Someone. Reporter yeah. Police are waiting for the autopsy and toxicology results to see if the man was under the influence of drugs or not. They are also looking at Surveillance Video taken from a camera at this motel here, which captured the fight between the man add the female comes. Live in San Francisco, im da lin, kpix 5. Those two officers were released from the hospital. We are told they are at home recovering from their injuries. Breaking news out of san jose where a brush fire is burning near a strip mall. This is near the Eastridge Shopping Center at quimby and capitol expressway. There are also some homes in the area. The fire sending up a pretty big plume of dark smoke and we are keeping an eye on it. Also another fire is burning on brannon island up in the delta. It started in the last hour. So far, its destroyed at least six structures. Some of them are homes. We are told several palm trees are also burning. Well be following this closely as firefighters work to put out
5 contained. Three homes have burned. Hundreds more are evacuated. Its burn not far from clearlake in a rugged area near the community of lower lake. Cate caugiran is there. She tells us the terrain is a big challenge for firefighters. Reporter it certainly has been. I can tell you now as you said, that fire is still burning. Cal fire says within the past hour that fire kicked back up a notch has burned more than 200 acres within that past hour. You can take a look at this damage. Actually i want to point out these trees. They look like theyre pink, little reddish, thats actually flame retardant. Thats because fire crews are focusing on containment right now trying to keep this fire from jumping major roads. Because as we take a step back here we want to show you just how large the damage is. If you take a look at these hills, its getting so close to what looks like someones home as we are pointing out now. Firefighters say they they are working against Mother Nature batting the flames
At the university of richmond on the subject of her latest book remembering the civil war. She returned to richmond the following june to accept the Jefferson Davis award for the same book. Her first book, burying the dead but not the past, is a personal favorite of mine kerry as she well knows. She also edited an edition of a travel account which unfortunately is outofprint and unavailable. As carrie knows, i have given a talk on her first book i think as many times as you have. [laughter] it is a branch of history that so many people do not know about and since we are in the postwar period and the sesquicentennial timeframe, it is especially important. Carrie janney also coedited with gallagher, our last speaker, a book about the overland campaign. We keep it all in the family here at the museum. We also offer a chance today if you are interested in getting that book, you can get both editors to sign it at the same time. It is available for sale after the break. Today, Carrie Janney
Combat ourselves for racial peac peace. The trenches that we have dug together around santiago shall the eternal resting place for all that separates us in our business and civil situations. Heres booker t. Washington offering the ultimate reconciliationist message trying to unite the United States in sectional and racial peace, not in a purposeful forgetting of the past, but in acknowledgment of the sacrifice of the devotion of black men that they had always shown to the United States. Of course, this reconciliation between the races was not to be at that moment, but neither was there as much reconciliation between north and south as popular images would have us believe. Popular images even from the time such as this cover of puck suggesting former confederates and former union vets had reunited. In 1865 the refusal of the United States government to bury confederate dead in national u. S. Cemeteries alongside the concurrent development of Confederate National cemeteries by the ladys
Dead but not the past, is a personal favorite of mine kerry as she well knows. Also edited an addition edition of a travel account which unfortunately is outofprint and unavailable. Carriey knows as knows, i have given a talk on her first book i think it many times as you have. [laughter] branch of history that so many people do not know about and since we are in the postwar sesquicentennial timeframe, it is especially important. Coeditedney also with gallagher, our last speaker, a book about the overland campaign. We keep it all in the family here at the museum. Chance today if you are interested in getting that book, you can get both editors to sign it at the same time. It is available for sale after the break. Today, Carrie Janney will be speaking about the civil war, and the spanishamerican war and the limits of National Reconciliation. Ladies and gentlemen, one of my personal favorites, Carrie Janney. [applause] dr. Janney thank you to waite so much. It is always a treat to get to