them minors who witnessed george floyd s death. one of them was a third grader who was with her cousin at the scene of floyd s arrest. before that we heard emotional testimony from the teenage cousin of that younger eyewitness. her name, darnella. she was 17 years old last may when george floyd died. she s the one who recorded the nine-plus minute video of his death that arguably triggered both this trial and the global movement for racial justice. today in court she described what she saw. did you see anything happening there on the ground as you were working towards cup foods with your cousin? yes, i see a man on the ground and i see a cop kneeling down on him. was there anything about the scene you didn t want your cousin to see? yes. what was that? a man in fear, begging for his life. i heard george floyd saying, i can t breathe. please get off me. i can t breathe. he cried for his mom. he was in pain. it seemed like he knew he knew it was over for him. we e
i m next on american history tv. author donald miller interviews jessica shattuck about her novel, the women in the castle. she explains how her family s connection to nazi germany influenced her work, and how her research informed her understanding of german citizens during world war ii. this when our top was part of a three day conference hosted by the national world war ii museum in new orleans. so, welcome back. this next session is a unique one for our conference. for those of you who come here regularly, you are used to seeing the best and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. this normally means the best selling authors of history books, leading professors and documentarian s. but when we were planning this year s program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one that we ve hosted in the conferences for the entire time that we ve been doing these. don miller, authors of masters at the air is also one of our longest stand
in terms of acreage. it has burned nearly 366,000 acres and is 25% contained. five people there including three first responders have been hurt. and 31 structures destroyed. in santa cruz and san mateo counties, officials this morning confirming a second death connected to the czu fire. officials say a 63-year-old woman was found dead inside the fire zone. six people remain missing. that fire has burned at least 80,000 acres and is 19% contained. one person has died and 538 structures have been destroyed. now officials are holding a news conference right now about the lnu fire. let s listen in. fire engines assigned to incidents from arizona,idaho, nevada, new mexico, texas, oregon, utah, washington, and montana. and that s part of the 375 engines that were requested. one thing i want to touch on real briefly this morning is driving. as we start to repopulate areas as well as curiosity is regarding some of the wildfires is we really want to encourage people to stay out of
a little of. that. from which to move people realize the inevitability of regime change in our country the faster this will happen the. also coming up to 9 to know was scaping this summer a heat wave in the arctic has siberians hot under the collar everyone bought electric fans they were totally sold out here people had ice cream and cold drinks we aren t prepared for these conditions with lee when you couple that. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a desperate president against his defiant nation it has been a week since the people in belle ruse went to the polls to elect a president incumbent alexander lukashenko says he won by a landslide fair and square but many voters do not believe him they say the vote was rigged on sunday more than 100000 people gathered in minsk demanding a new election 2 people have died in clashes with police in just the last week but there are reports of officers refusing to follow
morning, august 27th. dave, like you, nice cool air coming in in marin county but i have to tell you a very big smell of smoke. as we check in with mark tamayo i know it will heat up today and i m afraid it will get worse. yeah, it will not be a huge warm-up but your observation is right on. we are seeing a bit more haze and smoke drifting over had this morning. and remember, we still have to spare the air alert right on through friday. the major story overnight was hurricane laura making landfall as a powerful category four storm in southwestern louisiana . cameron, louisiana with wins of 150 miles an hour. we will be watching the storm all morning long. for us in the bay area, we have low clouds and hazy skies into the afternoon hours. the forecast i should be just a little bit warmer compared to yesterday. yesterday was actually cooler than expected. today a little bit of a rebound in most amateurs. let s check in with sal, he is watching the roadways this early thursday