but first ken burns. welcome to the show. >> my pleasure.nk you. >> how do you have the bandwidth to compartmentalize all of these points of history. >> you do recognize all of your kids' voices even when they are far away. it is hard to say no when you think you have history firing on all cylinder s, and i make the same film over and over again, and that asks who are we? and what does an investigation of the pastel us about where we have been and where we're going and that's the gift of history, the medicine of history. so you come across something and you have to say yes. there is a kind of economy of scale, there's a great warp and wolf to american history. i have been through the 1920s on about seven or eight different films, and each time the 20s i go through are totally different. even prohibition and baseball or jazz which you would think would be really close, it seemed really different. >> in that context do these films find you or do you seek them out? >> you know what that's a really good question. i -- i think they choose me. i j

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by the 1990's, after ken burns had vividly drama tiesed the fight in the video documentary "the civil war." and incidentally, burns said he first learned about chamberlain from the novel "the killer angels" and that was what first aroused ken burns' interest in the civil war. by that time -- by the 1990's, the killer angels had become the tv mini series and movie, "gettysburg." and so much demand was now on the table for the scene where the 20th main fought that the park service had paved the path, lined it with full color-ininterpret receipted markers and put in an overflow parking lot. those ghosts on little round top now have plenty of live company. my tours of gettysburg and other civil war battle fields developed a kind of simbotic relationship with my collarship. like many others who have stood on the spot where lincoln delivered the "gettysburg address" looking out over the graves of the soldiers who fought there, i've taken inspiration from his words and their deeds. that experience enabled me to write the tragedy and triumph of the civil war with greater insight, i think, and

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. >> as ken burns said and i think he said it rightly, thomas jefferson was the man of the millenniums the author of individual rights. and yet, he was abhorrent in many ways as a slave owner. but what -- what still shapes the world 300 years later -- >> you call it his do matter. i think jfk will be hurt by this late latest. >> i do too. >> i pick two on my list that are not obvious, george bush '41 and eisenhower. they shared something. they had the confidence to be humble. a lot of politicians got to show off all the time. i mean, you know, look at bill clinton, needing the love all the time. these men were willing to have a lot of responsibility but not be showy. george bush suffered from excessive. his mother lecturing him, never say i am. he didn't use the pro nonnoun "i." that hurt him to get re-elected. it detracted from his presidency. eisenhower and bush had this quality of not needing to show off, of knowing themselves well enough to know that they could do the right thing and they didn't have to stand up and wave their arms. the presidency is such a lone, lonely thing. you

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residents were able to make it out safely but they were left to watch their belongings burn. ken spoke with the survivors. >> couldn't nobody do. they were screaming. >> reporter: prince george's county fire officials confirm a dog is in fact unaccounted for. the massive blaze burned through a total of 22 apartments. it was a police officer who noticed the fire and called for help. by the time firefighters got here, all four floors of the building were bursting with flames and smoke. >> it was terrible. just like that. like it happened all of a sudden. >> reporter: many residents like linda pierce were inside their apartment building when the commotion broke out. she said it was yelling and people screaming telling them to get out of their apartments fast. she was able to get her cats and bolt for the door. >> i was not going to leave my pets in there to get burned. i couldn't do that. >> reporter: you can still see the heavy haze. firefighters from all over the county were called out to try and battle this blaze. many of the firefighters were also treated for fatigue and minor s

i'd like to end with an inspiring quote from ken burns, who directed "the national parks: america's best requested." in a letter of support for this legislation, mr. burns stated, in -- a pinnacles national park would preserve not only a critical record of geologic time, what could be called a grand geologic library, a way to look back at the vast tectonic forces that staped -- shaped and still shape our continent, but also an environment for condors, flowers and 400 species of bees. it would preserve a place that native americans, early spanish settlers and homesteaders from the east have considered home, offering an important series of perspectives on a larger sweep of american history. with that bit of wisdom, i urge my colleagues to support our borne legislation and i would like to thank jeff denham, congressman for the region, for supporting and co-sponsoring h r. 46 1, the pinnacles national park act. i ask your support and yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado. >> i'd like to inquire if the gentleman has further speakers? mr. faleomavaega: we

