And our next speaker is going to talk specifically about the battle here at franklin, which is one of the most famous or we appreciate you coming here and being a part of the event and our next speaker is going to talk about specifically about the battle here at franklin printed the most famous or infamous battles of the American People which took place in 1864. You will be out there with some great historians. As well as Eric Jacobson, who is part of the battle of franklin printed places like favela, it really was the epicenter of the battle at franklin. Its first time to be out there at franklin. They have 56,000 acres, they have a lot of places like franklin and nashville. Our next speaker today is Andrew Bledsoe and he had his phd in 2012 and teaches at lehigh in cleveland. The author of citizen officers, the american civil war. A fantastic book. The latest book, the 19 critical decisions that find the battle, he has been a fellow at the u. S. Military academy. The u. S. Army herod
Candidate for the november Mayoral Election in 2019, but now there will be a special election for interim mayor in june. He faces election much sooner. I was planning on another two years of campaigning, now it will be a mere six month. Reporter leno has already been raising money and building coalitions since he declared last may. But he may be facing board of supervisors president london breed who is now acting mayor. If she runs, you might call her sort of an incumbent. Should president breed decide to run, it will be an uphill battle for anyone thats going to be looking to challenge her. Reporter other potential candidates, state assemblyman and former supervisors president david chu who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2011. Former supervisor and assemblyman tom amiano says chu will have to roll the dice. His challenge will be the race for assembly is this year as well, so if he ran in june, he would have to give up his assembly race. Reporter also resumed, supervisor jane kim who
Future and right now the president of the board of supervisors london breed is the acting mayor. A special election will take place june 5th of next year. The winner chosen by voters will dpnch out lees term. Between now and june, the board of supervisors can meet at any time to vote on someone other than london breed to serve as acting mayor until the special election. Abc7 news vic lee is live with a look at who might be interested at taking the job. Strik . Reporter well, dan, a lot depends i guess the conventional wisdom is that a lot depends on whether london breed, the acting mayor will declare her candidacy for interim mayor in that special june election. A lot of people here at city hall with whom i spoke, mostly off record, believe she will. Now in respect to mayor lee, once hes laid to rest, the gloves should come off. There is no one like him. But because he wasnt a politician, he did things very differently. Reporter the sudden death of mayor ed lee, an earthquake thats sha
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After devastating parts of houston, its been in the gulf of mexico, but its moving again. This is the projected path for the storm. Heading in an north easterly direction through the zorya, tennessee and kentucky. New orleans should miss the worst of it and the storm will lose intensity as it moves inland. But its still potent. The cities of beaumont and port arthur received more than 20 inches of rain overnight and while the storm moves on the heart of the story remains in houston where severe flooding remains. Heres what the Texas Governor said earlier. The rain that was received in the Harris County area has set an all time record. Now that rain has moved to the beaumont region in south east texas. Approximately 15 inches of rain have already fallen in that area, and theres more to come. The worst is not yet over for south east texas as far as rain is concerned. There will be ongoing challenges in the time rain continues to fall, as well as for approximately four days to a week to c