the taney house is not burning.uarter b is not burning but what is also interesting is that you can make out -- there's two additional bridges that are burning and these are also structures that were burnt by the americans. they were not burnt by the british. so we're talking about the stoddard bridge, the upper bridge that would be essentially where east capitol street is located today and then this lower bridge is essentially the bridge that is referred to as pennsylvania avenue today or the susa bridge, whatever you prefer édyeáju have done, that bridge should be actually much closer to the navy yard. because of those of you who are familiar with that bridge, you know that it essentially exits right next to where the naval station is. just in case you wereñr wonderi, according to the u.s. navy observatory, sunset on august the 24th, 1814, was at 6:52 p.m. before daylight savings time. the stoddard bridge was set on fire by the americans somewhere between 2:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon. i don't know that it still

the tingey house is not burning. quarters "b" is not burning. but what's also interesting is that, can you make out -- there's two additional bridges that are burning and these are also structures that were burnt by the americans. they were not burnt by the british. so we're talking about the stoddard bridge, the upper bridge, that's the bridge that would be essentially where east capitol street is located today. and then this lower bridge would be essentially the bridge that would be referred to as pennsylvania avenue today or the sousa bridge, whatever you prefer. and if i have one qualm with this particular image that they've done is that bridge should actually be much closer to the navy yard. because of those of you who are familiar with that bridge, you know that essentially it exits right next to where the naval station is. just in case you were wondering, according to "the u.s. navy observatory," sunset on august the 24th, 1814, was at 6:52 p.m. before daylight savings time. the stoddard bridge was set on fire by the americans somewhere b

have happened and i disagree with what is said that washington was burned because of the burning of york could talk about that a little bit more. that's always been said, that's been said for 200 years but there's absolutely nothing in the british correspondence to say we went to washington because we wanted revenge for the burning of york. in fact, the british admiral and chief, vice admiral sir alexander cochran wrote to the new secretary of the army, acting secretary monroe a week later and he mentioned the number of places where the americans had burned up in canada, including niagara on the lake and choi i know we have an official here from niagara on the lake. but he never mentioned york. they weren't thinking about york. general ross may not have had much knowledge about fact that government buildings of york were burned in april 1813. >> let me start off a question and actually, it's a very -- it's a very good question and maybe to start off with the rest of the panel on why exactly did the british burn the capitol and if it was not in response to york, why did that happen? that

i'm surprised that you failed that mention that york was burned in 1812 and that the burning of washington was retaliation for that act. perhaps then the american viewers could hear the whole story. i suspect this guy is canadian, but -- and canadians have a right to be miffed about a lot of ways that americans remember this war, including perhaps who won the war, canadians likely have a better claim to that. and certainly many americans have forgotten that we actually invaded canadians territory as a part of this war multiple times, or much less, that we failed in those invasions. so the canadians certainly have their grievances. this idea of retal yags for york is a myth, and i'm going to try to talk about that today. retaliation did not brings the british to washington. this gentleman admiral george coburn brought the british to washington. he was really one of the most remarkable figures in all of the war of 1812. as andrew lambert mentioned yesterday, he was a protege of nelson. he got his start in 1793 just when revolutionary france declared war on great britain, and he would rise hi

i don't think you can say burning less than 10% of the city somehow represents the burning of washington. if you want to be even more conservative and say that maybe there were 450 buildings there by 1814, maybe 500 buildings in 1814, if you want to lower the number of buildings that the americans burnt, you're going to come out with a much smaller percentage. you're talking more about a total of between 4% to maybe 5% of all of the buildings in the city that were burned. and if you notice that many of the speakers yesterday and today, most of them tried to be very careful when they talked about this issue. and many of them said things like the british occupation of washington, or they would say the british burning of public buildings in washington, to try to stay away from what i essentially call a myth. i'm going to pass over this very quickly. these circles represent buildings that were current. the red circles, british. the blue circles, american. these are some of the depictions you see. none of these are contemporary. and you can imagine that if someone was not there, they're going

