The former correspondent for newsweek rent times. He has authored six books on the military. The critically exclaimed. James mcpherson. In the eastern theater. It is my honor to be here today. Its a pleasure to welcome back someone who spent countless hours if not months researching in our vast holdings especially when it culminates with such a good narrative as this one. The big bibliography and note section. Our testament to their research. You will find numerous citations. Im slightly biased so that favorite part of the book is found in the acknowledgment. The narrative opened with chapters each to his for union agents. With the final chapter culminating culminated in the post ward experience. Before we hear from mister moeller. I would like to let you know about another program coming out next week up next week on tuesday august 13 at noon they will present a lecture. In the post 911 world. In which he will discuss. They transformed into a war fighting Intelligent Service to help h
The weekend closure is having on businesses, and we are less than 24 hours away from bay to breakers, making a return to San Francisco. Look at the last minute preparations underway before thousands of runners hit the city streets. And we are going to get to those stories in just a moment. But first, were following breaking news. This is on Yerba Buena Island. Crews are battling a fire there. You see the video right there. It started just after 3 00. Firefighters say crews are facing heavy smoke and steep terrain. Now. Two fire boats are also helping put water on the flames from the bay. There they go. This is new video from the firefighting efforts. Its not clear how this fire started as you can imagine, this is impacting traffic on the bay bridge for a period of time. All eastbound lanes. They were shut down in the last 30 minutes. Two lanes. They reopened. Now heres a live look at our traffic map. And you can see that big backup right there stretching for miles. At this point, its a
Now care is working with the doctors family, reaching out to the state department and congresswoman anna eshoo to reunite the doctor with her two daughters and husband in the bay area ahmad talked with his sister today and says despite the challenges, she remains focused on helping people in gaza. Her main concern continues to be, you know, medical supplies are low, you know, being able to provide services is difficult. He says. He still doesnt know why his sister is not returning home with the other american doctors, obviously is a level of frustration. And so far, the doctors family says theyve been given no timeline on when she might return home. In a statement from Palo Alto Foundation medical group, where the doctor works in san carlos, her colleagues said theyre also working with the white house and the state department to bring her home in the newsroom. Marianne favro nbc bay area news. New at 11 disturbing messages found in a campus dorm in the south bay San Jose State Universi
Prosecutors are now asking for and what it means for the case. We begin the 6 00 hour with an update to that breaking news. Weve been following for you. All lanes on the bay bridge back open after being closed so crews could battle this at fire on yerba buena island. This all started about about three hours ago, and crews put out the flames from land and water to this video showing two fire boats right there spraying the grass. No word on what sparked that fire . No, but it is impacting traffic on the bay bridge. We can say that with certainty. Video from one of our nbc sports bay area colleagues showing a fire truck trying to get through all that. Ooh, thats tough. At one point, the eastbound lanes were closed, causing some traffic to stop and go. This is video taken about two hours ago heading into the city. And as we mentioned though, all lanes are back open, as you can see on our traffic map. Still, a lot of backup, but getting much better. Our team has been following this story al
Partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to andide storage, process catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience. Were halfway there, and we welcome your help. Professor gallagher has received many awards, including the prize for the best book on the civil award for contributions to civil war studies, the lincoln prize, and the award for the best Nonfiction Book on the civil war. He was the founder and first president for the fou ndation of preserving civil war sites. Please join me in welcoming professor gallagher. Prof. Gallagher i am going to switch microphones. I am delighted to be here. It is always fun to speak in this room. Jamie wouldnt tell you how old he was when i was a mellon fellow here. I will reveal i had brown hair. It was a long time ago in deed. It was about that time i gave a lecture