the fighting along oak hill. these are gently rolling hills until you get down to the gettysburg plane and then you come south of the town dealing with a lot of heavy rocks. a lot of the farmers may have called it devil's den because of the rocks in their fields. one of the many names. i encourage you to check out garry adelman's talk on c-span. you have the round tops. cemetery ridge, it is going to change dramatically. then you have the wheatfield which is 20 acres of a larger farm owned by wheatfield george rose. it is his. today it is called the wheatfield. something i've noticed, if you name it a simple place, most likely it will be the bloodiest place. you have the angle, the bloody angle, the creator, which is another bloodbath. in the wheatfield, you have over 20,000 soldiers engaged in this area and you have a large amount of casualties, over 7000 in and around the wheatfield. the simple name places always have the worst burden of war. on the morning of july 2, the momentum is in robert e lee's hands. he

we are on top of hill 204. 204 means that the hill is 204 meters high. the significance of this monument is to honor the american troops who fought in this sector. aine is one of the rivers, marne the other. there was significant engagement in between the two rivers from the end of may through the middle of july of 1918. the chateau-thierry monument is being restored in honor of the world war i centennial taking place for the american contribution from 2017 to 2018. on the opposite side of the monument from where i'm standing are statues of two women, one american, one french, who are holding hands in honor of their sons, brothers, uncles, and fathers who risked their lives here in the aisne-marne and particularly the chateau-thierry area during the war. the monument was dedicated in 1937. ♪ >> it's one of three significant american monuments on the western front that's established by the american battle monuments commission and remains under their guidance. the monument itself on the top lists some of the villages that the americans liberated. below tha

kirk kushan, fire chief placer hills, forest hill, newcastle fire "it's a very unsafe situation for both the community and the firefighter. rural fire districts once had plenty of volunteer firefightersbut state mandated training and certifications has changed that.kirk kushan, fire chief placer hills, forest hill, newcastle fire "nobody has the time for that, it takes a tremendous amount of time and commitment.restricted state funding means rural fire districts have to go to the voters for tax increasesas the the forest hill fire district hasresidents are being asked for a property tax increase of about 20 dollars month to bolster the fire district budgetbut previous tax increases have been voted down in recent years. in recent years.been voted down increases have previous tax budgetbut previous tax increases have been voted down in recent years. (pam) there will be a special election in september ... asking for an increase in the property tax for fire protection. coming up at eight.. why a judge just dropped nearly all charges against the adults accused of felony child abuse ... at a c

and he was unique on capitol hill.ty to stand up to not only his party, but his ability to reach across the aisle and have relationships and get things done in an environment in washington that is obviously increasingly partisan. john mccain was a unique figure. he always was, not only from the time he served in vietnam and spend the time at the hanoi hilton as a prisoner of war, but also as a senator where he fought vigorously for the u.s. military and counter-terrorism efforts against al qaeda and terrorists around the world, and he fought for regular order in the united states senate. he's a figure that's a lion of the senate. if you think of the senate, ted kennedy, orrin hatch, john mccain is a big name when it comes to the u.s. senate. the 2008 presidential nominee taking a lots of controversy. some conservatives had a problem with his vote on obamacare late in the night on the senate floor with the thumbs down and repealing and replacing obamacare. he gave one of his most of compassionate speeches saying regular

please say hello to jonah hill! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: look at you., you smell good, which is surprising. [ laughter ] >> why is that surprising? >> jimmy: i don't know, i won't think of a guy who would have a nice scent on -- >> that's such a -- i'm going to really work hard to not take that as a shot. you know what i mean? because i think you would smell nice. >> jimmy: no, but i don't have -- >> let's dissect that. let's go back. >> jimmy: okay, let's go back. you have a lot of tattoos now, when did this happen? >> over -- i've been gone for a couple of years. nice to see everybody. [ cheers and applause ] i've been gone. i've been writing and directing a movie, making this movie, and i got a bunch of tattoos. >> jimmy: you did. >> yeah, yeah. which is weird. because like i didn't have them before. >> jimmy: right. and now -- >> but basically i met you. i came out and met you when i was 20, you know? >> jimmy: yeah. >> i'm 34 now. and i feel like i spent my whole 20s trying to be what people wanted me to be. >> jimmy: right. >> i didn't know who i