ken pamela. >>> a fire is still burning in columbus ohio where a train derailed. we want to -- derailed.we want to take you there and they want to contain the fire and determine exactly what happened and what is burning. these are the flames from earlier in the evening and the train may have been carrying chemicals. their injuries are still unknown and again this is in columbus ohio and the train derailed and we are keeping an eye on that situation right there. >>> here is something to be aware of, another warning between rattle snakes. it was up 40% from the same time last year. lindsay from the wildlife museum said this winter means more prey for the snakes. >> there is a better opportunity for more road dens and more rodents and more road dan -- rodent babies. >>> santa clara will allow more cabs in the city and that will allow them to protest. last night city council voted to let more in. the mayor says regulation is not the answer. >> we don't limit the number of tree trimmers or custodial services that people have the choice of in santa clara. the they will need more money once the

. >> and i'm ken wayne, we've been reporting on this for the last several weeks and it's happened again, a home burns and a squatter is being blamed for the arson. but this time the squatter is in jail for arson. >> reporter: before it burned, it was full of squatters. concord police late today took 32-year-old transient michael moss into custody. just steps away from the building he is accused of torching. the fire broke out about noon in this four unit building and authorities say was intentionally set in a ground floor unit where moss had been staying. >> that building foreclosed that they were squatting in. >> reporter: tenants next door say ever since the building was vacated people have been breaking in and living there -pl some of them former tenants. >> they're all on drugs. they're all going back over there. they're all tweaking and there's a lot of stuff that goes on around here. >> i've called police several time, i've called the bank. >> reporter: neighbors have watched in frustration as the building became a flop house. >> you have kids and you know that squatters bring in all types of d

ken molestina explains how the county is trying to deal with a busload of trouble. >> reporter: how many buses have to burn before you realize that, you know, we have bad equipment. >> reporter: jean know is president of the union that represents the ride on bus drivers. he's thankful the county executive has moved to take all the champion model buses off the streets immediately and permanently but he's bothered it took so long to do it. >> this government allowed unsafe equipment. >> reporter: the union and county administrators have been fighting over the future of these buses for years. the president of the union that represents the ride on bus drivers says the county bought about 50 of these buses back in 2007. the total bill for it he says was somewhere in the neighborhood of about $10 million. just two years after the purchase in 2009, the first case of a self-combusting bus happened. since then including the one on wednesday morning in silver spring, some 13 buses have gone up in flames. >> what you end up having is wires up against very, very hot hydraulic systems which go up in flames or you have

ken, this park closes at night, except for the homeless. newly evicted, they are back. and so are the fires. >> this area right here burned last night. >> reporter: nearby homeowners heard grass crackling, smelled smoke and called 911. >> we had two last night and two this morning. >> reporter: suspicious fires set simultaneously in different parts of kelley park. all small, but part of a big problem. a few weekend ago several fires scorched a dozen acres here, and going back six months, dozens of fires. >> i suspect that the four fires that last 24 hours are a formal of retribution. >> reporter: retribution perhaps from homeless folks mad about being kicked out of the park nine days ago. neighbors pushed for the much publicized eviction eviction, but within days the squatters are back. >> everything that you see is that is not dirt or leafs is the last couple of days. >> reporter: this man, knows many of the evicted campers. and says they wouldn't intentionally set fires in a park where they want to stay hidden. >> i mean if they would just look after themselves they are not hurting nothing. they have to have somewhere t

burned into one fire. that fire tonight is just 10% contained. >>> concerns tonight about problems plaguing pelicans up and down the california coast. ktvu's kenritchett asked experts about what might be causing the big bird to act so peculiar. >> reporter: it's common to see pelicans flying and diving into the water. but this pelican did something that no pelican has done before. it dove into this woman's car and ended up hurting itself. some of the birds arrive injured but most are immaceuated juveniles. >> if people are offering them food and getting them closer the pelicans will do whatever they can to get fed. >> reporter: there could be a lack of food or a natural die off of a growing population. brown pelicans were listed as endangered just a few years ago. if someone sees a pelican that simply looks hungry it should be left alone at first rather than rescued. >> we want to see if they can eventually start forging on their own and get the idea that they need to do it on their own. >> reporter: these once immaceuated birds are healthy now and soon will be released. last year they also saw a problem with hungry pelicans but not to the num

