The fire chief said she never experienced anything like this fire in her decades long career. Heres how a neighbor described. I pulled him out and there was a lot of stuff in the way and the flames were too much. Too much smoke and i had had to [bleep]. I had to let him and i havent sewn him. And there is flames shooting out for 30 minutes. So. I dont know. I hope, i hope hes okay. Claudia is live in oakland. Claudia, have crews got inside of the building yet . Reporter yes, it is slow going because the building is unstable and authorities brought in big lights to had help them as the sun begins to set in the west within the hour. Work is continuing meticulously. Right now the death toll is officially at nine. But the coronnor is preparing for dozens of falitalities and 25 40 people were not affected for. They were attending the oakland ghost ship and the roof collapsed and many people were trapped. The only way to travel from the second floor to the first was a stair. And many people
Good evening, and welcome to the San Francisco board of appeals. Wednesday, july 13, 2016, meeting of San Francisco board of appeals the peace officer officer is commissioner honda and joined by commissioner fung and commissioner lazarus and commissioner swig commissioner bobby wilson that be late this evening to my left is thomas owen for legal advice tonight at the controls is gary the boards legal assistant were were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. This evening from the department of public works mapping raul and amanda and also Scott Sanchez the city administrative for the Planning Department and Planning Commission and expecting joe duffy for here representing the please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited. Out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. Have up to 3 minutes no rebuttal. To assist the b
Right now several neighborhoods in the area are without power and it is very hot out so people are outside, they are looking for information. One neighbor tells me that she was actually coming out of her home to walk to the curb when the lightning struck and she described it as sounding like a huge explosion. Certainly very scary but the good news is that everyone is okay. It is backing up traffic in this area on route 6 2 which is nearby the scene but things are under control and police are on the scene at this hour. Kimberly bookman, 7 news. Anchor heart stopping moment at a pool in hyde park has two people race to the rescue. Young child who nearly drown there. Their quick action saving that bys life. Anchor the pool is closed at this hour, but 7s amaka ubaka is live in hyde park and were hearing from one of the heros so glad that this is the way the story is ending, amaka. That 7yearold boy is state police say that this all happened around 3 15 this afternoon, he was swimming in th
Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
Great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago Works Progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. Block. They were. That meant there was a lot more out there. In addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. I did want to try to cover all areas of the state. I have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as id like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. There could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. The different additions used to be. I do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. I did the best i could. I found some wonderful letters. I tried to have men who served, i found a lot o