And restorers and artists and whoptors and archivists took it upon themselves, they were in very comfortable lifestyles and had no need to be impressed into service. But in order to save these great Cultural Treasures of the world, they put life and limit risk limb at risk to save great treasures for posterity. I apologize. This was originally going to be the final piece of my running narrative, but we had just returned from this very moving ceremony, but it has been filling my mind and my heart right now. Presentationslide sounds very formal, but in atlity, when i took a look the seven or so congressional gold medals that i intend to speak to you about this afternoon, i realized that each complexy story was so contentsuch elaborate and connection to so much history that it was be literally impossible in the small amount of time we have this afternoon, allowing for some questions and answers at the end, to get into too much detail about everyone. With that, my disclaimer is that i will
Christian mentioned it would be covered by cspan, i got into an cripple panic. There is a tremendous sense of privilege one has when one is tasked with Something Like designing a congressional gold medal. A congressional gold medal is our nations form of highest esteem for distinguished individuals and also institutions and he goes back to nation. Ding of our so it is a very daunting process to take on such a role. It is a lot of hard work. But it also is incredibly gratifying especially when one gets a chance as i have and my lovely wife suzanne had yesterday to witness the recipients of the congressional gold medal and the ceremony which occurred yesterday for the monument. Is spinningy heart with the events of yesterday because that particular congressional gold medal combines so many stories. It combines the stories of world war ii. It combines the horror and the terror that hitler and his minions had visited upon europe and literally the world. It also involves heroic efforts that
Not all the cameras are real. Im not going to go into how many of our cameras are actually videoing or not videoing, or decoys, as you say. Reporter this morning, barts general manager talked about all of this directly to the bart board of directors who employ her. When you compare 2014 over 2015 we had 10 fewer serious crimes on bart. So we have a good trend in that direction. As time goes op we will be bringing additional requests to the board to make additional investments in security. Reporter now, beyond video cameras, barts police chief says that the layered system includes eyewitness passengers, bart employees, 350 Police Including 210 sworn officers, and other City Police Departments that bart passes through. Bart maintains this system is safe and will be so for the super bowl. Well see that at 6 00. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. The San Francisco Police Department has a new police chief. The department announced this week that assistant chief eddy garcia will take over as interi
Currently, which is good. Yesterday we had the rain. 52 fremont and San Francisco. 48 napa and santa rosa. If you are headed out this morning, maybe some mist and drizzle. By the afternoon necessary we will hold on to the clouds, maybe a few peaks of sun, maybe a shower and lot of super bowl talk in the upcoming days. We will have it for you in a few minutes. Tiffany. Lisa, thank you. In developing news, u. S. Marshal are actively searching in san jose this morning for two fugitives who escaped from a Southern California jail and authorities are gnarring a 200,000 reward for information read leading to the huge tis arrest. Federal authorities are searching for these two men, Johnathan Tieu and hossein nayeri. They escaped last week with this man, bac duong. They broke out of the jail last week and they may be on their way south to fresno. A about. C7 News Reporter sergio has the latest. The almeda manager didnt want to speak on camera because said he recognized Johnathan Tieu, the youn
Now its snowing and we still have a winter storm warning through 10 00. Boy, up to a couple feet of snow still expected over the weekend around yosemite. Looking at 350s now. Good morning fairfield. And novato you are checking in at 50. The rest of the day featuring mostly cloudy skies. The bulk of the day is dry. Cant rule out a possible shower. Midand upper 50s. We will look for more rain possibly tomorrow in the south bay. Ill have the details on that coming up. Tiffany. Lisa, thank you. In developing news, u. S. Marshals are actively searching in san jose this morning for two fugitives who escaped from a Southern California jail and authorities are now offering a 200,000 reward for information leading to the fugitives arrests. Federal authorities are searching for these two men, Johnathan Tieu and hossein nayeri. The two fugitives escaped last week with this man, bac duong. They broke out of the jail last week and they may be on their way south to fresno. They may be on their way s