right there where it says spalding. and start to work their way in and are like what i would compare knives in the vitals to the germans in the course of the day. do tremendous damage about wn 64 behind wn 62. they lose two killed and eight wounded, 7 men in this boat section of 32 got the distinguish service cross including spalding and strasic. another example. captain joe dawson. this is his first company command. 30-year-old geologist from texas who worked in the oil business. he was son of a very prominent baptist minister from texas and graduate of bailor university. he feels he has to prove himself to his men. he's taking over for a guy who had been really popular, captain ed, took the worst casualties under wn 62 that i mentioned earlier. spalding is determined to lead my example. he comes in 20 minutes after -- excuse me, dawson. he comes in 20 minutes after spalding and his group. takes out a machine gun nest himself with grenades and leads them to caldwell which you can see there with a prominent church steep

three belong to the big red one, john spalding's division on omaha. i think quite a few more guys deserve the medal of-or or d day. that's history, that's past now. >> let's take one more call, mark from michigan. hello there. >> caller: hello there. my name is mark to youers. my father was at omaha beach at d day. he was in the second wave. they already seen what was happening on the beach. and he this didn't go out the front of the ship out of the boat on thend laing craft, they went out the side. they were on the ranger division. and they were talking about the beach being bloody. he said he saw the movie tom hanks made. he said it was just like being there. everything else -- he was at the cliff he was also at bastogne when the germans surrounded them and his commander just said nuts. >> alex kershaw. final thoughts? >> i think that the 75th anniversary of d day is a very important event. i think it is a unifying event. every american should reflect on what this nation achieved in unity with other nations, allies nations. what was given. what was

i just mentioned spalding and dawson. there is other groups also that are doing much the same thing, and some we probably don't know about. what he does is reinforce them at a time they could have been vulnerable, behind enemy position. now there are other guys putting more pressure on the germans, creating that natural manpower advantage the americans already have and really going a long way to helping win the beach. so by the end of the day, what do you have? you have a beachhead. you have got a confused clump of a beachhead. by midday, a lot of this is sorted out. and, by the way with the help of , accurate, excellent naval gunfire from destroyers that come in, and once you have spotted targets, then they do tremendous damage. you have done this by nightfall, but it has been costly. there is no lines, really just , positions, foxholes, patrols. i would estimate, and this is 1174bly an underestimate, casualties at the big red one, including 300 killed. probably an underestimate, probably another 500 casualties from the

including spalding and stay sick. another example, captain dawson, that meant as a staff officer, the first company command. is a 30-year-old geologist from texas that worked in the oil business. he was the son of a prominent baptist minister from texas and a graduate from baylor university. he feels he has to prove himself. >> he took the worst casualties. he comes in 20 minutes after. he starts to make his way up. you have a prominent steeple. his unit ends up fighting utterly. the tragic thing, had taken about 60 casualties getting off the beach. the heaviest relate in the day because of the communication. the navy had preplanned fire and killed several of the guys. he also will be highly decorated as well so many of his guys. the governing overlord is colonel george taylor. the term comes from him. if you've ever seen the longest day, the phrases attributed to --. it is taylor who said this. he actually wrote it. he had served in the mediterranean and new as much as any american commander. he said in an operation,

spalding was at the front of the landing craft, and 28-year-old guy who had never seen combat before,rom kentucky, had been a sportswriter before the war. he had to shout at his men that he was going to go first. noise level was absolutely extraordinary. veterans have described it to me as a constant wall of noise. every now and again you would cloth being torn by a machine gun, which would kill an entire platoon and could have killed spalding's landing craft in seconds. he goes into the water, and it is cold, a jolt. he goes under the water. he tries to get rid of his pack. comes back up and manages somehow to get to the beach. he then crawls across a foam shingle beach and finds protection finally by the ruins that had beenla heavily shelled. tok about an hour and a half get off the landing craft and lead his men 300 or 400 yards to flat sands and then across shingles and up a minefield that was part of a blood, and finally emerged at about 8:00 in the morning, becoming the first american officer to lead americans off the bloodiest beach on d-day. host: taking calls for alex kershaw