he was educated at some of the academies around hills borough. when he was 16, his father took him up to maine to go to bod encollege and he made some good friends up there, one of them was nathanael hawthorne and graduated third in his class from the college. pierce interest in politics came about when he was very young. his father had the tavern, lots of political discussions going on. his father was always involved in politics. he was represented hills borough with the state leg tour, was sheriff of the county, went on to be governor twice of new hampshire. so when he was 23, pierce ran for the legislature, was elected, and then when he was 26 he was the youngest speaker of the house that we have ever had in new hampshire. at that time, there were 200 members in our house of representatives. today there are 435. so it's a pretty large legislative body. he went on to run for congress. franklin pierce was in the house from 1833 to 1837. and then he went on to run for the senate. and he resigned his senate seat. served in that maybe four to five

we saw faith hill who will be performing on the program today.hill who was invited to be on aretha franklin's album that she co-produced and that was called "aretha, a woman falling out of love." aretha franklin spoke so highly of faith hill saying she was fabulous, just simply fabulous. we see the back of ariana grande who will perform today. so many folks were taken by surprise from her rendition of "natural woman" when she appeared on jimmy fallon's show shortly after aretha franklin's death. of course, we smichaela, talk t about, what compelled aretha franklin to be so involved in the civil rights movement and to have a grasp of that at such an early age, to be 16, to be engaged in the movement? for her song "respect" to symbolize kind of the mantra of the civil rights movement, too. >> i think a lot is the house and the city in this she was raised. there were civil rights leaders in her house. there was god in her house. you know, i'm struck by how much of this is a great american spectacle of royalty. meaning, the pink cadillacs, the style,

hill. coalition with the isolationist happening before pearl harbor. i was glad with the library putt together because that keynote speech is 100 days between 40 40 and 41 where fdr mobilized the country for national defense. that was the magic word. sometimes he said hemispheric defense but never about war butt national defense. f thos so talking about major decisions and announcements during that period.. also one of the presentations today and related to the exhibit at the museum building are posters of the period. and robert horton served in 4242 was one of the producers of posters. with that division of information office for emergency management so the first time ita became a a concept in american government.pt in the now it falls off the tongue. every city has a director.ing with the founding of emergency management the division of information in the office for w emergencyth management was thep. executive office of the president part of the official family and the officer emerged a m

mid 50s in morgan hill and half moon bay. it's cloudy in the city. low 50s santa rosa, 55 by the delta. 56 in concord. so, we are looking at moderate air quality once again today throughout the bay area due to the smoke from the wildfires. getting better in the south central bay. we will see hazy conditions for another day. planning your day today, numbers in the 70s inlan by noontime. brighter skies. upper 60s around the bay. coastal clouds with a few breaks in the afternoon. 80s inland. by tonight that fog comes back. the sun setting before 8:00. >> lisa, thank you. new overnight, oakland police are investigating a deadly shooting. it happened near e street and elmhurst avenue. the department tweeted out a picture for us from the scene. this was just after 12:30 this morning. it's not clear what led up to the shooting. oakland police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. >>> the tributes continue to pour in for senator john mccain. he died yesterday after a battle with an aggressive brain cancer. mccain is expected to be honored i

it is "watch sagamore hill for --" and the rest is censored by the war department. he knows it is trouble. it's got to be one of my boys. it can't be ted, because he is wounded at this point. it can't be archie because he is really wanted. it can't be kermit, because he hasn't coming rather than for the middle east and france to lay low in italy with malaria. it's got to be quentin. don't mention anything to mrs. roosevelt. don't talk about this. but the next day word comes, quentin has been shot down. but is he alive, dead, captured? what is his status? nobody knows. how will it break this to mrs. roosevelt? they come down and it is all stiff upper lip. but eventually, they find out the truth. they find out their son is dead. the germans let word out of this. they send back his effects over american lines french lines. , they buried quentin with military honors. that is not unique. there is still a gentleman's war going on. what they do is eventually someone takes a picture of quentin roosevelt's body sprawled out next to the plane. this is made into a postcard tha

