the vietnam war, we had a panel at the kennedy center and john mccain was there, john kerry, ken burns, chuck hagel, all these vietnam veterans gathered today with ken burns to talk about their experiences, to talk about what they did in the vietnam war. of course, john mccain was very humble. but i asked him about how often he went to the vietnam war memorial. >> let's roll that clip. >>> i want to ask you specifically, how often you go to the wall? >> depends on the weather. sometimes, once a week. sometimes, once every couple weeks. i live not far away. and that's -- it's -- i try sometimes to go very early in the morning or when it's near sunset. and not only do i enjoy the wall but i enjoy shaking hands with the veterans who were there, who are -- it's really incredibly an emotional experience. again, what it tells me, a lot of these young men died because of an inadequate or corrupt leaders. we need leaders who will lead and will be able to give them a path to victory so that we will not sacrifice them ever again in a lost cause. >> martha, so incredible he ended up -- >> how emo

caller: well, first of all, i want to thank ken burns. he is doing a fantastic job, not only with vietnam, but i followed him with the civil war, black baseball, etc. -- in mysaid i experience, in 1964, i enlisted in the u.s. army, basically believing that would be sent to vietnam. was sentrvened and i to korea instead of vietnam. every other class was sent to vietnam, and the class in between was sent someplace else. i served in the seventh infantry division in korea, but i did follow vietnam very closely and i was young. naive. i wanted to serve my country, and that is what i enlisted. i am 85 -- i made it fairly quickly because i was in great shape, exercised, so when i got out, i went to college. at that time, i was falling vietnam and i was in my sophomore year when the offensive occurred. what i did is i started researching how we got into vietnam and our involvement. i think the real untold story of vietnam is the beginning of our involvement in vietnam, which dated back to 1942. i think that is the real untold story. if people wan

>> first of all, i want to thank ken burns.he is doing a fantastic job, not only addressing vietnam, but i followed him with the civil war, black baseball, etc., etc. in my experience as a 21-year- old in 1964, i enlisted in the u.s. army basically believing that i would be sent to vietnam. fate intervened and i was sent to korea instead of vietnam. every other class was sent to vietnam. the class in between was sent someplace else. i served in the seventh infantry division in korea. but i did follow vietnam very closely. and i was young, naive, and wanted to serve my country, and that is why i enlisted. but at any rate, i made e5 fairly quickly because i was in great shape. exercised, the whole nine yards. when i got out, i went to college in 1967 area at that time -- 1967. at that point i was really following vietnam and i was in my sophomore year when the tet offensive occurred. what i did is i started researching how we got into vietnam and our involvement. i think the real untold story of vietnam is the beginning of our in

a film arbiter who worked for ken burns, for example, may have seen it, but some of it has never been seen. >> these are all pre-world war ii films? ofl: yes, from the period 1932 to 1938. after that, it sort of drops off. i imagine the life in the white house got too busy. what is wonderful as it shows you the sort of behind the scenes footage. there are some scenes where there are other reporters around but thereel crews, are some scenes with fdr in warm springs around the pool where you can see has very atrophied legs. that is something he would never reveal in a setting where there might be press present, but he was so comfortable with the other polio survivors at warm springs, and when you have someone like missy lehand taking the photos of him and he knew that would never get in the hands of a newsroom company. some of the thickness easy, be behind the scenes things you see, i'm informal look into the life of the roosevelts. >> how we you say the collection as to fdr's legacy? paul: one of the things that is really intriguing about the --sevelt's if they were had aelts is they v

some has been rarely seen, so some film archivists who work for ken burns may have seen it but a lot of it has not been widely seen. some has never been seen. >> these are pre-world war ii films. >> it is mostly 1932-1938. after that, it drops off. i imagine life in the white house got too busy. what one -- is wonderful about it is it shows you behind-the-scenes footage. there are some scenes where there are reporters around and you can see other newsreel crews but a lot of it, roosevelt's are letting their hair down. there are scenes with fdr and warm springs around the pool where you can see his atrophied legs and that is something he would never reveal in a setting in which there might be press. he was so comfortable with the other polio survivors at warm springs he felt they were his someonend when you have like maceo hand taking footage, he knew it would never get in the footage of a newsreel company. some of the behind-the-scenes things you see our insights into the informal life of the roosevelt's. >> how would you say the collection as to fdr's legacy? >> one thing intriguing

