douglas left is brinkley. he is a professor at rice and cnn's historian and the author of several books about the presidency. most recently "rightful heritage." next in him is the national political correspondent for npr. she has covered every presidential election since 1992. >> 1776. [laughter] >> you can hear her on shows like morning edition. she is a contributor to fox news. you are left is a historian and writer who holds the senior chair in history at ut. he is an author of several books about the presidency. macarthur and " truman at the brink of nuclear war." some of you have seen the written materials. we were supposed to be joined by dan rather but he was unable to come. the four bus will carry on in his absence. let's start with an innocent time in history. december. [laughter] >> president-elect trump had you as one of his guests for a lunch at mar-a-lago where he talked about the presidency and the office he was about to inhabit. what did he talk about at the lunch? >> he was president elect and

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live in san rafael with the story. leslie. >> reporter: dion and dan, the owners of la toscana got the ball rolling. they said everyone knows someone affected by the fires. so as you said, restaurants teamed up to help. the concept of dine and donate was popular tonight in the north bay. >> i mean, there's a line out the door and everybody's here in a good mood and wants to help support us any way they can. >> reporter: 20% of the proceeds go to the north bay fire relief fund. thanks to la toscana and a slew of other restaurants. >> it just grew exponentially. they had 46 restaurants total participating. and i think it's nine tomorrow. >> scoma sausalito also dished out seafood and donated profits. >> i think it's a wonderful idea. i think it shows how people are trying ban together and do good things for the folks up north. >> reporter: diners say they hunted down places that partnered with dine and donate. >> we were opposed to that restaurant, which is not doing it. so we came to this restaurant. >> reporter: many s

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live on a fire line. leslie? >> reporter: that's right, dan. here i can say all day long there's been a feeling of kind of watch and wait. it still things appear to be somewhat under control at this point. but the fire's not contained and there are a lot of forecasts about the wind whipping up and causing problems here. the fire is just over this hill. crews from reno, cal fire have gone down this road. they have taken bulldozers and heavy equipment down there earlier and set a backfire up above those ridges of hills behind me. you can see the smoke rising. that is where the edge of the fire is. they're keeping a close eye on it. wefr we are in a safe spot here but they have told people living in this area off of green valley road to evacuate. >> we live in green valley, and i understand they lost a house there last night. the wind is the deal. you know? when we're in this trailer here and it gets buffeted by the wind occasionally in the middle of the night you think what's happening? firefighters up there, they're working hard. everyone's just

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abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live in san rafael with the story. leslie. >> reporter: dion and dan, the owners of la toscana got the ball rolling. they said everyone knows someone affected by the fires. so as you said, restaurants teamed up to help. the concept of dine and donate was popular tonight in the north bay. >> i mean, there's a line out the door and everybody's here in a good mood and wants to help support us any way they can. >> reporter: 20% of the proceeds go to the north bay fire relief fund. thanks to la toscana and a slew of other restaurants. >> it just grew exponentially. they had 46 restaurants total participating. and i think it's nine tomorrow. >> scoma sausalito also dished out seafood and donated profits. >> i think it's a wonderful idea. i think it shows how people are trying ban together and do good things for the folks up north. >> reporter: diners say they hunted down places that partnered with dine and donate. >> we were here as opposed to that restaurant, which is not doing it. so we came to this restaurant. >> reporter

live in napa, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> thank you. the napa county sheriff identified the volunteer firefighter killed when his water truck overturned yesterday. the 38-year-old was from missouri and dispatched to the north bay from missouri. he was driving down a steep grade and lost control. the vehicle rolled down an embankment yesterday morning. paiz was the 41st could have of the deadly fires and the first firefighting crew to lose his life. >> the latest on a fire burning north of boulder creek. a new fire. it's not getting bigger, but it's only 5% contained. sky map 7 gives you a sense of where it's burning. dons road at the top and deer creek at the bottom. chris nguyen is in the area. chris? >> reporter: as you said, the fire is currently 5% contained. officials don't expect that to change throughout the evening. behind me a view of the smoke as the fire continues to burn. the sheriffs office said the mandatory order will remain in place through wednesday at the least. the bear fire near bolder creek rages on. >> when it's bu

reporting live i'meslie brinkley absent 7 news. >> understandable and warranted leslie thanks. >>>alm for the moment but the bigear ton on the fire lines is the wind. so far so god it seems but will it last. let's check in with our >> is won't last the crews will face challenges hours ahead. let'set to flag warning. in effect until saturday at 11:00 p.m. covering the north bay, parts of the east bay hills. gusts in the hills 40 to 50 with isolated gusts to 60 miles an hour in the valley 30 to 35 miles an hour winds. this is dpping the humidity 10 to 20%. that means fires could spread rapidly and any new ones beginning to spread rapidly parts of mendocino cnty lake county under the red flag warning until 9:00 m. tomorrow night. do be careful, be vigilant we have a wind dw advisory in effect until 5:00 p. tomorrow. sty winds may topple trees and power lines can see the areas unthe wind advisory. winds are yernlly now under 16 miles an hou still out of the north. look at e humidity good recovery from earli in the day. in is good news for firefighters but iton't be good news over t

