St. John stretch reverent rob fischer. Law welcome good evening my name is rob fischer i am the director of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit of a history of this historic room that you are sitting in tonight, and so i will share with you this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henri vitro, and not only did he designs church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 18. 12 in 1818, he built what is now the home of the historical association. And if you go inside the dictator house, and you look up, you see a similar entrance. Its almost like a miniature of this dome of we have in our church space. The Original Church was built as a greek cross, so it wasnt even four sides. In just six years later, in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room f
Cooler. That will be the trend throughout the day today. 7 00 numbers everyone is in the 50s. Few high clouds today with 70s around the bay, by about noontime inland were just in the low to mid 80s. Its a cooler afternoon, two to six degrees cooler and well talk about the high fire danger returning in a few minutes. Liz . Thanks, lisa. Cal fire crews are warg six fires burning in the hills east of milpitas. The reservoir fire first started around noon yesterday. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena spoke to cal officials who are investigating. Reporter two columns of smoke. As the dispatch was going out for a response he started to see a third and fourth, eventually we ended up with six separate fires. Reporter the call came at inn at 11 57 a. M. The aerial shows the fire in the hills east of milpitas. Area and Ground Resources began to contain the six fires. Firefighters are ruling out the possibility of arson. Arson is always a possibility in Something Like this but you also have the possibi
Miles. The only good thing about it is that number one we are in the middle of the day. This is not a heavy commute time. Streets dont appear to be slick with rain. That is the case this morning. With more than a couple of miles of backup, there is an awful lot of heavy traffic on 580 eastbound leading up to that crash at the exit. So keep that in mind if you are making your way around the east bay, hopefully this will be cleaned up but for the beginning of the afternoon commute. We did have the first rain of the season this morning right here in the bay area. While it was a welcome other sight for some, it created a lot of traffic headaches. Ktvu live with a look at condition there is. What a difference a couple of hours makes. And we are now seeing blue skies and sunshine here in freemont. It was a very different story before sunrise this morning. Slick roads and soggy conditions. The bay area woke up to rain for the First Time Since may. It is really nice to have the rain after so m
Has affected results. Financially dependent on their partner. A third of women say theyd struggle to pay the bills if their relationship broke down. Ill look at why. A super man for the super cup. Liverpools stand in keeper adrian is the hero as the reds beat chelsea on penalties to win their first trophy of the season. We are looking at gusty winds through the irish sea, but a drier day than yesterday for most of us, and fewer showers. Its thursday, the 15th august. Our top story the labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has laid out plans to take over as caretaker Prime Minister in order to stop a no deal brexit. In a letter to Opposition Party leaders and rebel mps, mr corbyn said his aim was to call a general election and seek a possible extension to the brexit departure date before holding another referendum with the option to remain in the eu. So, what kind of a response might he expect . 0ur Political Correspondent tom bartonjoins us now from westminster. Good morning, tom. This is an o