charge up san juan hill. so people must think he's indestructible, but he's not, and his heart is broken. yes? >> if, as you said, that quentin couldn't see beyond the end of his nose, how did he manage to finagle a spot into a cockpit if there was any kind of test or performance capabilities that you had to have in order to fly. >> that's a good question. that's a good question. and i am wondering if -- i have never seen a picture of him with glasses. so, how much he could see and if he had glasses and were they, you know, i didn't nebehind gog something, this may have been a factor, aside from recklessness, and just luck, and the odds of how dangerous this is, which -- or was he able even to turn in the cockpit with that bad back? i mean, he's bucking the odds on so many factors, and here's another disturbing statistic. while he's training pilots and other people are training pilots, they lose a pilot in training every week. one per week just in training. that's how dangerous flying is. so, yeah, how he got

in pleasant hill ella sogomonian kron 4news." kron 4news."sogomonian kron 4news." to check on our weather... with meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez. high pressure will rebuild over the bay area early in the week resulting in warm and dry conditions through the rest of the work week. expect 60's-70s along the coast and 80s-90s inland. moderate onshore flow coupled with a slightly deeper marine layer will maintain seasonably cool temperatures along the coast. triple digit heat will return to the interior portions of the bay area late next week, peaking on thursday. thursday.peaking on late next week, of the bay area late next week, peaking on thursday. thursday.peaking on late next week, peaking on thursday. (michelle) (michelle) coming up -- our wildfire coverage continues. an update on evacuation orders and the ever growing destruction from the california wildfires when we come back (michelle) and -- details on yet another lawsuit bart is now facing from an alledged attack. (jrstone)before a woman was stabbed to death at an oakland bart station, the main complaint ab

joining us once again from washington, d.c., capitol hill reporter for "the hill" molly hooper.o have you back with us. let's pick up on the last poll that louis was talking about, the growing public support for the mueller probe. couldn't we see trump's railing against it having an impact on the mid terms? he has really gone after bob mueller specifically by name and trying to discredit it, but according to the poll it doesn't seem to be working. >> reporter: you know, regardless of whether he rails against it, clearly people's minds are changing. that's even true if you look up on capitol hill and talk to senate republicans who say, you know, these -- these recent -- you know, the conviction and the guilty plea, that's not good for republicans going into the mid terms when they want to be talking about the tax reform laws and other things that the president has done in the first few years as president with the republican congress. they don't want to be talking about these legal troubles, and now that the manafort -- now that manafort has been convicted and michael cohen has pl

we will probably get fog patches developing over the hills.er the weekend. this weather front will have pulses of energy running along it, and that will bring us bursts of heavy rain. the rain will be across central and southern england and wales. the front itself could be very slow to push eastwards, perhaps even slower than we are showing here on the charts. it will be followed by another band of rain that will work into wales and south—west england. some wet weather at times for northern ireland and scotland. the east of england will be cool, with onshore winds. next week, it stays unsettled across the north—west. no return of the heatwave, although temperatures will lift a little bit early in the week across parts of the south. this is bbc news i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11:00... security alert at seattle airport after an airline employee steals an empty plane and crashes on a nearby island. chemical giant monsanto is ordered to pay nearly $300 million in damages to an american man who said its weedkiller made him terminally ill with

we'll hit the low mid-80s in morgan hill.he warm spots, 70 to 73 on a mostly sunny peninsula in the next couple of hours. we'll have mid-60s along the coast. partly sunny. upper 60s in downtown sausalito. even though it's cloudy, it's softer sunshine if you want to take pictures and make that walk. mid to upper 70s. along the east bay, very comfortable here. low to mid70s. mostly sunny inland with upper 70s. except for brentwood at 83 degrees. 70 in san jose. temperatures mainly in the 60s and 70s so a little warming between now and when you head out for lunch at noon. notice more sunshine at 11:00. at 8:00, we're seeing stars the clouds are rolling back and so are the 50s. and the a's are ahead of the mariners. we've got to win the series. first pitch at 7:05 dropping to about 60. and san jose, the niners changing on the chargers. levi's stadium down to 60. here's a look at our lows tonight, you see mid to upper 50s not quite as warm as this morning. and i wanted to check the tropics again just to show you, wow, we had a pow

and even gusty over the hills, up to 35 to 40-mile-per-hour winds in the east bay hills and north bayns. inland temperatures warming up to the low 90s, around the bay, hitting near 80 degrees for the warmest spots. and at the coast, the sea breeze will keep everything in the low 60s this afternoon. sun sets at 8:14. tomorrow, things are changing. we're going to start a warm-up that's going to push into the middle of the week, where we'll see triple-digit heat. and i'll have details, coming up. >> thanks, frances. >>> crews in shasta county continue to battle the carr fire. unfortunately this morning, we've learned that a secht pers -- seventh person has died. it was a pg&e worker. he was doing restoration work when some sort of accident happened. pg&e says it is working with law enforcement to investigate right now. this comes as president trump approves a major disaster declaration. the carr fire has destroyed a thousand homes in and around redding. >>> the mendocino complex fires have forced more people out of their homes. new evacuation orders went to people living in the path of t

