contract with labor tongs that were located in san francisco, in seattle, portland or vancouver, british columbia. and they took a percentage of their wage. so having a tax on top of the commissions that were being taken by the labor tongs was very problematic for them in actually earning a decent wage. so having the chicago, milwaukee, st. paul and pacific in 1909, they had to settle for second and third best on just about everything. it put them in kind of a conundrum economically. there was vast stretches of rail line. they had the shortest rail line between puget sound and chicago. they also had the best gradient, but they didn't have very many branch lines. if you look at a study of james j. hill and his development of the great northern, he purposely went to communities where he could establish a branch line to be able to feed the economics of that railroad. with the milwaukee road, you have a hard time being able to draw branch lands that actually were meaningful that brought in enough money to be able to sustain it. and being the last one in, they were the first one out. in 1980 when we s

she wanted to be put in a lake in british columbia, and i called mom and said, "would it be okay without and took them with us?" and she said, "sure. why not?" i think it's the best memorial service we could have given her. >> a fitting tribute to the pan am stewardess and her precious keepsakes from a life adventurously lived. on $10 a day... >> $10 per diem. [ laughs ] >> so, if lise brought half of aunt naomi's ashes to the auction, what happened to them afterward? well, once they gave naomi one final day with her precious beads, they decided to scatter the rest in places dear to the sprinkled from this balcony over the city san francisco that she loved so much. bon voyage, naomi. thanks so much for watching "strange inheritance." i'm jamie colby. remember -- you can't take it with you. >> dollar rises as large and growing larger. we will not be able to tell for the next couple of days when better assessment can be made. >> making news this morning. devastation catastrophic losses as tropical storm harvey dropped historic rainfall in the state and it is only going to get worse. we

. >>> you're all set up for a nice relaxing day on the water and if you live in british columbia, you look forward to these days. you get out there you see smoke on the horizon. you see flames. it's a brush fire. now, what are you going to do quick? get on the phone, call emergency services. or just let this guy take over. >> oh, my gosh. wow. >> nice. >> oh, my gosh. >> there's no situation in the world that can't be fixed with more horsepower. >> he's using his boat to basically put the fire out. >> oh, my goodness. does it actually work? it works. >> it appears it did work in this video. that guy is behind his thousand-horsepower jet boat. it was the first time he took it out this season. out there with hunt. both of them said it was exhilarating. if you look, there are homes nearby too. so they just trimmed his boat just right to start firing rockets of water up the bank of the river. >> hundreds around the country putting in forms for thousand horsepower boats. sorry, but it's necessary. >> he deserves accommodation. >> i agree. >>> this kitty has been dubbed sunshine. >> you can

well, it's been a scorching couple of days across the northwest and the smoke from fires in british columbia is not helping. things are starting to cool relatively speaking just a little bit. high temperatures close to 90 in seattle over the next several days. we talk about triple digits in spokane and 90s in portland and sacramento. we're going to dial it back a little bit, not much in the way of record high over that three-day stretch, just above the average of normal temperatures. we head through friday evening and into saturday morning across interior parts of the northeast. a chance for some damaging wind gusts and isolated tornados and certainly heavy rain in any of those storms across new york state and pennsylvania. behind it, a fall preview. look at the cool air. it's going to dominate much of the middle of the country. temperatures as much as 5 to 15 degrees below average. a very comfortable air mass for august. i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. >>> tourists will be allowed to return to two north carolina islands today following a week-long power outage. visitors will hav

not helping matters, smoke from fires in british columbia polluting the air over washington state and oregon. even animals at the oregon zoo are struggling to beat the heat. 14 million people are under heat advisories or excessive heat warnings through tomorrow. >>> tonight officials in minneapolis say they found a second body in the rubble after a natural gas explosion ripped through a historic academy during summer school. two employees, a receptionist and a janitor, were killed, several others were injured. authorities are still working to pinpoint what triggered the blast. >>> tonight there's news that every parent or grandparent of a teenaged girl will need to hear. word of an alarming rise in girls taking their own lives, suffering from depression and often not seeking the help they need. federal health officials are now shining a light on the warning signs you should be on the lookout for. we get details from nbc's rehema ellis. >> reporter: 15-year-old kirsten killian battled depression since she was a little girl. >> when she was 9 is when she had threatened suicide. >> repor

