That hopefully things will get done soon. Understandably so. Juliette, we have a few dry days ahead. Is that giving neighbors hope . Reporter yeah. Thats the good news. Certainly the dry days are helpful. But even on a dry day, you know, part of the cliff here are still going. And its kind of a tease because they would love to get down there and be able to stabilize this cliff but they cant until those permits are signed. Thank you. A trip to hawaii did not go exactly as planned today for passengers on a Hawaiian Airlines flight. After takeoff, they circled for several hours off the San Mateo County coast before returning back to san jose. Kpix 5s kiet do on a long flight that ended right back where they started. Kiet. Reporter that flight got in about two hours ago. There are still hundreds of people inside the terminal now trying to get rebooked on another flight. They are supposed to be in hawaii right now. Things are going from bad to worse. Hawaiian flight 43 was supposed to be la
Fire administration. The interim head of the building and Planning Department says inspectors did respond to complaints in recent years, none went into the warehouse itself. Our records show they had not been in the area for 30 years. This is the highest number of fatalities in 13 years in the country. Despite an announcement that the atf was looking at a refrigerat refrigerator, a spokesperson says not so fast. There has been misinformation circulating that a reridge freighter refrigerator was the cause of the fire. It is being investigated. Reporter the investigation will continue and he evidence from the scene taken to an undisclosed location. Its being preserved because every piece of the structure is relevant to what happened. And we want to figure out why did it collapse . Sheriffs told us at some point theyre hoping to create a 3 d recreation from beginning to end and other investigators expected to be on the scene for a couple more days. The city of oakland outlining the contac
36 people ranging from teens to 60s went to a party to listen to music and they never left. Two more victims were identified today, including jason mccarte from oakland, he worked at prestige music group. Also, the oldest victim, wolfgang rener lived in oakland. Investigators identified 29 victims. Laura anthony is live tonight with the latest information. Laura . Reporter oakland city officials talked about the greater oversight of cases like this not just cracking down on violations but to improve conditions that might not be safe. This has been a devastating tragedy but would be another if did not learn lessons. Five days after a deadly fire gutted a warehouse, oakland mayor announced a creation of a National Task force. Creating a task force of National Fire Safety Experts with the help of the National Fire administration. The interim head of the building and Planning Department says inspectors did respond to complaints in recent years, and none went into the warehouse itself. Our
But we are delighted to have jonna. Jonna began her career overseas in germany where she was working and was recruited by cia. In 1966. At that time they brought air into she became a technical operations officer. Tech ops, technical operations officers, often are crosstrained in a variety of things. In jonnas case she was trained in disguise, identity transformation, and clandestine imaging. I will let her explain that if any of you are interested in that. But her really top specialties were photography and disguise. She was assigned in the mid1980s, 1986 to what in the agency call denied area operations. They were called that because of the absolutely pervasive surveillance we had to deal with in russia, our principal adversary, and east europe. It was so persistently so pervasive we had to develop special techniques. We became very good at communicating with our agents or secret sources even under surveillance. And tony and jonna helped facilitate that. Jonna herself was made chief
Her photography work, which she now does every variety of places. It is on exhibit and at their home in maryland. She and tony have lectured in a variety of places, World Affair Councils colleges, and so forth. She is a regular appearer here on either a panel or as a single lecture. I will mention one book. I think this was your first book. Spy dust. It is about their years in moscow. Denied area operations. This is where you first hear the term moscow rules. It is used, this book, in, often with new intelligence personnel coming into the agency. Its that good, and it covers that many operations. So i have said enough. Jonna, it is delightful to have you here. Please help me welcome jonna mendez. [applause] good morning. There is no better way to start the day than to be introduced by peter. It is inspiring. In another life, in another time , i lived in d. C. And i was the smithsonian resident associate. I did so many programs with the smithsonian once we moved out of washington, d. C.