Patrick allitt teaches a class about the California Gold rush of the mid1800s. He talks about the evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning, everybody. Morning. My lecture today is the history of the gold rush. And im going to talk mainly about california in the years immediately following 1848. But goallds played a very Important Role in history. The history the conquest, first of the aztecs and then the incas is an unquenchable thirst for gold. When the first english settlers came to jamestown in 1607, one of the things they were hoping to find was gold like the spaniards. They brought with them jewelers and goldsmiths. But americas first gold rush took very close to where we are now in georgia. In 1829. This was the georgia gold rush in north georgia. About to the town of deloniga, the courthouse has been converted into a gold mine museum. First gold was discovered and people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold wo
Good morning im phillip mena. And im dara brown. Francis has the days off. Breaking news overnight is rattling millions in the u. S. , including hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants. Politico is reporting that President Trump will soon halt daca. The program granting work permits to those undocumented immigrants who arrived as children. The president is expected to make an announcement on tuesday after wrestling with what to do on the issue for months. Heres what mr. Trump said in february. Were going to deal with daca with heart. I have to deal with a lot of politicians, dont forget and i have to convince them that what im saying is right. Reports of the president s decision comes as up to ten states threaten to sue the administration if the program is not cancelled by tomorrow. And with nearly 800,000 Daca Recipients already shielded from deportation since the program started in 2012, the ramifications could be massive, impacting those socalled dreamers. The reactio
Stronger. 82 in the city. 59. 70 55 is average. Record territory is 94 back in 1992. Sunny and warmer today. In fact the 80s 70s and 80s over by the beaches. Mid80s around the bay. Upper 80s and low 90s inland as High Pressure wins out for a couple of days. It is screaming all the way down to Southern California, wrapping into a low. They are a little cooler than we are. We get the benefit of the north wind and that takes care of any fog. 50sand 60s. We should warm up quick. 49 another side. Yet 62 los altos hills. Pacifica is already 64. Off shore at the napa airport. Sunny and warm day that translates into the 70, 80s and 90s. 7 01. You have been busy all of a sudden. Where do you want to start. With the east shore freeway, steve, because we had a stalled vehicle 80 westbound at ashby. It didnt stay there too long. But the traffic is slow in berkeley. It will be slow in richmond as well as you drive through el cerrito and berkeley. About 43 minutes between the carquinez bridge and th
The sun work rise close to 6 00. Concord reporting 9 miles an hour. Temperatures are very similar to yesterday. Here is some of the fog across the coast and inside the bay. Patchy drizzle as well. Especially along the coast. This will burn back in we will have partly to mostly sunny along the coastline. In the afternoon, we make it sunshine but it returns to the coast later in the afternoon. Then we move across the bay into the evening hours. Temperaturewise cover a lot of 60s on the coast. 70s around the bay. Low 80s to low 90s in hotter locations. 83, santa rosa. 80 and san jose. Temperatures warm in the second half of the week. Into the weekend as well. I will look at those numbers coming up. Not lets check traffic. Good morning. Traffic is going to be okay. I want to mention at the 24680 interchange, they are wrapping up some road work that means some cars are not getting through although it looks like now they have opened the ramp from 680 to 24. They still have one of the trucks
Do you make you will absolutely accept the result of this election . Ill tell you at the time. Ill keep you in suspense. Donald trump wont vow to honor Election Results. Thats horrifying and i, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties, would take that kind of position. Surely, he is not thinking about trying to stage a coup, but it threatens the very foundations of what this nation is about. Why do you think he did it, mark . Im certain its not the answer they rehearsed. A helicopter in the air firing guns. Iraqi and u. S. Forces make new gains in the fight to retake mosul. What is becoming clear this is going to take a lot longer than thought. In portland, oregon, a powerful natural gas explosion destroyed a building in a shopping district and injured eight people, including three firefighters. Scary. Officials in the philippines are warning typhoon could produce catastrophic effects. The city is already getting hammered. Ball game clevelan