To concord North Concord and pittsburg. The one bit of good news the derailed train was headed for the maintenance yard and no passengers were on board. We have team coverage. Paul chambers has been talking to commuters on their slow ride home tonight but we begin with Jana Katsuyama at the concord station shes learned the 10 car train was switching cars when it detrailed. Reporter theyve allowed us to stay just inside the perimeter here, you can see the yellow tape. I just learned from b. A. R. T. Police that investigators will be bringing in an empty train to help. The important thing is no one was hurt when it went off the trackings. It happened during the afternoon commute a b. A. R. T. Train went off its tracks. Trains reversed course. It was total chaotics. People were just chaos. We didnt know where to go or what train to take. Reporter the train was in automatic. Right as we were passing through an interlocking. Some of the wheels came after the track. Interlocking is what you
Were reportedly heading home from a barbecue. The message here is dont drink and drive. You can call a taxi cab, public transportation, designated driver, or just stay at the location that you are. Its not worth it. Lives will be changed forever. Reporter flanigan faces a litany of charges, including felony dui and vehicular manslaughter. Live in oakland, john sasaki, ktvu channel 2news. More details now, the latest number from the chp showed drunk drivingrelated deaths have been increasing in recent years. 1997, 1100 people were killed in duirelated crashes. Five years later, that number had increased to 1300. In 2007, thats the most recent year the statistics include, 1489 californians were killed in dui crashes. We are getting new information on developing news right now in berkeley where there is a water main break. It happened about 4 30 this afternoon at the intersection of parker and mcgee. Its causing street flooding about a block away at parker and california streets. Now, we
Intelligence experts are now working to confirm the tapes authenticity. Shortly before what appears to be steven sotloffs death, he spoke directly to the camera. Saying he is paying the price for u. S. Intervention. A masked man in the video speaks to president obama. Just as you continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the neck of your people. Threaten the life of british captive, david haines. Sotloff was seen at the end of a video seen at the beheading of heanotr journalist last month. A state Department Spokesperson said the Intelligence Community is working to confirm its authenticity. If the video is genuine, we are sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another american citizen. Our hearts go out to the sotloff family. He was a 31yearold freelance journalist who grew up in south florida. He traveled to syria to cover the civil war before he disappeared. His disappearance was kept secret fearing he might be harmed. Steven is a loyal and generous so
It has to be one of the oldest debates with social science predating the idea there is but the hideous social forces explain human outcomes. Its all about biography. What i thought is these are two further apart view points. The problem is that both arguments make sense. The social scientists or the people following the tradition of, you know, not just marx, but most social scientists say, look, theres three reasons why leaders dont matter that much, that the leader of my organization faces external constraints. If youre the ceo of company, you have competitors. You cant set prices at whatever you want. Theres internal constraints, tradition, culture, everything inside a country, company, military unit. You cant do whatever you want. Most importantly, leaders are not chosen randomly so most leaders of powerful organizations, organizations that we care about, organizations that have the ability to reshape history, they are not picked out of a hat, but picked because that organization is
Historian Harlow Giles Unger recounts the life of americas sixth president on quincy adams who died in 1848. Quincy adams was some of the second president john adams had a long political career which included, aside from his presidency, ten years of secretary of state, senator, congressmen and miniature. This is a little under an hour. I will start with a very simple question. Was there a moment you said to yourself i need to write a biography of John Quincy Adams . Yes, indeed, there was. A couple years ago when i ran out of any ideas on the Founding Fathers. Others had written on washington, jefferson, madison, and id written on Patrick Henry, james monroe, james hancock. So i pulled out john f. Kennedys cal woods prizewinning book profiles in courage and their in chapter 1 was John Quincy Adams. I thought his name begins with a xu chapter 1. Thats not the reason he was in chapter 1. John kennedy himself a war hero had listed these characters in order of the degree of courage, and he