Legendary football coach and broadcaster John Madden has died, the NFL said Tuesday night. Madden, 85, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday morning, according to the league.

KNBR's Greg Papa joins John Rothmann to remember John Madden

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Pat welcomes Dr. George Rutherford, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Director, Prevention and Public Health Group at UCSF. 

He addressed the following stories:

Mixed messaging about Omicron-just how dangerous is this new variant?

https://cbsaustin.com/news/coronavirus/mixed-messages-on-omicron-creates-confusion-ahead-of-holidays

NIH Study found COVID 19 spreads to multiple organs and can remain in a person's body for 7months

https://www.wfla.com/news/study-suggests-coronavirus-lingers-in-organs-for-months/

Israel doing 2 booster shots do we need that here

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/israel-tests-4th-covid-vaccine-dose-awaits-ministry-green-light-2021-12-27/ 

High morbidity rate of new avian flu in Israel-how concerned should we be? 

https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-689457

 

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12-28-21 HOUR 2 GRAY BRECHIN PAT KGO_PODCAST-10-2021-12-28_13-00-00-513

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As a regular guest on the Pat Thurston Show, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong explained the OPD's strategy to combat crime in Lake Merritt. The city is also looking for a sponsorship for its annual gun by back program.

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Kim discusses the push to upgrade our masks in light of the Omicron variant and asks who the audience thinks should run for President in 2024.

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December 28, 2021: Chris Merrill in for Nikki Medoro - 9am

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December 28, 2021: Chris Merrill in for Nikki Medoro - 8am

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December 28, 2021: Chris Merrill in for Nikki Medoro - 6am

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A simple question about the drugs in the Tenderloin:

London Breed got her Tenderloin ‘State of Emergency’ declaration approved by the SF Board of Supervisors, in a contentious ten-and-a-half hour meeting that stretched into the early hours of Christmas Eve. Above we see the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, bleary-eyed and being forced to work a sudden emergency 10.5-hour shift on Christmas Eve, some of them still in their office and others presumably at home on a comfy chair and in their jammies. But the circumstances were highly unusual too, as the supervisors were suddenly tasked with approving or denying Mayor London Breed’s proposed “State of Emergency” declaration in the Tenderloin over drug use and overdoses. That proposal has drawn national attention, and plenty of criticism about over-policing and putting people “in cages,” over Breed’s proposed 90-day blitz of the TL by the city’s emergency management department.

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No one disputes that the brakes on Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos’s truck failed before the deadly Colorado highway collision that left four dead and half a dozen more injured.

“I would have preferred God took me instead of them,” the 26-year-old said last week in a tearful court appearance. With convictions on 27 counts, the judge said he had no choice but to sentence Aguilera-Mederos to 110 years in prison — a punishment that would rally activists and spark a flurry of signatures on the fastest-growing Change.org petition of 2021.

Now the district attorney has moved to reconsider the sentence, and the office of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is reviewing an application for clemency.

“As Colorado law required the imposition of the sentence in this case, the law also permits the Court to reconsider its sentence in an exceptional case involving unusual and extenuating circumstances,” wrote First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King in a motion requesting a hearing on the matter.

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