von neumann had los alamos. they were working on a hydrogen bomb design that was not successful, but we did not know that at the time. then we find out that one of the researchers was a russians by. -- russian spy. >> less than four years later von neumann dies of cancer. >> tragically. >> and the team scatters. they pull the plug. the computing team, because the plug gets pulled, it does not last. it essentially collapses. >> it setback computer science almost a decade. they had the script does doing computing for scientific purposes, which ibm picked up on. the research center started doing that, but there was a gap in between that was lost. it is understandable why the institute did not want to become a computing center. it was von neumann who kept it going. when he was gone, it was over. we have plenty of questions. >> we do. there are a lot of really good questions. let's talk about the implications of all this. you talk a lot about the implications of where computing is and where it is going in the book. y

. >> everybody wound up in los alamos. [laughter] there was a train from new jersey to los alamos. he didn't stay there. he was transient. he had so much going on. if you went to less elements, you did not leave until the war was over. they could not have people go and leave. if you went, you brought your family. von neumann had this special path where you can go in and out, and you had a tremendous -- he was the prototype of all these great look for tories. laboratories. there was a deal made that i think was very explicit. a deal that oppenheimer made. we will build you this bomb, but you have to let us -- we won't tell you how to use the bomb you don't tell us how to do science. we will be free to do all the science we want in our spare time. and that is why so much good science came out of los alamos. >> and he was incredibly challenged and invigorated by the intellectual process of trying to think through the very complicated problem, but he was also increasingly, as the project move forward, deeply troubled from an e

nbc bay area peggy bunker is in los alamos and it has been howling there. >> and you can say that again. here in the las alamos we have received wo inches of edd two inches of rain, and the rain filled up the parking lot, and here at the shopping center making it tough on the bag boys who have to work here. >> soaked. >> victor's feet are soaked. he works at an dron kadronica's grocery store. >> one in particular park their car near starbucks and so it was fun. >> reporter: there was no way around the inches of water flooding the rancho shopping center. >> it was windy today. >> and a fierce wind kept pg&e crews hopping up and down the peninsula as the downed trees knocked down power to thousands. and this is in woodside temporarily blocking power, and the downed power line also had crews on call, but despite the headache neighbors say that we needed it. >> well, i can't go outside, because of the rain, but it helps the environment (and turn off the sprinklers and let mother nature do the work. >> and that is what you have to do and now i spoke with pg&e earlier, and they said that they

it's one reason los alamos was in the sticks in the new mexico desert. my grandfather was obsessed with spies throughout the war. they were worried the germans would find out about the bomb. they should've been worried, because while the fbi was following oppenheimer, the germans had access -- and the russians to our nuclear secrets not only the atom bomb with the hydrogen bomb and those records are slowly coming out and i think we will learn more about how damaging that espionage was. growing in that environment, it was a constant topic of conversation. in the 60's as my grandfather became interested in his own fbi file, because he too was followed and he used the freedom of information act to get a hold of his own fbi filed. it was a constant topic of conversation and i became fascinated with the whle period and that led me to be interested in this topic. >> are you talking about factories? >> the sabotage area would have related to the shipping. one of their early mandates was to come in and protect british cargoes and shipping. they did very much to

in particular i thought the idea that los alamos, liver moore san dia should be designated as national security rather than nuclear weapons laboratories, was a very important recognition of how the threat environment that we face in the world today has changed. in addition, one of the things the commission recommended was that the president issue an executive order formally assigning the secretaryies of defense and energy, state, homeland security and the dni joint responsibility for the health of these lob toiraboratories. and you and i discussed this a little bit when we met in my office recently. i wanted to ask you based on a recommendation from the strategic posture administration, what sort of joint responsibility do you believe that the department of defense should have for our national labs? >> thank you, senator. i recall our conversation. and you're right, i was the executive director at the so called perry schlesinger commission which make the recommendation you pointed to. the national laboratories the so called laboratory isies are laboratories. i know that because we used

this one knocked out power in los altos this morning. this in an alamo parking lot.ially fierce winds howled through the sierra today. the tahoe ski resorts were forced to close their runs, and a tree fell across interstate 0. look at this -- the storm even produced lightning in the central valley. this video came from our affiliate in sacramento this afternoon afternoon. >> that's wild. let's turn to livh.d. and spencer christian. this looked like a genuine pineapple express. >> it was. it produced a huge amount of rainfall. a lot of moisture content and brought mild air. here's live doppler 7 h.d. as you see, the second wave of stormy not that moved through -- storminess that moved through is pushing out to the east and south, though there's still wet weather covering the remainder of the area. let's close in on locations that are receiving the heaviest rainfall. walnut creek, points east. to the south bay, heavy rain near san jose. mainly pushing away from the area now. over in the sierra a change required on all the major highways except highway 4 going into and

this one knocked out power in los altos this morning. this in an alamo parking lot. especially fierce winds howled through the sierra today. the tahoe ski resorts were forced to close their runs, and a tree fell across interstate 0. look at this -- the storm even produced lightning in the central valley. this video came from our affiliate in sacramento this afternoon afternoon. >> that's wild. let's turn to live doppler h.d. and spencer christian. this looked like a genuine pineapple express. >> it was. it produced a huge amount of rainfall. a lot of moisture content and brought mild air. here's live doppler 7 h.d. as you see, the second wave of stormy not that moved through -- storminess that moved through is pushing out to the east and south, though there's still wet weather covering the remainder of the area. let's close in on locations that are receiving the heaviest rainfall. walnut creek, points east. to the south bay, heavy rain near san jose. mainly pushing away from the area now. over in the sierra a change required on all the major highways except highway 4

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alamo where a big branch from a pear tree damaged four cars. >> i hear somebody talking about it in the office. i decided to come look. lo and behold, my car of one of them. >> reporter: linda's got the worst of it. luckily, her puppy gabby of inside but escaped unscathed. >> the windshield's broken, and i can see a couple of dents on the top. so thankfully i'll have to clean it to see if there's any more. i'm happy i was out of it. >> reporter: in martinez there were sandbags in front of some low lying businesses on main street, but no real threat from the nearby creek which remains well below its banks. in walnut creek, we found people who welcomed the blustery weather almost like a long lost friend. >> no, it's not cold. it's perfect. we need every inch of it. >> reporter: and others, not so much. >> i know but i love california because it's hot and sunny. not this. >> reporter: now besides all the downed trees, contra costa county public works tells us so far no major problems. i'll keep an eye things through the weekend. abc7 news. >> thank you very much, laura. >>> show us the weather where you live. e-mail picture