..and she has agreed to take me up into the hills. sarajevo, every little bit? everything, all of its glory and beauty. the renovation of the cable car seems like a big deal for the city. yes, it is. it's a symbol of the city, lots of people like that from the city centre you could go up the mountain in ten minutes, enjoy the fresh air, beautiful nature, and then, like, again, you're in the heart of the old town. the hills up here were positions for serbian snipers and for artillery. there's a perfect view of most of sarajevo. only in recent times have the landmines been cleared, but you can still see the odd military bunker. once at the top, there's one more repurposed relic, the bobsled track. built for sarajevo‘s moment in the sun, the winter olympics in 1984. it's been richly decorated, and the colour and nature up here makes a wonderful ride. action! ready, steady, go. ready, not so steady. i think i might need more practice at this. we did quite a slow version i think. i want to make sure the brakes work because you pick up spee

a cap of his very long career on capitol hill.r, will, for many, many hours and the simple moment, the presence of his 106-year-old mother, roberta, who made her way up the hill. we saw her comforting her granddaughter, meghan mccain handing her a tissue and emotional when we saw her wheeled in her wheelchair and put her hand on his casket. we saw a lot of emotion and respect paid from colleagues on capitol hill who worked for him so long, talking about the legacy he leaves behind, not only here on capitol hill, but to the nation. >> john mccain deserves to be remembered as he wished to be remembered. a patriot who served his country, a man of the senate, but also a man of the house. a navy man. a family man. a man who made an enormous difference in the lives of countless people. a man of conviction. a man of state. >> in every generation, there are those who put country first. who pride service ahead of self. who summon idealism from a cynical age. john mccain was such a man. today, he lies in the place where he served to the las

on sunday. 0n hills, but not as strong as we saw on sunday.and wednesday, it looks like there will bea wednesday, it looks like there will be a lot of dry weather with one or two scattered showers, and it will start to feel a little bit warmer. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 11:00pm: pope francis apologises, and promises firm action on abuses within the catholic church, to a crowd of around 300,000 people at an open—air mass in dublin. translation: we ask forgiveness for the times that, as a church, we did not show the survivors of whatever kind of abuse compassion. a number of people have been killed in a mass shooting at a gaming tournament in florida. tributes from around the world for the us senatorjohn mccain, who has died at the age of 81. the british—iranian charity worker nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe returns to prison in iran after a request to extend her temporary release was turned down. the celebrated american playwright and screenwriter neil simon has died at the age of 91. he wrote comedy classics such as the

morgan hill and gilroy, mid-90s in the forecast. similar temperatures in livermore, concord and cant yough. low to mid-70s in livermore. peninsula temperatures mostly 70s. coastside, low 60s in san francisco and the north bay, high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. so, things today, just a little bit cooler than the temperatures we had on saturday. notice, as we get toward monday now, especially inland, these temperatures start to drop off. the marine air, which is below 1,000 feet should start to climb. more marine air moving inland. the high pressure will be dropping down the coast, and should bring up the sea breeze and lead up to a drop in the valley temperatures. 10-15 degrees cooler. later in the week, high pressure trying to build back. maybe a slight ramp up in temperatures again thursday and friday. not nearly as hot as the high temperatures yesterday. seven day forecast shows san francisco cooling, morning drizzle a part of the forecast through the middle part of the weekend. look at the valley temperatures today, 90s.