and they burned the parliament buildings. if anybody did, it might have been the people that were released from the jail, they were jail birds, then they might have been in there because the british jailed traitors. and so they may have had a good reason to burn the parliament buildings. but so they may have joined some of the american settlers and burned the parliament buildings, but it wasn't the american troops. >> well, there is still a great bit of mystery and uncertainty about exactly what happened. nobody can say with certainty who burned the parliament, certainly americans of some sort, more than likely deserved some of the responsibility. but, again, this was not something that was sanctioned by the american government. any other questions? >> yes -- the york issue. i do agree with you. your book was great and i encourage anyone to read it, everyone to read it, i should say. the point that i find fascinating with york is that the u.s. navy has some items, still has some items that were taken from the parliament at yo

he should have burned washington. he got in trouble for burning washington. i'll fine anybody with one typal thing.not only admiral cochran was exceptional any greedy and not only did he hope to get a ransom instead of burning washington because washington would have been humiliated by being surrendered. cochran petitioned the region for ransom in lieu of burning in the public buildings. in other words, you know, we should have -- the money we should have got in washington, to us.'t you giv.e it wisely the british government said no. >> thank you. thank you. question? i think right up here. >> i have a question for peter snow. i know you do alot lot of tact analysis of battlefields in particular. my question is , we've talked about american militia and that failure of the militia but is it really more of a failure of the american command?fi i'm particularly looking at thee final stages here where winder w ordersit that withdrawal of thei third line and without a rallying point. then we have barney, you know, y continuing to hold a and artill against infantry,

have happened and i disagree with what is said that washington was burned because of the burning of york. we can talk about that a little bit more. that's always been said. that's been said for 200 years. but there's absolutely nothing in the british correspondence to say we went to washington because we wanted revenge for the burning of york. in fact, the british admiral and chi chief, vices a mirl s svice adm mentioned a number of places where the americans had burned up in canada. including niagara on the lake. i know we have an official here from niagara on the lake, but he never mentions york. so that means that york was not the reason. they weren't thinking about york. general ross probably had not much knowledge of the fact that the government buildings of york were burned in april. of 1813. >> let me start off a question. actually, it is a very good question and maybe to start off with the rest of the panel on why exactly did the british burn the capitol and if it was not in response to york, why did that happen? why don't i lead off with that question and we'll take questions fr

by the burning of the questions.copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 one, the battle did not really take place injlhñ bladensburg. the british occupied bladensburg. there was minor, minor resistance from maybe a couple of guys that fired a couple of guns. but other than that they came right into this town and took it without any defense whatsoever. so the real battle took the west, across the anacostia river. if we call it the battle for washington, which truly it was, i think everybody would have a clearer understanding of the significance of this battle. so that's just kind of my opening remarks. >> peter. >> i thinkj)1 one of the great things is the way you discuss so uninhibited the subject, in frankness one of the most embarrassing moments in american history. [ laughter ] we're dreading in britain, next year we are dreading the moment when we celebrate or commemorate the battle of waterloo, june of 1815 which over shadows the war of 1812, the reason why we don't know anything about war of 1812 because

i mean the burning of washington wasn't the first city on the chesapeake that was burned by the british. >> you're correct. however coburn was not in charge of the forces that captured washington. general ross was. and he was a much more mild mannered and firm man and he was respecting private property, and the whole of washington could have been respected and not burned, again, if the city had surrendered. >> yes. i think it's important to note that actions like the burning of havre d empde grace were happen before any other actions in the canadian theater. >> but it should be pointed out that the british believed that havre de grace provoked an attack because as the british were up there conducting some raids, that town flew their flag in defiance and fired a canon shot at them. not one guy. there were a bunch of militia men up there. >> if i can for the audience because we have a short window of time. let the panelists answer the questions. and get in as many as we can. >> what i would say i think the federalist newspaper, americans did say even coburn did not burn private property.

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i'm surprised that you failed that mention that york was burned in 1812 and that the burning of washingtonwas retaliation for that act. perhaps then the american viewers could hear the whole story. i suspect this guy is canadian, but -- and canadians have a right to be miffed about a lot of ways that americans remember this war, including perhaps who won the war, canadians likely have a better claim to that. and certainly many americans have forgotten that we actually invaded canadians territory as a part of this war multiple times, or much less, that we failed in those invasions. so the canadians certainly have their grievances. this idea of retal yags for york is a myth, and i'm going to try to talk about that today. retaliation did not brings the british to washington. this gentleman admiral george coburn brought the british to washington. he was really one of the most remarkable figures in all of the war of 1812. as andrew lambert mentioned yesterday, he was a protege of nelson. he got his start in 1793 just when revolutionary france declared war on great britain, and he would rise hig

