This conference from Purdue University continues with biographers looking at political history, this talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking american political history, its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. We will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully we will convince you that the made the right choice, hanging out with you to talk about media and biography and political history. A lien between the four of us weve written at least 17 biographies, it might be more than that i was losing count because Randy Roberts has written so many, youve written more than half of our total number i think. So, we have a lot of experience in this genre, weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So, before we begin lets introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could stand a minute or two, telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it
By 3 00 p. M. And we should warmup to maybe the mid 70s. Is to be cooler than yesterday. We will continue into the weekend and i will explain coming up. George we are still a joy and a hot spot free ride. We are keeping our eyes on this incident that was reported on marin county, a bicycle accident by 11. This is of the southbound direction and even though there are reports of the right lane is blocked we still do not see any delays. In fact the overall drive time is still under 25 minutes down to the golden gate bridge. Mark we want to begin this morning with developing news out of northern california. 10 people are dead after a fedex a delivery truck was crashed into a charter bus on interstate 5 in the orland. D. Arya this is video of the scene. It happened at 5 45 p. M. Yesterday evening. More than 40 students on board that bus, both drivers were killed. The bus was filled with High School Students on a field trip to learn Humboldt State university. Mark several people took to twit
The low to mid70s. Along the coastline 50s and some 60s. Big changes though as we head toward the next five to seven days. Well have more on that in a moment. Right now lets check the roads with elizabeth. And once again, as lawrence mentioned, there is some fog out there. Could slow you down. We did notice that we saw a lot of accidents by later on in the evening commute or later on in the morning commute. So were not sure if those are fog related but again if you want to use mass transit, so far everything is on time. Bart has 32 trains all with no delay. Ace train 1 left stockton with no issues. Heres a live look outside. 880, 5 01, a lot of the roadwork picked up. Northbound we saw some approaching marina into san leandro. All lanes should be reopened now and everything is flowing nicely into downtown oakland. South bay not too much issues and so far it looks great on 101 from morgan hill straight into san jose. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. We have b
Reporter a charred fedex tractortrailer and bus remain on i5 in orland, california, following a deadly accident thursday afternoon. Authorities say the truck was headed southbound when it crossed over the median, hit a car and head on into a tour bus full of High School Studentses. I see black but theres fire at the front of the bus. Its crushed in the front pretty much. So we all started jumping up to run away. Reporter some students escaped through windows before both vehicles burst into flames. A neighbor on his roof, saw a lot of black smoke pouring into the sky. Reporter Officials Say the bus was carrying Los Angeles County High School Students on the way to Humboldt State university for a college visit. Police arent sure why the fedex truck crossed over into oncoming traffic. The physical evidence as far as the tire friction marks on the roadway, all the things are pieces of a puzzle they will have to put together. Reporter police say this is the worst accident they have seen in
Good. Bart systemwide on time no delay. More than 40 trains, everything good there. Ace trains 1 and 3 also on time. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. With the forecast, heres lawrence. There are a whole lot of clouds around the bay area this morning. We have the fog and mid to highlevel clouds up above and i think its those clouds that will help to keep the temperatures cooler around the bay area for today. Out the door we go. You have those clouds sweeping up from the south. Cloudy skies now. On and off throughout the day today. So numbers coming down but pleasant in the afternoon. Low to mid70s in the valleys, 60s and low 70s inside the bay and cloudy toward the coastline with 50s and low 60s. Nice shot for you of the clouds over San Francisco this morning. The temperatures are now in the 40s and the 50s. By the afternoon partly cloudy skies, 69 degrees in fremont. 73 degrees in san jose. 71 in redwood city. 63 in San Francisco. Well have your weekend forecast in a moment. Back to you