The Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in beautiful new orleans, louisiana. We have a really superb guest with us tonight, a friend of the museum, my friend and a wonderful writer and ahor, ian toll. Ian, welcome. Thank you, rob. Ian probably is one of those people who with, you know, doesnt really need an introduction, as we like to say. You all know what that means, the introduction should be really long. Ians an extremely accomplished scholar and writer. Hes the author of six [inaudible] the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacific war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight of the gods. Hes won the Samuel Elliot morrisonward from the naval orr of the United States, hes won the william e. Colby militaryriters award, hes won the other morrison award given by the uss constitutio museum. If theres any more morrison awards out there, i fully expect to see you winning one in the not too distant future. But thanks so mu
94 buildings including more than 30 homes have already been destroyed. Almost 80,000 buildings are in danger and they are estimating the fire will be fully contained by november 7th. Cal fire says 200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. This dark red near the center of the screen, thats where the kincade fire is burning right now. The lighter lavender sections on the map show the mandatory evacuations that go all the way to the pacific ocean. Officials say nearly half the People Living in Sonoma County have been ordered to evacuate. Ktvus allie rasmus is in Sonoma County right now. Where are you right now talking to us from . Reporter we are on east shiloh road in Sonoma County, technically in parts of santa rosa. But this is where the kincade fire swept through last night. When we look around, you can see stuff thats still smoldering. You can get a better view here, looks like no structures here but a fence burned and a lot of embers in the glow of some of these areas where the
Tongs representatives witness the final capitulation. General of the army, Douglas Macarthur, Supreme Commander for the occupation of japan warns the authority. Pacific fleet commander and Admiral Halsey welcome him and his chief of staff of board. Escorts thetz general to the nimitz miranda deck for a 20 minute ceremony. It is sunday, september 2, 1945. Right now were on the o1 level of the battleship missouri. Ofnks to the events september 2, 1945, we call this the surrender deck. This is where the japanese sunday surrender ending world war ii. Behind me is where the table sat that day. The ship looked different. Big different than the canopy. This was rotated 30 degrees to starboard to make room for all the officials that would be on board. If you looked around and above is that day you wouldve seen thousands of the missouri curve, crews from other ships hanging on to anything they could, trying to get a glimpse of what was about to occur. At my clock in the morning when the ceremon
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Protesters, denouncing the treatment of Migrant Children at the border. About two dozen demonstrators gathered this afternoon in San Francisco where a lawyer argued that rules requiring the government provide safe and sanitary conditions for detained children didnt necessarily mean they give them soap and tooth brushes. We want to send a message to President Trump and all of america that the immigrants are seeking a better life. They want food and housing. It is time for trump to stop demonizing these people who are seeking asylum in america. The group staged a die in where they lay on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse. Are you ready for round two . 10 more democratic president ial hopefuls square off in miami. Among them, joe biden, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. Lets look in the theater. A live look. They will be taking the stage in about 20 minutes from now. 50 minutes from now. The same format. National tv exclusively on nbc. We will see how joe biden sells his case to the