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley talked to one man whose family barely made it out alive. >> it can't any worse despite -- everybody is safe but literally everything is gone. >> reporter: david was inconsolable when he got up the hill to see what was left. >> devastating. >> reporter: it's your business and your home. >> yeah. it's not every day you lose both. we have a lot of good friends and family. they're going to help us out. >> reporter: this is what the family home and business bubbling well pat memorial park looked like before the fire and now today. flames from gas lines still flared from the ashes. he said his dad, his mom and his 97-year-old wheelchair-bound grandmother were trapped by the walls of fire converging on them. a rescue helicopter swooped in to pick them up just in time. >> my dad was raised here. there are so many memories. i think about all the pictures that were lost and all the just irreplaceable things. >> reporter: but your family, your grandmother -- >> they're safe, yeah. >> reporter: others did not make it out alive, an elderly couple, 99 and 100 years

reporter leslie brinkley is live along dry creek road tonight. leslie. >> reporter: hi, dan. firefighters have told me they feel like they have a grip on this fire, at least for now. the winds are very light, but they are shifting. lowering the thick great curtain over napa valley. you can't even tell that you are in a valley. you can't see the mountains at all up here. and then there's sad story after sad story as i stand by this checkpoint and the evacuees stop by. >> the heartache is as heavy as the smoke in napa valley. this mother is now evacuated from her home on dry creek road. her son lived across the valley on atlas peak, and he already lost everything. >> beautiful home burned to the ground. and they got out with just the clothes on their back. and then, you know, we now have things, their pictures and things. if we lose our home, we have nothing. so i don't know. i don't know how much you can take, really. >> the ominous smoke, the smoldering slow-moving fire crept up on homes here. the dry brushes fueling the low line of crackling flames. no trees appear to be on

brinkley is beautiful and we are at mullica f family owned for 50 years. they keep adding more and more and they have haunted attraction, five different haunted houses, paint ball and haunted hayride, and a country store you can check things out and take a look at this, we a bunch of little kids here, seven of these kids are brinkley's siblings, yes eight are you guys excited to go on a hayride with me. look at stormtracker 6 live double scan some areas see some and spotty light showers, especially philadelphia off to the north. from camden count southern montgomery county and trenton and the lehigh valley. temperature-wise, because of all the cloud cover ano the mid up toer 50s across most of the area here this afternoon and in the sun it feels really nice. your evening planner, 55 degrees, 7:00, 53 degrees and dropping to 50 by 10:00 and the low dips to 42 in philadelphia. however, there is a frost advisory from 2:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. chester county, northern montgomery county and northern bucks county and quakertown west. including this area temperat

jamie gangel's here, david gergen and david brinkley.nts bush and obama spoke about bigotry and hate today. take a listen. >> our identity as a nation, unlike many other nations, is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood. we become the heirs of martin luther king jr. by recognizing one another not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. this means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally american. it means that bigotry or while supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the american creed. >> we saw what happened in charlottesville. but we also saw what happened after charlottesville when the biggest gatherings of all rejected fear and rejected hate and the decency and goodwill of the american people came out. that's how we rise. we don't rise up by repeating the past. we rise up by learning from the past. >> charlottesville, jamie, was a turning -- that was a bridge too far for both these presidents. >> absolutely. i just want to slightly disadpree with what da

reporting live i'm leslie brinkley absent 7 news. >> understandable and warranted leslie thanks. >>> calm for the moment but the big fear ton on the fire lines is the wind. so far so god it seems but will it last. let's check in with our meteorologist. >> is won't last the crews will face challenges hours ahead. let's get to the red flag warning. in effect until saturday at 11:00 p.m. covering the north bay, parts of the east bay hills. gusts in the hills 40 to 50 with isolated gusts to 60 miles an hour in the valley 30 to 35 miles an hour winds. this is dropping the humidity 10 to 20%. that means fires could spread rapidly and any new ones beginning to spread rapidly parts of mendocino county lake county under the red flag warning until 9:00 p.m. tomorrow night. do be careful, be vigilant we have a wind dw advisory in effect until 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. gusty winds may topple trees and power lines can see the areas unthe wind advisory. winds are yernlly now under 16 miles an hour still out of the north. look at the humidity good recovery from earlier in the day. in is good news for fir

reporting live i'm leslie brinkley absent 7 news. >> understandable and warranted leslie thanks. >>>moment but the big fear ton on the fire lines is the wind. so far so god it seems but will it last. let's check in with our meteorologist. >> is won't last the crews will face challenges hours ahead. let's get to the red flag warning. in effect until saturday at 11:00 p.m. covering the north bay, parts of the east bay hills. gusts in the hills 40 to 50 with isolated gusts to 60 miles an hour in the valley 30 to 35 miles an hour winds. this is dropping

