Author jeff, you opened your recent book with this quote from Rick Perlstein the historian. Crosscutting motives and narratives the complexity that defies storybook simplicity that is usually the way history happens. I think it is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself, and its true no historic event happens in vacuum. Its tied to many other things and that is the fascination in research and writing on the narrative nonfiction history. To read a quote from you as well and this is from 2021 in the cleburnene times review a lt of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction bks to reflect what they already believe, books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction for the last several years, theres three categories generally represented. The first books by
Again, its a hit and miss. We will pick up the system and its going drop south 4th 00 to 8 00 to 10 00. Going up to the lake county and parts of sanoma county. You can see that in fremont and theres not a loot, but a little bit too. Once this system begins to go through, it just gives us the light rain. The heavier rain is on the way. Thats going give us a mostly cloudy day and light rain picking up this afternoon and tonight. The evening commute will be a bare more than the morning commute. Here is the man he is looking at his screen. That makes us nervous. Yeah when you do this for a living you say everything looks fine, but then something pops up. Right now were looking at the latest when i know it comes to road sensor s and the data that we get from the east shore freeway. It says 41 minutes. That just went up from 40 minutes. Things change by the moment. Average speed is 28 miles an hour. Now, we did have an aearlier accident on the carquinez bridge, so we have slow traffic as wel
Storm drains up and running. There is a serious concern about the potential for flooding and landslides. Not only did fires level homes, there is a new issue that has popped up. City Officials Say the flames burned a number of underground storm drains. With all of the rain expected to fall this week, these damaged pipes could lead to flooding and landslides in the burned areas. Reporter this is the scene a short time ago at cross creek work crews are out working to replace burned out sections of pipes that run underneath the road there. City and county officials have identified at least 23 different locations were storm drains have been destroyed by the fire. Mainly in the Fountain Grove neighborhood. On friday, part of the hillside collapsed near some homes on newberry court. Crews are out there to replace that underground pipe. They have replaced 250 feet of underground pipe the burn during the tubs fire and the rain runoff caused the earth to give way. So we found the pipe for a ter
Other bay area fire crews responded to the fires. This was one of the types of trucks that could help. Spirit we have this and we have a whole is that you can walk through to the engine and they are just spraying water on the fire. That is a more static line that you can just pull out and it is staged in one place and you can deploy the hose. And then if you can come back over here there is a bigger hose and there are all different kinds of roses for different kinds of assignments. Reporter this 500 gallon tank has more than water. There is more than medical stuff this medicine and other medical equipment all kinds of stuff in my need on the call. You have multiple kinds of fires you are trying to fight and different tactics and strategies of preventing the fire from growing and burning down houses and from spreading. Reporter crews from Contra Costa County have all returned from the fire and the captain tells me this is now the height of fire season at a moments notice they can be dep
Actually spanning several crime scenes. One of them behind me broken glass from the shootout with police in this intersection. The Police Officer who was shot is okay. But a gunman is still on the loose. Our primary focus is getting the second guy in custody. Reporter after a chase by car and on foot this is how it ended for one of two men accused of shooting a Police Officer in san jose last night hiding in a neighborhood that spent two hours on lockdown. You know, it was crazy and it was scary. It was scary. Reporter police say the men went on an Armed Robbery spree yesterday hitting up businesses and people at gunpoint in all four of these locations. Police are also looking into the possibility that the two were involved in a murder. Very violent suspects. They were both armed with firearms. And we had a pretty good idea of what the vehicle looked like. Reporter Police Spotted it on highway 101 at around 9 p. M. After a chase they stopped here at tully and lanai. One of the suspects