then i was watching ken burns documentary on the roosevelt. they came out in 2014 i came across the name warned delano in my research and then he was featured on the ken burns documentary. he was the maternal grandfather of franklin delano are roosevelt and the father of sarah delano. sarah delano was a very fierce and productive mother of her only son franklin. then i began wondering a yankee to the core, what producer delano and then i began reading more about warned delano the second and encumbered this fascinating world of young men such as war and the second and friends of his like forbes and these group of new yorkers and new englanders who, in the 1830s decided to go to the mysterious enclosed kingdom of china to make their fortunes in the t trade and these young men had connections, they have the abilities to make this journey and warned delano the second makes the journey in 1834 in his early 20s and his goal was to come back with a fortune of $100,000 which today doesn't sound like a lot but that was placed in the forbes 400 if you c

i think with the ken burns documentary, we are going to get this fight all over again with intensity. the book has two emotional ties for me. one is that i have one friend on the wall who was killed in january of 1968 when the north vietnamese came through. i trained with him and knew him well. he was a good friend of mine. it is the brilliance of the vietnam wall that it is by virtue of its black granite, a reflective surface. so i believe that almost instinctively, almost by accident, the reflective quality of the black granite to those who have survived is a magical accident that maya lin came upon. the second emotional tie is the sculptor of the soldiers at the vietnam memorial was a friend of mine, and i was not sure when i started to focus on this question as to whether this book would work. i had done dual biographies before, pete rose, a baseball book, saladin versus richard the lionheart, a medieval book. the form of dual biography interested me greatly. whether i could conceptualize a book that would be a dual biography or a collision between maya lin and frederick hart was

i was rather stuck when he came to after i got the contract and then i was watching ken burns documentary on the roosevelt-- marvelous document to that cannot enjoy 14 and i came across the name warren delano and then warren delano was featured on the ken burns documentary and as we know he's the maternal grandfather of the franklin delano roosevelt and the father the famous sarah .-dot-- delano. they got together-- it had gotten together about being tiger mothers they would've gotten along well. sarah was a fierce and protective mother of her only son franklin. warren delano the second, native of new bedford. his father was a whaling captain , yankee to the core. what produced sara delano and what produced franklin roosevelt so i began reading more and uncovered this really fascinating world about young man's censure as warren delano the second and friends of his like john murray forbes, robert bennett forms, abbott low in this group of new yorkers and new englanders who in 1830s in the 20s and 30s decided to go to the mysterious and closed them of china to make their fortunes and make t

as a point, 28 years ago ken burns rivetted the united states with a brilliant civil war documentary.t captured everyone imagination and renewed interest in that wonderful film, he had shelby foot, the folky, charmy, southern historian and novelist who tried to get a dispassionate but sometimes sympathetic reason why people fought for a bad cause. at times he said he could understand why they defended southern soil. will we go back to say to ken burns, we want you to cut out all of the shelby foot interviews, becausese they prome white supremacy, b because we fl we do. many more millions saw that film and it "silence and the statue" it doesn't have a good history whether defacing roman emperors after they were dead or the french revolution raiding cathedrals and monasteries or josef stalin erasing on imaginaryco of trots ski. i'm sitting here in san joaquin valley where my family has been 104om years. they voted to put an as tech to theem of the snake earth goddess. the object of thousands of human sacrifices. above it they have the indescription viva long live the race. it was reinve

(ken)the carr fire burning in the carr fire (ken) (ken)the carr fire burning in redding now considered one of the most destructive fire in the state's history. coming up: we hear from a nurse who lost her home but continues to work. (grant) and next: a bystander killed in a police shooting in los angeles. what the chief is saying tonight after the shocking body camera video was released. ♪ ♪ can world-renowned artist red hong yi use the chase mobile app® to pay practically anyone, at any bank? all while creating a masterpiece made of tea leaves? ♪ ♪ yes. but this isn't for just anyone. ♪ ♪ hong yi! it's for the strongest man in her life. ♪ ♪ life. lived red's way. chase. make more of what's yours. (grant) the los angeles police department is in damage control mode... after bodycamera video released today shows an innocent bystander killed by police gunfire.(ken) officers can be heard in the video warning the man wearing the maroon shirt to drop his knife as he walks toward them outside a church in van nuys... after police got a call the man had stabbed his ex- girlfriend. (ken) another

