Structures have been destroyed including 133 homes. Good evening. While the official count of homes lost in the fire has increased so also has the containment and as we mentioned crews have made more progress and reports tonight that the fire is 45 contained and that is a significant increase from 24 hours ago when containment was at 15 . More than 76,000 acres have burned since the fire broke out a week ago. Right now more than 5000 firefighters from across california and other states continue to work to extend containment. Cars screamed into windsor another communities is the widespread Evacuation Order was lifted. City workers in windsor including the mayor greeted returning residents with cheers and welcome home signs and Evacuation Orders were also lifted for geyserville and santa rosa allowing about 100,000 people to return home. We are in downtown windsor. The people who live there on the outskirts of the city they returned home to find a very different scene. Reporter it is hom
The last in a series of systems coming into the intermountain region does not show any more of this happening anytime soon so its a dry pattern but its also back to normal. 60s and 70s for the high. Sal is here and he will focus on. The Richmond Bridge. Is something going on . Just because. In the last few days its been empty. People have not been going to marin. Power is out. Im sure a lot of jobs, people were not going to their job if the power was out but now we see more traffic. Lets go there and talk about the Richmond Bridge. A few more people going and, of course, in Sonoma County there hasnt been much of a commute for obvious reasons we havent seen one yet i think will take a few days for things to get back to normal but right now it looks good on the Richmond Bridge. Other commutes have been more normal. The east shore freeway, 20 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the mac maze and of the bridge its backed up to the mains. Metering lights are on. Halloween is a challenging d
What a perfect introduction. Thank you. Thats great. John and i are delighted to be back here at the lincoln forum. Those of you who know us even a little bit will not be surprise today hear last night we had an opportunity to get together and consume some wine. And in the midst of that conversation, fueled by wine we were talking about how we were th terribly jealous of ron chernow whose biography of hamilton inspired a very lucrative musical on broadway. So we thought how appropriate it would be to have joseph e. Johnston the musical. [laughter] or william t. Sherman the musical or the one that really inspired us was henry wager halek the musical. As you see on the screen here and youll be delighted to hear, this is not going to be a musical presentation today. Instead, alas, it is a tragedy in three acts. Act one. On april 17, 1865, which is a full week after lee surrendered to grant at appomattox as we just heard a few moments ago, joseph e. Johnston and william t. Sherman met in t
The end of the civil war. Their april 1865 meeting happened two days after president lincolns assassination and a week after robert e lee surrendered at appomattox. This is part of the annually conform symposium and is just under an hour. Welcome to session one of the 21st annual lincoln for him symposiumincoln forum. Professor craig simons is Professor Emeritus of the United States Naval Academy and a member of the executive committee of the board of advisors of the lincoln forum. Newlythe author or editor 2000 two dozen books, including neptune, the allied invasion of europe and the dday andings that book won the Samuel Eliot Morrison award for literature. The author of lincoln and his admirals, which won the lincoln prize in 2009. In recognition of his extraordinary contributions, the noble the Naval Historical Foundation awarded him the navalore deadly w knox history award for a lifetime achievement. John marszalak came out of retirement in 2008 and accepted the executiveing direct
He is also the winner of the that particular book won the Samuel Elliott morrison award. E is the author of lincoln and his admirals which won the lincoln prize in 2009. In recognition of his extraordinary contribution, the naval historicle foundation in 2014 awarded him the congressman duredudly w. Knox history award for lifetime achievement. Professor John Mars Lak is william s. Giles distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mississippi State university came out of retirement in 2008 and accepted the task of serving as executive director of the uelills sis s grant president ial library and managing editors. He is the tautsdzer of a dozen books. Incheweding sherman. And shermans other war. His honors include an excellence in writing award from the u. S. Army historicle oundation. As testament to the high regard in which he is held, several of his students contributed to an editted volume titled, of times and race. Ees says inspired. I was honored to have the opportunity to contribute the f