and he would later write, his name was william james, and he would later write, until co burn burn's arrival in chesapeake, people in this region would, quote, scarcely have known except by hear say that war existed. and that was about to change. coburn arrives in the spring of 1813 and finds the chesapeake just custom made for an expeditionary force such as he had, 200 mile length of the bay with all the rivers serving as tributaries, really provided access to what was then the real economic as well as political heartland of america. and this chesapeake bay quickly turns into a lake. quite quickly in the spring of 1813, we start seeing attacks on the upper shores of the bay of many towns including havre de grace and towns along the eastern shore. and this happens almost exactly at the same time as on april 27th, 1813 where bringing brigadier general zebulon pike leads an american landing force on the shores of ontario near york. and they defeat the british and canadian defenders, but there is an explosion which kills pike and many other americans. and in the confusion that follows,

it was actually philadelphia police who spotted that burning car and then body inside. many questions remains this morning, namely, who is the victim, how did he even up in the burning car and is his death connect to another incident that happened blocks away and just hours earlier. fill's police say they found the body inside a burning car wednesday night just before 8:00 on the 6100 block of north lawrence street. the man was found on the passenger side on the black mitsubishi galante and was pronounced dead at the scene. police say this man may have been a victim of the shooting that happened three blocks away earlier in the day. police had been investigating a shooting in the 400 block of rose lynn street reported around 4:00 in the afternoon. in victim was found at that time but eyewitnesses on roselyn street describe seeing that very same car discovered three and a half hours later engulf in flames. >> they said that there was a male sitting in the passenger seat of a black mitsubishi who had been shot the in the head and the driver drove off, east, on roselyn str

one person injured with burns over 80% of their body. we were there just as the flames broke out when firefighters were just arriving. let's show you that video. again, this is in west kensington. christine maddela telling you that roads are blocked off in the area and firefighters are getting the upper hand but dozens of crews on the scene and we are awaiting an update from new fire commissioner derek sawyer in just minutes. >>> at least one person injured, many eevacuated right now as this warehouse fire in kensington continues to burn. this is west kensington. this is right along, if you're familiar with the area, north american street between york and cumberland. this is a warehouse as far as our research can tell us that is a commercial storage warehouse. gone in flames this morning. very intense flames were burning just after 2:00 a.m. a four alarm fire. philadelphia fire department has put water on it and seems to have the upper hand. expecting an update from the fire commissioner but one person was injured and several people were

burn was gone and this is what happened. on the second floor, the men were tracking mattresses and textiles to piles in the centers of the room. the windows were smashed out, giving the windows openings. from the basement came 10 containers of highly flammable lard and whale oil which the madison's cap in quantity for their lamps to illuminate their evening entertainment. it was poured over the pile of debris in the second-floor rooms. this took several hours. when it was done, the men left the house as ordered. a certain number of them formed a circle around the building, provided by long wooden javelins. they saw them wrapped in straw and cloth and saturated with lamp oil. then came the fire. legend said it was carried over from rose's tavern, a block away. a lot of locals will remember. i don't know why that would be the case. the kitchen and the dining room in the house had healthy fires going. perhaps it was brought to provide a little drama for the crowd of spectators. that is a stretch, of course. the men with the fla

at least the fuel that was allowed to burn will not burn again. it's close to the house now as you can see but people are already tied up trying to do a backfire to stop this one. there just isn't enough people to be in all these places all at once. once again the fire crews won the individual battle saving one home at a time. but would they win the war? after all these were just spot fires breaking out in advance of the main fire just across the hill. and then at noon there it was. cresting up on the mountain and looking down. this was not a spot fire anymore, this was big daddy himself. >>> still to come on a second look, jumping out of a plane behind the fire lines. what it takes to become a smoke jumper. >>> a wall of flames as crews try to push back an advancing fire storm. the worse fire in california's history. still ahead on a second look. >>> tonight on a second look the danger of fighting wildfires. just imagine for a moment flying right into the center of a wildfire and then jumping out of an airplane and parachuting in behind the fire

