crockett street today, this part of it is wonderful. can of course go dance at the dixie dancehall which is country and western venue that was made from the old dixie hotel. >>> bobby jindal is scheduled to reveal his proposal for the budget, $900 million in the red. in shreveport, it's mostly cloudy and 37 degrees at the airport. 38 in mendon. >>> next weekend, book tv and american history tv explore the history and literary culture of shreveport, louisiana. saturday starting at noon eastern on book tv on c-span2, author gary joiner on the union army's failure in louisiana from one damn blunder from beginning to end, the red river campaign

represented by himself, and so apparently david crockett or robert crockett and juan seguin were in the same place on the same day, and you wonder if they had a conversation, you know, someone who had seen his father before he died at the alamo. on that also -- also on that document that's pretty compelling is that there's a immigrant or native? and if you go down and look at the names, every anglo name is immigrant. every hispanic name is native. we were the immigrants. people who look like me. we were the immigrants. we were the newcomers. as a matter of fact, i love going to various places and talking to -- particularly at republican events. we're going to build a fence on the border here, and we're going to do this and do that. and somebody will say, i'm a fifth generation texan. and i'll say, did your ancestor come here legally or illegally? what do you mean? mr. jones? you know. no, of course, they came -- well, you're not so s aif ty di sponsored by a presadao grant, they probably were illegal and if they came here during a period, i forgot the time when immigration was suspended

it was a moderate earthquake in the area of crockett and vallejo. bart is running about 10 minutes late this year it's >>kimberlee: here is what some of our viewers had to say. >>pam: on the phone with us, jim allison with bart. >> right now we are expecting the tracks. the trains are operating in the manual mode going slowly to make sure there is no damage. what we're sure there is no damage to the will get back to full speed. this is not a major earthquake from our perspective. >>pam: is the entire system affected? >> the entire system. we stopped every train. the trains stop and we check of 44 stations and one of 4 mi. of track. >>pam: we have someone on the phone with us from the u.s. geological survey. >> i am a mining geologists. >>pam: take it to joining us. what can you fill us in on about the earthquake that just occurred? >> a very interesting situation occurred. with this one i actually heard and then it felt it within a few seconds. it was a strange sound. a troubling. difficult to describe. it was more of a sensory perception. that, all

. >>> we're standing on crockett street in downtown beaumont in front of a row of historic buildings that were probably built around the turn of the 20th century. they were built along the railroad tracks where the ro so they were an important part of the business district there. at some point, parts of crockett street became more notorious and they were a mainstream establishment. beaumont had turned a blind eye more or less to prostitution as long as it was in some remote corner of the town. however, this was not. at some point the dixie hotel became a brothel. but it was considered to be a very one and the clientele was limited. the employees there were supposed to be the prettiest girls around. and it was not the sort of thing that anybody could just walk in off the street. and patronize. ms. rita was ms. rita an ins worth and she was the madam and she started off in one of the brothels in towns and ended up marrying the son of the owner. his name was matt haynesworth and they together operated another hotel until he died and then she took the money that was left in the estate an

at some point, parts of crockett street became more notorious than mainstream establishments. beaumont had always turned a blind eye more or less to prostitution, as long as it was in some remote corner of the town. however, this was not, andt the became a brothel. but it was considered to be a very fine one. the clientele was limited, the employees there were supposed to be the prettiest girls around. anybody off the street could walk in and patronize. miss rita was the madam at the hotel. she started life in one of the brothels in town, ended up marrying the son of the owner, his name was matt ainsworth. they together operated another houn then she took the money that was left in the estate, and bought the dixie, and it was hers for years until it was closed down. patron of the to the dixie dixie, which was a bore dell oh, you would comeor i and up these stairs. and when you got to the there w been a counter there. and he would have checked in at that point. we're now in the interior of what would have been the dixie hotel, the