it should be terraced as it goes down the hill so that it respects the surrounding homes.if it does, it will lessen the impact on the neighbors to the north and west, including my family. such would be in compliance with the rdat and would be respectful of the character and the design of the surrounding homes. and so you have the opportunity to make that requirement. you have the opportunity to make the developer go back and do a better job and terrace that project as it goes down the hill. the developer can do that. you can do that, and that's what we're asking for you to do. thank you very much for your consideration. >> vice president melgar: thank you. project sponsor, you have a two-minute rebuttal. >> it's hard to rebuttal because i've been working with planning department on this project and rdat, and, you know, there's a set of rules and a set of codes that we've been working towards and i'm not asking for any exemptions or variances or breaking the code. i'm just trying to do what's right. i'm a little shocked because we did talk about 3 feet for the longest time,

hill. they were propaganda machine that is anti-fdr, anti-globalization, antiwar. it was an ongoing effort to deal with the conservative coalition as they kept attacking roosevelt for what he was doing. >> the coalition is tied loosely or not loosely? >> it of course had relationships or shall interest groups. they were off capitol hill. they were also anti-roosevelt. >> hi, thank you so much for your informative talks. i'm an artist and i'm concerned with a work in progress. we may not know what the finished painting or sculpture will be, but it's a work in progress. were they marketing media geniuses on some level and decided to start slow and have a small one time release and by the time we developed this, we'll have a campaign that covers everything and everybody will know everything. what is your opinion? >> the accurate answer from an historian would be that present tense, going back to 1940 through 1941 is chaotic, full of contingencies, uncertainties. they weren't quite sure what wa

morgan hill 60. santa cruz 61. 60s in cupertino. 62 santa clara.hrough the cloud deck temperatures warm-up. looks similar to yesterday even though it's more cloudy. today 60s and if you 70s to near 80. tomorrow temperatures inland back in the mid-80s. today a lot of upper 70s and low 80s. where would you like to begin? >>> i would like to start in san jose because of the closure of 680 now -- northbound now affecting other freeways in the region. northbound 680 driving up to hear you can see traffic being taken on the freeway at the capital expressway. i would not advise you going this way at all . the proble and this would be the alternate route to get around the problem. everybody is doing that and he's causing a big backup. to stay away from that side of the valley that would be good. for example, go on 880 n. becau shooting investigation. we will tell you more about the details in a moment. traffic wise, i would say if you're using one-to-one it will affect you as well. let's talk about this solano county commute. this commute looks pretty good

i know when i was there, we were just taking hill after hill after hill.ecouping our tremendously terrible retreat. so it was very terrible and you know, we lost a lot of you know, i lost a couple of combats there. >> thanks for the question. >> and thank you for sharing your experiences, too. there's one heart wrenching story i'd like to share that's probably representative. the lost bah tatalliobatallion, 1918. two medal of honor recipient, charles and george, were heroes of this battle. they were filmed as they came out of the forest by the army signal corps, but there was a sense that's not enough. so they were pressured in 1919 to go back to the battlefield where they had fought and lost so many of their friends to film a silent movie complete with romance scenes and other sil sillyness about this battle that could be broadcast for americans in the united states. imagine that if you're a veteran being told you have to go back to the scene where you fought and act out what happened. it was an incredibly traumatic e experience for them. because the tech

it is "watch sagamore hill for --" and the rest is censored by the war department.tr is like, it's got to be one of my boys. it can't be ted, because he is wounded at this point. archie is wounded. it can't be carbon, because he has been laying low in italy with malaria. it's got to be quentin. don't mention anything to mrs. roosevelt. don't talk about this. but the next day, word comes, quentin has been shot down? what is his status? nobody knows. it is all stiff upper lip. but eventually, they find out the truth, their son is dead. the germans let word out of this. they send back his effects over french lines. they buried quentin military honors. this is not unique, there is still a gentleman's war going on. eventually someone takes a picture of quentin roosevelt's body sprawled out next to the plane. this is a postcard that sells like hotcakes in germany. they think this would boost german morale. it has the opposite effect, because germans say, this america is a democratic country where even the son of the big cheese like theodore roosevelt will serve on the fro

_by wonderful views almost every word. —— by hills.y other primarily for its beauty. —— sarajevo. we know it for the terrible siege which ended with more than 10,000 people losing their lives in the 1990s. for three and a half years, bosnian serbs rained rockets down on the city. a quarter ofa rockets down on the city. a quarter of a century later the scars are still visible. this used to be a holiday inn and it is whether world's press was stationed during the siege. it became a symbol of the war, and you might remember its distinctive yellow cladding on the outside, which has been kept to this day. the hotel has onlyjust changed hands. it has had extensive renovation work and recently reopened under a different name. you would never know that for years, it was subject to frequent shelling and gunfire. normally, you might pay extra for a beautiful view of these hills, but that is —— for that very same reason it was one of the most dangerous spots to be in this hotel. artillery fire was being blasted from the top of those hills and act

