1990s as a successor to the organization of the same name that originally built and administered grants tomb in new york city until it was transferred to the National Park service. The gma is dedicated to the preservation of grants tomb, the largest monument in the western hemisphere. Grant, the principal author of Union Victory in the civil war, and our nations 18th president. We revived the gma tradition to commemorate grants birthday with a dinner in new york city. The program each year has been an educational one, highlighted by a hollow a colloquy in which general David Petraeus interviews a historian about different aspects of grants story. Another celebration is the commemoration of grants birthday at his tomb. Because of the pandemic, we are advanceriencing, both if vince have been canceled, but we thought it was important to celebrate grants birthday. It also means we can reach a great many people who otherwise would not have been able to make it to dinner in new york. For tho
Its 11 oclock am watching all to International Line from a studio with mina welcome to the program. The exit polls are looking good for israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu putting him behind key rival benny gantz ballots closed an hour ago in the unprecedented 2nd parliamentary election which is again a close run race or across live now to tell of the. Middle east correspondent has been across this Paula Netanyahu hopes of a record 5th looks like its fading all the polls correct. Well only time will tell whether the polls are correct but certainly what were hearing at this stage is that theres been no afterlife when this was a close contest between the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right Wing Likud Party and his former i. D. F. Chief benny gantz and his same to left blue and white party neither of them has won and are 5 majority and more importantly neither of them looking at these initial exit polls is able to form a Majority Coalition government they need
The cloud cover, a little bit left that fired up on the lee side of the sierra. And low clouds are back and the overnight lows on due to the ve we have a robust on shore breeze. Everything is in place for the temperatures on the cooler side with the lows up due to the warm ocean temperatures. Maybe some isolated showers up towards the sierra and the oregon border. And the monsoon is making an appearance in arizona. 60s, 70s, and mainly low 80s. I came in with the man who said we just missed the train. Sometimes the trains are very, very long. Very long. Good morning, everyone. Were talking about oakland trains here. Lets take a look at the altamont pass. Its off to a nice start. Westbound 580 and 205, also looking at highway 4. All the far away commutes are doing well. If youre driving to the bay bridge toll plaza, its light. 4 02. Lets go back to decide whether a man accused of viciously attacking a woman at her San Francisco condo building should be released from jail. Austin vincent
Pleasure to introduce caroline, caroline janney, professor of the American Civil War at the university of virginia, where she also served as director of the john l nels the third center for Civil War History where she succeeded her mentor, gary w gallagher. Shes the author or editor of 7 books and is one of the series editors for the university of North Carolina prestigious civil war america series. She has served as president of the society of civil war historians and is here to talk about her new book ends of war the unfinished fight of lees army after appomattox. I am a 30 pages in and it is riveting. It is a wonderful book. I just this morning saw a brandnew review that appeared in todays wall street journal by someone named Harold Holzer and he calls it, immensely readable and utterly convincing. Please join me in welcoming caroline janney. [applause] good morning. So first, a big thanks to john, the entire class gets a quiz. So we can institute that policy right now if that will
Cool for us. Unseasonably cool here. And temperatures yesterday were in the 60s. I dont really see much change here today. Were starting off mostly cloudy. We dont have the coverage on the fog bank, but its a combination of low clouds and some higher clouds. A little bit of activity on the lee side of this year. And you can see the cloud cover coming up. So another day of unseasonably cool temps here, 60s. And thats it. Maybe for a while. All right over to sal now. And quiet or something on your screens. There was a little roadwork steve you know that you see it on the way in. But for the most part, we have a nice quiet commute. We dont have anything major. Lets go right to the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see that traffic is looking good. Weve been kind of looking around. So you get up this early, youre expecting a pretty decent commute right now. Thats what you have. You have most of it is wide open for you. Even the south bay. Theres some road work here on some of the expressways,