. >> john coffee hayes who should be a household word like davy crockett but he is not? and no. you can just keep going. the fact is for me as a writer i could go sell a book in new york to people not only to an editor who gives me many which they do but i could sell to a country that had never heard of these guys. what it a cool thing. the answer to why they tended to we bottled up and prisoners of their region. 700 copies go to schools and libraries and the distribution so i saw my opportunity. i took it. the comanche story is just one of the great stories and what i love about it is it is the best kind of a school you can get from the most beloved history professor to use a vehicle the comanche tribe which is very cool in itself but to teach you how the west was one. it was not one by the white people until it was lost by the comanches. they constituted an incredible physical barrier to everything that happened in the west the mexicans and texans and americans and spanish and everybody else. and determined what happened around them. occupied the southern plains 250,000 square

david milch and michael mann, is that like crockett and tubbs? [laughter] >> it is a combination that we have talked about for a long time. tavis: how did you come together on this particular project? >> david asked me if i wanted to direct the pilot. i read it and i did not necessarily want to direct the pilot, but the writing was so addictive and so challenging. in its way of the immersing us, parachuting is ready to character. it is a fascinating world. i really got hooked by the screenplay. tavis: i am curious that have your mind works. i know how much the written word means to you. when you say addictive and challenging, that almost sounds boxing moronic. i know you meant something by that. -- sounds oxymoronic. i know you meant something by that. >> when i start reading the screenplay, i imagine right away dustin hoffman. i like the casting. and then you put it down and you leave it there for a week and you start picking it up again and you can i get enough of it. you keep coming back to it for four weeks or five weeks. the challenge of the

it was centered halfway between vallejo and crockett. b.a.r.t. stopped the trains, following procedure. the same area was hit at -- 6:09 yesterday evening. >>> the kelley house sits inside kelley park. part of the roof and interior collapsed. there are no reports of injuries. park officials say it was once used as an office but it is not used for that anymore. the park sits on land that was part of a 600-acre estate, at one point covered with fruit or charreds. >>> president obama will be spending time in san francisco as part of another fund-raising swing through the west coast. claudine wong joins us live to show us what the streets look like ahead of the president's arrival. claudine? >> reporter: well, tori, the barricades are up, security has really picked up all in agency of the president's visit. i want you -- i want to take you live. crews are waiting for air force one to land. that's expected to happen at 12:50. he will be in san francisco for less than 24 hours. but he's hoping to raise $3 million for his campaign. president obama's fir

when attending a fume ramp as the final bell rang during the service for a refired firefighter in crockett, a real bell sounded an alarm. the real firefighters raced to the burning dry cleaners building less than a block away. several fry crews in town for the service helped fight the flames and evacuate elderly residents from a nearby retirement home. limit in a drier is thought to have started the blaze. >> high winds led to a close call for two surfers at ocean beach. a it could surfer was swept 300-yard from shore after losing control of his sail at 1:00 this morning. this morning another distress call came in for a surfer whose board broke. both surfers managed to make it to shore on their open. beach-goers need to be extra caution this weekend because extreme winds and rough tides are making conditions very dangerous leigh glaser is watching the winds. >> leigh: the winds will be dying down, which is good news, overnight tonight, and not as windy the next couple of days. tuesday the winds pick back up. here's the current wind speeds, gusts at sfo, 23. half moon bay, 26. napa, winds s

. >>> firefighters attending a funeral in crockett yesterday ditched their formal uniforms to bat altwo alarm blaze that broke out just around the corner. fire authorities believe repairs to the building may have started that fire. fire crews contained the flames within a half an hour. >>> a shocking plot by three fifth graders to kill their teacher unraveling at a fresno elementary school. the teacher's association says student put rat poison in their teacher's coffee and one of the kids then had a change of heart and knocked the coffee cup out of the teacher's hand as she was about to drink. it also allegedly poisoned the frosting on a cup cake which the teacher luckily never ate. there is now a battle brewing how to punish the kids. >> they find out that you can hatch a plan to kill a teacher and the worse you are going to happen to you will be expelled from a elementary school. what is that saying? >> the fresno police department is working with the district attorney's office right now and they say if there is enough evidence they will prosecute. >>> a strong earthquake struck taiwa

tour the dixie hotel, an infamous brothel on crockett street. decades of gambling and prostitution and other crime thrived into a 1960 james commission crackdown. beaumont, texas, this weekend on c-span2 and 3. >>> by 2016 according to the imf the world's leading economy will be a communist dictatorship. that's in five years time. if the imf is right, the guy you elect next november will be the last president of the united states to preside over the world's leading economy. >> columnist and author mark stein has published nine books, his latest "after america" is a "new york times" best seller. he writes the happy warrior column for the national review and he's a frequent guest host on rush limbaugh's show. live sunday on in depth your chance to call, e-mail and tweet with your questions live at noon eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> the president addressed attendees of this year's national prayer breakfast on thursday. in his remarks he said his actions and policies are motivated by jesus' teachings in his work on health care reform and levelin