i know when i was there, we were taking hill after hill after hill.ecouping our tremendously terrible retreat. so it was very terrible, we lost a lot of, i lost a couple of comrades there. >> thank you, george and thanks for sharing your experiences, too. there's one heartwrenching story i'd like to share, that's probably representative the loss battalion fought in the misargonne in the fall. these troops were surrounded attacked by the germans on all sides in october of 1918. two medal of honor recipients were heroes of this battle. they were filmed as they came out of the forest by the army signal corps, but there was a sense that's not enough. so they were pressured in 1919, to go back to the battlefield, where they had fought and where they had lost so many of their friends, to film a silent movie. complete with romance scenes and other silliness about this battle that could be broadcast for americans back in the united states. and imagine that if you're a veteran, being told you have to go back to the scene where you fought and act out what happe

so the more weight and the higher the hill, the more energy we can store. long, gently sloping plains. but we had clients who approached us and said well, i only have steep, rocky, craggy mountains, so we've developed a new variation on the aries technology at almost vertical. in october, the company breaks ground on the first full—scale aries in the state of nevada. it'll be used to fine tune the inconsistent energy flows that are a natural part of using solar and wind power. minute by minute, it will trim the imbalance between load and generation on the grid, so our trains may need to go uphill for a minute, they may need to go downhill forfive minutes, they're constantly acting like a large flywheel, that allows the grid to stay at exactly 60 hertz. it's early days yet and the concept has still to be proved in nevada, but it could help solve one of the renewable industry's biggest conundrums right now, balancing the ebb and flow of nature—made energy in a more sustainable way. after we run 30 or 40 years providing energy storage and helping people, we ca

it isa whether you want for notting hill.he front page, all the different coloured macs and beaming smiles. and the plunging temperatures have not done any damage to the notting hill carnival today. i love any damage to the notting hill carnivaltoday. i love the happiness on their faces, because most of the timel on their faces, because most of the time i am feeling so miserable in the country, and you see this happiness on a rainy day. it is lovely. if you have never been, it is certainly a treat to go. 0ur floor manager, becky, took her one—year—old daughter today. could you protectors on so she wouldn‘t be deafened. that‘s it for the papers tonight. don‘t forget you can see the front pages of the papers online

jennifer hudson, faith hill, clark sisters.body. it is really showing up even this morning in the fact this was originally an invitation-only ceremony and her family decided that she sang to everyone. she included everyone when she sang her songs and they wanted everybody to be a part of this so they opened their doors to all. as far as aretha franklin's reach, she began so young singing in the church and she rose to fame so young and to have handled that in the way she did. a lot of people looking back at what an incredible business woman she was as well, juan. >> i think that's right. so this is an interesting story that her dad didn't trust barry gordey and the motown folks where you think aretha, a detroit native in the 1960s would have ended up with diana ross and the temptations and smokey wonder and all that. he wanted her to go bigger, to be something of an american icon, which is what he got. he took her first to columbia records and later to atlantic records and that's where you start to see aretha really pop out in t

echoing across the hills above napa.mer sound here that for this summer was nearly big blow, but you got to get up. >> reporter: since 1950, enchanted hills camp run by lighthouse for the blind has given the blind and visualally impaired a place where they're simply known as campers. >> their sun light during the year. >> reporter: last october, that sun light was obscured by plumes an of smoke as the fire raced up the mountain and into camp. >> used to be a giant building there. nothing left but ashes. this was a cabin right here. >> reporter: manager donnie lay rattles off the long list of what didn't survive. >> we had five cabins that were built in the 1950s. they were iconic. all of them burned into ashes. you couldn't even tell that they were here. we lost our tractor barn, our staff house. we lost our amphitheater stage. we had 58 structures when we started and lost 29 of them. >> reporter: the blackened trees evidence of nature's violence. >> one forester explained he said it was like a nuclear bomb went off. it

i agree with ambassador hills, it is important to the united states to get rid of chapter 19. that relates to two special kinds of customs duties imposed on canadian or mexican goods on a temporary basis. a right of appeal to not u.s. courts but to bi-national u.s. or canada panel or u.s., mexico panel. i chaired one of those once. they work fairly well, but the united states has reasons to get rid of that. we don't have leverage to force canada to drop it, and it is an extremely important issue for canada because of lumber and because of aircraft. so we're not going to get that we have reason to get it, but we're not going to president trump needs to come to understand just being obnoxious doesn't create leverage. >> do you not believe this gets rolled into a final agreement by the end of the week? >> i would find it very, very hard to believe. but if it did, it would be because president trump let go of his demand on removing chapter 19 and let go of removing canadian tariffs. it would have to be trump that would suddenly let things go quickly to make it happen the end of th