well, researchers at the university of british columbia in canada say that men may be physically biggeround that the female of the species is less physically exhausted after repetitive gruelling tasks and so naturally better at endurance events, to such an extent that they could soon regularly beat men in marathons. here's one example of extreme female endurance achievements. quoted in much of the reporting of this study today is that of cyclist lael wilcox, who stunned her male competition last year to become the first woman to win the 4,300 mile trans am race across america. she joins us now via skype from alaska. also with us is renee mcgregor, a sports nutritionist and performance coach who has worked with leading athletes. she has also run ultra—marathons and joins us from bristol. lael, renee, welcome to you both. this study, it says because of women's abilities to do frequent, repetitive movements for longer, it shows we have more endurance. does this surprise you? no, not at all. the style of racing that i do is ultra—distance. it takes about a couple of weeks to complete the ra

severe storms following withoshatp winds coming into western canada and british columbia, which could height of the rainy season, so we are expecting more heavy rain. the next couple of days afford a bit of respite. it is showers rather than the long persistent rain, but nevertheless, the potential for one of those systems to develop off the ethiopian highlands as we head into the weekend and early next week, and that poses the risk of more significant rain. august is the height of the rainy season, as i said, so that is one we will keep an eye on. it has also been very wet in south—east asia. they are in the middle of the monsoon. the rain is easing a bit towards bangladesh and the north—east of india, but still feeding into the ganges, so we will see some more fairly widespread disruption and flooding, and it is not as if it is dry either. there are heavy showers around but over the next couple of days the heaviest of the rain could be focused around the central and eastern indian region, with a monsoon trough pepping up the rain, and also the monsoon winds pepping up the rains acro

the all—time temperature records acro55 parts of washington, oregon, northern california and british columbia to finland and western russia with some thunderstorms in back into pa rt5 of poland. with some thunderstorms in back into parts of poland. in the mediterranean it is hot and sunny, very hot in italy with temperatures in rome up to 40 degrees but you can't help but notice this blue around us. you will notice so far this week that it has been 5un5hine and showers but that changes tomorrow, not showers but general rain in many areas and at the heaviest in southern england. more u nsettled heaviest in southern england. more unsettled weather along the way and a full unsettled weather along the way and afull uk unsettled weather along the way and a full uk forecast coming up in half an hour. welcome back. the main stories and around the world. in turkey nearly 500 people have gone on trial, accused of taking part in last yea r‘s accused of taking part in last year's failed coup. thi5 accused of taking part in last year's failed coup. this shows a prominent venezuelan opposition figure bein

the university of british columbia found that higher water temperatures speeds the metabolism of fishsing them to gulp more oxygen from the water. and this eventually stunts their growth. meanwhile, climate change is already affecting humans. seth doane paid a visit to a group of disappearing islands in the pacific. half a world away in surrounded by the pacific ocean are 33 picturesque islands whim make up the republic of kiribati, or kiribas as locals say. the people here live on the brink. what are your plans for the future? >> my plans is for the future is to migrate. why do you want to leave kiribas? >> because i want a change. >> reporter: she has two kids, 8 and 9 years old. but cannot imagine a future for them here. i have no choice. no other choice. if tsunami coming, high tide affecting our water. how can we survive? they have been here for centuries. 100,000 residents who occupy stretches of land as narrow as a basketball court. so their yo hat waves from one side can roll straight on through to the other. half of kiribas' population is under 25. some scenarios show that wi