its epicenter closest to crockett. we happened to talk to one scared guy in that town this morning who had never felt an earthquake before. >> i feel like a little weird and i say, what happened here? so a few minutes i go out check my facebook, they wrote that we had a earthquake. >> reporter: and i spoke minutes ago to someone at the u.s. geological survey who says that today's quake was not an aftershock from yesterday's quake and he says it's not unusual to have a couple of quakes in the same vicinity in a short amount of time. >> thank you. >>> well, right now president obama is winging his way to san francisco. he left l.a. a short time ago for his second stop on a two-day fundraising swing through california. anne makovec is at sfo where the president is due to arrive in about an hour. i can only imagine security is mighty tight there. >> reporter: certainly. we have gone through several security sweeps to be here. the tarmac is right behind me. the president will be early, maybe about five minutes early today s

. >>> fire crews responded within minutes to a fire today in crockett, while attending a funeral just around the corner. services for a retired fireman were interrupted by reports of flames at a nearby laundromat. attending firefighters quickly toss order their gear to battle the two-alarm blaze. fire authorities believe repairs to the building were to blame for the fire. >> the owner of the building was working on the roof, making some repairs, and there's a lot of lint in the attic and what happened was, it got a fire started in there and it moved pretty rapidly. >> a senior living home next to the structure was temporarily evacuated. fire crews contained the fire within half an hour. >>> new information tonight on a case of vandalism we brought you earlier this week. officers arrested five teenage boys accused of hurling river rocks at homes, cars and mailboxes in livermore. police say the boys admitted to throwing the rocks from a car driving at a high speed last saturday. in one instance, a large rock hit a wall next to a child's crib. no one was hurt in any of the incidents. >>>

broke out a block away of where dozens of firefighters were remembering a retired firefighter from crockett. firefighters say they slipped on their gear over their suits, ran to the building and went to work. flames tore through a vacant laundromat. the firefighters say they were able to save a retirement home next door. >> multiple effort to get this out. and just happened to be on a day that we were honoring one of our fallen comrades. >> the building's owner was doing repair roof on the work at the time. and the propane torch he was using likely sparked that fire. no one was hurt. >>> and coming up next at 5:00, does the bay area have talent? howard stern and the rest of the judges are in town to answer that question. we'll take you there with a live report. >>> and a popular dining hall in san francisco closes its doors after a half-century of service, we'll show you why some say it's a good thing. >>> and spring training has begun, but the s a'may be scrambling for replacement at a key position. >>> and it felt like spring around the bay area, at least for the last few days, but today,

crockett is in there as well at .4. napa and concord one-third.ncisco, about two-tents, union city, a tenth. for the morning commute more rain than the afternoon and evening, occasional bursts of moderate, a quarter to three-quarters, wind gusts have been over 50 for some, especially over a thousand feet. really warm air, mid 50s, that's wherein lies the problem, the southeast wind draws the moisture out it. it is called downsloping, there will not be a quiz. that takes the moisture. along with the system it is stretching apart all the way down to southern california. gusts to 73 miles per hour over in grapevine earlier this morning. a windy day. the snow levels don't look good. morning rain, 60s or upper 50s on the temperatures. a cloudy day. after that i wish i could say there would be more rain, we need it, but except for night and morning fog and with the weekend in view, partly cloudy skies, and rain moving toward the oregon border. >>> 8:41. an important morning on the stanford campus after two disturbing incidents over the weekend. >>> anon

crockett street today, this part of it is wonderful. you can of course go dance at the dixie dancehall which is country and western venue that was made from the old dixie hotel. >>> coming up next, the 14th annual conference and first we hear from general robert titus who served in the korean war and who received the distinguished flying cross. after that, we hear from francis "jeep" sanza who was dr. dwight d. eisenhower's driver during world war ii. this is about an hour. b. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen, i hope that those of you who were here yesterday enjoyed the proceedings. i thought we had a very full program of interesting panelists and speakers. i hope you agree. and should get even better today, i think. thank you for getting up at this early morning hour on saturday to be with us for a full day of adventure as we listen to some great stories from some great heroes from a number of conflicts that the country has been in over the past 70 years. we take pride in the fact that we have a lot of students come to the confere