when i was there we would take hill after hill after hill. it was terrible. lost a couple of comrades. >> thank you for sharing. there is a heart wrenching story i would like to share. it is probably representative. the lost battalion but in the fall. these troops were surrounded and attacked by the germans on all sides. two medal of honor recipients were heroes. they were filmed as they came out of the forest. that is a sense that is not enough. they were pressured in 1919 to go back to the battlefield where they had fought to film a silent movie. complete with romance scenes and other silliness about the battle that could be broadcast for americans in the united states. imagine that being told you have to go back to the scene where you fought and act out what happened? that was incredibly traumatic for so many of them. the demand because motion picture technology just came out. demand with so strong. -- the demand was so strong. >> i focus on three men in that battle. then damon runyon who wrote about them.? -- >> why did you study world war i?? it is the g

the hills up here were positions for serbian snipers and for artillery.rfect view of most of sarajevo. only in recent times have the landmines been cleared, but you can still see the odd military bunker. once at the top, there is one more repurposed relic. the bobsled track. built for sarajevo‘s moment in the sun, the winter olympics in 1984. it has been richly decorated, and the colour and nature up here makes a wonderful ride. action! ready, steady, go. ready, not so steady. i think i might need more practice at this. we did quite a slow version, i think. you pick up speed really fast. that's the whole point, right? it is supposed to be a bobsled shooting down this. yeah, in the war it was a shelter for the serbian army, that they used to shoot the city and everything. so unfortunately it had that sad purpose. but i think we remade things, to repaint it and everything, to make it morejoyful. with interesting activities like this do you think it is a step away from the memories of the war? yes, definitely. i think people are urging to go forward, not to

and he does do we created the gold mouse awards for best websites on capitol hill. this program had a dramatic and positive impact on the institution and we greeted all of the websites and gave those grades to congressional offices. regrettably in the first year of the program the total websites i got an a or b were only 10%. after the first report was published and we did hundreds of training sessions with congressional offices the only percentage of offices they got an a or b using the same criteria in the next year rose to 50%. it wasn't talking to us and to congress as a competitive bunch of people and were hoping to use the same competitive forces to seek change and improvement in a variety of areas through the democracy awards. when we started we looked for models to follow and quickly passed upon a group which has been giving awards of excellence in the executive branch personnel, to partnership for public service. since 2002 the partnership has given the [inaudible] service to america matters and we've borrowed from their model and methodology. next, we saw

colonel francis randles, 13th vermont, was in reserve on cemetery hill. randall, the general directed me to report to general hancock. that is this movement here. the dashed lines. i met general hancock, who was encouraging and rallying his mental on to the position. quote, he told me the rebels had captured a battery had their and asked me if he could retake it. of their is the 13th vermont, moving against rights brigade as it falls back. the 13th for mont, along with some help from other regiments, chased the guns down enthusiastically and reacquired them. truth -- 13th lamont remarked, colonel randles was not the most modest man in the world. we are going to see why in just a moment here. demonstrating this, scott remembered that on their way back to the main lines after recovering the guns, on getting mainline,rods of her a rod is plus or -15 yards or so. he ordered us to halt and lie down to rest. >> we proposed staying here until he acknowledges our achievements. is not true. they recovered before guns. that's about what they did. i give them credit

highs in the microclimate, 78 in san jose. 76 cupertino. 80 morgan hill. the peninsula, 74 mountain view. the same in redwood city. downtown san francisco, afternoon sunshine. it will be cool for this time of year, 65. clouds into the north bay. 75 vallejo. san rafael about 80 tomorrow. east bay upper 60s to midoad. fremont up to about 77. and inland no intense heat, in the 80s. 84 san ramon and brentwood. 83 for concord. the seven-day forecast, clouds and sun tomorrow. temps dip into tuesday. barely the 70s. for the rest of the forecast no sign of intense heat even heading into the holiday weekend. we know september can turn around those numbers pretty quick. >>> hundreds of people are eating and drinking their way through fort mason this at at&t, we believe in access. the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. connecting with the things that matter most. and because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, we've created access from at&t. california households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits may qualify

