I am professor of history at gettysburg college. My guess is gordon ray. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write a comprehensive history of those operations. Those operations, as you know, covered Central Virginia and ended on june 1 at cold harbor. It really is hard to imagine that anyone will ever again attempt to write such a comprehensive history because what gordon did is truly phenomenal. It is model tactical history, well researched, beautifully written, and above all else, contextualized. As a microstudy of who did what and where. What is really remarkable is that gordon dived into the archives, and so much of tactical history, much about gettysburg, never draws from original manuscript material, which in my estimation, is almost criminal. Gordon he dove into the archives. Just to give you one example, the third volume of his series, an impressive amount of research that included 150 manus
Kenyan mall continues. The fourth day in that standoff marked overnight by bursts of gunfire. The kenyan foreign minister says two or three of the attackers were american. In this position we have a young man. President obama will address the United Nations General Assembly this morning. The question hanging over the meeting is whether the president will meet face to face with irans new leader. Firefighters battling a fastmoving wildfire east of l. A. The fire is there. Vice President Biden to colorado hit hard by recent flooding. Hillary clinton says shes thinking about 2016 but shes not in a hurry to announce anything just yet. Do you think shed rather be today, she can do both, president or grandmother . A cherokee girl at the center of a highprofile custody battle has been returned to the couple who are asiped to adopt her. Bam. A 400,000 bam boarlamborghini is split in half. The driver unharmed. Shaquille oneal has bought a minority share of the sacramento kings. Sacramento and al
Split in half. The driver unharmed. Shaquille oneal has majority share of the sacramento kings. Sacramento and to quit smoking on cbs this morning. Always something going on here in new york city. Opening day at the United Nations. Everybody agreed its not as much fun without berlusconi. [ laughter ] announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota, lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Good morning, norah. Good morning. We begin this morning with the battle to win control of the nairobi mall. Its in its fourth day, gunfire and explosions erupting inside the building this morning. Kenya Security Forces are making a final push to clear out all militants. Countrys foreign minister says two or three americans are among the attackers. At least 62 people are dead in the siege. Including a woman who is more than eight months pregnant. Charlie dagata is at the scene in nairobi. Reporter day four of the
Now at five. Pam fire on the freeway, chaos for commuters on the bay bridge. Three hours three to four hours mucho trafico pam no matter how you say it, the backkup from big rig fire is just now easing up. This is a live look at the bridge traffic now, from treasure island. All lanes now reopened but the Lasting Impact still being felt. We have a reporter monitoring the conditions for us. But first, Catherine Heenan catherine is here. To show us how the big rig fire played out this morning. Catherine lets look at the scene. This is the view from down below the big rig. As it was still burning. This is westbound 80 right before the 5th street off ramp. In downtown san catherine this was such a mess. It might have been worse than a bart strike. In terms of traffic on the bay bridge. Pam pam because of a flat tire about 5 45 am. He pulled over to the right shoulder and got out and spotted smoke coming from the engine. Fortunately he ran away from the truck because only a short time later
Everything is transferred to another tanker. It must be pumped out as opposed to draining it with gravity. We dont want to right it with fuel in the tanks. The most serious complication is that roadway. Severely damaged by the gasoline. It has to be replaced and that will take many hours and that is many hours after the truck is hauled away. Tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. And here is a look at the effected areas right now. 101 north bound dominated by red. The traffic is really backed up. And then if you look at 580 westbound, the traffic starts to get bad after the bridge. We have breaking news. This time in fairfield. A big rig caught fire after over turning on interstate 80. Images show what is left of the burned wreckage that ended up on the shoulder. The driver was reportedly unharmed. There is no word of other injuries. You can see here the backup, it is a huge backup. It is creating major delays for drivers. Currently the right lanes on eastbound 80 remain blocked. New at 5 00