undercover narcotics officer shannon spalding is her name.roject. she and her partner reported them to their department and to the fbi. former judge and police officer and host of cbs' "whistle-blower" series alex ferrer went to chicago to talk to spalding for the season two premiere. >> it was a full blown war. every single day. >> reporter: soon after joining the police department, shannon spalding drew an assignment in one of most violent neighborhoods in the city. >> it was like a movie set. just a completely different world. >> reporter: to survive, she leaned on veteran cops like ronald watts. >> i thought he was battling crime and doing it with finesse and grace. >> reporter: in 2006, a decade after she was trained by watts, she had a new assignment, in the narcotics division. >> i was the undercover, i would go out, make the controlled narcotics purchases. >> reporter: her partner, danny would swoop in and make arrests. but during police interviews, something strange started to happen. >> people would say, i can't believe you're going

undercover officer shannon spalding said officers were planting drugs and extorting people in a housing project. >> even the good citizens that live there who are law abiding citizens, they're subjected to this. we've heard people putting a couple bags to enough to put you away for 15 or 20 years. >> that's tonight on kpix 5. >>> eyes on the road. car companies working on new features to get you back on track when you're distracted. on track when you're distracted. >>> it is a big problem. distracted driving is blamed for thousands of deaths every year. >> now the biggest risk is the driver. >> day that shows more than 3100 people die in crashes involves a distracted driver. now in the subaru forester there's a feature called the focus mental flash as warning to pay attention to the road. cadillac's system features advanced technology to make sure drivers are still paying attention. it starts with visual and sound warnings but will eventually bring the car to a stop if the driver doesn't respond and volvo is getting ready to put cameras on all of its vehicles. some people may be worried

that's important. >> the way stephanie spalding put it was they have to stop being the democratic partye they use the traditional statistical models that don't apply when you look at the women shocking us and getting elected they are not the people showing up in the model or would get the money from the dnc or pac. >> one congresswoman said she was not the person in the primary that people wanted to run let alone thought were going to win. i think the other point is that- appear basil is so right. changing the mold using our own resources and our own stacey ab come closer than in any other democrat in that state for governor for a generation and see the excitement and enthusiasm is there. and that there are white people who do want to elect black women too. there's been such a myth that black women should only run when other people people are voting for them. now we see more and more black people running and galvanizing the base of the party but of people who don't see themselves as part of any party that's the lesson. >> one of the four women who i sat down with who were part of a trai

. >> the green troops was a man you write a great deal about, john spalding, leader of the e company 16th regiment, the first officer and first wave of men on the beach. you talk about lis second in command sergeant phil struck of the big red one. what was their relationship and describe him stepping off the higgins boat into the water. >> well, first you have to remember that when they came in towards the beach, they words told it would be flat as a pancake and all they had to worry about was the german's count attack. when they dared to look over the edge of the landing craft, 200, 300 yards they were dismayed to see nothing had been touched by preinvasion bombing. the ramp came down, spalding was right at the front of the landing craft, the 28-year-old by never seen a combat before from kentucky, sport the writer before the war and he had to shout at his men that he was going to go first and test the depth of the water. the noise level was actually extraordinary. they described it as a constant wall of noise. you would hear every now and again of a rip of a piece of cloth being to

with a sponsor before absolutely everything wrong the football team we had fifty percent high lynn spalding direct and to me about the club pretty much to decide it was really the best way to learn to chop and if you have to do everything you nobody's really watching it because my know what was interesting months as i had to learn that when i learned the hard way and mean of what i did that time alone i have now i would say maybe twenty a system for you so i'm already the mantle of will be coaching stuff and. i can't do that because i know what they're all doing because i do that by myself so that made me to. the time when i left dried up you see a lot on the stage that said all i am and all but i became. that you had to and them that's exactly like it is so i learned everything there and could use that for the rest of my life i just. i decided to come. through i am still using the same to its new alliance here but i still use my interest of full people so i was always very interesting people so didn't change the problems of the boys changed a lot because of social media and stuff like that