ken pritchett spoke to firefighters today on the front lines. >> here this afternoon you can see one arm of the fire burningdown a hillside and that's by design. calfire used helicopter water drops to shape the fire's edge, and inmate crews to clear out a line ahead of the fire to box it in and stop it cold. this is called the site's complex because it started as five fires. >> three of the fires were contained yesterday, the other two have now burned together as one. >> this is video from last night just hours after the fire started despite the intensity you see here, calfire said it made contact last night but the fire roared down today. >> with these triple digit temperatures it's a major challenge. >> reporter: the cause is unknown, so far calfire had fought twice as many fires at this time as compared to last year but most have been small until now. >> because we didn't get a lot of rainfall this winter, the grass, the brush is already to burn and with just a little bit of wind that's all it needs for this type of fire to take off. >> reporter: as you look at the car and smoke that's actually coming fr

ken pritchett spoke to firefighters today on the front lines. >> here this afternoon you can see one arm of the fire burningdown a hillside and that's by design. calfire used helicopter water drops to shape the fire's edge, and inmate crews to clear out a line ahead of the fire to box it in and stop it cold. this is called the site's complex because it started as five fires. >> three of the fires were contained yesterday, the other two have now burned together as one. >> this is video from last night just hours after the fire started despite the intensity you see here, calfire said it made contact last night but the fire roared down today. >> with these triple digit temperatures it's a major challenge. >> reporter: the cause is unknown, so far calfire had fought twice as many fires at this time as compared to last year but most have been small until now. >> because we didn't get a lot of rainfall this winter, the grass, the brush is already to burn and with just a little bit of wind that's all it needs for this type of fire to take off. >> reporter: as you look at the car and smoke that's actually coming fr

ken pritchett. >>> the oakland police department is now wrapped up a long term investigation into a violent east oakland gang. it's known as the burnily and investigators say that organization was involved in illegal firearms position, and fraudulent credit card activities. >> our end goal is sustainability and permanently dismantling these criminal enterprising to keep them from terrorizing the city in a long term cases. >> reporter: the investigation includes several law enforcement agencies. 45 people were arrested on various state and federal charges including conspiracy to commit murder. 22 guns were seized as well as fraudulent credit card manufacturing systems. >>> staff members say they've been working without a contract for two years. according to union organizers with unite two, the hotel was taken over by aew capital management which refused to recognize the union contract that had existed at the hotel for decades. union leaders say aew has investors from labor. >> if you can believe that irony, they are raising money from union trust funds and then turning around and doing this kind of thing with what they buy with that

ken pritchett. >>> the oakland police department is now wrapped up a long term investigation into a violent east oakland gang. it's known as the burn out family and investigators say that organization was involved in illegal firearms position, and fraudulent credit card activities. >> our end goal is sustainability and permanently dismantling these criminal enterprising to keep them from terrorizing the city in a long term cases. >> reporter: the investigation includes several law enforcement agencies. 45 people were arrested on various state and federal charges including conspiracy to commit murder. 22 guns were seized as well as fraudulent credit card manufacturing systems. >>> staff members say they've been working without a contract for two years. according to union organizers with unite two, the hotel was taken over by aew capital management which refused to recognize the union contract that had existed at the hotel for decades. union leaders say aew has investors from labor. >> if you can believe that irony, they are raising money from union trust funds and then turning around and doing this kind of thing with what they buy w

the be ken wood has staged a lightning storm sparked this on saturday. at one point, the fire was burningomes. >>> you hey have seen this rather omni nissinging -- ominous-looking picture. now the kayaker chased by a shark shares his story. >>> stocks have been on the rise 234 early trading -- in recally trade. alcoa's earnings posted positive. the dow is currently up 10. the nasdaq has dropped in the negative territory, down 5. the s&p is flat. investors are pleased that european finance ministers atreed on the terms of a bailout for spain's troubled banks. the finance ministers for the 17 countries that use the euro as their official currency met today in belgium. they say under the plan the first $36 billion in aid for the spanish banks can be ready by the end of this month. they will meet again on july 20th to finalize the agreement. >> and at ways and means committee hold as meeting to repeal president obama's healthcare reform law. that's despite the recent ruling that the end -- that the individual mandate in the healthcare reform measure is constitution hal. a vote on repealing th

ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> five 13-year-old boys are facing charges charges for starting a fire after starting off illegal fireworks. all five were sited for conspiracy and burning property and released to parents. >>> firefighters from san jose and cal fire are mopping up after a brush fire. news chopper 2 was over the scene an hour ago. no structure damage or injuries were reported. >>> a oakland man escaped from a fire that damaged his home before 3:30 a.m. this morning. firefighters say the home was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived. a man tried to get out but the flames were too intense so he released the security bars on a window and jumped out. the cause is under investigation. >>> a police chase in oakland last night ended with a crash outside a church. the suspect was arrested thanks to quick action from the church members inside. services were just ending last night when the car hit a fire hydrant and parked cars outside the center. the suspect jumped outf the car and -- out of the car and ran inside the church. some heard the crash and tackled the man in the church lobby. >> big man came out, we seen a guy running in the church, he hit a coup

ken, good evening to you. all of those improvised explosive device and hazardous materials all of it removed from james holmes' apartment and taken out to a remote site where it will either by burnedup, detonated. now investigators have gotten need, response teams -- evidence response teams to look at that evidence, which is key encouraging for the neighbors that can come back to their homes. investigators in there because they really spent 30 hours or more just dismantling a myriad of booby traps that were meant to kill. investigators give off a series of audible warnings before setting off a detonation inside the third floor apartment of mass shooting suspect james holmes. bomb technicians removed ieds and other materials and accuse james holme of a calculating and deliberate murder spree even saying that the murder theater attack was just the beginning survivors continue to tell chilling stories of how they stayed alive. >> he said pierce, pierce, i'm shot. i said i am too, stay down. >> reporter: and who helped me? >> josh helped me protect my wife and he got shot. >> reporter: the memorial across from the theater where 1 people were killed as a grieving community and faves ch

ken molestina shows us how the county is going to zeal with basically a busload of trouble. >> reporter: now many-- >> how many buses have to burn before you realize we have bad equipment? >> reporter: jean know is president of the union that represents the ride on bus drivers. he's thankful the consist executive has moved to take all the champion ride on buses off the streets immediately and permanently but he's bothered it took so long to do it. >> this government allowed unsafe equipment. >> reporter: the union and county administrators have been fighting over the future of these buses for years. the. of the union that represents the ride on bus drivers say the county bought about 50 of these buses back in 2007. the total bill for it he says was somewhere in the neighborhood of about $10 billion. just two years after the purchase in 2009, the first case of a self-combusting bus happened. since then including the one on wednesday morning in silver spring, some 13 buses have gone up in flames. >> what you end up having is wires up against very, very hot hydraulic systems which go up in flames or you have brakes that aren't made

fire burning in the mendocino national forest continues to grow, and smoke from the so-called mill fire has now seeped into the city of ukiah. how all that smoke is affecting the firefighting efforts. ken? >> reporter: frank, if you look back at the mountains here behind me, you can see the haze. about 20 miles away is the mill fire. we are here at the ukiah air attack base. this plane in front of you, this plane, actually 20 minutes ago, just returned from fighting a fire. but at one time, this heavy smoke did ground these planes. >> reporter: the mill fire is burning on national forest land. since saturday, it's cleared 16,000 acres. while it's burning in a remote area, people downwind in ukiah are living with the smoke. >> the smoke has been here a couple of days. a little thicker yesterday, but it still attars the light and gives you the strange sensation. and you can taste it a little bit. >> reporter: for the most part, the smoke is overhead, like cloud cover or fog above the town. >> it's just kind of weird. it's just foggy. and in lake county, when the sun comes up in the morning, it's just a big orange ball. >> reporter: a breeze cleared out some of the smoke today. yesterday,