Half of our conference, starting off this afternoon is a paper by dr. Lisa ossian, who is a professor of history at Des Moines Area Community college. She received her masters degree in womens studies from Eastern Michigan University and her doctorate from Iowa State University in agricultural history and rural study, author of three books, the homefronts of iowa 19301945, the forgotten generation American Children in world war ii and the the depression dilemmas in rural iowa. Ossian has now directed her Research Interests in exploring hoovers post war food relief efforts. Her next book is tentatively titled to the grimmest spector, the world famine emergency, Herbert Hoovers mission and the invisible years 19467 she serves on the Editorial Board of economic war and culture and as editor of a forthcoming volume, american women and war 18521945. Her talk today is entitled a kind and understanding heart the politics of friendship between harry truman and Herbert Hoover 19461964. Please w
Warnings all over the bay area. One of the colder spots will be right where we are now. Concord, we are here where people are making the most of the cold weather hitting the ice rink and you can see people bundled up in hats, scarves and jackets. You will want to put on extra layers concord is expected to hit the very low 30s overnight and some other areas will be even colder tonight. This is the first day of winter, winter solstice is bringing the cold air with it. We will talk more about how long the cold six around and can we get another chance of rain before the year ends. Bay area investigators believe they have the man responsible for a mail bomb attack. Andria borba tells us about the break. Reporter it was a dna sample that linked the suspect to the mail bombs. The Common Thread between two mail bombs that exploded in less than a month, and arctic king air conditioner box. The first exploded on october 19 at a home in palo alto. A father was injured opening the box that was add
Most of the time it is inland and everyone else stays above freezing. Everywhere except for the immediate coastline will drop to the mid20s to low 30s tonight and even the coastline under a frost advisory. The only exception is San Francisco. Livermore 28 degrees, fairfield 25, napa, santa rosa 20s redwood city below freezing and oakland 37. San jose 32 degrees which is the first of the season and the last time we were below freezing and san jose was 31 degrees, that was 348 days ago. Kristin is reporting from concord. Reporter the National Weather service issued freeze warnings all over the bay area. One of the colder spots will be right where we are now. Concord, we are here where people are making the most of the cold weather hitting the ice rink and you can see people bundled up in hats, scarves and jackets. You will want to put on extra layers concord is expected to hit the very low 30s overnight and some other areas will be even colder tonight. This is the first day of winter, wi
Several mornings but even colder this morning. We have a freeze warning in the bay area. A lot of below freezing temperatures in the area. 42 in pacifica. Freeze warning is in areas away from the coast. The coast has a frost advisory. You want to protect pets, plants an pipes. And pipes. Sunny today. Same as all week. Sunshine by the afternoon but it is a spare the air through the weekend. And you can use mass transit. Thats the way to go. Right now, bart is on time. Lets look at the eastshore freeway. Heres 80 right at ashby and you can see traffic doing fine in both directions. No accidents on this stretch toward the bay bridge toll plaza we have just a few cars backing up in the cash lanes. Fastrak in the green 10 minutes into San Francisco connecting with 101. 680, highway 4 and 580, between205 and 680, no delays. Well check some of your Holiday Travel tips coming up. It is one of the busiest travel days of the year with christmas fast approaching. Katie nielsen is live at the San
More than 6 Million People will be flying this Holiday Weekend. A million of them will be flying in or out of San Francisco, oakland or san jose airports in. Airport Officials Say they are expecting the longer lines at security and also at checkin as well as heavy traffic getting into the airport. They are saying its worth braving the line. I feel part of iti travel during the year for work. I try to get here early and get suede at the gate. I travel during the year for work. I try to get here early and get situated at the gate. Reporter people who dont travel regularly could lead to longer slower lines so their best advice especiallythis morning as you can see is arrive early. Terminal 3 the line to get through security is about 20 to 25 minutes. They expect that to just get worse throughout the day. No delays at any area airports. Katie nielsen, kpix 5. As we take a live look outside, a beautiful shot of the city of San Francisco. This is the coldest it has been since january. You ca