in oakland i'm lesley brinkley. abc 7 news. >>> the future of storage on trains, a public poll closed a month ago. this is the option cal train will go with it it's slr to how bikes are stacked onboard but the e length trick train -- so far test vote that has gone as between monterey and so know may county has found low levels of acid in crabs. last year it started in mid-november. in 2015 the season was halted due to algae blooms along the coast. >> something else that's very encouraging. a lot going on this weekend and good weather to enjoy it. >> spectacular weather is the only way to describe it. here's a look at live doppler 7. under bright skies right now, we have lovely conditions. this is the view from our camera here in san francisco. 78 degrees in san francisco. 77 oakland. 75 mountain view, 81 san jose, 86 gilmore, 63 at half moon bay. this is the goldengate where skies are clear. one more live view of the setting sun from our east bay hill's camera. he'll have mild to warm weather through monday. fire da

in oakland i'm lesley brinkley.ews. >>> the future of storage on trains, a public poll closed a month ago. this is the option cal train will go with it it's slr to how bikes are stacked the e length trick train -- so far test vote that has gone as between monterey and so know may county has found low levels of acid in crabs. last year it started in mid-november. in 2015 the season was halted due to algae blooms along coast. >> something else that's very encouraging. a lot going on this weekend and good weather to enjoy it. >> spectacular weather is the only way to describe it. here's a look at live doppler 7. under bright skies right now, we have lovely conditions. this is the view from our camera here in san francisco. 78 degrees in san francisco. 77 oakland. 75 mountain view, 81 san jose, 86 gilmore, 63 at half moon bay. this is t goldengate where skies arear. c one more live view of the setting sun from our east bay hill's camera. he'll have mild to warm weather through monday. fire danger increases this week as

lesley brinkley is live wh us right now with a look at how student in the valley are helping. you got some friends with you lesley? >> reporter: i sure do. this is basically a sanctuary here with over 700 animals being cared for 24/7 by ffa students, that's future farmers of america. those goats and llama were all trapped in areas of fire zone, they were all rescued and now have no home to go home too. a flock of chickens, goats galore, no one knows their names. >> they wereescued off of fire zones from atlas fire. some came from california near calistoga. >> all these animals, if we wouldn'tp and had this facility all these animals wouldn't behere. >> reporter: but they need to eat. and central valley ffa students trucked in three truck loads of supplies like hay and feed toda special dplielivery. >> when you're driving up here on the highway you see vineyards burned all the way to the ground. it's great to support soone who's just loss everything. >> someone like tray hen nas. >> seeing the trailers roll up and kids jumped out to help it's s amazing. >> reporter: tray's fami

. >> here's lesley brinkley with the story. >> reporter: this was hidden valley satellite school. kindergarten through 2nd grade, it's gone. it's hard to discern what was one desks or playground. these schools will go to hidden valley elementary where the school psychologist lost his own home. >> at least two people on county to deal with mental health support. >> 144 kids lost their home and our school site. yeah about 80 some odd kids are going to come and join us and we welcome them with open arms. >> you all have to be the ones, if you're in a place to be the rocks for everyone else. >> reporter: an army of counsellors started bracing for schools to start back up. >> one over the thing the school is concerned about is the text books and musical instruments, and things that are precious to them that they're worried about. and what we told them is not to worry about that. >> reporter: schools and the fire zones are not losing out on state funding because they're closed nor will they have to make up for lost days. schools have to be scrubbed for soot and smoke damage. >> we have

abc 7 news reporter lesley brinkley with the fire fight from the air. >> reporter: deion and dan, let me emphasize, napa valley's 25 miles long, 2.5 miles wide. the particular stretch north of oakville grade, home to some of the the beloved wineries. people love to come up and check them out. they are still safe and sound today thanks to the efforts of firefighters. you can see the smokey mess it is up the hill west of napa valley. the fog visual all day long. >> the stag gert family is -- >> it's been an emotional roller coaster because you don't know who is getting hit with the fire next. >> reporter: they're 7 oacre lot includes a winery, they moved out all their furniture and art work. they hired three water trucks to wet down the perimeter. they have a lookout staged on highway 29 and bought a pump for their pools. >> we called our insurance company and they sent out private fire departments. >> private. >> private. a lot of people don't know they're here but they are. a lot of guy says there's a watch on 300 houses. we have had people staying here all week but we don't know if i

leslie brinkley has more on the housing shortage after the fires. >> we've had clients come down whose homes were burnt and some who were smoked out and scared out come down here and want to look right now and want to buy right now. >> some aren't waiting for things to settle out with insurance companies. if they have enough for a downpayment, they're pursuing what little is for sale. this resident works in a walnut creek escrow office. >> a couple that lost everything in santa rosa is coming here. they don't have anything. they have the clothes on their back and we're coming in and now they're putting in offers in this area. hopefully they'll get one soon. and we're doing escrows. >> this is the busy entrance to the retirement community in walnut creek. people near here, every day, they see fire victims in cars filled with families and dogs scouting for housing. realtors say the number one priority, shopping for fire-safe homes in fire-safe locations. it's tough. this survivor of the 1991 oakland hills fire drafted up a list of advice which she titles if i knew then what i know now. >

