan-tsunami/\">arrived in the East Bay\u003c/a> 10 hours later at just over a foot in height, and caused millions of dollars of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tsunami-causes-millions-in-damage-in-California-2389661.php\">damage in Crescent City\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628784\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10628784\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/5517993750_0ece81abd3_b.jpg\" alt=\"The 2011 Japanese tsunami, photographed as it arrived in Emeryville\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/5517993750_0ece81abd3_b.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/5517993750_0ece81abd3_b-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/5517993750_0ece81abd3_b-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/5517993750_0ece81abd3_b-960x539.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2011 Japanese tsunami, photographed as it arrived in Emeryville. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdMDCLwblkY\">video of the tsunami\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Steven Winter/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Cascadia subduction zone, which runs roughly from Mendocino County to Vancouver Island, could also produce a massive earthquake and tsunami. But Geist says it’s unclear how a tsunami from “\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one\">The Really Big One\u003c/a>” would affect the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oregon, Washington and California north of Eureka would really bear the brunt of that tsunami,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But what if a big one arrived?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although it’s unlikely, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pmc.ucsc.edu/~seisweb/steve_ward/\">Steven Ward\u003c/a>, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/ingomar200\">a series of animations\u003c/a> to show how a big tsunami might spread through San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ward’s simulations, the incoming wave stands just over 16 feet tall. This is much larger than historical tsunamis, but Geist agrees that a wave this size is theoretically possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/bP_AIWgknfI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approaching the Golden Gate at 55 mph, the wave would first hit the outlying areas of Point Reyes National Seashore and Montara. It would then start to flood low-lying areas like Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like splash and dash,” explains Ward. “When the water comes in, it’s going to flood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would feel like a 12-hour tidal cycle was packed into an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it will do as much damage when it goes back out and drags along cars and debris,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10630229\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10630229\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A 30-foot-high Tsunami would barely reach the top of the pylon on the Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 30-foot-high tsunami would barely reach the top of the pylon on the Golden Gate Bridge. \u003ccite>(Salim Virji/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/salim/402618628\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The original wave and splashbacks from shore would then start to pile up as they squeeze through the 1-mile-wide Golden Gate. In Ward’s simulations, the wave reaches a maximum height of about 30 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s barely to the top the pylon,” says Ward, who is confident that the bridge would have no trouble withstanding the wave energy. “It probably wouldn’t even touch the steel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the wave would fan out into San Francisco Bay. Parts of Crissy Field, Mission Bay and the Marina could see significant flooding, but by the time it reached Treasure Island or the East Bay, the wave would be less than 3 feet tall. It would probably not even make it to the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/Tsunami/Inundation_Maps#County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inundation maps for coastal counties\u003c/a> are a great resource for understanding how high ocean waters could rise near you. Here’s San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 850px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10628785 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Red regions of San Francisco may be vulnerable to inundation by a tsunami.\" width=\"850\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped.jpg 850w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped-400x383.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped-800x765.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red regions may be vulnerable to inundation by a tsunami. \u003ccite>(Cal EMA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Verdict: The Bay Area is relatively safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Steven Horowitz, who asked \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> the question, was glad to hear that the tsunami would be nothing like the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time it gets to Berkeley, which is where I’m sitting right now, I think I’m pretty safe,” he says. “Sounds like it’s not going to come rushing up University Avenue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents can also rest assured that there have been no recorded deaths from tsunami-related events in San Francisco. And even a worst-case-scenario Cascadia tsunami would take several hours to reach the city, providing ample time to mobilize a response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just in case, the City and County of San Francisco has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdem.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/DEM/PlansReports/TsunamiAnnex-2008.pdf\">tsunami plan (PDF)\u003c/a> in place. It includes a strategy for evacuating people from \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/Tsunami/Inundation_Maps/SanFrancisco/Documents/Tsunami_Inundation_SF_Overview_SanFrancisco.pdf\">vulnerable areas (PDF)\u003c/a> like Ocean Beach, coordinating basic services (like shelter, water, food, and medical attention) and performing search and rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, “if you get a warning and are in a tsunami zone, follow the evacuation instructions,” says Ward. “What do you have to lose, a couple hours of your time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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This slow movement is happening all the time, but sometimes a plate will get stuck and pressure starts to build. When it finally lets go, there’s an underwater earthquake that can move the seafloor up and down, sending a wave to the surface of the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the San Andreas Fault is different. It’s called a slip-strike fault because the two plates slide past each other horizontally. Of course, whenever plates move, the ground shakes. But here, there is no subduction and little displaced ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meaning no killer tsunamis. Even San Francisco’s infamous 1906 earthquake generated only a 4-inch wave at the Presidio gauge station.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Small waves still pack a punch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although they aren’t generated here, tsunamis do occasionally hit our shores. Since 1854, more than 71 tsunamis have been recorded in San Francisco Bay. 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See \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdMDCLwblkY\">video of the tsunami\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Steven Winter/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Cascadia subduction zone, which runs roughly from Mendocino County to Vancouver Island, could also produce a massive earthquake and tsunami. But Geist says it’s unclear how a tsunami from “\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one\">The Really Big One\u003c/a>” would affect the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oregon, Washington and California north of Eureka would really bear the brunt of that tsunami,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But what if a big one arrived?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although it’s unlikely, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pmc.ucsc.edu/~seisweb/steve_ward/\">Steven Ward\u003c/a>, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/ingomar200\">a series of animations\u003c/a> to show how a big tsunami might spread through San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ward’s simulations, the incoming wave stands just over 16 feet tall. This is much larger than historical tsunamis, but Geist agrees that a wave this size is theoretically possible.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/bP_AIWgknfI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/bP_AIWgknfI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Approaching the Golden Gate at 55 mph, the wave would first hit the outlying areas of Point Reyes National Seashore and Montara. It would then start to flood low-lying areas like Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like splash and dash,” explains Ward. “When the water comes in, it’s going to flood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would feel like a 12-hour tidal cycle was packed into an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it will do as much damage when it goes back out and drags along cars and debris,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10630229\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10630229\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A 30-foot-high Tsunami would barely reach the top of the pylon on the Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS2674_goldengatebridge_20070115.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 30-foot-high tsunami would barely reach the top of the pylon on the Golden Gate Bridge. \u003ccite>(Salim Virji/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/salim/402618628\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The original wave and splashbacks from shore would then start to pile up as they squeeze through the 1-mile-wide Golden Gate. In Ward’s simulations, the wave reaches a maximum height of about 30 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s barely to the top the pylon,” says Ward, who is confident that the bridge would have no trouble withstanding the wave energy. “It probably wouldn’t even touch the steel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the wave would fan out into San Francisco Bay. Parts of Crissy Field, Mission Bay and the Marina could see significant flooding, but by the time it reached Treasure Island or the East Bay, the wave would be less than 3 feet tall. It would probably not even make it to the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/Tsunami/Inundation_Maps#County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inundation maps for coastal counties\u003c/a> are a great resource for understanding how high ocean waters could rise near you. Here’s San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 850px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10628785 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Red regions of San Francisco may be vulnerable to inundation by a tsunami.\" width=\"850\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped.jpg 850w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped-400x383.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped-800x765.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/sf-cropped-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red regions may be vulnerable to inundation by a tsunami. \u003ccite>(Cal EMA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Verdict: The Bay Area is relatively safe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Steven Horowitz, who asked \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> the question, was glad to hear that the tsunami would be nothing like the movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time it gets to Berkeley, which is where I’m sitting right now, I think I’m pretty safe,” he says. “Sounds like it’s not going to come rushing up University Avenue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents can also rest assured that there have been no recorded deaths from tsunami-related events in San Francisco. 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