many of these pictures used at .he end of ken burns's film created somehave misunderstandings. today i want to offer a corrective by focusing on three key aspects of the way in which the civil war generation remember their war. an emphasis on reconciliation that urged the war generation to move beyond the bitterness of the past, this was not the primary way in which most participants of the war chose to remember the war. unionist remembered and celebrated the union cause. confederates crafted their own memory. the lost cause. rather than embracing reconciliation, most of veterans harbored intense sectionalism throughout the remainder of their lives. this picture is a great example that neither one of these men looks too thrilled to be shaking hands with the other [laughter] like to debate which one is being more forced to do so. contemporary commentary suggests that slavery was forgotten by the war generation in the name of reconciliation. this simply is not true. on the contrary, african-americans certainly celebrated the war is war emancipation. white union and confederate ve

a documentary film on the congress done by ken burns, working with ken on that kind of a project, workingith chief justice burger on the commission of the bicentennial, and the commission that was there, and senator byrd, of course, running the senate bicentennial committee, and i'm working for tip o'neill and jim wright and lindy boggs, the congresswoman who was the head of the house bicentennial. that is how i got to know senator byrd. i was on the house side. it was during the bicentennial as we planned events around the country and one of the big things that can out of that was the visitors center at the capitol, the national constitution center in philadelphia. so those were heady times. mr. ritchie: i remember those times because we had lots of projects the senate historical office had been trying to do for years and could not get funded, and we called them bicentennial projects, and we got the senate to ok it. [laughter] mr. ritchie: dick was very shrewd about this. we actually continued the bicentennial on for several years after. [laughter] mr. ritchie: i remember in 1991, we too

french jushlist videotaped these first moments of his imprisonment which were recently feature in the ken burns>> i was on a flight over the city of hanoi. and i was bombing. and i was hit by either a missile or anti-aircraft fire. i'm not sure which. and the plane continued straight down. i ejected and broke my leg and both arms. and went into a lake, parachuted into a lake. and i was picked up by some north vietnamese and taken to the hospital, where i almost died. >> my next guest served and lived through that horror alongside john mccain. he is retired navy fighter pilot captain charlie plum. captain plum, an honor sir. thank you for your service to this great country. i'm so sorry about the loss of your friends, your brother. but if i may just begin with, can you take me back to hand oi and that prison camp and when you saw mccain rolled in on that stretcher, when did you realize that it was your old flight instructor? >> you know, i was in a cell in a camp we call the plantation. i could barely peek flew a crack in my door. and i could see the gate, the personnel gate in that prison camp.

ken) thanks terisa. and we have team coverage tonight of the fires burning (ken) thanks terisa. m coverage tonight of the fires burning in mendocino county. (justine) kron 4's dan kerman is live at an evacuation center in lower lake.... with evacuees. dan? dan? dan? (justine) now to the most destructive fire burning tonight... up in shasta and trinity counties. so far.... the carr fire has burned over one-thousand homes-- and more than 115- thousand acres are burned. (ken) let's go live to redding tonight. natasha chen is standing by with an update. natasha? q: it sounds like more areas are opening up for people to return home. what needs to be done for people to return to where you are? that's going to be quite a shock for some of them...q: firefighters from different areas are covering redding today. that's to give the local firefighters in town a moment to grieve for a fallen colleague?q: has the white house said anything about federal resources to help with these wildfires?q: the california governor has watched the fire conditions change over the decades. what does he say abo

many of these pictures used here at the end of ken burns's film from 1913 and sometimes from the 1938 reunion of gettysburg. but these images created some misunderstandings. today what i want to do is offer correctives. by focusing on three key aspects of the way in which the civil war generation remembered their war. first, despite an emphasis on reconciliation, that urge the war generation to move beyond the bitterness of the past, this was not the primary way in which most participants of the war chose to remember the war. unionist remembered and celebrated the union cause. confederates crafted their own memory. the lost cause. rather than embracing reconciliation, most veterans are these many hovered in tensile -- harbored intense sectionalism the rest of their lives. and this pictures a great example as a student pointed out that neither one of these men looks too thrilled to be shaking hands. my students like to debate which one of them is feeling more forced to do so. so this is the first point we will cover. the second, is contemporary commentary suggesting that slavery was fo