leslie brinkley was there to talk to the community about the spirit arising from the ashes. >> reporteress, real happiness, radiated from hidden valley elementary school in santa rosa after weeks of facing flames and smoke and gray ash. >> what i can say is that i'm much better than i was a week ago. and there's no question in my mind that it's because of my friends and the love of this community. >> reporter: school board members lost everything, so did teachers, so did students. this was a chance to share a meal. to share stories. >> i'm not that stressed anymore that the fire is going to get to me because they took a lot of it out. but it got pretty close to my house. >> it's nice to be back at school and i think it will be good when school starts up again because it's normalcy. >> teachers come back on school on wednesday to formulate a re-entry plan. students come back on friday but they'll be welcoming 80 new students here from the school just down the street that burned down. this was hidden valley satellite school. it's a total loss. the kindergartners and first and second grade

leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> parts of san rosa remain nearly impassable but abc7 news crew made it through, got around doed power lines to get to roroing oaks road neighborhoo alive. there butnimals still llamas like these, pigs, chickens wandering around, lyanne melendez and photographer gene smith them hay and gavee them water crews f santa crara sherifs office helped round up some ananals. >> it's okay. just relax. it's all rht. >> they're stressed out but safe. meanwhile those whoseom are intact worry about the windsds pickingp in next few hours and days. wondndering i will return home so. >> much more news on thee fire n abc7 news app and d findaps to showhere the fir a and >> take a look at it, red. fascinating and helps you understa the s scope of this thing. wi is key factor.r. d a break for a few hours but how much more could it sflalast? >> situation that's bad could ge worse. coern now, high fire danger towards tomorrow. winds will become gusty inn the hills and low humidity. fires spread quickly.ll d drop d redlag warning for nororth bay hills. begins 5:00 p.m. t torrow

. >> here's lesley brinkley with the story. >> reporter: this was hidden valley satellite school.h 2nd grade, it's gone. it's hard to discern what was one desks or playground. these schools will go to hidden valley elementary where the school psychologist lost his own home. >> at least two people on county to deal with mental health support. >> 144 kids lost their home and our school site. yeah about 80 some odd kids are going to come and join us and we welcome them with open arms. >> you all have to be the ones, if you're in a place to be the rocks for everyone else. >> reporter: an army of counsellors started bracing for schools to start back up. >> one over the thing the school is concerned about is the text books and musical instruments, and things that are precious to them that they're worried about. and what we told them is not to worry about that. >> reporter: schools and the fire zones are not losing out on state funding because they're closed nor will they have to make up for lost days. schools have to be scrubbed for soot and smoke damage. >> we have many of our own prof

lesley brinkley is live with us right now with a look at how student in the valley are helping. some friends with you lesley? >> reporter: i sure do. this is basically a sanctuary here with over 700 animals being cared for 24/7 by ffa students, that's future farmers of america. those goats and llama were all trapped in areas of fire zone, they were all rescued and now have no home to go home too. a flock of chickens, goats galore, no one knows their names. >> they were rescued off of fire zones from atlas fire. some came from california near calistoga. >> all these animals, if we wouldn't have got up and had this facility all these animals wouldn't be here. >> reporter: but they need to eat. and central valley ffa students trucked in three truck loads of supplies like hay and feed today. special dplielivery. >> when you're driving up here on the highway you see vineyards burned all the way to the ground. it's great to support someone who's just loss everything. >> someone like tray hen nas. >> seeing the trailers roll up and kids jumped out to help it's s amazing. >> reporter: t

here's leslie brinkley. >> we lost 18 cabins, a wood shop, absolutely everything that we own on this earth. >> the heartache is as heavy as the smoke in napa valley. this mother is now evacuated from her home on dry creek road. her son lived across the valley on atlas peak and he already lost everything. >> a beautiful home burned to the ground, and they got out with just the clothes on their back. and then, you know, we now have things that there are pictures and things. if we lose our home, we have nothing. so i don't know. i don't know how much you can take really. >> reporter: this woman is panicked because her husband decided to stay at their ridge top home. >> he decided he's going to help save our driveway. and there's like seven homes up there and he's up there fighting the fire right now. we're hoping that -- it's two guys. hopefully they both get out okay. >> reporter: the ominous smoke, the smoldering slow-moving fire crept up on homes here. the dry brush is fuelling the low lying of crackling flames. no trees appear to be on fire, at least not yet. these u.s. forest servi

