I was invited by my colleague here, karen stone, who has done an amazing job of continuing to tell the story and to kind of bring this story out from the darkness and into the light. A little bit about karen. The director of the news seems division of saint marys countys government. She oversees three sites in that county, is responsible for strategic planning, fundraising, creating partnerships like this overseeing like this one, overseeing Museum Operations and more. This is exciting. Love this article she recently published an article about this disaster in American Civil War magazine potomac peril on the. Thank you for joining us on zoom this afternoon. Himn i am glad to tell people the story. The incident actually took place ago. , april 22, 155 years a great day for us to be talking about it, and there are a number of connections. Between our two institutions. The incident took place off of colts point, the site of one of my museums in maryland. That is why i am involved. It is n
It is also a foggy and hazy start to the day with patty drizzle as well as along the coast and the bay. Heading to the afternoon, near normal daytime highs in the upper 80s around 90 in concord and livermore. Low 80s and san jose. The upper 60s in san jose several disco and low 70s in oakland. We talk more about the heat advisories and excessive heat warnings for the Holiday Weekend, coming up. Speaking of the Holiday Weekend, we see later conditions on the freeways and for the most part. That is good news. There are a couple of hotspots. Westbound 37, you have brake lights and for the commute working out of the east bay into marin county. I vallejo. You have a slow ride westbound. No accidents. Just a bit busy. We are seeing slightly slower speeds westbound 580 into the past. It is actually pretty clear out of tracy picked the drive times are pretty much in the green for all of the major freeways. 21 minutes to a five through 680. Changes for mass transit. I will have that in the next
Vote, starts right now. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Tonight, the candidatehielf, joe biden, making a surprising appearance, rounding out a night of virtual fanfare from those both sides of the aisle. We go straight to ra an. How do you do a political anvention like big zoom meeting. Marianne williamson said it was like Binge Watching a marriott commercial. I found it delightful and charming and fl reality, much o the kind of hollering, slightlydrunken polls that you get in the conventions, just screaming out the vote totals of the state. That was a highlight. I bet the republicans will copy that. More substantively, however, i think this was a nht where it was the past of the Democratic Party, the past that joe blt biden. We heard from bill clinton and jimmy carter, john kerry, from colin powell. And then to hear from jill biden, who story in a way no one else can. Michelle obamaar act to follow, but being there in the classroom was an effective touch. For alexandria ocasiocor
Unaccompanied children boarded a flight to mainland greece on wait and stay. For the families left behind the week continues their fate in the hands of leaders their futures uncertain. Joined by. Athens and see what is the situation in lesbos now on the 2nd morning after the fall. Well you were now hearing of a 3rd fire thats taking place just around on the outskirts of whatevers left of this camp more. Its a 3rd fire in less than 48 hours and appears to be even more dangerous because we are understanding according to certain reports that there may be some people who are stranded in and there are attempts by crews to douse out the fire and to see whether there are any people inside now after the 1st initial fire there was several thousands of people who after they spilled out onto the streets went back into this camp to try and pick up whatever belongings they have left so it remains to be seen whether we may see any casualties coming out we hope not today but the government as you say
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