and filmmaker lynn novak whose most recent project with ken burns was the 10 part documentary the vietnam war. first here's a cps report on opposition to the war.>>reporter: war, and specifically the war in vietnam, troubles all america. it troubles young people more. the gap is greatest between college students and the rest of society.>> i think the war of vietnam began to escalate in 1965.>> arnold taylor, a radical student from the university of colorado explains one reason for the spread of radicalism. his audience? echo on his club. >> if it was not the vietnam war a lot of people let myself will not reach the level i have and it was the vietnam war that began the first conflict. >> the survey showed that six out of 10 parents and noncollege youth believe in fighting war for our honor. only one fourth of the college students say the same. almost 2/3 of the parents,

host: ken burns will be joining us next week. guest: i would take exception to the fact that photojournalism has gone by the wayside. it has not. there are still photographers on the front line of history every single day. an example i used earlier was just the median of north and south going back and forth throughout the line on the dmz in korea. there is an image, photographers are out shining lights in the corners of the world that people need to see. there may be some dilution. everybody is a photographer now. but not everybody is a professional photographer, taking risks, putting their lives on the line to report the truth, which is the way i look at it. i think it is alive and well. like you are saying, it is a different world from your newspapers or television. you can get it from a lot of different angles. host: your reaction to the cover story of life magazine june 14, 1968, following the assassination of senator robert f. kennedy. what does this image tell you? guest: the photo is by bill everts, by the way. what it say

and going through the process again, ken burns is working on an ali documentary so going back to these people, you burn too many bridges over somebody who's contemporary like ali, a lot of it is interviewing which i love and which i didn't get to do so much from my other books and when you begin to feel like you have some capacity on the subject, then it's okay but the stuff i found if you start writing, i don't know about the others but when you start writing too soon, you're wasting time because a year later you realize you are an amateur, you don't really have command of your material, you didn't understand the importance of your subject and gregory said to me, he was one of the first people i interviewed . >> he said especially for you as a white guy. because you know, you're going to have a real challenge. you need to make me understand what made this kid he could be special and that's true for anybody who's worthy of biography, what made them think he could do something special but it's true as dick gregory pointed out for a kid was the same age as an hill who saw what happened t

a wildfire is burning in fairfield right now.(ken) earlier it was dangerously close to homes... ifting direction due to the wind. kron-4's grant lodes is here with the new evacuations tonight. (grant) homes have (grant) homes have not burned homes have not burned but structures in the peabody subdivision and lagoon subdivision are threatened the fire had moved over the ridge to the gold ridge development. residents of hancock drive and hom drive are being evacuated.the fire is evacuated.drive are being drive and hom of hancock residents development. the gold ridge the ridge to moved over the fire had threatened subdivision are and lagoon subdivision in the peabody but structures tonight.new evacuations tonight. (grant) homes have not burned but structures in the peabody subdivision and lagoon subdivision are the fire had moved over the ridge to the gold ridge residents of hancock drive and hom drive are being the fire is the spca the help of vacaville pd, fire, and some amazing people that stopped to help we got the animals out. cement hill road is closed between peabody and manu

way, ken burns' pa rtner behind that vietnam war cap miniseries will be with us. guest: i would say to photojournalism done by the wayside, it has not. there are still photographers on the front lines of history every single day. and example i used earlier was the meeting of north and south, going back and forth across the line on the dmz in korea. there is a good example of an image. photographers are out shining light in the corners of the world that people need to see. delusion be some because everybody is a photographer now, but not everybody is a professional photographer. not everyone is taking risks, putting their lives on the line to report the truth, which is the way i look at it. i think it is alive and well. as you were saying, it is a different world from your newspapers or television. you can get it from a lot of different angles. host: marvin kalb, your reaction to the cover story of life , 1968,e, june 14 following the assassination of robert kennedy. what does this image tell you? guest: that image, photo by bill that init says to me family,e poor

