Reporter 48,000 people have been evacuated so far between santa cruz and san mateo counties. As you mentioned, this fire exploding to nearly 50,000 acres, 0 contained. Coming up in a couple hour, we expect to get an up date from cal fire as to the status of the fire so far. They have been telling us about some of their challenges in fighting the fire, this low relative humidity, insaysab ina terrain and of course the limited julian glover, abc 7 news. As he mentioned, not only there in santa cruz, but fires are burning across the entire bay area this morning. And this map kind of gives you a sense of how widespread the emergency is. Many fires are burning in five counties, there are widespread evacuations. The lnu lightning complex in the north bay has caused the stuildings have been destroyed, dozens damaged. These fires have burned 131,000 acres with 0 containment. Cal fire says the winds are a huge threat as we head into the weekend. Now lets go to the south bay, the scu fire, it is
Particular course, but the sea will come, the wind will come, youll lose, ultimately youll move, ultimately, in a differentic direction. More prosaically, it comes from a period in my career when i was a fourstar admiral. I was finishing up down in u. S. Southern command, peter, and i was in charge of all military activity south of the United States. Andi i was very hopeful of going to the pacific next as the end of u. S. Pacific command which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. Gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So from the nato perspective i was at the dental admiral who became the supreme allied expired but the navy was an accident as well, one it, as a career . Guest somewhat. So, lets go way back. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father, george stavridis, proud colone
Publication. Discussing objects relating to soldiers uniforms. This took place online and the New York Historical society provide d the video. So now, civil war fashion. And to help us understand the past as a historian at New York Historical, i work alongside these treasures every day and it is my great privilege to use them in exhibitions as well. But harold, lets tell our audience about the inspiration for our program, the book, civil war in 50 objects. How can only 50 objects tell such a sweeping story . We used to ask ourselves that question often when we were whittling down the list and there was so much to choose from. The hardest things to preserve are textiles. Some are really extraordinary in terms of how they survived. Absolutely. We have a uniform. Some military buttons. Foot locker and a drum. Very interesting. Fashion, maybe, maybe not. But in aggregate, they tell the story of uniform courage outfitting the civil war soldier. Lets start with this uniform. So, surviving un
Report recorded this conversation. You might recognize my voice, because in previous life streams, im usually the guy behind the camera, and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend millions all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments, memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in. And working here at monticello, we are a site of memory, and monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today we decided that, to have a conversation, we would do something we haven
An introduction. The name is general lafayette, although i believe that most of your americans know me far better by my name of the old iner of the revolution here america, and that of course is the marquis de lafayette. What a pleasure and honor to see all of you here on this simply magnificent day. July, the day in which we french celebrate the beginning of our revolution. My deare meeting with friend, your thomas jefferson, in hopes that he shall arrive sometime soon, so let us hope we can all have a conversation together. Where is mr. Jefferson . Mon cher, lafayette. Cher, jefferson. What a pleasure it is to see you again over so many years. Years, than 30 absolutely. And with great reverence to bastille day. Just as we celebrate the fourth of july, in france it is the 14th of july. We shall celebrate together, my friend. General, we have not forgotten your assistance in our nation either, and the American Revolution would have never been successful without the aid of france. It is