It is a cooling cloudy start to our friday. Temperatures running in the low to mid 50s. A live look at our Treasure Island camera, we can see the clouds in the sky. Mostly cloudy skies and some peeks of sunshine as we go through our day. Sistine San Francisco, 68 for a high and san jose and 67 for concord. A strong ridge of High Pressure builds in for the weekend and i will let you know how warm it will get in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check in with gianna with a look at traffic. Good morning, lets look at the roadways. There have been a number of changes to mass transit this week. I want you to stay updated on that. One of the latest changes happened this week, the vta light rail where service resume from 6 am to 6 pm. But again, a modification to the schedule and modifications to bus services as well for vta. They made several changes this week as well as focusing only on their 17 core route. And for bart, Weekday Service running trains for the Weekday Service. Just a heads u
As we start our friday. As we had through the afternoon we will see seasonal daytime highs. Right around where we should be for this time of year. Looking at 60 degrees for a high and San Francisco, 63 in oakland, 68 and then has a and 67 for concord but mostly cloudy skies and peeks of sunshine. Inland you might see a little more sunshine as we had through the day. A warming trend on the way for us. This actually as we look ahead to the weekend with a strong ridge of High Pressure building in. I will let you know what you can expect in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check in with schiano for a look at traffic. Good morning. Getting a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, things moving with no delays, a pretty easy ride out of the east bay into San Francisco. Heads up, we had reports of things being a bit darker than usual between the tunnel and the city. Lights were out at the bay bridge. Not really causing many problems this morning, we are getting reports of an accident on high
Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy smith is a veteran of the National Parks service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the coeditor of 18 books, including Champion Hill, decisive battle of vicksburg, which won the Nonfiction Book award from the mississippi arts and letters. You can buy a copy in our bookstore. I am pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [applause] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. This is my first time to be here. I am a believer now. You have got a great place here. We are going to talk about the western theater here. Vicksburg, Champion Hill. How many of you have been to vicksburg . I figured that. A good number of you. Champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the American Battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi has just tu
His book on the raid comes out, it is now out and you can buy a copy of it at our bookstore. Im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. Thank you, i appreciate the chance to be here. I have always heard about pamplin park, and it is great here. Were going to talk about the western theater today. Vicksburg, how many of you have been to vicksburg. She o he is one of the great battlefields, listening to the civil war American Trust now, you know theyre doing a lot of work down there. They turned over nearly several hundred acres. So there is a lot going down at Champion Hill. So were going to talk about that battle in particular, the larger Vicksburg Campaign. And i do not have a power point either. Im a little old fashioned. We have a map of Champion Hill which we will talk about in just a little bit. I tend to go overboard when i go into power points and i confuse everybody, so to keep from doing that, i dont do powerpoints when i can help it. And im beginning to realize that powerpoint
Fixbering campaign. He discusses how the leadership contributed to a victory. This event was part of historical parks small battles big results symposium. Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy r. Smith is a veteran of the park service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee at martin. In addition to numerous articles and essays hes the author and editor and coeditor of 18 books including Champion Hill, the decisive battle of vicksburg. His book comes out this fall and actually is now out, and you can buy a copy of it out at our bookstore at battlefield center. So im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [ applause ] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. Ive always heard about it and its my first time to be here. Ive always heard about it and how nice it was and im a believer now. I believe you. Youve got a great place here and appreciate the invitation to be here. Were going to talk about the western