unfortunately we have strong winds in western canada and british columbia, exacerbating the risk of wealthhe sierra leone region. it is the height of the rainy season at this time of year. we are expecting more heavy rain. the next couple of days afford a little respite, showers rather than persistent rain. nevertheless, there is potential for another one of those systems to develop off the ethiopian highlands into the weekend and early next week, posing the risk of some very significant frames. august is the height of the rainy season “— august is the height of the rainy season —— significant frames. it has also been very wet in south asia, the middle of the monsoon at the moment. the rain is easing a little towards bangladesh and the north—east of india it is still feeding into the ganges, so we will see some fairly widespread disruption and severe flooding. it's not as if it is dry, either. heavy showers around. for the next couple of days, the heaviest of the rain will be focused around the central eastern indian region, with a monsoon trough pepping up the rain, and also the monsoon w

the project would triple the capacity of an existing tar sands pipeline in british columbia to 890,000arrels per day. opponents also want the company to halt shipmentnts of tar s sas oil to refineries in the san francisco o bay area. this is richmond activist andres sota of communities for a betttr environment. >> t t higher sououl for leads o thatr corrosion of deal, leads to things like the explosion in augustst 6, 2012. also, it creates s more greenhoe gases and pollution. the grnhouse gasases are dedestroyingng our atmososphere. the pollution is creating a death and disease. amy: monday's protest came as a nenew study found there's only a one-in-twenty chance the planet will avoid warming by at least 2 degrees celsiuius, or 3.6 6 degs fahrenheit, byby the end of the century. the study, published in nature climate change, finds it's extremely unlikely countries will meet the goals set out by the paris climate accord in 2015, especially since the trump administration has promised to withdraw the u.s. from the deal. meanwhile, a separate study published monday by the university of nor

. >> the suspect aboard the car ferry from victory, yeah british columbia, but he's acting nervous, suspiciouslyon state, she stopped the man who was the driver and asked if she could look into his trunk. >> authorities fear he was part of a plot to launch a new year's eve attack and that he was not acting alone. there may be a connection to saudi-born terrorist osama bin laden. >> as one u.s. official worries tonight, there's still a lot we don't know. >> it was a new kind of terrorist. the past al qaeda operatives have been given very specific orders and targeting instructions. he's given $12,000 in seed money, told to raise the rest of your funds, recruit your own, bomb, sell whatever you want. >> two quart jars of nitm nitroglycerine were in the trunk. >> the ingredients are the same used in the bombing of world trade center in new york. >> heven though authorities appear to have gotten their man, the threat may not yet be over. >> we ended the decade with the clear perception now that we were engages with a terrorist organization that had declared war on us and was determined to carry out m

a lot of that has been coming down from british columbia. below, right there, goes all the way up into oregon, it taps into that and brings it back in. this comes all the way down from washington and is rotated in because of that low circulating. even though we have a breeze in the fog in cooler temperatures, it is still very hazy for some. low clouds and fog making a strong surge over the bay and i think it will make it far inland today. it looks like below is kicking out a little bit. in mendocino and along the oregon border, be advised if you're going in that area, there were some boomers went west and southwest at vacaville. everyone is pretty close due to the overcast. 57, berkeley. 57, half moon bay. a little cooler in scotts valley at 52. low 60s around cupertino and saratoga. fog on the coast. 57 in monterey. sacramento hit 95 yesterday. the beat goes on. low clouds give way to fog, sun and did not see much change for tomorrow. 60s, 70s, 80s and if you 90s but you need to go far inland. warmer away from the coast but not much change

it's part of the cascade chain that extends from southern british columbia through northern california. california including farther south. >> we know what happened with mount saint helens in 1980, could we see something like that in our lifetime in california?>> absolutely, we could see that. mount shasta has erupted and the latest evidence shows it was in the last couple of hundred years. there's been activity in the long valley within the last 100 years. we could see some elective -- interruptive activity. mount shasta has similarity to mount saint helens. there are landslide deposits and volcanic mudflows. it could erupt explosively expect -->> how much could they give us before they blow? >> the nice thing about volcanoes is that they tend to give you more warning. there is a lot of volcanic earthquakes that are associated with it that would lead up to the eruptive event and there well monitored. we could detect the motion of the ground quite precisely when a volcano becomes active. there will be earthquake activity and we would have fair warning if interruption was imminent. >> s