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley has a look now at how students in the central valley are helping. >> reporter: there's this alpaca, a flock of chickens, goat galore. no one knows their names. >> they were rescued off of fire zones from the atlas fire. some came down from the tubs fire. up near calistoga. we pulled some out of kapel valley. >> all of these animals, if we hadn't gone up and had the facility, all these animals wouldn't be here. >> reporter: but they need to eat. enter central valley ffa students from near merced. they trucked in three truckloads of supplies like hay and feed today. special delivery. >> when we were driving up here on the highway, you see fields burned, vineyards burned down to the ground. it feels great to be able to support someone who's just lost everything. >> reporter: someone like tray hennis. >> seeing the two stock trailers roll up, and a bunch of kids just jump out ready to work was heartwarming. >> reporter: trey's family's house burned down to the ground in coffee park. he scooped up toiletries and clothes here at the high school. donated f

i'm lesley brinkley abc 7 news. >>> it's deadly quiet in one neighborhood in santa rosa called coffey park. homes burned to the ground. vick joins us live with their story. >> reporter: well, this is what's left of coffey park, take a good look. there's a subdivision about two mles from santa rosa, thousands of people live here. or i should say thousands of people used to live here. looks like somebody dropped a bomb. >> yeah, i don't know where to go from here. be a long road. >> reporter: yesterday, this was for many a story of loss. today for them, its becoming a story of recovery of the stark reality for those who have return returned that their lives have changed. the mall people visited is like a ghost town, mcdonald's, apple bees, ar byes all gone. there is what it looked like before, this is the reality now. >> arm gedeon. >> looks like a bomb went off in this area. >> and the winds were blowing so hard the gusts were coming south like 60 miles per hour. there's nothing you can do -- >> reporter: but run. >> and we heard people yelling for help, open the door and all you saw w

i'm lesley brinkley abc 7 news. >>> it's deadly quiet in one neighborhood in santa rosa called coffey park. homes burned to the ground. vick joins us live with their story. >> reporter: well, this is what's left of coffey park, take a good look. there's a subdivision about two mles from santa rosa, thousands of people live here. or i should say thousands of people used to live here. looks like somebody dropped a bomb. >> yeah, i don't know where to go from here. be a long road. >> reporter: yesterday, this was for many a story of loss. today for them, its becoming a st of recovery of the stark reality for those who have return returned that their lives have changed. the mall people visited is like a ghost town, mcdonald's, apple bees, ar byes all gone. there is what it looked like before, this is the reality now. >> arm gedeon. >> looks like a bomb went off in this area. >> and the winds were blowing so hard the gusts were coming south like 60 miles per hour. there's nothing you can do -- >> reporter: but run. >> and we heard people yelling for help, open the door and all you saw was

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley explains. >> reporter: no spectators.ns had to peer through this fence around the stadium saturday afternoon to watch the varsity game against tennyson that was postponed. a fight and threats on social media urged them to cancel the game under friday night lights and instead played midday saturday with no fans around. >> i was going to go to the game last night and i got an e-mail saying the game was moved to saturday. >> with all the things going on, i think it was better safe than sorry. >> there was no fans. it was just like the whole atmosphere of high school football is off today. it's all good, though. they played well, they had fun. >> reporter: it's the third time a high school football game has been postponed or canceled due to violence in the last week. also friday night, skyline high school was playing football here against oakland tech. in the middle of the third quarter, the game was halted because of reports of fighting outside the stadium. oakland school officials and berkeley school officials did not respo

leslie brinkley explains. >> reporter: no spectators.keley high school fans had to appear through the fence surrounding the stadium this afternoon to watch the varsity game against tennessee that was postponed. a fight and ensuing threats on social media led them to cancel under friday night lights and play midday on saturday with no fans around. >> i was almost in my car ready to go to the game and saw it had been moved to saturday. >> just when there are things going on, it is better safe than sorry. >> there were no fans, it was just the whole atmosphere of high school football off today. but it's all good, they played well and had fun. >> reporter: it's the third time the high school football game has been postponed or canceled due to violence in the last week. also friday night, skyline high school was playing football here against oakland tech in the middle of the third quarter when the game was halted because of reports of fighting outside the stadium. oakland school officials in berkeley school officials did not respond to reques

abc 7 news reporterle leslie brinkley has the story. >> reporter: recent immigration reforms are hittingocal doctors offices and affecting the mental and physical health of their patients. >> i've had patients come and tell me they are being bullied at school saying trump is going to come get you because you're a mexican. i've had patients who haven't come back because they're afraid to get on the road and drive for fear of being stopped and subsequently deported. >> reporter: the doctor is on the front lines watching families she says disenrolling from food stamps and failing to report domestic abuse. so they stay off the government's radar. she says she sees kids with stomach aches and headaches from the fear and the stress. >> it feels terrible as a provider to feel like the structures in our community are just not supporting the people that need it the most, these young children, the families, their parents who are baskted, it is really heartbreaking as a provider because it feels like there's little we can do about it. >> reporter: dr. jovi marvin is serving in the underresidency pr

