>> reporter: kevin tibbles, nbc news, fort leonard wood, missouri. >> how about that for a good idea? >>> that's our broadcast on a monday night as we start off a new week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> right now at 6:00, we're following a developing story in big sur. more than 100 firefighters are battling a wildfire that has forced people to flee their homes and the smoke could be headed here to the bay area. thanks for joining us. i'm raj mathai. jessica aguirre is off. we'll get to the big sur fire in a moment. >>> first, a new twist in another story we've been following. an east bay family has just told us about their anger and grief. they're asking how their daughter could die after a routine surgery. the 13-year-old girl went into get her tonsils removed and ended up brain dead. nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is in oakland at children's hospital, with what the family just said minutes ago. >> reporter: a hard lesson for this family tonight. in fact, jahi's grandmother and uncle

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leonard wood. frank loughton. the governor of illinois, i can't remember how to pronounce his name correctly, i'm always being corrected on it. johnson was just too irascible. which leads you to the fourth man, the available man, as andrew sinclair, one of his biographers said, warren harding. he's not too hot, not too cold, not too much of anything. except he is handsome and a fairly good speaker. he has been on the national stage at the 1916 republican convention. he nominated taft in 1912. so he is the alternative. in that year, the alternative to wilsonism wins. >> the hardings' personal trajectory came from small-town marion, ohio, where they were publishers of the newspaper. give us a short history of publishing a newspaper to national politics. >> yes, thank you so much. the "marion star" was a small paper when harding required it. he made it into a much more successful paper other time, thanks to the efforts of his wife, flarns. florence harding and he, we'll talk later about how they met but for the point