About, midtown manhattan, and a couple preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than power point as a term. Im not good at power point. Its not that im a luddite. Im just not good at technology. Im just a technological idiot. Well, this is not the supreme city is not the book i originally set out to write. The original idea was to do the whole city, all five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii, but without trying to be too cute, i took too big a bite out of the apple, and i discovered as i was doing my research that there was i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell, and its an untold story actually. Its been told in bits and pieces, but its never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative, and that story is the rise of the the sudden and spectacular rise i should say of midtown manhattan in the 1920s which was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a
Written about Sea Level Rise john does an excellent job of taking scientist science and preparing that in a way i understand it he talked about the implementations of super storm coming ashore in atlanta city and human right atlanta city the thing he did was publish the book a week before the storm. So i think he causes it laughter he did anything to sell the book. Yeah. Anything to sell the book im glad he didnt work on the bicycle hes a great writer with you also more important a better speaker than a writer so i recruited him to come to the bay area to work with me as i was trying to explain Sea Level Rise i found there was a considerable regulation of people hearing from a bureaucrat using this to administer i thought john could explain it better as a result weve developed a close working relationship hes in the bay area more than anywhere else except his home in florida and the work in washington he appeared and i appeared i was at lunch today at the lauren national lab tomorrow a
This is near the castro district. Take a look at this photo from a viewer showing this huge plume of black smoke the fire sent up. The flames spread to two other buildings. No word on the damage. No reports of any injuries. We have a crew heading to the scene to bring you the latest details on the fire at 6 00. A hayward neighborhood on edge after a man tried to snatch a 14yearold girl off the street yesterday. She was walking home from school at the time. Police now asking for help in tracking down this man right there. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith live right now with the latest. Being. Police are getting the word out and put a sketch out and say they dont get reports like this often. When they do it gets their full attention. Lets take a look at that sketch based on information given to police by the victim. The man described as hispanic in his 20s. Clean shaven. Brown short wavy hair 59 150 to 160 pounds. Yesterday afternoon, a 14yearold girl told police a man approached her when sh
Mechanism or the mail carrier would not deliver to their home. There are certain requirements that are needed to be met in order for these lockboxes to be installed. Reporter we met up with a u. S. Postal inspector today. Jeff fitchs office is a Law Enforcement branch of the postal service. A postal inspector opened an investigation into the evergreen mail thefts after our phone call. Postal inspectors that are assigned to our san jose Mail Theft Team are looking into this. Reporter he asks people to file mail theft reports online or via their 24hour hotline. Neighbors in evergreen say they gave inspectors this Surveillance Video footage and the license plate number of the suspects van. The inspectors vow to go after every mail thief. Its a federal offense. Postal inspectors are federal agents. We investigate this. Potential penalty of up to five years in federal prison. This is the car. And everybody keeps saying its a mazda. Reporter most of her neighbors have seen deborah murphys vi
Hes being housed in that building behind me the main jail here in downtown san jose. Within the past hour he did agree to meet with us. The 23yearold san jose man confessing to us that he did steal hundreds of dollars from girl scouts selling cookies yesterday. He told us that hes sorry for what he did and the reason he did it, he needed the money to support his daily heroin habit. Yesterday afternoon, he was needing a fix really bad, but didnt have the money. He stopped by the safeway in san jose to use the restroom. He noticed the cash box on table. When he came out from the restaurant he noticed a mom was gone and snatched the box with at least 300 inside. The withdrawal from heroin is pretty intense. Kind of takes over a lot of you. Including your rational thought process, which normally i would never even try to i was desperate, so i tried. Do you feel bad about it . Yeah i definitely feel bad about it. Feel bad because you got caught . No. A lot of it is the reason why i feel bad