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley explains. >> reporter: no spectators. berkeley high school fans it had to peer through thes fence around the stadium to watch the varsity game that was postponed a fight and ensuing threats on social media led the school to cancel understand the lights and instead play midday saturday with no fans around. >> i was almost in my car ready to come to the game last night. said the game has been moved. >> just for the safety and a lot of things going on i think it's better safe than sorry. >> it was no fans. it's just the whole, like -- th- high school is off today. it's good though they played well and had fun. >> it's the third time a high school football game has been postponed due to violence in the last week. also, friday night, sky line high school was playing football here against oakland tech in the middle of the third quarter the game was halted because of reports of fighting outside the stadium. oakland school officials in berkeley school officials did not respond to requests for comment. last week the kennedy richmo

. >> all right, joining me now to discuss, cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley.w unprecedented is this for trump's predecessors to criticize him and in this fashion, even though his name was not uttered? >> well, you know, there's almost an unwritten rule that you try not to criticize a sitting president if you're an ex-president. there have been times when of course this didn't hold up. theodore roosevelt famously in 1909 left office and he was republican and he beat up on william howard taft. his hand-chosen successor. but in modern times, we haven't seen anything like this and it tells you the level of frustration these five presidents have about what's going on with donald trump right now. it's going to be quite an evening at texas a&m to see all five of those presidents together kind of unified in a spirit of talking about what's right in america, the volunteerism, first response and remembering that these hurricanes don't happen in a day. we've got a lot of work ahead of us in the coming year to get those states and territories back. >> so it says something

and ambassador recess brinkley -- douglas brinkley. doug, the fact that the president continues to attack john mccain who is a hero whether you agree with his politics or not, what does this do to the office of the presidency? has this happened before? >> it is another time of donald trump making the white house look very small. harry truman had the buck stop here on and this is sort of like scapegoat hatchery should be the sign on trump's desk. this picking on john mccain every time he wants to come out and talk about what's bothersome, donald trump wants to be mean and cruel. now that mccain having a hard time about his health, donald trump wants to come out -- john mccain wen to war, donald trump was summon who was a chicken hawk in the war and look for ways out and i don't think he has the right to challenge mccain on patriotism, love of country and decency. >> michael, for someone who did speak out, the president likes to portray himself as this tough guy. what is it about him? from the years you were following him before he was p

leslie brinkley has more on the community spirit rising from the ashes. >> reporter: happiness, real, radiated from hidden valley in santa rosa after weeks of facing flames and smoke and gray ash. >> what i can say is i'm much better than i was a week ago and there's no question in my mind that it's because of my friends and the love of this community. >> reporter: school board members lost everything, so did teachers, so did students. this was a chance to share a meal, to share stories. >> i'm not that stressed anymore that the fire is going to get to me because they took a lot of it out. but it got pretty close to my house. >> it's nice to be back at school and i think it will be good when school starts back up again because it's normalcy. >> reporter: teachers come back to school wednesday to formulate a re-entry plan. students come back to class on friday but they'll be welcoming 80 new students here from the school just down the street that burned down. this was hidden valley satellite school. it's a total loss. the kindergartners and first and second graders from here got cloth

an advisory went out to rancho solano residents and less loy brinkley found some folks there alreadyng. >> we've packed up jasper, jacks, pressley and pete and they are probably making enough noise all the way to vacaville to keep me companies. >> friends told us to only pack your vehicle when you're ready to go, like don't have done it last night because there's a lot of looting going on and car break-ins and that kind of stuff so pack when you're ready to get out of here. >> and she and her husband are ready. >> you're looking at your life packed in the back of your vehicle here. >> walking back and forth into the house and thinking this might be the last time i see all this stuff that i've collected my whole adult life, you know, but as long as we get out of here safe that's all that matters. >> i actually had to get the sheriff's department to escort me to get the family out because my ex-husband is blind and he's got cancer. >> princess bela was along to a ride to a shelter where they slept with their car with cats and their african gray parrot. ♪ >> reporter: ken emerson got ou

leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> parts of santa rosa remain nearly impassable but abc7 news crew made it through, got around downed power lines to get to rolling oaks road neighborhood. no one there but animals still alive. llamas like these, pigs, chickens wandering around, lyanne melendez and photographer gene smith fed them hay and gave them water. crews from santa clara sheriff's office helped round up some animals. >> it's okay. just relax. it's all right. >> they're stressed out but safe. meanwhile those whose homes are intact worry about the winds picking up in next few hours and days. wondering if will return home soon. >> much more news on the fire on abc7 news app and find maps to show where the fires are and evacuations that are ordered. >> take a look at it, fascinating and helps you understand the scope of this thing. wind is key factor. had a break for a few hours but how much more could it sflalast? >> situation that's bad could get worse. concern now, high fire danger towards tomorrow. winds will become gusty in the hills and low humidity. tomorrow it really will drop and

