Mexico month author Richard White presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad. You draws mexico, next author Richard White presented history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club. You can find us on the internet. I am David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus and codirector of the center for the American West at Stanford University and your moderator for this program. This program is being presented with the California Historical society. It is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, Richard White, also a professor of history at Stanford University and codirector at the bill lane center for the American West with me and the author of the new book railroaded the transcontinentals and the making of modern america. Richard is got to be more precise, the Margaret Byrne professor of history at stanford or he has been since 1998. He previously taught at the university of utah and the university of washington where he took
Mexico month author Richard White presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad. You draws mexico, next author Richard White presented history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club. You can find us on the internet. I am David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus and codirector of the center for the American West at Stanford University and your moderator for this program. This program is being presented with the California Historical society. It is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, Richard White, also a professor of history at Stanford University and codirector at the bill lane center for the American West with me and the author of the new book railroaded the transcontinentals and the making of modern america. Richard is got to be more precise, the Margaret Byrne professor of history at stanford or he has been since 1998. He previously taught at the university of utah and the university of washington where he took
Many of these shops, but certainly nobody home here. It appears most people have heeded the Evacuation Order. But we did find some who decided to stay. Dana lamb and her family decided to stand their ground in downtown oroville. So no thoughts of evacuating . No. We have family that lives outside of town, so if anything hand, we would just go that direction. Reporter are you satisfied with the way its been handled . I feel like the priority is being taken care of. Reporter both work at a local grocery store. It was chaos down there. All of us as employees, we have to stay calm and think probably nothing is going to happen. It seemed like everything was okay. Reporter in the meantime, in the older part of town, a lowlying section of downtown, the streets are empty. And tens of thousands of evacuees are doing their best to ride out the emergency. Whats going on at the dam . Its pretty crazy. Al the traffic we saw. Some came better equipped than others. We have our cats right now. We have
Doppler 7 is tracking some patchy fog into the north bay its santa rosa that has the current issue, less than 2 miles visibility but the good news is it wont linger for too long. East bay hills looking beautiful on this Early Morning valentines day. Your forecast, look at this. Some Early Morning clouds, giving way to afternoon sunshine and that is not a mistake. This is a mild day around here, most spots away from the coast going into the 60s. You have some evening plans, look at that. By 7 00, clear skies, plenty of stars, and we are dry. You can leave the umbrella at home if you have date night on this valentines day. Temperatures not all that bad. Were into the mid 50s, between 54 and 57 degrees so the light jacket all you need later on tonight. Thats weather. Lets check traffic. Good morning, and we are looking okay. On the bay bridge toll plaza. There i am. Hello. Still no metering lights. That happens, of course, right around 5 30, so still no issues if you are coming across int
Get out of the central valley. Service canceled today and tomorrow. That has been extended due to the Poor Condition of those tracks. Live look outside at walnut creek. You can see the brake lights filling in here. Southbound 680, no blocking incidents in that area. Np 17, very slow and we have a very big crash in sunol on 680. The mandatory evacuations remain in place this morning for 188,000 People Living below the oroville dam. Officials want to stress the dam itself is safe. The concern is over the dams emergency spillway. Crews are racing to fill a giant hole that opened up in the earth. They hope to drop the lake by 50 feet before the rain returns. Right now, its down 10 feet. Fema has mobilized a task force to work with the other agencies and evacuees are being told to be prepared to be out of their homes for days, possibly even weeks. And no word yet from the white house on whether its going to grant governor browns request for emergency funding. Helicopter crews from across th