ken burns, congratulations.oming in right now are just absolutely anperb for "the roosevelts," intimate history. ken burns of course changing film history for stop >> absolutely. rett wallace, as you listen to us discuss the parallels between the gilded age, what we are seeing right now, what is the story to be written about the guys in silicon valley? trthe interesting parallel, was a famous trust buster, and right now, concentration, there are five banks, to airlines, three telecom companies, the market is doing the trust busting. >> rett wallace, thank you for your comments. >> "bloomberg surveillance" on radio continues. "in the loop" on bloomberg television with betty liu is next. thank you for watching. tom, aj, and i will see you tomorrow. ♪ >> good morning, it is tuesday, september 16 and we are live from bloomberg world headquarters. former new york governor george attack he will be joining me in moments. why republicans are lining up so quickly behind the president and how are they going to win a state

half the town's houses were burned down. the town of hampton in virginia Ñ burned.rmy troops$ú including fre prisoners with the british, and the effect of all this terror is to really paralyze both the militia units which are supposed to be protecting this area and the american government. you know, coburn, nobody was sure where he would strike next, and the british also made very good use of the real weakness in american society, and that was our reliance on slavery. a number of plan titations up a down the shoreline of the bay and rivers feeding into it, and the british encouraged american slaves to come over to the other side to escape british promising their freedom and opportunity if they wished to fight against their former masters, and a lot of them do. they come, you know, down to the waterways in makeshift rafts and make their way out to the british fleet. coburp sets up a basetÈ of operations on the island in the middle of the bay, the deep water harbor, and this is a perfect place for running the x expedition operation. the a number of coming over to th

came running out of the building badly burned. any idea at that point what that person was doing, was this an employee or something else going on there? >> chris, we are trying to get that information. we don't know at this time if he was an employee. if that person was a security guard or what have you. some people in the neighborhood thought the warehouse was abandoned, which was interesting to me. so, we just don't know. we have calls into the owner of the warehouse. it's american supply company. i'm actually forgetting the name of it. it's a commercial warehouse. it's family owned and it's one of two commercial warehouses in philadelphia owned by the same family. again, we have calls into the owner to try to get more information. i would bet the owner is on scene. but this is just such a large scene right now. residential, commercial, some industrial area in this part of west wensingtkensington. a lot to take into consideration for the emergency responders and the police who are really doing much of the street closures and the

half the town's houses were burned down.town of hampton in virginia, was very brutally burned and so the inhappen tants killed by army troops, including some french prisoners that were with the british. and the effect of all this terror is to really paralyze both the militia units which are supposed to be protecting this area and the american government. coburn, nobody was quite sure where he would be next and the british made very good use of a real weakness in american society. and that was our reliance on slavery. a number of plantations all up and down the shorelines of the bay and the rivers feeding into it. and the british encouraged american slave does come over to the other side. to escape british problems with their freedom and an opportunity, if they wished to fight against their former masters. and a lot of them do they come down to the waterways, like the potomac and the makeshift raft and they make their way up to the british fleet. coburn sets up a base of operation on tangier island. in the middle of the bay,

all that was burned was gone. this is exactly what happened. on the second floor, the men were breaking up furniture and dragging mattresses and textiles to pile in the centers of the rooms. the windows were smashed out. from the basement came the containers of flammable oil which the madisons kept in quantity for the lamps. the oil was poured over the piles of debris in the second-floor rooms. this took several hours. when it was done, the men left the house as ordered. a certain number formed a circle around the building. provided with long wooden javelins, they saw them route clothe, andaw, then then saturated in oil. the oil was carried for a tavern, perhaps to provide drama for the crowd of spectators who crowded to watch. that is a stretch, of course. the men with the flaming javelins were in place. and a pistol shot from blanchard, they hurled them to the second floor. from all accounts, the fire came and rose quickly. thornton -- mrs. thornton stood on the porch and saw the whole thing. she wrote that the

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and he would later write, his name was william james, and he would later write, until co burn burn's arrival in chesapeake, people in this region would, quote, scarcely have known except by hear say that war existed. and that was about to change. coburn arrives in the spring of 1813 and finds the chesapeake just custom made for an expeditionary force such as he had, 200 mile length of the bay with all the rivers serving as tributaries, really provided access to what was then the real economic as well as political heartland of america. and this chesapeake bay quickly turns into a lake. quite quickly in the spring of 1813, we start seeing attacks on the upper shores of the bay of many towns including havre de grace and towns along the eastern shore. and this happens almost exactly at the same time as on april 27th, 1813 where bringing brigadier general zebulon pike leads an american landing force on the shores of ontario near york. and they defeat the british and canadian defenders, but there is an explosion which kills pike and many other americans. and in the confusion that follows,

