Museum, thank you to the museum for hiring me. I am the Senior Historian at the museum. Welcome to another installment of our meet the author series where we bring you the best world war ii literature and the men and women who write and create it. Before i introduce tonights offer, a man who needs no introduction, let me carry out the tradition of the National World war ii in museum. Are there any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in the audience tonight . There we go. I knew there were two right on top. To say we thank you for your services be understood that understand of the century. Any other era, please stand and be recognized. That is wonderful. Thanks to all of you for your support and service. We have incurred a group of friends with us in the museum and i would like to acknowledge each of them. Cspan, the folks from cspan are filming tonight. I want you to be on your best behavior because cspan is forever. I want to acknowledge those watching on our live stream and th
Russia when they do between one meets putin on thursday. You know what youre describing of course is the dangerous balancing act that the put in has been playing in syria when it sat on the one hand of course he doesnt want to throw away this very carefully build relationship with syria where he invested so many years in for the last 5 years but also of course the relationship with iran is very crucial so this is this very dangerous balancing act and there has been no official statements about of course their strategy because the official line from russia maintains to be there needs to do this offensive because turkey has reached agreements they were they had promised that they would this on this what they call terrorists here and they didnt do it so assad has this right to to have this attack on the on the rebel groups and russia is basically backing him off but in the last couple of weeks there have been many meetings between turkey and russia and it hasnt been any result because rus
This is the 10 00 news on ktvu fox 2. Mixed reaction tonight as Governor Newsom details his plan. This is less than ideal, there are many other parcels, state land, that can be used. The governor detailed or called homelessness the states top issue in the state of the state address two days ago. Today we learned a key component. The governor identified 286 sites that local governments can take over. You are looking at a map showing those properties that newsom says municipalities can lease for just a dollar if the land is used for homeless shelters and services. We are taking a look at the potential sites and why some call the governors plan problematic. Reporter many of the sites are here in the bay area, from walnut creek down to san jose. We are in berkeley right across the street from one of the sites along i80 at the University Avenue exit. Already there are people who are camped out here. This is one of the places some people say is a good idea, others say they think there are so
Chairman of the friends of falls bluff, his tactical study is widely considered to be the definitive work on that subject. Lets welcome james morgan. applause good morning everyone can everyone hear me ok . I will be moving around, so this microphone can i get sound back there do you have sound back there . First of all our topic, our theme a small battles and big results. And balls bluffs meets this criteria. 1700 men on each side the numbers were almost dead even. 1709 confederate, 1700 federals. Makes him using to read the officers after actions report because on both sides they insist they were terribly outnumbered by the other side. The numbers were dead even. Not only a total number but also at every point of contact during the day as those numbers are increasing up to the ultimate 1700 or so. Every point of contact the numbers are fairly close. That is just kind of fun to read the after action reports. Small battle general charles stone, Union Division commander after the war, w
We are zipping by here. Good morning, everyone. I am frank. Rosemary is enjoying the day off. Are you bringing the rain . I wish i could do that if i had a magic wand and i can make that happen, i would do it in a second. A live look outside right now, we have a few clouds out there this morning, certainly in the south bay in particular but we are going to see good sunshine as we get the day going as we move along. However, rain is on everyone mind and heres the simple reason. The last time we had rain, january 28. It has been 25 days since we have had any meaningful precipitation. You might think a, is that some rain . Well, the central part of california perhaps. Sprinkles in san jose, but it is kind of falling apart. This is the system that will track to the south and east and unfortunately not bringing us any rain in Southern California, getting a little bit out of that. Current temperatures this morning, 55 in San Francisco. Chilly temperatures in santa rosa. 40 in napa, 38 in fai