there's a name of david crockett represented by robert, his son. and then just a couple of spaces away is a name juan seguin. they were in the same place on the same day. you wonder if they had a conversation, as someone who had seen his father alive before he died tat the alamo. there's a column up here that says, immigrant or native? and if you go down and look at the names, every anglo name is immigrant. every hispanicnive. we were the immigrants. people who look like me. we were the immigrants. we were the newcomers. as a matter of fact, i love going to various places and talking to -- particularly at republican events. we're going to build a fence on the border here and we're going to do this and do that. and somebody will say, i'm a fifth generation texan. and i'll say, did your ancestor come here legally or illegally? what do you mean? of course they came -- well, you're not so sure about that. if they didn't come in here sponsored by a presadio grant -- i forget the time immigration was suspended by mexico, they were illegal immigrants. we

firefighters in crockett fought a fire this morning at a laundry mat caught fire. it turns out firefighters didn't have far to go to get to the scene. >> we were at st. rose church, a half a block away, honoring one of our retired firefighters who had passed away. >> crews briefly evacuated a senior center next door to the building on wanda street as a precaution. >> a tree trimming mishap left a man dangling. east contra costa fire officials say the homeowner was knocked unconscious when he hit a branch and it hit him in the head this afternoon. the 51-year-old men -- man was taken to the hospital. >> 5 teenage boys were arrested in suspicion to throwing rocks in cars and houses. the teenagers admitted tossing the rocks and are remorseful. one of the rocks was hurled in to a house and lodged in to a wall next to a baby's crib. no one was injured. >> bartenders, waitresses have been out of a job for two years. why they've decided to take to the streets. >> violence flairs in afghanistan resulting of the death of americas. -- americans. >> union workers have been ba

crockett street today, this part of it, is wonderful. you can go dance at the dixie dance hall, which is a country, western venue made from the old dixie hotel. >> hosted by time warner cable, american history tv in beaumont tekds this weekend to explore its history in lit rather culture. it is the site of one of the largest oil fields in american history. was oil was discovered there in 1901, the population grew from 9,000 to 30,000 in three months. learn more about beaumont, texas all weekend long on american history tv. >>> here at the texas energy museum, we talk about science, primarily oil. through the refining of final products we use every day. texas wasn't of course the first oil state. oil was first found in the united states in 1859 in titusville, pennsylvania. that's where rockefeller became famous and wealthy. oil production in pennsylvania, ohio, those areas. as oil was moving west, people were trying to find oil everywhere, this is turn of the century, looking for oil in california, kansas, oklahoma, small shorings. texas

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. >>> the search resumes today for a missing man from crockett. missing by his family on january 27th. the sheriff's department has searched for him several times but haven't turned up any traces. his family says he may be suicidal. today's search will focus on a crockett and rodeo. >>> maine's week long g.o.p. presidential caucuses wrap up tonight and mitt romney is hoping to avoid a fourth defeat in a row. the former massachusetts governor lost to rick santorum in missouri, minnesota and colorado this week, and while santorum and newt gingrich have all but bypassed the maine caucuses, analysts say texas congressman ron paul poses a significant threat. >> right now it's a race between the two of them in the state of maine. so four years ago romney won our presidential preference polls. so we'll see what happens. ron paul is very organized but romney has his group of people together too. >> if romney loses, it's going to be -- perception is he's really losing support among republican activists and is his candidacy in real trouble. if he wins, it's

. >> here you can see it's just a little bit northwest of crockett and strong enough that a lot of you are phoning in to say you felt it. one caller told us it felt like a truck hit his house. >> we've had calls from concord and san rafael. sheer what it looked like on our size know moe graph there. it was large enough that n a number of people felt it. we'll stay on top of it and bring you new information. >> a pair of restaurants have been ordered to pay thousands of dollars for allegedly stealing wages from their employees. aid workers at the vietnamese restaurant say they were forced to work over 12 hours per day with no breaks or overtime and claim tips were taken by managers. they sued and restaurants agreed to pay $300,000. >> in this kind of economy we see in san francisco restaurants and in and with security guards and care givers. it happens in all industries. >> last year san francisco adopted a new wage theft law stiffening penalties against employer who's cheat work qlerer autos a new effort to fight obesity restricting where popular food trucks could set up shop. bill mon

