me in welcoming james thompson. >> good afternoon. my name is james thompson. i am honored to be here today. i'd consider the virginia historical society to be one of the greatest cultural institutions in our country. i would like to thank you for this program possible, and for the kind introduction. i like to think the audience for joining me today. i'm going to talk about thomas jefferson in france. i would like to point out that quality has 160 museum images -- is almost as much a picture book as it is a history book. i have some of the same pictures in the program today. my program today has five parts. in part one, i present the thesis of my book and some about ound information in part fferson. in two, 8 inches the french enlightenment. in part five, common on the circles in which thomas jefferson traveled. the thesis of my book has two that during his five years in france, thomas jefferson transformed from a circumspect political o an engagement of activists. the second part of my contend that this by digesting concept of progress, and becoming a progress

my name is james thompson. i am honored to be here today and i consider the virginia historical society to be one of the truly great cultural institutions of our country. i would like to thank dr. nelson lankford for making this program possible and mr. lee shepherd for his kind introduction and thank you, the members of the audience for joining me today. i am going to talk about thomas jefferson in france. i would like to point out that my book has 160 museum quality images. it is almost as much a picture book as a history. i have some of the same pictures and the program today. my program today has five parts. in part one, i present a thesis of my book and background information about thomas jefferson. in part two, i present the background information about the french enlightenment. in part three, i comment on the idea man who enlightened friend. in part four, i comment on the salons where their ideas were discussed and debated. in part five, i comment on the circles in which jefferson traveled and his migrat

james bond. coming up, arianna thompson is here. >>> plus allison is back with >>> welcome back. it is 60:00. looking at doppler 9000, we have some rain south of 66. south of the beltway. that is where it is going to really linger for the rest of the morning hours and all the way through the southern dell marva south of dover through ocean city. that is where the showers are going to linger throughout the rest of the morning. taking a closer look though, the beltway is dry through 270 and 70 dry as well. a couple of clouds and drizzle spots out there temperatures in the mid-40s this afternoon areas forth of the metro. clouds will be the main story. temperatures start to fall off later on tonight if a cold end to 2014. >>> 66 is still lacking good. as you say the rain is headed their way. right now it looks like not doing too bad on this monday morning, although folks are headed back to work. we do have a disabled vehicle just before the beltway, but it is off to the right shoulder. elsewhere our live look sudden, seventh and frontage, no issues on the southwest freeway this morning. looks lik

james harden gives the lead. steph curry with the behind-the- back pass draymond green goes in and says i'm dunking and then klay thompsonl follow suit with a nice little floater here. warriors, man are they hot, 105- 93 improve to 19-2 with their 14th straight win. steve kerr by the way the winningest coach ever to start an nba season as a rookie coach. >>> today's play of the day, now washington wizards at the orlando magic, less than a second to play. washington's andre miller throws the inbounds lob to bradley beale and guess what, it goes. that is your ballgame. washington wins it, 91-89 your play of the day. >>> i'm kiet do live at sfo. the rain is coming down pretty good here. we have a full wrap of your morning commute lots of big headaches both on the road and in the air. ,, ,,,,,,,, start a revolution a revolution in coffee quality with the finest nespresso coffee blends. a revolution in technology with unique centrifusion. a revolution in taste with a naturally formed crema on both coffee and espresso. nespresso vertuoline. experience the revolution of coffee. ,,,, as a toddler, i enjoy three activities. break

thompson scored two to five. . playing in place of injured he have the worst order beckley most of the way. they've won six straight against the kings including all 4 last season. alarm >> jameseck of the forecast we have rain on the way it will be in the bay area for the tell straight ahead. >>mark: a store day on wall street the first time ever the dollar falls and the stock average is over the 18,000 mark a huge rally in the last week and have sending the dow soaring on news this morning. the largest growth in 11 years the dow 18,040 ride out for the year it is up 8% 14% of everyone was a stock-picking genius this year. >>darya: >> grant: james was a genius he is right. >>darya: he will be right tomorrow. >> james: and then it gets out just in time for santa in the rain gear to ride outside the fault even cooperated fully back and leaving us with the lies clear drive would have been socked again in the crystal clear you could make all the street lights all the oil from iran. as you look at the golden gate bridge titi today and will be level 44 after bridge we're dealing with our final day year the king tied which is higher than normal tides for the morning seven lower than

the warriors to we have clear thompson it's a floor in the line warriors of seven at the have 24 is in the third quarter with memories with this stake in the hook shot >> james: after going down to nothing his course is set to go after they lose a lead those of the sharks and a third with a tight lending please are looking for suspects that the bay area not proper or and is as it was robert plus more recall did a faulty air bags will say it was ours are impacted here is a lot of the outside are a camera more rain on the way. ♪ this holiday season, subway is celebrating you! it's customer appreciation! and we're saying thanks by offering two all-time favorite six-inch sandwiches for $2 each! the tremendously tasty meatball marinara, and cold cut combo. always made fresh from the bread up with whatever your taste buds wish. so let subway treat you with these two delicious $2 sandwiches this holiday season during our customer appreciation celebration. subway. eat fresh. >> james: out rate is drawn over a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police ulcer in the so-called death of a black man. protesters took to the streets of oakland to express their outr