heather: he lives outside of asheville, north carolina. he wanted us to meet in asheville.t is in a park outside of a hotel in downtown asheville. it was a beautiful fall day with the changing leaves. it was a week before the election. and we did not talk about the election. we did not talk about politics. he told me about his life. we got to know each other, where he is from, the experiences he has had in life. >> how old is he? heather: he is in his mid-50's. he was born in connecticut, new haven, connecticut, but he was in the navy, and had a heart condition, and went down to asheville in his early 20's for heart surgery. and had in his life in connecticut, this is one of those beautiful things that people's stories where the things he was afraid of from the media stereotypes about african-americans had been a part of physics. his expenses growing up in connecticut with gangs that have been a part of his experiences growing up in -- been a part of his experiences growing up in connecticut with gangs. he was an electrician, an operator, and i think he's mostly retired. >>

heather: he lives outside of asheville, north carolina. he wanted us to meet in asheville.o we met in a park outside of a hotel, one of the highest points. it was a beautiful fall day, the changing leaves. it was about a week before the election, and we didn't talk about the election much. we didn't talk about politics. he told me about his life. we got to know each other, where he's from, the experiences he has had. brian: how old is the man? heather: i think he is mid 50's. brian: where is he from? heather: he was born in connecticut, new haven connecticut, but he was in the navy and had a heart condition and went to asheville. he went to the v.a. for surgery in his early 20's. he had in his life in connecticut, this is one of those beautiful things that happens in american peoples' stories, where the same things he was afraid of in terms of the media stereotypes of african-americans have been part of his experience in connecticut with gangs, drug addiction, and when he got his heart surgery, he stayed in asheville and fell in love with the down there and the slow pace of

he mac next we go to asheville, north carolina and this is teresa. >> hi, i don't have french ancestry and i was born in 1946, so i wasn't a part of the war. it was over when i was born. but, when i was in high school i took french classes and i had a french teacher who taught us a poem and to my recollection and i may be wrong, the name of the poem and the first line of the poem was used in the normandy go order. and i wondered if you know if that is true and if that is the name of the poem. >> your teacher is exactly right. the poem is by a french poet named bellman. and the first phrase of the poem was the signal to the resistance. it was heard over the bbc that they should get ready, get in formation, go out and start to do the sabotage. the invasion was going to happen within the next week. and then on the night of june 5 the second line of the poem was given. and that was when the resistance knew that the invasion was going to come within 24 hours. so, it was indeed a french poem which signaled to the resistance first that the invasion was going to come in a week or so and then t

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this one is developed for the southeastern united states by the asheville experiments station. you basically had different factors, on the weather, the dryness of the fuels, things like that, that if you rotated the different wheels, you would come up with a production on fire danger. one of the key elements in that is a need to measure and understand what the fuel, that what what burns out there, is the relative humidity. how dry are they? and of course, especially in the west, it starts out, materials are fairly high humidity in the spring but then dry out as the summer progresses. one of the tools that they out whatd in figuring is the fuel moisture in small fuels is using these fuel sticks. today, andsed even every day at the ranger station, they would be waived, and that would be part of the report that the ranger station would send into the central. record -- would reocrd this, and that would be one factor. sticksle, these fuel would be weighed on the fuel scale. they would hang on this site, and they would indicate the degree, the weight, and this is called an appalachia

this one is developed for the southeastern united states, by the asheville station. factorscally had print on the weather, the dryness of the fuel, things like that. you rotated these different wheels and you would come up with a prediction on fire danger. one of the key elements in that was a need to measure and fuel, that means what burns out there on the land, what is their relative humidity. how dry are they. of course, it starts out materials have high humidity in the spring, but dry out as the summer progresses. tools that they researched, figuring out what is the fuel moisture of small fuels is using these fuel sticks. these are used even today. station, at the ranger they would be weighed, and that would be part of the report that the ranger station would send in to the central. they would record the weight of these and that would be one factor of predicting the fire danger. these fuel sticks would be weighed on this type of fuel scale. side andd hang on this it would indicate the weight on it. this is called in appalachian fuel moisture scale, developed down

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we still have a couple of flash flood watches as far south as knoxville and asheville but what i wantedill come through talking about damaging winds in excess of 70 miles per hour possible from fayetteville even to myrtle beach starting after 3 or 4:00 p.m. and that tropical depression everybody is talking about is east-northeast of west palm beach and will stay out there and add moisture and then dies out. guys. >>> we move to washington where special counsel robert mueller is set to deliver his long delayed testimony to two congressional committees. that's going to be tomorrow morning. mueller, the justice department and both parties in congress jockey ago head of the hearing and back to pierre thomas with the latest. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: george, good morning. the clock is ticking and the pressure is mounting now that we're just about 24 hours from mueller's testimony. he's been intensely preparing with a small team of former staffers from the special counsel's office in space provided by his former law firm in washington. i've been talking to key sources who have worked