>>nick, wait a second, what's davy crockett doing on the $100 bill? thank you very much.ave you seen mr. broomfield's production of "the selling of a serial killer"? >>yes >>and you've seen yourself depicted in that movie? >>yes sir. >>do you recall joking in that movie that your advice to any client facing the electric chair was, to quote woody allen, don't sit down? >>i remember making a lot of jokes in that movie. >>(joe hobson) judge, we're talking about the depictions of mr. glazer in the movie "the selling of a serial killer" that the defendant submits fairly captures the essence of his approach to representation which clearly impeaches his claim that he had taken this an altruistic, pro bono, national lawyers guild and helps establish the claim that all along his motive in taking this case was the publicity and the money to be made. is on the new news network. >>welcome to the war room. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. a former two-term governor. >>make your voice heard. >>detremined to find solutions. >>that partnership in order to invest in our country is cr

yesterday fire crews were also out in crockett fighting a two alarm fire at a former laundromat.ire department says the owner was working on the roof with a torch when the laundry lint caught on fire in the attic. firefighters say they didn't have to go far to get to the scene. >> we were at st. rose church is which is half a block away and we were honoring one of our retired firefighters who passed away. crews briefly evacuated a senior center. >> i was up there on thursday. very warm, very windy. opposite conditions, today a lot cooler. 15 to 20 degrees in some areas. >> yes, if we compare friday to today and tomorrow, that's a 30 degree drop. it is going to be notable at the least. that is going to be the big change change, first by the afternoon, clouds already in the forecast. we're tracking this next system, not going to bring us much rain but we will notice the cool down. temperatures anywhere from 3 to 6 degrees cooler than yesterday and a whole lot cooler than thursday, friday, gusty conditions expected to kick up once again especially along the coastline. 10 to 20 miles

the $93 million plan targeting 880 from oakland to crockett.aled eighties include metering lights, bypass lanes and travel information signs between the bay and carquinez bridges. the open house will be at the richmond memorial auditorium and convention center in richmond from 6:00 to 9:00 tonight. >> over the weekend the scandal around news corps expanded. scott has been following the story. >> good morning. you recall the murdoch shut down the news of the world after it was revealed reporters tapped into people's voice moyl including that of a murder victim. british police arrested five senior news officials as the investigation expands into "the sun" the flagship for the company in england also owning fox news and "wall street journal" on this side of the pond. there is an expectation that "the sun" could also shut down operations. >> became an embarrassment to rupert murdoch, and it's not the newspapers that make the big profits. there is organization. so i think it's becoming ever more possible that this could happen, you know, that if thi

>> it is small. 3.7, just to the north/northwest of crockett, right near vallejo, so this could be a foreshock to something larger. we'll keep monitoring this in the nbc bay area center and keep you up to date. if you have any pictures with any moderate damage, even though you don't usually see a 3.7, you might want to get ahold of us on twitter or our facebook page. now that sun and northwest winds drying out here across the entire region. 57 in fremont, a little bit cooler in the south bay with 59 in san jose and also 57 in the ohio valley and 61 in santa cruz. the winds have been gusting from 25 to 30 miles per hour, but the only computers picking up on the wind gusts would be in concord to san jose, and we'll see winds start to stir things up early in the evening. now we start to see things drop off in san jose with lows in the mid-50s, and as that wind starts to relax, we are talking about a very cold night coming back to the bay area. we have no cloud cover overhead at the mid or higher levels, and offshore high pressure is building, so any kind of storm activity that would be

the epicenter was actually between vallejo and crockett. lot of people in the area of solano county felt it. on to the area weather, temperatures on the cooler side. fame makes the '30's, '40's and '50's. 37 and half moon bay, looking for a 30 degree weather in concord. check out the north bay, they are off to a relatively warm start. future cast 4 does predict by 10:00 a.m. mostly everyone will sitting pretty comfortably in the '50s. you could start to see some '60s forming in fleeces like santa rosa and petaluma. the inland areas potentially over the delta as well. as we advance closer to the afternoon and the green on the screen does indicate most locations seeing 60 degree temperatures. here is the breakdown for you, warmer conditions compared to what we saw yesterday. this is actually the warmest day of the week. oakland could make it to 63, same for antioch. some of the coastal locations all half moon bay will stay is the fourth six heart cookies. satellite and radar shows dry conditions over the bay area. we do have what weather to t

looks good heading into crockett. so you can see that westbound 80 traffic still i think about 19 or 20 minutes or so down the eastshore freeway if you are coming from the carquinez bridge to the maze. to our maps. other bridges, we had an earlier wind advisory in a couple of bridges, very early this morning. they are both cancelled. there was one for the san mateo bridge. no longer out there. westbound 92 off the high-rise, eastbound 80 looks good. bay bridge toll plaza, usually around this time of the morning they turn the metering lights on but as you can see, there's no major delay really maybe in a couple of the cash lanes but they haven't turned on the metering lights yet so that's the good news. if you want to beat the early- morning rush head out now. westbound 4 we have seen brake lights since early this morning. it's been like this for a half hour. a lot of red sensors there. you can see speeds slow through the antioch area. then we see some improvement as you get closer to pittsburg-bay point. similar story