idaho, washington and british columbia and some in california. the flow around that low pressure system taps into that and brings it back in. that's why we had hazy and smoky skies. below is also responsible for giving us a deep fog bank and drizzle and thunderstorm act to be the. in mendocino and lake county and northward, look for storms. this is a solid fog ring. this whole week has been stuck. thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening up to the north. watch out if you're heading in that direction. another day of those. 50s and 60s. half moon bay, 67. san jose, 62. in oakland and alameda, 57. i do not think these temperatures will change much. 60s on the peninsula. upper 50s -- a lot of low 60s including los altos and menlo park. union city, 58. le cloud deck giving way to 50s and 60s, 70s, 80s and some 90s. we will see that burn off. this is a big fog bank and that means a little warmer inland. and most locations are running near average. that's not much change and i don't think there will be much change tomorrow. a weak system brushes us fr

good news/bad news scenario here, a lot of smoke has been flown in from massive wildfires in british columbiaout 1,000 buyers -- 100 fires with thousands of people activated. that smoke is acting as a filter and keeping the temperature is about 4 degrees cooler. bad air quality, though. a pollution advisory is in effect which means it is unhealthy air for everyone. we are getting no sympathy from a lot of people around the country who have it a lot rougher. in las vegas, they have had 55 days of 100-degree heat, they have had 78 days of 90 degrees each. they had a high of 117 back on june 20th, listen. >> i think they are overreacting just a bit, my son was complaining he doesn't have any air-conditioning but i think he is going to make it. >> he's in good company because only about a third of the people in the pacific northwest bother to have air conditioning. we only get about five or six days in the 90s every summer. like that guy it said, i think we will get through it. >> molly: you seem to be enjoying yourself out there today. >> this is great, no humidity. >> molly: you look like you a

but a new study out from the university of british columbia is sounding the alarm about a certain setart-ups, the unicorn. unicorns are start-ups worth $1 million or more but the study says the average unicorn is over valued by, get this, 50%. joining me now to discuss this is one of the authors of the study of stanford university's graduate school of business. great piece of academic work here. and talk to us about the unicorns that are over valued so when i am excitingly reporting, i'm wrong, am i? >> first of all, thank you for having me on the program. we do show that all the yune corns are over value -- unicorns are over valued relative to the reference points that you and everybody else uses. and the reason behind that is when 's easy to explain people use public companies as a reference point, public companies typically have only one class of shares, common shares. so most people assume this unicorn has only one class of shares. in fact, uber has 12 classes of shares. and when uber raised its values to -- valuation to $70 billion the latest rounds of investors got additional pr

. >>> firefighters in british columbia continue to battle 150 different wildfires.bout 6,000 people are still evacuated. fire officials say hot windy weather fueling the flames. more than 00 wildfires have burned there had since april 1st. justin trudeau is encouraging canadians to donate to red cross relief efforts. >>> also in canada, a couple used their boat to help put out a grass fire yesterday. you can see that smoke there and then a boat comes closer and starts spinning around. firings appeared shortly after to put out the flames. no injuries were reported. >>> hbo as reportedly been hacked. the company says it's addressing the situation. the hackers made off with 1.5 tear bytes of data including a script for game of thrones. the head of hbo sent an e-mail to employees saying any intrusion of this nature is disruptive unsettling and disturbing for all of us. >>> an army medic from michigan who fought in the vietnam war is the first person to receive the medal of honor from president donald trump. specialist 5 james mcclune received the honor for putting his l

justin trudeau took the waters by accident spotted falling off his kayak off the coast of british columbiahaving a good time? >> bret: president trump surprise ago bride and groom at golf course in be bedminster, new jersey. he has done that a few times. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. the story with guest host dana perino special guest rob: tuesday, august 8th, tensions rising with north korea, satellites showing the road regime loading more missiles as ambassador to the un puts pressure on. >> it was a gut punch in north korea, we are going to start fighting back. >> that sanctuary city showdown between chicago and the doj escalating. with the attorney general just said. rob: who wants to be a millionaire? it all starts tonight. "fox and friends" first starts right now. ♪ >> working up with eyes, watching "fox and friends" first, tuesday, thanks for starting your day with us. rob: north korea is not taking our threat seriously, deploying anti-ship cruise missiles to the coastline as tension continues. >> nikki haley warning that north korea could raise o