dion lim is live in pleasant hill tonight with more on this tragic story. dion? >> reporter: it was indeed so tragic, dan. martin nelis was a beloved fixture, working here for more than ten years. his colleagues tell me he was brilliant and witty. he will be deeply missed. >> martin was all about family. he was a wonderful father. >> martin nelis was on his lunch break from his job as public information officer for the city of pleasant hilln agedy struck. >> we are still just processing and absorbing the tragic events of yesterday. >> nelis was riding his bike in lafayette thursday afternoon when the contra costa county sheriff's office received a call a cyclist had been hit. he was transported to the hospital where he later died. >> we gathered last night at my house, just friends started showing up, and we kept waiting for martin to walk through the door. >> this is where martin was hit. while it appears to be quiet, neighbors tell me looks can be deceiving. because of recent development, there are reports regularly of people almost getting hit. >> on next door

as you mention, faith hill was among those right out of the gate who brought the house down. it was faith hill who was invited by aretha franklin to join her on her album that she co-produced. she spoke so kindly of faith hill after the fact saying she is fabulous, simply fabulous and really nice. so, it was a beautiful tribute that she would be invited here by the family to be part of the tribute. you mentioned, you know, shirley caesar, she brought it home. i talked to her earlier. she said she was like her sister. they performed together as teenage girls here in detroit. while it saddened her, her heart was heavy. you could see it in her eyes when i was talking to her, how difficult this day would be. at the same time, she said she owed it to her friend, to aretha franklin to be here and part of the tribute. i spoke with former detroit pistons nba star, isaiah thomas. many wonder, huh? how did they become friends? he told a beautiful story of how aretha franklin reached out to him. he was in his early 20s. she took him and invited him over to dinner. everyone talks about h

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it's 60 in heaywarhayward. 56 morgan hill and vallejo. a live look outside, still dealing with the smoke from the wildfires. air quality is moderate today. so you will notice that haze once again in the atmosphere. we will have sunshine, mixing it in with the haze. temperatures in the 70s by noontime inland. upper 60s around the bay. we'll see a few 80s inland. partial clearing near the coast. the sun setting at 7:47. >> lisa, thank you. new overnight, oakland police are investigating a deadly shooting. it happened near e street and elmhurst avenue. the department tweeted out a picture for us from the scene. it's not clear what led up to the shooting. oakland police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. >>> the tributes continue to pour in for senator john mccain. he died yesterday after a battle with an aggressive brain cancer. mccain is expected to be honored in arizona and in washington this week before being laid to rest at the u.s. naifltval cemetery in annapolis, maryland. we are having problems getting that report

a giant tree fell down overnight in pleasant hill. leigh martinez is in the neighborhood where that tree used to stand. this was no ordinary tree. >> reporter: that's right. this is a bicentennial heritage tree, a protected tree. now that it is daylight we can see it is still standing. it is just a huge chunk of the tree that has come down. and neighbor told us it is a live oak. it is protected by the city of pleasant hill. a big chunk came crashing down last night. you can see some of the cars are still underneath. it looks like they chopped off quite a bit to open up the roadway. we don't know what caused the large tree to fall down just after midnight, but when it did it made a big impact, smashing seven vehicles parked on hardy circle. neighbors came outside last night. the damaged cars, some of them were towed earlier this morning. crews were working to remove the tree. on the trunk was a placard that read bicentennial heritage tree. that means it was a tree measuring 16 inches or larger indict and -- in diameter. you can still s

the apostle peter is martyrdom on the vatican hill is one of them. it marks the dramatic climax of a religious legend but as one of the most powerful stories in church tradition. some one and a half centuries later a magnificent basilica was erected on the vatican hill of the sign believed to be the very spot where peter was buried. peter's basilica is a monument to the apostle and one of the holiest catholic shrine. in the counter goes deep below the church lies an ancient roman graves a veritable city of the dead in which according to legend in jesus's first apostle simon peter was buried. fiat's adult football one of rome's grand squares in the middle ages it was believed to be haunted by demons and evil spirits because it harbored the remains of the most barbarous man who ever walked the earth nero. in the twelfth century anyone entering the eternal city from the via flammini or would have caught sight of the family tomb of the don't need to be near as family. and it was here that nero lived on in the imagination of the people of rome long after