Every year. The speaking portion is almost always free and open to the public and we are able to do that because you come here and you buy your books and you buy your stocks and your greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded by cspan. Extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwords and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available when you walk into the store at the information desk so tonight we are excited to welcome back to the store h. W. Brands. He is a professor, who holds the senior chair in history. He is New York Times bestselling author of 30 books on us history. If you can keep history that interesting that you can write
Burning buildings and we are working to confirm whether the buildings are outbuildings or sheds or homes. Weve obtained coverage of this fire with meteorologist Steve Paulson talking about the powerful wind driving the fire. First, we bring in Cristina Rendon. Talk to us about the conditions. I can see its windy. Reporter very windy and the winds have not let up whatsoever. Its gotten worse since weve been in geyserville at the corner of Alexander Valley road and pine flat road. This area has been closed off to the public but cal fire crews are deep in the trenches trying to get a handle on this fire burning outofcontrol. You can see the flames along the ridge line and this area is where red winery road is and to the left is an area where 128 is in the casino wed mentioned earlier, red rock casino is in the area in danger, as we speak. In terms of the structures, along the hillside we saw at least one of those structures burning but we cant tell you if it is a house or winery or some t
The air quality that they have decided to shut down i 80 from highway 4 to 780 in vallejo. They are saying at this juncture theyre looking at a sixhour closure which puts us into the midnight hour. Thats not an exact science theyve got going. Theyre going to reassess as the evening progresses but you have to plan for the worst case scenario. He went through a list of different alternate routes you could go to, but the bottom line is theres going to be traffic no matter where you go. Your best option is to avoid this at all costs but theres going to be traffic. Its an eerie scene in the foreground, thats interstate 80. It is rare we see a shutdown of this magnitude for several hours. Theres interstate 80. You see zero cars on that except for fire crews. Just about 50 or 100 yards away is this fire. If you watched throughout the afternoon, at some point there were raging flames, an inferno. Right now its much better. Its almost out but weve seen that before and it seems to flair back up.
Counties. Sonoma county with the most, 65,000. Santa clara county, 38,000. Contra costa county, 37,000. Pg e says it continuing to monitor weather forecasts and th let us know when theyre turning that power back on. Now, we could take a look at the area thats burning, as you just mentioned, scott. But even closer, take a look. When you zoom in to the actual site, it kind of gives y breakdown of the actual areas where the power remains off. This can take you down to even individual street levels there as well. Its happening throughout the bay area. We have seen a little bit of improvement along the way, especially in some of the outlying areas of san jose and what have you. You continue to monitor whats going on, hoping for updates from pg e. Even deanza community college, half of it without power, the other half with. Take you to live pictures from nbc bay areas sky ranger. This shows you the actual burn area from that fire in moraga. Power lines were already shut off when this fire st
Wealth of strong manufacturing, a lot of it based in the building of carriage bodies but also in building iron stoves and Railroad Cars and wield, so detroit understood the manufacturing process but they also understood had a steel and iron and wood and rubber. Detroit had all of those talents right here in the designers and tool makers in the that in talk to make an automobile. So why dont we go inside and see the first car to travel on the street of detroit. So what we are looking at here looks very much like an oldfashioned right again, we just dont have a horse in front of, it in fact horses are sitting inside the vehicle, it is a motorized carriage, horseless, carriage this is the first to operate on the streets of detroit, Charles Brady king was the guy who designed this car and design the engine that went inside of, it its an unusual engine, four cylinders at the time people were using single or double cylinder engine, so powerful little vehicle. So Charles Brady kang and his bo