So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
We will talk about the cooler weather thats open wait to start the week coming up. Chris. Lisa, thank you. Developing news in lake county. The Massive Wildfire continues to grow and firefighters have been unable to stop it. Two dozen homes are destroyed, thousands more are in danger and 12,000 people have been evacuated of the 21 major fires burning in california. The largest is the rocky fire. Its just 5 contained. 24 homes have been destroyed, along with 26 outbuildings. And at this hour another 6,000 buildings are threatened. Abc7 News Reporter felony woodrow has the latest. The rocky fire can best be summed up as unpredictable. One day it was blog to the west, another day blowing to the east. Its been a tough fight. As the fire makes its way toward a mainly thoroughfare in lake county, officials are stepping up an advisory for a mandatory evacuation for a dozen homes. Always highway 20 to highway 26 to high bay 53 is closed. One who drove here to help her friend pack up to get out,
Destroyed. Thousands more are in danger. 12,000 people have been evacuated. The rocky fire is the largest of the 21 major fires burning in Northern California. The largest is the rocky fire. Its just 5 contained. 24 homes have been destroyed along with 26 outbuildings. And at this hour another 6,000 buildings are threatened. Abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow has the latest. The rocky fire can best be summed up as unpredictable. One day it was blowing to the west, another day blowing to the east. Its been a tough fight. As the fire makes its way toward a main thoroughfare in lake county, officials are stepping up an advisory for a mandatory evacuation for a dozen homes. Always highway 20 to highway 26 to high bay 53 is closed. Missy clark, who drove here to help her friend pack up to get out, finds herself stuck. You can see the fire just at the crest of the hill. I tried to get back out in time and the fire was too quick. Weather temperatures have not helped. Even with cooler temperat
Live from the kgo broadcast center, this is abc7 news. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, august 2nd. Im chris nguyen, in for carolyn tyler. Lets start with meteorologist lisa argen, who is tracking the weather good morning. We are beginning to see some clearing at livermore and san ramon. The rain, we may see more of it today. Maybe a thunderstorm in the Sierra Nevada, and quincy look at lightning strikes. And a live look outside from mt. Tam. The marine layer over 2,000 feet deep. And underneath the clouds we are mild with 66 in Mountain View, 65 in san jose. 62 in half moon bay. So the low clouds and fog will erode to the shoreline. Partial afternoon sun at the coast and temperatures remaining on the mild side. A very typical summerlike pattern. We will fill in the details in just a few minutes. Chris lisa, thank you. We have new numbers to share this morning on the Massive Wildfire burning in lake county. The rocky fire is the largest of the 21 major fires burning in Northern Cali
American christianity and southern culture at the duke divinity school, and an adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. You can tell tim is a very inclusive guy, hes got an appointment at duke and unc. We are going to talk best well tonight. He is the author of blood done sign my name which was nominated for the book award. He also serves on the executive board for the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book than i can. I just want to say, he does a marvelous job of putting amit hills murder and lynching into a context of American History. His earlier book is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later in oxford North Carolina about 25 miles from here and i learned just a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here at the intersection of ninth street where during the war in 1944, a black soldier in uniform from philadelphia would not move to the back of the bus and when he got off the bus, the bus driv