Now, i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan but i was colorblind and i couldnt get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserve corps, which they let College Students go into with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school. Their thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. Youd go back to school and start again wherever it left off. I went to try to enlist. I was colorblind. Had to go back. Finally i got in the army but i was restricted for what i could do. I went to texas for basic training. I spent 16 weeks in texas. They send me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. Unfortunately when i got to the university of connecticut, i found i had had everything they were teaching. I had already been through. So i reported to them that i was wasting my time, and they suggested they would send me to m. I. T. Thats what happened. They sent me to m. I. T. I did my time at
Temperatures just as hot as yesterday with no relief in sight. A few spots warmer than we were 24 hours ago. A live look at the oakland estuary. We have a haze in the sky that continues. Expect hazy conditions and poor air quality over portions of the bay area. When it comes to the advisories, the start of the weekend, they continue until 9 00 tonight. The heat advisory is for the coastline with the excessive heat warning for the bayside as well as the ballot in the hills. This will expire tonight and in its place heightened fire danger to talk about. Take a look at the numbers. 97 degrees right now in novato. 101 in concord. 101 in livermore. 98 in the san jose. Especially inland cities, 510 degrees of warming expected by the end of the day. Around the bay, we will continue to warm as well. As far as the 24 hour temperature change. Half moon bay down by 9 degrees. There is hope that we are seeing a transition. East bayshore are up by 5 degrees over oakland. In his bay as well is a nor
Rushing through acre after acre of woodland. You can see from the video taken about an hour ago flames shooting 40 feet high in the air a we said, 2400 acres have burned with 205 homes in the evacuation zone. People in napa county are no stranger to catastrophic fire and have been preparing. We are nervous, but we have done a lot of Fire Prevention work over the past year preparing ourselves since 2017. We have been doing a lot of work around here to take flammable trees down and clear as much as we can. So far, the fire still has a zero containment on this place partially due to unstable air conditioning. It made retardant drops impossible which is how we stop fires here in rugged terrain like this around napa and sonoma counties. Any update on the fire burning nearby as well . That fire stands at 375 acres, that is the gamble fire burning near knoxville road west of brooks right now. It has zero containment at this point as well, with of course the rugged terrain in this area and ver
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Chris wallace, inker of fox news sunday. 2014 marked his 50th year in the broadcast industry. He has participated in coverage of nearly every Major Political event and secured high profile interviews of dignitaries and leaders. He has broadcast the sunday morning show every sunday. Chris wallace is with us today to speak about his new book count town in 1945 countdown 1945 that recounts the lives of ordinary americans in japanese during the wartime and the americans and the pacific to launch a possible invasion of japan. A story how in 116 days truman goes to the Vice President to be completely cut out of the fdr white house to suddenly become the president. The story of the flight crew and others we invite you to join our view on Virtual Program with Chris Wallace and Reagan Foundation Institute Executive director. Chris wallace, congratulations. What a terrific book. As you may know guess come through the Reagan Library this is a terrific book and a historical thriller. I just loved