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. >>> the folks who run our national park say attendance is up in the month since the ken burns series aired on the parks on pbs. it's not surprising. it's a fantastic family vacation. and this year, there's something special awaiting visitors at the majestic yosemite national park. it's the upside of a bad winter. the snowpack was so big and now the snowmelt is so big, it's causing extraordinary things to happen. our tour guide is nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: from any angle, the view is stunning. iyosemite is nature's perfect package. towering granite cliffs, carpets of lush meadow, and this season, ribbons of white. historic snowfall has left one of america's most majestic parks bursting at the seams. the spring sun is melting snow twice its normal depth, sending crystal clear water hurdling to the valley floor. a thunderous, breathtaking display created by mother nature. even impressive to scott gettiman, a park ranger at yosemite for 15 years. >> this is what brochures are made of, and this is what postcards are made of. this year is really special. >> reporter: it pours ove

i also know that you are on a panel of ken burns just a few nights ago.do you see any sense is in which durable it has a different emphasis on this of ullrich? >> i do love and i hope my book does the same thing that can really uses individual stories to talk about history. he has a wonderful reading of letters and he makes you hear those people's voices and live their experiences. i love that but i think there's a sort of sense of overarching poignancy and tragedy and suffering that so many of the books have can sort of color our understanding of the war back to the point that obscures so much else. it ended up being an awful tragedy but people didn't know what kind that is how we was going to turn out, and i think it will put in famously said the real war will never make it into the history books, and he was saying they're real war being the war that he had seen in the union hospitals in washington, the war of human suffering and the wounded and dying man but i think it's we tend to focus more on that war of scholar in shared experience of north and sou

dealing with political crisis right i mean i remember seeing them footage might have been morning ken burns rubble were two episodes of the twenty four bombers rolling off the assembly line at ford will run on immobile seventy eight acres huge facility these bombers are just coming on. and i wonder you know we have so much slack in the automobile industry today why not produce wind turbines on the sunday times. a few million winter because we can generate all the electricity the world news it's over by the best believe it is and best of all are now vestas as innocent as a spanish public. and other than a some here of siemens and. were making a few here but it's about you you write it you write and talk about plan b. is there planning. business as usual so let's plan a plan a which is kind of let's bumble through and this is what we had up with and and what what type of change. what where is the pressure point we've identified a bunch of different pressure points are what's the one that if you were going to do a roosevelt's ford airplanes tanks thing what would be the place where you would p

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it was a horrific scene as passengers escaped a burning amtrak train outside of reno. kenwhere that train was supposed to arrive. >> reporter: there were 204 people on that train. 109 of them were bound here for the emeryville station this afternoon. two have been confirmed dead in this accident. a law enforcement officer told me one of the dead is the conductor. take a look now at some video of the crash, video that was shot by a passenger. you can see one of the

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ken pritch yet. >> and hello again, everyone i'm heather holmes. >> we begin with developing nation out of benicia where a grass fire has been burning dangerously close to home. this is new video into our newsroom moments ago. take a look at this. the fire burning off of interstate 780 has grown to about two acres. the flames have shut down the northbound on-ramp at the east 5th street exit. the fire reached the yards of home on francisco court. fire officials say the fire was contained just about an hour ago and so far no injuries have been reported. ktvu news has a crew on the scene right now, gathering additional information, as soon as we'll get, it we'll be sure to bring it to you. >>> a father's day adventure took a scary days a dad and his children had to be rescued. ktvu's patti lee is live to explain the quick response and how this response came after the failed rescue of a man on memorial day. patti. >> well, around 10:00 this morning a father and his two kids took a fishing boat on the ramp and once they got into the open water, witnesses say father sped up and started to do figure 8's. 500 feet offer the alameda shoreline, you can see the