believe these documents will lead to any bombshell discovery in the kennedy assassination.sot douglas brinkleydential historian "i applaud the fact that president trump is releasing these document. historians have wanted the release done for a while. what happened with the assassination of john f. kennedy, is still, parts of it a mystery." one of those mysteries include lee harvey oswald's trip to mexico city weeks before president kennedy's assassination. (marty) you may remember, during his campaign, president trump made the unfounded claim that the father of senator ted cruz, who ran against trump, was associated with kennedy assassin lee harvey oswald. (marty) coming up in sports -- why steph curry and kevin durant didn't make it to the end of last night's game against the grizzlies. live look outside... live look outside... golden gate for the weekned... it's the instrument petting zoo in berkeley. come out and check out some great music. it's all happening at the crowden music center from 10 to 3. the event is free to attend.s (j.r.)we start sports with the world champion golden state wa

let's talk more about this with douglas brinkley, cnn presidential historian. douglas, good to see you. >> good morning to you. >> so, let's talk about the timing of this tweet coming from the president. this is a preset deadline in which this it president would act, but here he is tweeting about it today on this day, the same day that sergeant johnson, la david johnson, will be laid to rest. what do you think about the timing of the president changing the subject, talking about the release of the jfk files as the investigation about niger only heightens? >> well, i don't think the timing's good at all. i mean, we have a funeral service going on, and he's tweeting about death from 1963. however, i applaud the fact that president trump's releasing these documents, you know, historians have wanted this release done for a while. it's cia, fbi files, what happened with the assassination of john f. kennedy is still, parts of it, are a mystery, and any new bit of documentation that adds to that historical story is a good thing. while i think president trump is right

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley has more now about the housing shortage after the fires. >> we'vets come down whose homes were burnt and some who were just smoked out and scared out, they come down and want to buy right now. >> reporter: some aren't waiting for things to settle out with their insurance companies. if they have enough for a down payment, they're pursuing what little is for sale. this napa resident works into walnut creek escrow office. >> a couple that lost everything in santa rosa i know is coming here. they don't have anything. they basically just had the clothes on their back. they're coming in and putting in offers in this area. hopefully they'll get one soon and we'll be doing escrows for them. >> reporter: this is the busy entrance to a retirement community in walnut creek. people here say every day they see people with families and even dogs, scouting for housing. realtors say their number one priority, shopping for fire safe homes in fire safe locations. it's tough. this survivor of the 1991 oakland hills fire drafted up a list of advice, which she titled "i

abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley has more now about the housing shortage after the fires. >> we'vese homes were burnt and some who were just smoked out and scared out, they come down and want to buy right now. >> reporter: some aren't waiting for things to settle out with their insurance companies. if they have enough for a down payment, they're pursuing what little is for sale. this napa resident works into walnut creek escrow office. >> a couple that lost everything in santa rosa i know is coming here. they basically just had the clothes on their back. they're coming in and putting offers in this area. hopefully they'll get one soon and we'll be doing escrows for them. >> reporter: this is the busy entrance to a retirement community in walnut creek. people are seen every day scouting for housing. realtors say their number one priority, shopping for fire safe homes in fire safe locations. it's tough. this survivor of the 1991 oakland hills fire drafted up a list of advice, which she titled "if i knew then what i know now." >> negotiate with your insurance company. make sure you ca

. >> leslie brinkley live in oakville where flames still rage. >> reporter: been a lot of reports about how close the nuns fire is getting to wineries up here. popular ones that people know about in this stretch of napa valley. but mondavi, everything is safe along highway 29, no evacuations. but behind me, above highway 29 on the ridge tops, getting smokier as the orange sun sinks over the hills. in those hills the fire is still scorching the land. along the oakville grade, an army of fire crews and contract companies waited for marching orders. >> sometimes send us up to scout and find dead snags or trees they know are going to be a problem. spending this time getting saws ready. shop set up to sharpen chains so we'll be ready when they need us. >> reporter: along this stretch of highway 29 through the heart of napa valley, six simultaneously zip back and forth between reservoirs and berning ridge line, dumping water all day long. >> weird as this is, you feel great. >> reporter: happy they're here? angels of the sky. watched from veranda of home at staglin family vineyard in the hill

. >> the baby also has big, big sister, billy joel's daughter with christie brinkley, alexa rey joel. help babysit. >> so we say congrats to them. >> he's continuing his residency at madison square garden by playing every month. friday night i he continues his record streak. >> they're so good. i've been twice. and every time i go nuts. >> does he mix it up. >> yeah? >> it's not the same? >> it's same format but not the same show. and while we were there we had a surprise performance by patti smith. >> and the same dance moves by billy joel? >>> introducing your girlfriend to your mom can be nerve-wracking. >> as i know. never introduced them. >> but introducing her to grandma. >> oh. >> can be down right terrifying. >> you know what makes it scarier? if grandma happens to be the queen of england. the daily mail has reported that prince harry has introduced the queen to meghan markle. >> it reportedly happened last week at buckingham palace. this is a big deal, because a tinted out black ford galaxy was whisked in and they had tea with grandma. >> ooh, tea. >> and we were actually abl

