Devastation can see in the video homes have burned down businesses a burned down as we know napa is known for wineries but theres a lot of wineries up here its not as close to the heart of napa but more up in napa up in the hills near on highway, one or highway in one 28 in one 21 driving up when windy roads thats where you can see this area as a part of the l a new lightning complex which so far has burned 351,000 acres. Its now 25 contained firefighters have been able to make some Real Progress since the red flag warning was canceled yesterday that means the wind died down a bit giving firefighters a real chance to get a better handle on the raging flames and allow them to save some homes that otherwise could have been destroyed the hennessy fires the biggest fire in the complex and has burned over 290,000 acres its a very widespread fire that quickly burned towards and through napa county which surprised a lot of people who live here. More relieved a lot more an for us to get prepar
Discussing his book top gun an american story, Aerial Combat and how his book inspired the 1986 movie to the gun. Good evening. Im Lauren Rosenberg with smithsonian associates. Welcome to tonights program. To our members, im so glad youre here. Its your support that makes events like this possible. And if youre joining us for the first time, an equally warm welcome and open invitation to explore the wide range of programs we offer at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy Fighter Weapons program. We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pederson. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary Top Gun Program at naval station miramar in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the
Virus could put you in hospital for weeks or even kill you thats a warning from the World Health Organization telling young people dont be complacent in the fight against the pandemic and the u. S. Has announced it is limiting non essential travel across the border into mexico and want to force a new statute to block migrants from entering illegally. In my increasing the mandates because the numbers are increasing and as a lockdown in new york state the governor announces tighter restrictions and calls for all nonessential workers to stay at home. For we got a lot of developments to take you through with regards to the coronavirus pandemic the number of deaths continues to rise rapidly especially in europe it is now considered. The epicenter of this crisis we start with the news out of italy where the death toll has climbed to more than 4000 we have seen the largest single day rise in the number of fatalities 600 and 27. 00 people died there on friday as we say that total now up above
Smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy Fighter Weapons program. We are thrilled to welcome the programs founder, dan pedersen. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary Top Gun Program at miramar in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the flying crews on uss hancock and three on uss enterprise. He retired as a captain having accumulated 6,100 flight hours and 105 carrier landings while flying 39 types of aircraft. For those of how know pedersens story from the 1986 movie top gun youll be happy to know that jerry brook heimer is producing top gun maverick a sequel scheduled to be released in 2020. Pedersens book top gun is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. And here
Spains 2 main left wing parties make a significant move towards ending the nations political deadlock. I. Holding out hope hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants in the u. S. Asked the top court to reverse President Trumps decision to kick them out. And in school Roger Federer is back on track at the a. T. P. Finals in london a win over my parents amy reviving his hopes of reaching the last i. Would in the past our former bolivian president evo morales has landed in mexico city after the government there offered him asylum he was greeted by the Mexican Foreign minister told the crowd waiting he had no plans. Retired from politics back in bolivia supporters of more or less have rallied in the city of el al told they believed he was the victim of a coup when all is resigned on sunday after weeks of protests following his disputed reelection and we have several correspondents covering this breaking news story from all angles today sub 0 is in alto which is a more or less strongh