and spalding is written on it. >> counter fitters do not go that far. it's not worth it.ot line is open monday through friday 10 to 2. you can reach me on the my facebook page. >> good information. >> good tip. >> let's go to the real spencer christian. >> 100% there. >> after a few low clouds and fog tonight we'll see sunny skies tomorrow. withling rg clouds will be cooler than today. highs tomorrow probably won't break 80 degrees. check out the warm up after that. the 7-day forecast. warming starts friday. continues through the weekend with a minor blip on sunday. and tuesday wednesday of next week we'll see hot weather inland. low 90s mid-80s around the bay. this is a summer like in early june. >> all right. >> i believe it. >> all right. is there something going on? like the finals? >> a lot of things going on. in a bar in toronto. need i say more? game one of the finals in toronto. we'll talk with the one player who is hopes beyond hope to get on the court in the series. live with min dy and a guest. sort o >>> good evening. today was media day at the finals. game on

stefy rose spalding doesn't see her unsuccessful congressional race as much as practice. she is now one of a dozen democrats running against incumbent republican senator cory gardner in purple colorado. more aware of what she is up against as a black woman. what do people say to you? >> you know where you're running? and i'm like, yes. do you know that you're black? every day. >> what. >> they ask that questions. >> the national democrats have questioned you running as a black woman. >> yes. especially in colorado. >> it's a familiar story to the growing number of black women who are now learning how to run for office. at training sessions spread over at least 20 cities last week alone. grassroots groups like vote run lead and emerge, teaching them how to tell their stories. >> i saw a lot of gang activity. >> build community relationships. and learn from successful candidates about the harsh realities facing black women candidates like where to go to raise money. >> they say, oh, call friends and family. my family doesn't have any money. you know what i mean. i went out

. >> reporter: stephanie rose spalding doesn't see her unsuccessful congressional race as a loss. >> knock on doors. >> reporter: as much as practice. she's now one of a dozen democrats running against incumbent republican senator cory gardner in purple colorado. more aware than ever of what she's up against as a black woman. >> what do people say to you? >> you know where you're running? i'm like, yes. do you know that you're black? every day. >> what? >> yes. they ask that question. >> the national democrats have questioned you running. >> yes. >> as a black woman. >> yes, especially in colorado. >> reporter: it's a familiar story to the growing number of black women who are now learning how to run for office. at training sessions spread over at least 20 cities last week alone, grassroots groups like vote, run, lead, and emerge, teaching them how to tell their stories. >> i saw a lot of gang activity. >> reporter: build community relationships, and learn from successful candidates about the harsh realities facing black women candidates, like where to go to raise money. >> i mean, t

5g ambitions as well joining us to break down some of the pressing arguments around 5g is robert spaldingellow at the hudson institute and robert, thanks for being here today. >> glad to be here. >> we should point out, you've played a very large role in this you're a former national security council senior director for strategic planning, and you wrote a proposal in a memo that was leaked and that people have kind of picked up on why don't you just talk a little bit about your work on 5g and what you think's important. >> well, first of all, this narrative that, you know, i was proposing nationalizing 5g is completely incorrect it was actually a technical review it wasn't a policy review. it was asking the question -- the chinese have gone so far ahead of us in 5g, what could we do as a nation to actually leapfrog and drive the future of global technology development, which is what 5g will lead and so, that's what the study was about. one of the things i think you have to look at with 5g -- it's the first network that's not built for people, it's built for machines we think of it as, we'

spalding: there's a lolot of demanand for thisis wood, and us it's ssourced in a way thatat's renewawable and consciouslyy managed, you knknow, eventually the risk is, of cocourse, an imminent loss of that resource and dwindling of supply. otherwise, it's going to disisappear, anand that wououldy be a a true crime. woman: scientists at the u.s. fish and wildlife laboratory in oregon hope forensics will one day help stop the importing of ilillegal lumumber. meanwnwhilen brazil's maranhao state, indigenous communities have formed citizen patrols t to protect the forest from tree poachers. [indistinct chatter] announcer: "earth focus" is made possible in part by the orange county community foundation and the farvue foundation. 05/13/19 05/13/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] now! amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> the move to important elections, i would say ever in india since we became independent. everyone is fighting for their survival on all sides, the right, the left, the center, peopley peoplple, wealthy -- everyone. it i is an election that no ones going to w