i have a question for doug brinkley. you said reagan wanted to dismantle the great society, which i totally, yes. but trump wants to dismantle the new deal? doesn't that give them kind of an etiology that i don't see as warranted? so you're giving him an intent to dismantle the new deal, but yet he plays all the time that you can't touch entitlements, medicaid is mean. i was very confused by that statement. >> just say the last part of it. dismantling the new deal -- >> why do you think -- >> he's not going to dismantle social security. it was kind of a joke, but i edited ronald reagan's diaries and reagan writes people's i don't like fdr, that it don't like the federal government. i voted for times for fdr. what i want to do is roll back the great society era. i've suggested with donald trump now you are seeing he would like to do away with the civil rights acts of the '60s. he would like to go back to a more states' rights oriented future turkey wants to stop this sort of role of progressivism, which culminated with ob

reporting live from napa, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> leslie, thank you. anxiety very high and understandable in that area. thousands of people still under evacuation orders. you see the largest evacuation zones are now near napa county and solano county. they're also large evacuation orders near santa rosa and geyserville. >> while fires are burning throughout the state, cal fire says the fires in the bay area are now their biggest priorities. that's because they pose the biggest threat to homes. 9,000 firefighters are working now. they're scrambling t lines and get rid of debris before the winds pick up. >> i didn't get any negative feedback from the guys, the boots on the ground. that's a good thing. about this time usually each day, we have been getting some negative feedback. i'm having a hard time hearing i need more resources here. we can't get the aircraft in there because of the wind, we can't get the aircraft in there because of the smoke. making a lot better progress today. >> cal fire investigators are actively working to determine the cause an

that was briefly -- dougleasas brinkley is the author of several books about the presidency. next to him is the national political correspondent for npr. she has covered every presidential election since 1992. you can hear her on "all things considered," and "morning edition." writer who is the senior chair in history at ut. we were supposed to be joined i rather,her, -- by dan but he wasn't able to come. with an innocent time in history. you had oneump had of his guests for a lunch at mar lago, where he talked about the office he was about to inhabit. what did donald trump talk about? >> he was president-elect. i am the presidential historian for cnn. he was just starting to have the war with the network. he didn't have nice things to say about the network. i talked to them about the presidency. i asked him about presidency has met in his life. -- presidents he had met in his life. he said he thought jimmy carter was a terrible president, and carter came to see him after the election. he wanted money from donald trump for his new center. carter, i admired jimmy that he had t

. >> presidential historian douglas brinkley joins me now.ssor, thanks so much for being with us. the five former u.s. presidents are attending a concert tomorrow night to benefit the hurricane victims. president trump not attending. when you listen to the criticisms by bush and obama, they really are criticize the the tone and what people think is the ugliness that trump might have brought out in our society. >> there's no question about it. usually former presidents try to be fairly kind to who is ever in the white house. and republican party history, you have to go all the way back to theodore roosevelt after he left office in 1909, a year later started going after republican william howard taft. so the idea of the spectacle of george w. bush insult, critique, criticism of the trump administration and trumpism was i think a very bracing moment yesterday and i think george w. bush came out of it very well. there is no love lost between our 32rd president and our current one. >> van jones -- i've talked to him. he talks sometimes about the s

left is douglas brinkley. he is cnn's presidential historian and author of several books about the presidency, most recently rightful heritage, franklin d roosevelt and the land of america. is a national political correspondent where she has covered every presidential election. >> you can hear on shows like all things considered and morning edition. she is also a contributor to fox news. brand, he is also an author of several books about the presidency, most recently the general versus the president, macarthur and truman at the brink of nuclear war. some of you have seen the written materials. we were supposed to be joined by dan rather today, but he was unable to come. the four of us will carry on in his absence today. let's start with an innocent time in history. december. , as one oflect trump his guests for a lunch at mar-a-lago, and you talked about the presidency and the office he was about to inhabit what did donald trump talk about at that lunch? >> he was president-elect, and i am a historian for cnn.

he also has 31-year-old from his marriage to christie brinkley >>> kate bilo joins us now. >> if you think about this morning, when we woke up, rainy, it was gloomy and then this afternoon, beautiful. >> yes, feels like two completely completely days, rest of the week will be more like the second half. lots more sunshine on the way and some cooler drier air. moving in temperatures on their way down. nice cool weather ahead for the next couple day, let's take a look what's going on, there's our system, you can see the low spinning over portions of michigan and the front that's now still just centered over portion of new england. i want to show you a time laps video. starts this morning, and watch these downpours coming through, you can see quick but heavy downpours, that's what we saw today, very convective rainfalls meaning showers heavy downpour and then dries out and another downpour and dries out. look at this afternoon and this final shot here, this final frame. sums up what a beautiful afternoon. they come out of the clouds like that and this looks stunning. 56 is the current te