ken) we are tracking breaking news of the hour. right now structures are being threatened by a fire burning in martinez.(pam) we are joined now by contra costa fire protection district public information officer steve albert.... steve?steve? (pam) (pam) (pam) (pam) let's check in with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow.(ken) lawrence what kind of conditions are firefighters up against tonight? lawrence karnow: it was a bright and sunny day for most of the bay area. highs soared inland with mid 90s but cool 60s with patchy fog at the coast. it will be a beautiful evening with a light breeze and mild to warm temperatures. it much quieter on the doppler radar with only a few showers over the sierra. on the satellite you can see how high pressure is building over the west coast. it will be another hot weekend inland with highs soaring near 100 degrees inland. it will be warm around the bay in the 70s and the 80s and 60s with patchy fog and sun at the coast. temperatures will begin to cool on sunday and be much cooler by monday. temperatures will be near normal for most of next week. week.most of next week.

as you look at ken burns' award- winning documentary, it shifted from truman to kennedy. was it a shifting objective by 1968? 1967, the policy that shifted, yes. >> by late 1967, the policy had shifted, yes. mcnamara, the pentagon papers have not come and defense secretary mcnamara, they basically decided they were not going to win the war. the best they could do was a stalemate. that's what they were dealing with at that time. the war has to be dealt with in three ways. one is the military, which jim was part of. one is the policy, which is completely different. one is society and what was happening in the united states at that time. >> that's outlined in your book, they marched into sunlight. i want to put three components on the table. you have the anti-war demonstrations around the country, including madison, wisconsin. you have the dow chemical and napalm bombings and the horrific deaths of so many people in vietnam. tie the three together. >> it wasn't just napalm, it was also agent orange that dow made. the protests at the june versety of wisconsin in october of 19

change between, say, "12:00 high" and "private ryan" when a soldier was a soldier, and now with ken burns' series where the soldier was the victim? can you comment about that? since you will be making movies about war, are you going to have the soldier be the victim? are you going to be for diversity? how are you going to frame your upcoming pictures? >> you know, this is a quart of whiskey question. look, i'm for anything that makes us strong as an american military and i'm against anything that makes us weaker. i don't think and will never think that anyone who wears our american military uniform and serves our nation is a victim of anything. i think we made the biggest mistake in the world getting rid of the draft because it was america's common denominator. i wish we would bring it back. i don't know that we will ever will, but it was an opportunity for young men and women -- or young men, and if they brought it back i would think young men and women, to serve their nation and to meet people they would never otherwise meet and to learn to live with them. i will never believe that they

even "private ryan" when the soldier was the soldier and now in later depictions, for instance, ken burns' vietnam series, the soldier was a victim. can you comment on that? since you're going to be making movies about war, are you going to have the soldier be the victim? are you going to go for diversity and how are you going to frame your upcoming pictures? >> you know, this is a quart of whiskey question. look, i am for anything that makes us strong as an american military. and i'm against anything that makes us weaker. i don't think and will never think that anyone who wears our american military unit, our uniform and services our nation is a victim of anything. i think we made the biggest mistake in the world getting rid of the draft because it was america's common denominator. i wish we'd bring it back. i don't know that we ever will, but it was an opportunity for young men and women -- or young men, and if they brought it back, i would think young men n women, to serve their nation and to meet people they would never otherwise meet and to learn to live with them. i will never belie

burned 135 acres as well. all evacuations and road closures have been lifted. (ken) turning now to chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. (vicki) and lawrence we keep saying it...hot and dry conditions posing a challenge..is there any relief if sight for these firefighters? lawrence karnow: fires continue to burn across the state after a very hot july. highs still moved into the low 90s inland but it was cooler at the coast with highs in the 50s and 60s. low clouds will begin to move in a little further inland and help to cool temperatures. the monsoon showers and thunderstorms continue to pop up over the sierra . on the satellite image you can see high pressure as it weakens. that should allow cooler air to move further inland. highs tomorrow will still be in the upper 80s to low 90s inland with much weather at the coast. it may warm slightly on friday and saturday before cooling down sunday and monday. (ken) new at 8. marin new at 8. (ken) and monday. (ken) new at 8. marin county fire officials are asking for the public's help to avoid a wildfire disaster like what