burns. i love your shows. i watch them all especially the one on lewis and clark. >> guest: thank you so much. we love that one too. it's a really good story and every time it plays, pbs place is pretty frequently. i check local listings is the best thing to do. this is a very complicated family drama. those eleanor and theodore r. cousins of franklin. i'm a seventh cousin of theodore and eleanor so you can say his cousin is really far away. but eleanor is the niece of theodore. that means that theodore's brother elliott is eleanor's father and theodore is of course the great president and his brother elliott died of alcoholism and of mental illness and orphaned eleanor by the time she was age 10. that is how they are related in theodore always felt a special kinship with eleanor. she was his favorite niece and that's the relationship there. >> host: franklin new hampshire line for independents. you are on with mr. burns and mr. ward. >> caller: good morning gentlemen. first off putting a face to the team and

headlines for both the size and ferocity of the burns. >> fire world emerging from the parched hillside. >> the end of fire season is nowhere in sight. >> we are seeing near unprecedented drought. so what that means is we have seen the beginning of fire season much earlier. some even say that last fire season truly never ended. and we are going to probably see this fire season extend much longer than normal. >> this is the first day that we are on the scene. the crews are six days into the battle. fire command at the july conflicts post. this is fire camp where tactical decisions are made and fire fighters rest before returning to the fire line. when i arrive, new resources are being called in to fight four major wildfires in the area. >> what's at stake here? >> numerous homes as the fire comes down into the front country. there is approximately 360 homes out there. there is also the infrastructure of power lines. there is agricultural land with livestock and so, there is numerous things. at the northwest edge of the fire, most residents are trying to get away from the flames. but a te

this is just one of 11 wildfires burning in california right now. >> mark:the courtney fire burning near yosemite in oakhurst has now destroyed more than 60 buildings.including 33 homes. >> mark:it has also destroyed 17 cars. >> mark:a thousand people remain under evacuationorders this morning. >> darya:that fire started on sunday afternoon and is now 35% contained. >> darya: in the bowls fire has spread its 320 a. and more than the 1500 people have been evacuated is already been a hundred homes that have been destroyed and dentist. >> darya:governor jerry brown is issuing a grant that will help cover the costs to contain a wildfire burning near the city of weed. >> darya:the so-called boles fire. has spread to 350 acres. and is only >> darya: been evacuated. >> darya:and 100 homes have been damaged >> darya: state agencies fighting the reimbursement of their fire >> darya:and the july complex fire >> darya:and the july complex fire [ male announcer ] automotive innovation starts... right here. with a control pad that can read your handwriting, a wide-screen multimedia center, and a head

look at the acreage over 150,000 acres burning. what's going to change that is, this isn't a drought breaker but this system that i'm going to be telling you about over the break. it's going to increase the moisture and humidity. it's going to help out a ton for firefighters. so when i come back we'll let you know exactly how this system times out. but just suffice to say it is going to help greatly in dousing those fires in northern california. >>> and our coverage continues online at ktvu.com. you can watch more video of the fire fight and get the latest updates on containment and evacuations. >>> police gave the all clear this afternoon to a san francisco high school that was evacuated because of a bomb threat. police say that threat was reported just before 1:30 this afternoon at lowell high school near lake merced. the school was evacuated and officers did a sweep of the campus. students were eventually september -- eventually sent home for the day. in the end they turned up nothing suspicious. >>> a mother and her two-year- o

the student felt something burning through his t-shirt onto his skin. >> it just burned. when i got home, i got in the shower, but it earning more. >> by the morning, he had to go to the hospital. more than a dozen other players were burned, too. in a statement, a spokesman said, "student safety and security is our top rar day. the actions of a member of our staff, while well-intentioned, cause students to be injured. it is not acceptable." it was a knack sitting, but likely that will leave him scarred and worried about his future. -- they understand was an accident, but likely will leave him scarred and worried about his future. >> it was an accident, but should have been avoided. >> the school principal apologized and said they are taking steps to ensure it does not happen again. live in silver spring, roz plater, abc 7 news. >> a teenager is in custody, accused of making false calls about danger in two st. mary's county schools. girl allegedly made the calls from leonardtown high school and great mills high school september 18. in both cases, the caller claimed there w