that's a lot of fires up in british columbia. a lot of that has been drifting into washington and oregon and idaho and california. two days in a row, no sun. just like sal said. a small break. will it be three days in a row? i think so. a lot of smoke up in the air. i know in lake county and medicine owe county, a lot -- mendocino county, a lot of reports. i don't think you will see many breaks. there is too much fog and low clouds. there is a break starting to burn off towards pleasant hill and concord. most locations, it is peeling back a little bit for some. plenty to go. that big low sitting up in northern california gives us not only cooler temps in the fog but thunderstorm activity. we will see another round of that lake county and northern county, mendocino county. for sure shasta and up in the sierra. watch out for that. reports of large hail. as long as the slation continues over us, i don't think we change much on the temps. running exactly the same as 245 hours ago. slow to warm up, even at the 9:00 hour. some areas on

air quality is poor because of the wildfires in british columbia filtering into the western valleys.through thursday. here's what's going on where you live. >> reporter: fortunately nothing like that for us in the delaware and the lehigh valleys. good morning, everyone i'm meteorologist chris sowers the radars are clear, another beautiful one on the way. sun and clouds, 80 degrees. ut t few minutes. >> you're going to be somewhere for the eclipse. >> on the beach in oregon where it first hits the u.s. hopefully clear skies. >> i'll be in casper, wyoming. >> nice. >> you have got some history there. >> i love that place. and hopefully they'll have clear skies for the big event. >> robert thank you very much. appreciate it. we're all looking forward to that. >> coming up on "gma," we'll be talking about the eclipse of course and taylor swift, her testimony in a civil trial that starts tomorrow. she says it's a message to all women afraid of speaking out about sexual assault. >> and the video setting a social media record that's ahead in "pop news." adrienne is going to explain. >> are

to be either the craziest coincidence, they went to aspen on one ski trip, april another to british columbial vacations. it's been -- always timed with they were away in sun valley when donald trump jr.'s e-mail scandal was making the head lines. it is enough to sort of pause and say where are they. and is saying i'm on vacation enough of a reason to remain quiet. >> also to critical they are jewish in the wake of comments the president has made. ivanka converted to judaism. they are practicing modern orthodocks. the rabbi that oversaw the c version is getting political. sent a ler out to the entire congregation saying while we avoid politics, we are deeply troubled by the moral ekwifcation president trump has offered. it makes you thinks can they stay silent on this? >> reporter: i think we've seen the answer to that. it's been several days. these days sort of feel very long to us in the news cycle. it's been since sunday. they were observing the sabbath as she had wriy yachts are happening. i feel like the jewish community is asking e-ivanka trump to be an advocate and by remaining silent

temperatures in the 90s but well above normal, and air quality poor from all the wildfires in british columbiaestern valleys. 90 plus in seattle and portland through thursday. >> this weather report brought to you by petco. great american eclipse is just a couple of weeks away. >> yeah. >> we'll talk about that in a few minutes. >> you're going to be somewhere for the eclipse. >> on the beach in oregon where it first hits the u.s. hopefully clear skies. >> i'll be in casper, wyoming. >> nice. >> you have got some history there. >> i love that place. and hopefully they'll have clear skies for the big event. >> robert thank you very much. appreciate it. we're all looking forward to that. >> coming up on "gma," we'll be talking about the eclipse of course and taylor swift, her testimony in a civil trial that starts tomorrow. she says it's a message to all women afraid of speaking out about sexual assault. >> and the video setting a social media record that's ahead in "pop news." adrienne is going to explain. >> are you adrienne? >> yeah. ♪ ♪ ♪you are loved ♪ ykeep you sidelined.ng that'