crockett is one of the incorporated areas covered by this cure few -- curfew. on an coverage day 50% of absences are unexcused students caught skipping class repeatedly could be fined up to $500. >> if you can increase graduation rates, you will decrease the amount of kids that will end up being penal institutions. there is a big correlation between graduation from high school, school attendance and crimes. >> they released fines for a day-time -- the day-time curfew will take effect in about 30 days. >>> national parks are approving profitable for marin county communities. that is according to a newly released study. in 2010 people spent more than $400 million in the region by -- the bulk of the spending went to lodging own food followed by shopping and entertainment. >> contra costa county the mt. diablo school board approved layoffs for 89 teachers. but teachers say they plan to leave voluntarily. most of them are expected to return after it becomes a charter school. district says charters could be saved if they don't lose special funding from the state. >>>

everything looks great this morning heading into crockett and a lot of our overnight roadwork just picked up within the last few minutes. we'll tell you about it coming up. >>> good morning. it's thursday, busy thursday, february 23rd. i'm grace lee. >> hi, everybody. i'm frank mallicoat. it is 5:00 straight up. >>> we continue to follow some breaking news down in santa clara county. sunnyvale fire crews just knocked down a house fire. gil diaz is in sunnyvale with the search for the people who lived inside. >> reporter: good morning. it's a very unusual circumstance even though you see some cars in the driveway behind me in the 700 block of duncardine they are still trying to locate the family. this fire erupted around 1:00 this morning. by the time the first fire crews arrived, the house was fully engulfed. some of the challenges that the fire crews had to experience is that there was a live electrical wire in the backyard. so they were confined to fighting this fire from the front and from the side because if they went to the bang, they had the risk of being -- if they went to the back

well, in 2006 is when they built this correct street entertainment -- crockett street entertainment district. >> uh-huh. and it was real lively at first, it's not quite as lively as it was. but, you know, you can tell that it's a lot quieter here now. >> the economic town turn hit it hard, but these are all, you know, these are restaurants and bars, and i think beaumont -- it started right around the time our book came out, really wanted to create this entertainment district. and probably had we not had such an economic downturn it might get its swagger back one of these days. >> i'm penny clark, i'm lamar university around conservativist and here we are in the mary and john gray library, and we're in special collections. we are really blessed, we have some really amazing collections. of course, we're responsible, first of all, for university archives, so that includes things like the president's papers, the board of regents' minutes, the college yearbooks. so that's our first priority, is to the take care of the university records. another focus that i'm really especially intrigued by is wo

to vermonters, he is part paul bunyan, part david crockett and to project daniels. as soon as i said i was writing about ethan allen, i saw a gesture it never seemed before. ethan allen. and that seems to be the part that vermonters are proudest of. but apparently they know little beyond that. even in the schools. ethan allen among other things i found to start off with a little summary in addition to taking the most formidable fort in british america was only 89 men and without firing a shot he was the first published american deist philosopher. he organized 29 communities to defend the new hampshire grants as they were called. against the competing claims of new york, preserving the homestead when the revolution came along. for 40 years. he was a prolific author. i was surprised. but he was better known as the land speculator and the two things connect to it because ethan allen bought and sold land, but it as cheaply as a kite and sold at a small parcels to hundreds and hundreds of frontier families. but if you didn't have any money on hand to buy a piece of land,

our observer in crockett said pretty good east wind out there as well. novato, 65.lot of mid-60s to upper 60s. san mateo, san bruno, redwood shore, foster city, san -- dash san carlos. after tuesday, we're done. we're clearing out. sunny, warmer. wednesday, thursday, probably into friday. mostly sunny, partly cloudy by your weekend. >>> we're in desperate need of rain and it's a different story in australia. flooding has storessed thousands of people from their homes. >> anyone home! >> police went door to door in the town of saint george, ordering 3800 people to evacuate. a river in the town is forecast to peak tomorrow. there is one flood-related death. a woman was swept away in her car by rising floodwaters. >> look at those pictures. >>> one tragedy leads to another. a house explodes killing a father and his two young sons. how that is tied to a missing person's case. >>> and new numbers out this morning show a shift in how president obama matches up against run front-runner mitt romney. >>> and new finger-pointing over an obscene finger jest chur during the sup

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