right now we know at least two people are hurt, one of them with burns on 80% of their body. we have team coverage of the warehouse fire this morning. >> let's get right to nbc's katy zachary. tell us what is happening right now. >> this four alarm fire broke out around 2:00 this morning on the 2400 block of american street. this is the latest information we have from fire commissioner derek sawyer. when the fire broke out, it took crews about an hour and a half to get it under control. the fire started in a vacant building and then spread to a paper company building, which is adjacent to this warehouse that you're looking at right now. now, that paper company building is an operating business. so, it's no wonder when we pulled up we saw very heavy, thick, black smoke pouring from the building and we knew there was something very flammable inside. the fire was brought completely or fought completely from the outside. it was never fought from the inside of the building. no firefighters ever went ins e inside. the fire was under control around 4:00 a.m. 120 firefighters were ne

the king fire has been burning for 8 days.17% percent contained.it has burn more then 82,000 achers. 10 homes have been destroyed, 22 other minor structures, 21,000 other structures remain threated tonight the fight is on to stop the fire as it continues to spread. well as 22 other minor structures, 12,000 more homes are threated do believe arson was the cause furious flames county to rip trough el dorado county near pollock pines the king fire has already destroyed close to three-dozen structures and counties to spread -- moving toward the tahoe national forest.

the fire has burned 12,000 and is 5% contained. many are seeking shelter and an overflow crowd is desperate to know if their homes are safe. >> it is pretty emotional. >> more than 1,500 firefighters are helping to battle the blaze. fire departments here from the bay area are here including the oakland fire department. now we have more at ktvu.com and you can find weather conditions as well as video from the front lines of the fires. >>> and the adrian peterson child abuse case. they have now barred the star runningback, the vikings made that announcement just a day and a half after initially deciding he could play with the team while he defends himself against felony abuse charges. he spanked him with a spree branch and he could miss the rest of the season while the court goes through. >>> they have appealed ray rice's decision and it cites double jeopardy saying he is being penalized twice. initially he was penalized two games and now they changed that punishment to an inn definite suspension right after they released a graphic v

with severe burns, second degree burns, and third agree burns, from this part of her body, down, so very serious accident here, this morning. and they tell me, she had got mean this accident right behind me here, at the sunoco gas station right after she took off her gas cap. that's when one car hit her car, and overturned the gas pump, and get there is she was with her three year old daughter. >> banked up, burned out. the wreckage of two car crash and fire here at this kensington gas station, and an accident that sent one person to the hospital, a woman, just trying to fill up. >> it is insane. you never know what is going to happen to you when you wake up in the morning. >> fire officials say the crash happened at this sunoco at the corner of somerset street and aramingo avenue just before 11:30 thursday night. woman was getting ready to p.m. up when an out of control car slammed into her car. t bone it. we're told the driver misstook the gas pedal to the brake. it is a mistake that took out the pump and sparked big fire. both cars were burned, and so was the woman standing outside. s

the question was can i givec#ox background to the burning of the naval yard.ne of us would want to go through what they went through that night. he had been told by the secretary of the navy that if the british succeeded and seemed to be within the boundaries of washington, he was to take preemptive action and burn the shipping, the ordnance supplies and everything else at the navy yard. this was a terrible decision to make, but they didn't want this to fall in the hands of the enemy, so he waited until the last minute. he sent his scouts out, and they came back with the news that, yes, the british had succeeded, and they were pouring into washington. now they had a decision that horrified them. they laid gun powder into the building, the ordnance, into the shipping, and they set it alight. like pyrotechnics, and people there couldn't believe what they were doing, but they had to carry out orders, and this came from the top secretary of the navy, preemptive action, and that's what they did, and they watched these, built with the finest labor and taken so long

it has burned 320 acres. 33 homes have been burned and dozens of other structures have been destroyed. hundreds of people remain under an evacuation order. >>> mexican military planes are starting to rescue people in cabo san lucas from their vacations that turned into nightmare as of hurricane odile. now, we talked with one bay area woman who was stranded in her flooded hotel after the storm. >> our floor was entirely flooded our entire lobby was destroyed. and there was glass everywhere. so we basically have been on our beds. >> lauren said all the windows in her hotel were blown out and glass was floating in the floodwaters in her hotel room. she said they were stuck without power, no running water, very limited food, too. she was rescued by a military plane yesterday morning, flown it a larger airport in mexico before finally getting back to the bay area. >>> santa clara county fire investigators are looking into a carport fire that forced evacuations of some apartments in campbell this morning. it began about 4:00 this morning at a complex on union avenue just south of the prune

