We are seeing cloudy skies up their. Most of today will be fairly cloudy. Showers are possible. Right now were unsure when and where. Tomorrow a better chance for showers and storms. The rest of the week should be storm freeing with hot temperatures in land. We have munson and moisture that is coming up farther north bank. A lot of it is that the foothills and Sierra Nevada area. Early this morning were not worried about the showers and storms threat. There may be a little bit of a drizzle. Cloudy conditions toward the east bay and livermore valley. It will stay fairly cloudy truck the day. We can see some showers and the north bank. Later tonight and through the overnight hours into tuesday and we will see a chance for showers. Tomorrow we will see more aggressive showers it especially in the north bay. Tempters right now 57 downtown. The 60s in san jose. Highs for today no hot temperatures. The average like livermore is 84. There is a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms today
For that introduction, thank you so much. I wish my parents could have heard that. It would have made my father very proud and my mother actually would have believed you. So there you go. Well, for me as you suggested, this lecture concludes an amazing year that began just a year ago when the library, the fred w. Smith library for the study of George Washington opened and i was able to take a seat as one of the inaugural library fellows. During that year, i learned what a treasure all of you have in mt. Vernon. Led by kurt v. Brands and with the library led by doug bradburn, the staff here is simply extraordinary. Theyre extraordinarily dedicated, theyre extraordinarily loyal and theyre extraordinarily collegial. For 150 years the mt. Vernon Ladies Association has kept this place special. And with the new library, the orientation and education center, no crop of those women have done a better job than the current one, at least since martha did it alone. Among those remarkable women, of
Move. There. We think of retirement as golf, bridge, a condo in florida with no grass to mow. But what would it mean to George Washington . He used the word often in 1783 as the revolutionary war was winding down and he prepared to resign his commission as commander in chief of American Forces in december. Mt. Vernon would be the and im quoting here, the seat of my retirement from the bustle of the busy world, washington wrote in one typical letter. Yet what did he envision . What did he envision that retirement to be . He was only 51 years old. And the most celebrated man in america, if not the world. The master of one of virginias largest plantations and both deeply committed to and profoundly concerned about the future of his newly independent country. If by to retire one means to rest, he knew that would not be the case. First, he had plenty to do on the plantation. An almost entire suspension of everything which related to my own estate for near nine years has accumulated an abund
A push to recognise and reconcile children who were virtually stolen by their families. It was heart breaking to walk by empty cages top predators falling victim to a virus. The race to save a sanctuary full of big cats. We begin with breaking news in lebanon, where a series of explosions has claimed seven lives. A pair of bomb blasts ripped through a suburb south of the capital beirut. Its a predominantly shia muslim community. Four civilians and one military officer were killed, along with two suspected suicide bombers. Reports say it was a car bomb and a motorcycle bomb exploding subtle aniously outside simultaneously outside an iranian embass which. Around the World Governments in crisis. In ukraine 25 are dead, and hundreds injured after police went into kievs Independence Square and cracked down on antigovernment demonstrators have been camped out since december. In thailand fighting in the streets. In venezuela. Deadly protests. This is a live look at kiev. We have this report m
Intense flames as you can see. They had to go through deep mud marsh land to make it more difficult to fight. You can see the thick black smoke rising into the area scene through many parts of the bay area. Pipeline Railroad Trestle also caught fire. Pipeline come from an energy plant which was not generating power at the time. There are also piles of Railroad Ties which contributed to the heavy smoke you see. Crew from several communities on the scene as we speak. There are no injuries but it was really tough tricky little fire fight for them today. More on this on 7 news at 11 00 over on on 7 news at 11 00 over on channel 7 now to the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet. In the past hour search plane took off from australia again. Investigators are closing in on this image of debris in the indian ocean. Is it flight 37 370 . The we have the latest. Reporter u. S. And australia search team say they are hot on the trail of flight 370. High tech planes are now scanning the ope