learn documentary filmmaking from ken burns! lmmaker behind "the civil war," "baseball," "jazz," "the vietnam war," and many more memorable docs is the latest high-profile professional to join the online teaching portal master-class. burns will share his filmmaking techniques, and teach students how to find what he calls the "drama of truth." info at master-class dot-com. in hollywood, i'm david daniel. (lydia) still ahead on the kron four morning news... bart holds a special meeting on what can be done to keep passengers safe. we tell you what suggestions were made... next. checking in on your morning forecast. some changes in the forecast to look forward to in the way of cooler temperatures and improved air quality. temperatures along the coast will again be felt in the 60's and 70's with 80's in the south bay. inland areas will again peak in the 90's but not quite as warm as yesterday's temperatures. skies will continues to be hazy for the east bay but conditions will have improved as compared to the past few days with further

ken) more than 1-thousand homes destroyed. six lives lost. and more than 180 square miles scorched in 10 days, but firefighters are gaining ground on the destructive carr fire burning(ken) thank you for joining us i'm ken wayne.(justine) and i'm justine waldman. natasha chen joins us live from shasta county tonight with the latest. the latest.

(ken) (ken) there are nearly 600 wildfires burning in british columbia. 3-thousand people in northern and central b-c are on evacuation alert. 145 new fires were triggered by lightening over the weekend. hundreds of people have already been ordered out of their homes. about 2- thousand residents around quesnel (kwah-nell) have been told to be ready to leave on a moment's notice. so have 16-hundred people near fort st. james. smoke is making it dark outside in many places. environment canada has extended a special air quality statement for most of the southern half of the province. lawrence karnow: temperatures cooled around the bay area today as high pressure finally weakened. the monsoon returned to the sierra. doppler radar is tracking more showers over the sierra. highs today were in the 80s inland with cool fog and 50s and 60s at the coast. on the satellite you can see an area of low pressure approaching the bay area. that will help to keep temperatures down he next couple of days. highs tomorrow will be in the 80s inland with 60s and 70s around the b

ken) more than 1-thousand homes destroyed. six lives lost. and more than 180 square miles scorched in 10 days, but firefighters are gaining ground on the destructive carr fire burning near redding.(ken) thank you for joining us i'm ken wayne.(justine) and i'm justine waldman. natasha chen joins us live from shasta county tonight with the latest. the latest. (justine) the other major wildfire is burning in mendocino and lake counties. the ranch fire has burned 59-thousand acres. and the river fire has burned 33- thousand acres. they are 24 percent contained. 14 homes have been destroyed and more than 12-thousand structures are threatened. kron4's michelle kingston attended tonight's first mendocino county complex fire community meeting and has more on what's happening there. "there were about two to three-hundred people tonight here at this community meeting. many people wanting to know when they can get back inside their homes and of course when this wildfire will be under control."rep. mike thompson/ 5th congressional district"one- a super thank you to our first responders .. these folks have been doing a great job."residents from all over the county in kelseyvill

burned more than 48-thousand acres and is 58 percent contained. the twin fires have destroyed 75 homes. 93=hundred are still threatened. (ken) another new fire spread to more than 10=thousand acres in stanislaus county.(pam) in fact, about twenty wildfires are burning out of control in the state tonight. catherine heenan shows us ... the magnitude of the mendocino complex blaze. the ranch fire exploded into thousands of new acres overnight.... leaping over natural and manmade barriers to cover more than 350 square miles.natair drops have kept the flames away from the homes along clear lake."i saw the firefighters, they dropped retardant, they stopped the flames from going down the hill, i saw the water blasting, they've been doing a good job."like many residents she is refusing to heed the mandatory evacuation orders "it's not in my blood to duck tail and run, i'll stay and fight it until the end."> there's a lot of us that are saying our prayers that this just escapes us. we're in a vortex though. this is coming down the road.a hundred miles to the north, the carr fire near redding claimed a seventh life over the weekend .