madison's war and the burning of washington city. declaring war congress and the president exercise powers that were granted to them by the u.s. constitution and for our young country, only three decades removed from the first war of independence, the war at 1812 tested many of the ideas in the constitution and it called upon madison to abide by the limitations of powers that he had worked so hard to institute. so as we commemorate the sobering events of 1814, this panel will be shedding light on the new scholarship and ideas about the origins and outcomes of the war. fittingly, i love the fact that we begin today with the discussion of the british context of the war. i am pleased to welcome to the podium dr. andrew lambert. he's a professor of naval history at kings college london. in addition to writing about british strategy and technology, he's the author of an award winning 2012 volume on the war titled "the challenge, brittain against america in the naval war of 1812." and it was just honored with the anderson award. so if i co

he's burned on, he's suffering from second and third degree burns. 80% of his body is burned. this was the scene just after the fire started in the warehouse this morning. we're taking another live look here from our camera atop the loew's building and comcast tower. you can see the smoke there in the background, which is drifting across the delaware valley there in center city. and this fire has now been burning for about four hours as firefighters continue to work on it to bring it. it is under control, but they continue to work on this fire. this warehouse fire on cumberland and cumberland streets. >>> at 6:26 a.m. i'm watching two problems on 422. both on the eastbound side. this is an accident near trooper road and it is causing a lot of confusion, as well as a delay there. also on 422, we ehave a disabled vehicle out there on the eastbound side. two things to worry about, but this, before you head out today, we want to look at what the weather looks like out there and it is feeling like fall this morning. here's a beautiful picture from cape may. >> our temperatures will

. >> body found inside a burning car. "eyewitness news" reporter jane carabao joins us from police headquarters where authorities are working more to learn about the victim, good morning. >> reporter: good morning ukee and erika. right now this victim is treated as a john dough he was so badly burned. it was a gruesome discovery made in the olney section of philadelphia and made by philadelphia police officers who spotted this smoking and burning car. they called the fire department to put it out and that is when they have found the body. still a lot of unanswered questions this morning, who is this man, how did he end up in the burning car and is his death related to another crime that happened blocks away. philadelphia police say they found this body inside this burning car wednesday night just before 8:00 o'clock on the 6100 block of north lawrence street. the man was found on the passenger side of a black mitsubishi galante and was pronounced dead at the scene. police say this man may have been a victim of the shootin

a man, found dead inside of a burning car. this car. a a black mitsubishi galante. >> the body was burnt beyond recognition. we cannot tell at this time age or a race. it is a john doe at this time. >> reporter: philadelphia police were ones to spot burning car just before 8:00 wednesday night while on routine patrol. victim was fun on the passenger side and pronounced dead on the scene. investigating believe he may have been involve in a shooting three blocks away on roselyn street earlier in the day no victim was found when he was reported there at 4:00p m but eyewitnesses describe seeing that same car. >> they interviewed several witnesses who did say that a man was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of the myths bushy driver then sped away, at this point, no arrests have been made, heavy set man was seen running away from the burning koran lawrence but it is unclear how or if he is involve. it is unclear who may have shot the victim as he is indeed the same man who was found burned beyond recognition. >> we cannot tell if he i

a man, found dead, inside of a burning car, this car, a black mitsubishi galante. >> the body was burned beyond recognition. we cannot tell at this time, age or a race. it is a john doe at this time. >> reporter: philadelphia police were ones to spot burning car just before 8:00 o'clock wednesday night while on routine patrol. vick them was found on the passenger side and pronounced dead on the scene. investigators believe he may have been involve in the shooting just three blocks away on roselyn street earlier in the day. no victim was found there, but eyewitnesses on roselyn street described seeing that same car. >> interviewed several witness hose did say a male was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of a mitsubishi. >> reporter: police say driver then sped away. at this point no arrests have have been made. heavy set man was seen running away from the burning car, but it is unclear how, or if, he is involved. it is also unclear who may have shot the victim and if he is, indeed the same man was found burned beyond recognition. >> we can the not tell at this time if he is shot. o