The Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in beautiful new orleans, louisiana. We have a really superb guest with us tonight, a friend of the museum, my friend and a wonderful writer and ahor, ian toll. Ian, welcome. Thank you, rob. Ian probably is one of those people who with, you know, doesnt really need an introduction, as we like to say. You all know what that means, the introduction should be really long. Ians an extremely accomplished scholar and writer. Hes the author of six [inaudible] the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacific war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight of the gods. Hes won the Samuel Elliot morrisonward from the naval orr of the United States, hes won the william e. Colby militaryriters award, hes won the other morrison award given by the uss constitutio museum. If theres any more morrison awards out there, i fully expect to see you winning one in the not too distant future. But thanks so mu
Incidents. Easing towards the dublin interchange. 12minute commute on 880. Ill take a look at 101 coming up in just a few minutes but it is going to be a wet commute. Tracking the rain as it pushes in later today. The first big storm of the season with widespread rain. Heavy rain at times with a strong cold front pushing through, again, later today. Here is ally look, though. Dry conditions this morning as you start your tuesday with the roof cam. You can see coit tower. Livermore, santa rosa, 50 in San Francisco and san jose in the mid40s. Looking at high doppler, that is going to change as you go through the afternoon and especially by this evening. Weather headlines, showers start this afternoon. Heaviest rain will be from 4 00 to 8 00 p. M. First for the north bay with the cold front. Isolated thunderstorms are possible and strong winds this evening, especially for the coast, the hills and mountains under a wind advisory. More on the timing of all of this on future cast coming up.