The happy warrior, and today hes here to discuss his new book, drunks an American History. Please join me in welcoming chris finan. [applause] thank you. Its a real pleasure to be here in california. I just happened to be visiting, and i didnt really know what to how to dress when i was coming out here from new york. So im wearing tweed [laughter] so im going to take it off. I just wanted you to see that i do, in fact, have a jacket. [laughter] i, i love history, and i have for a long time. I studied history in school, in graduate school. And what had always appealed to me as a historian was strong stories. And so my first book was a biography of alfred e. Smith, the first catholic to run for president , a poor boy who became the great reforming governor of new york and then would have been a great president , but he got wiped out by herbert hoover. And i love that story. I spent 20 years writing it, and i decided when it was done, id better hurry up on the next book or id be dead. The
Middlefield road which is shut down because of a deadly accident. Sal has the details. Good morning. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Well get to that quickly. Were gonna check your weather. Steves here. Clear skies, cold for some in windprotected areas. Clear skies, cold, mild, warm. Sunny, breezy, cool to warm. I think nice to warm. A lot of sunshine here. 40s to 60s. Again in San Francisco, 61. Not far away. Almost a 20degree spread. It will be very mild to nice for some. 74 in San Francisco. A little bit of that north breeze continues. Thats a far cry from what we had 24 hours ago. The red flag warning will take us to 3 00. Thats north and east bay hills above 1,000 feet. Sunny and warm. Breezy at times. A lot of sunshine and temperatures will be warming up here. But again, we got upper 70s, low 80s. I think today well top it out. More on that in ten minutes. It was really busy in the newsroom, all of a sudden. We have a fatal crash in menlo park, atherton area. This is on middlefi
Pelley good evening. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds unless its saturday. The u. S. Postal service added that qualification to its legendary motto today. The service is broke and it will drop saturday mail delivery in august. The troubles of the Postal Service are as big as the agency itself. The u. S. P. S. Delivers 40 of all of the mail on earth and it has more than 522,000 fulltime workers, which makes it among the top civilian employers in america. But the age of email has turned out to be a much bigger challenge than snow or rain or gloom of night and heres nancy cordes. Reporter saturday mail delivery dates back to the inception of the Postal Service itself in 1863. But today the postmaster general said times have changed and his agency must, too. When you lose the first class volume that weve seen, you cant make ends meet from a financial standpoint. The choice is either change some of the
Thats been part of the game for 76 years. Theres a void. Whats going to take its place . In a separate vote, users decided which piece would be added to the game. The choices included a robot, car, helicopter, ring and cat. With 31 of the vote, the cat won by a whisker. I know a few of you iron fans are pretty steamed right now. The golden token bonus set is coming that includes all the original pieces including the iron and cat. It hits stores february 15th. Dog lovers, keep in mind youve always had a dog piece. And we love doings too. Anderson starts now. Thanks very much, erin. Good evening, tonight on the program, the bunker busters, new details about what happened in that alabama bunker. In the split seconds when authorities went in. Seconds that spelled life for a little boy who turned 6 today and death for his captor. Take a look at this man whos 74 years old, hes on a pharmaceutical cocktail that makes it possible for him to look like that. The question tonight, has he found a
Tomorrow night, the mother of jaycee doogd. She spent 18 years as a prisoner of a convicted prisoner. Now her mother is reaching out to 6yearold ethan. The little boy being held hostage. Her story and negligent for ethan and his mom tomorrow night. Plus, get ready. The latest on the blizzard watch for much of the northeast and new england. Some say it could be an historic storm. Thats all for us tonight. Thanks very much, erin. Anthony good evening, tonight on the program, the bunker busters, new details about what happened in that alabama bunker. In the split seconds when authorities went in. Seconds that spelled life for a little boy who turned 6 today and death for his captor. Take a look at this man whos 74 years old, hes on a pharmaceutical cocktail that makes it possible for him to look like that. The question tonight, has he found a healthy fountain of youth . Or a prescription for disaster. What you need to know before you do what hes doing. A program that takes guns out of the