[applause] can you hear me . Can you hear me . No . Yes . Oh the hand mic. Gotcha. Hi everybody. Welcome. Thank you for coming out tonight and for providing refuge from the heat but also some intellectual stimulation in the form of this excellent book long haul. I read the book with completely rapt fascination. There is so much in here but i wanted to start, why dont we start at the beginning and you talked in the book about how you got into longhaul trucking as a young man, a very young man, barely out of high school. So tell the story of how you got into this business. Will a series of missteps actually the here we are. I got into it, there was a moving company right down the street where i grew up and we all went to the same church. It was called Callahan Brothers incorporated and my name is murphy and we have this irish thing going on so if you went to saint siena church and you were 17 years old and you wanted to work for Callahan Brothers then you were allowed to do that and it w
Have it at 2200 acres. And far more digestible number as the fire doubled to 2,000 acres yesterday morning. Its still a 10 containment and hundreds of homes and structures remain threatened. Bob redell has been tracking the fire for the last couple of days right by the fire line. Bob, help is coming in from across the state. Reporter it is. Cal fire is putting a lot of resources onto the loma fire. As you mentioned, the loma fire slowed significantly overnight. Just over 2200 acres but only 10 contained. Part of the challenge for cal fire is that the conditions out here in the Santa Cruz Mountains are super dry. So dry, in fact, that in some places the fire is returning twice. Just because the fire has burned through here once doesnt mean it wont come right back. Reporter cal fire battalion chief tom mcewan has seen the flames scorch the vegetation and then return a second time with 100foot flame heights to take out what was left behind from the first run, turning the hillside into a m
Several homes. Thats the number one challenge were having right now. Access and getting into it, and getting the crews down in there to go direct on it. Firefighters have stopped the fire from moving forward in this area. Theyre focused on hotspots like this one. Firefighters are doing double duty in some cases. This fire has been burning a second time, burning out the second amount of fuel. Were almost dealing with this fire twice in some places. Firefighters also stumbled on a marijuana grow. It its something we stumble on here in california. Reporter that smoke was visible behind the hill. Tonight they plan to send out aerial crews using surveillance. Theyre using that technology to look for hotspots. Reporting live in the santa cruz mountains, mary ann favreau, nbc bay area. Its like a chess match with cal fire against these fires. The smoke has been a big issue, visible from so many parts of the bay area. We sped up this video. You can see the smoke moving across the sky. Students
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