Thank you, emily, and good evening. It is a great pleasure to introduce William Seale. I have known william for a very long time because he married my good friend and college classmate, lucinda smith. I married a brilliant historian, and so did she. [laughter] William Seale is a charming and witty texas gentleman whose interest in history and buildings has fueled a long career in both. He is a native of beaumont, texas, holds a ba from southwestern university, an ma and a ph. D. From duke. He left texas in 1969 and spent two years in columbia, south carolina, restoring the home of wade hampton. He then came to washington in 1972 to write a history of state capitols with Henry Russell hitchcock. He, lucinda and their two sons settled in lucindas native alexandria. At this point in his career, he focused on two things; Historic Restoration and writing. His twovolume history of the white house was published by the White House Historical society in 1986 with the second edition in 1996. He
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Asking for and who is spearheading the effort. And the bay area has a new superkid. The special honors planned for a little girl battling leukemia in vallejo. Mornings on 2 starts now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. You are taking a live look at what is left of a vehicle in oakland. Police are investigating a fiery crash there. Coming up, well tell you who rescued that driver. Thats all in a live report. Im claudine wong. Forming to you. Tampa good morning to you. Tori campbell has the day off. Good morning. Im dave clark. Steve, that wind blowing through here . Absolutely, dave. For some, not for everybody. It will be breezy, blustery. 30s, 40s, 50s. It will be sunny. But cooler. Upper 50s, low 60s. The breeze out of the north northwest and rain forming in Southern California. They will have rain town there. We wont up here. We get the better air quality. The wind advisories take us through the evening mainly on the coast and the Higher Elevations. 30s, 40s and i mean theres
A tree before the car caught fire. Pam back in early october. Near seattle another model caught fire after hitting some road debris. The debris punctured the pam cars electric battery. Which led to a large fire in the cars front end. No one was injured in any of those fires. Tesla says they have no plans to recall the model s. Reporter more earthquakes in the east bay including one this morning that a lot of people felt. Reporter just after 9 30 this morning a 3. 3 magnuitude quake in san ramon. It was centered near crow Canyon Country club. Where crow canyon road and el capitan drive meet. Then leary this afternoon a 2. 4 quake in the same area. But this mornings jolt was much more noticable. And people we talked to in san ramon say they clearly fent the shaking. We were in the office and it was pretty shaky all the sudden things were pretty shaking what was going on . I was sitting here at starbucks having my coffee and of the windows by breaded and the shares started shaking. Report
President ial election. The incumbent, Yoweri Museveni says hes confident of victory his main challenger bobi wine warns him no to steal the election. Scottish patient and demand compensation after importers refused to accept deliveries due to border delays caused by brexit. We begin in france, where authorities have Just Announced they will extend an overnight curfew to the whole country from saturday. Prime Ministerjean Castex says the curfew will also start two hours earlier at 6 pm instead of 8 pm for at least 15 days to better combat the spread of the coronavirus. The new rules mean that a 12 hour curfew, running from 6pm to 6am, will be in place across the country from saturday. From monday all travellers from outside the eu will have to show a negative covid test and self isolate for a week ani the restrictions come as the covid 19 death toll in france nears 70,000 people lets go live to our paris correspondent hugh schofield. 6pm curfew, doesnt get more than that . ,. , ~ , tha