((ken)) the fire..is now the largest burning in the state.((vicki)) here are the latest numbers... the ranch fire -- has grown to more than 115-thousand acres. it is 28 percent contained. the river fire -- has burned more than 42-thousand acres...and is 50 percent contained. the fires have destroyed 41 homes... about 92-hundred buildings are threatened.<...really hot> (vicki) more than three thousand firefighters are battling this blaze. (ken) relief tonight for many evacuees....some evacuations were lifted in lake county... that's where we find kron4's gayle ong gayle you spoke to people who just returned home last night? residents in lakeport were allowed back home yesterday afternoon..but there's actually not many people around.. mike galloway is perhaps the only person sitting outside on his porch in lakeport.the city of lakeport was under mandatory evacuations on saturday, residents had to flee the raging mendocino complex fires

(ken)plus the holy fire in southern california continues to grow.. as a man who said "this place will burnars. (pam) and next: a year after a man was killed in a laptop theft -related incident.. still no arrests. what his family and friends are saying tonight. (lawrence) ten at ten (pam) it has been one year since the death of a bay area singer /song writer in a laptop theft... and no arrests have been made. (ken) kron 4's dan kerman spoke with his friends and family about the case that reamins unsolved tonight. it was a year ago outside this north oakland cafe at telegraph and 42nd, that singer songwriter dave deporis had his laptop stolen... he gave chase, grabbed on to the suspect's vehicle and ended up dying after being dragged by that vehicle. sot ian petrich/deporis' friend 15-19 sot gene deporis/victim's father 20-30at the time police released this security cam video of a person of interest.. but so far no one has come forward and a year later the homicide remains unsolved. but his father remains hopeful there will be a break in the casesotin the meantime, friends have gathered toge

burned 146- homes... and they are still threatening about 1 thousand structures. (ken) over the weekend firefighters made significant progress on a wildfire burning in southern california. the holy fire is now 52 percent contained up from just 10 percent on friday. it has burned more than 22- thousand acres. nearly half of the 21- thousand people under mandatory evacuation were able to return home. (ken) video has been released of a daring animal rescue mission pulled off friday evening by police, when the nelson fire threatened the solano county spca, animal shelter. kron 4's gabe slate shows us the video and he talked with police who shared what the adrenaline fueled experience was like. nat sound of police rescue body cam footage from vacaville police officers shows how intense it was when officers rushed to evacuate the dogs and cats inside the solano county spca animal shelter friday evening as the nelson fire threated to burn it down. sound from mark donaldson - lieutenant vacaville police "putting dogs cats in crates in patrol cars to save them and take them to

burned more than 110-thousand acres... and is just 27 percent contained.thank you for joining us. i'm ken wayne. nt lodes in for pam moore. so far-- more than 800 homes have been destroyed in the carr fire. (grant) this is a map of where it's burning right now in shasta and trinity counties. you can see just how close it is to the city of redding. but we've just learned that 16 of 20 missing people thought missing from the burn area have been safely located. reporter nick watt is live in redding tonight with the latest on the firefighting efforts. nick? california fire officials say they are making progress as they battle several blazes burning in northern california and that firefighters are focused on saving lives and homes.battalion chief john messina said tuesday fire crews slowed the spread of one of the blazes into towns near clear lake, including lakeport, a city of 5,000. he says the fire instead spread into the mendocino national forest.messina says fire crews focused their efforts on saving lives and homes and that's why only 10 houses have been destroyed by two massive fires straddling

(ken) and in shasta and trinity counties.the carr fire has burned more than 211- thousand acres... d is 65 percent contained. the fire has destroyed more than a- thousand homes.3 firefighters have been killed in this fire. (ken) despite the carr fire still burning.. kids in shasta county are preparing to head back to school... with little supplies. (pam) tonight, people in the tri-valley are packing up donations to give to those who have lost their homes in that fire... kron 4's ella sogomonian is live in the newsroom with more on their charitable effort ella? in a time when parents are stressed with back to school preparations...hundreds of families in shasta county are now dealing with that along with the pressure of getting back on their feet...so volunteers are packing donations for them. sot: sandy schneider, organizer// "these are all the donations that came in over a three day period we sort of extended it because people wanted to give more." sandy schneider of pleasanton has organized a donation for hundreds of families displaced by the carr fire and 35 families who've lost