First lets start with Franklin Buchanan, since he was on one of our ironclads here in Hampton Roads. Franklin buchanan was born on september 17, 1800 in baltimore, maryland. His father the was founder of the Maryland Medical Society and his grandfather was a signer of the declaration of independence. So he comes from a wellheeled family. He will become a midshipment at age 15 in 1815 and will serve with distinction by 1844. He will be promoted to captain, and he will be named the first superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in annapolis. He is the founder in many ways of that school. In 1847 he will resign from that post so he can serve actively in the mexican war, which again he does with distinction, gaining the attention of flag officer matthew galbreith perry. Perry will assign buchanan as flag captain and commander of perrys flagship when he takes his fleet to open japan. It is said buchanan was the first naval officer to step foot in japan. Let me tell you about buchan
Mike 19th gold medal. Emily hes not human. Hes a fish. Mike we could use those temperatures. Trying to segue. Look at concord, New Hampshire, 54 degrees. These temperatures have really dropped off. Beautiful night last night with a cool temperature, the humidity was manageable and it is august and you know that wont last long. The humidity will be coming back to the forecast. Checking out the sli widening out the view, theres not much going on. Way down to the carolinas you have to find some rain or headway out to south dakota. Its out there. Eventually that will be moving into our forecast but will take a while to get here and why i say nothing really until wednesday. Heres the way the map looks heading through the day today. Fair weather clouds billowing up. One or two people got sprinkles yesterday but dont think well have that this afternoon. Im looking for a sea breeze that will hold the temperatures a few hours or so. Its at the airport and once downtown the temperatures will be
Im randy price. Mike in for cindy this morning. Good to see you this morning. A beautiful morning. Comfortable. If you left the windows open, great weather for that. And we will have a couple days of this before we go back into the heat and humidity, and with that comes the threat of thunderstorms. Not today. Today, nothing around us, but a few clouds, and it will pop up this afternoon as we saw yesterday, yesterday, a couple of you got a couple of sprinkles out of that. Today, i dont think well see them. A few check out the temperatures. Down to 53 degrees, boston, we dropped here, and were down to 69 degrees. So most temperatures are at least in the 60s, and a lot of temperatures are into the 50s. For august, the first part, thats amazing. Let me show you whats going to happen. This is the way it looks, like it does right now, no clouds to speak of but there are the popup clouds i am talking about coming in at 1 00. They sort of fall apart as we head towards sundown so it is just a s
Have been waiting two years to hear. Testimony sheds new light on what led up to the Fatal Police Shooting in a San Francisco park. [ gunshots ] [ bleep ]. Hear the gunfire . Thats the 911 call which captured the sound of gunshots fired by San Francisco police which killed 20yearold alex nieto at vernal heights park. He is 28 years old. That 911 call was played in federal court today during the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit brought by nietos parents. Dan noyes is back from court tonight. Reporter it was the most gripping day so far. Not a good one for police. We finally heard from the man who set the wheels in motion that night by calling 911. Justin fritz testified in San Francisco federal court on the evening of march 21st, 2014, he and his partner were walking their bulldog and springer spaniel on bernall heights park when they spotted a suspicious person. This is San Francisco 911s or and called 911. The operator asked for a description. He had a red jacket. Probably 200 pounds
The Santa Clara County jail. And it has just been released. Take a good look here. The Sheriffs Office says the fight broke out this afternoon in the maximum security housing unit of the downtown san jose jail. We first told you about the melee on abc 7 news at 4 00. The unit is still in lockdown mode this evening. Inmates are being ordered to stay in their cells. Sheriff laurie smith says no guards were hurt trying to break up this fight. And she just told us that its a coincidence that the fight happened in this part of the jail where she had just put in new security cameras and had them installed yesterday. But thats where we installed the cameras. We dont have cameras in any of the other housing areas, and they only went in last night. Its interesting that it happened here. Outside the jail this afternoon, we saw hazmat crews as they were called in to help clean off blood from the floor where the fighting broke out. Sheriff smith says deputies used pepper spray against the inmates,