kevin tubbs. >> i know that she was there, okay? i know she was. >> reporter: kevin tubbs.m back then was hauling hay and why was he so important? because after six years during which tuff's war he barely registered the fuss over the harris case, he picked up a paper and saw the story of cal's conviction, and. >> i seen that and, you know, i started, like, recalling, you know, thinking like, oh, my god. >> reporter: just like that! he suddenly knew, he said, that what he saw the morning after 9/11, the morning michelle harris disappeared, was important. it was between 5:30 and 6:00 in the morning, he said, he was hauling a load of hay. >> as i was going by the harris property, there was a blond woman out there and a young gentleman, you know, in his early 20s. >> reporter: standing by a pickup truck. >> my lights were right on them. >> reporter: hardly more than ten feet away, he said he looked straight at the young man, saw he was dark haired and muscular and visibly angry. >> he looks at me like this, like what do you want? >> reporter: and the woman? she was looking down

for the pbs newshour, i'm peter tubbs in bonner springs, kansas. >> woodruff: and now, to our monthly conversation fea our "nowthis book club," in partnership with the "new york times," where you can read along with us and thousands of others, anethen hear directly from authors. our "book club" producer, elizabeth flock, has our pick for june, a story aboue end of the world. it's part of our ongoing arts and culture coverage, "canvas." >> flock: what happens when a planet is threnmened by envital catastrophe and a few citizens develop special powers to resist? are they heralded s her feared and destroyed? our june book club pick, "the fifth season," is a fantasy novel that imagines a world just like that. author n.k. jemisin is here to answer questions from our readers. welcome to the newshour. >> thank you. >> flock: so "the fifth season" is the first in a trilogy. for those who have not read, can you tell us a little bit about what you are after in this first book? >> thfirst book is an introduction to the world and an introduction to the people who are trying to survive in this wor

the tubbs fire did extensive damage wiping out entire communities and at the time one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in state history. >> napa county are in on the agreement. that area was burned by the atlas area. the settlements do not affect resints or business who have taken legal action against the utility. that's all still pending. also the settlements must be approved by a bankruptcy court before they are paid out. >> oakland mayor libby schaaf is pushing back against trump's immigration plan. >> that is not the values of oakland. it should not be the values of america. >> the president is threatening new immigration enforcement sweeps. mayor schaff and the president have butted heads over this issue before. >> the president's threat comes as he officially kicks ouf "20/20," his re-election presidential campaign right now in florida. you can see some of the trump family members and vice president pence is about to speak. this is of course, in orlando, florida. florida being a key battle ground state. >> let's listen for a moment to what vice president is pence i

the tubbs fire spread through santa rosa and more than 2800 structures were burned, economic loss of 1.2 billion. and as city manager, sean has firsthand knowledge of the time and resources it takes to recover from such a catastrophic disaster. lucky to have you here to learn from you. my friend barb graph, the director of the seattle office of emergency management, responsible for the city's all hazard community wide emergency management program. since 2005, the city, seattle emergency ops center has a response to 16 major exercises, 50 incidents, eight of resulted in a presidential declaration. so they are beating us right now on that. on disasters. barb and her team also developed the seattle disaster recovery plan, which provides the framework for how the city recovers and rebuilds from disasters, and so we are happy to have you here to learn about that process. and finally my colleague, brian strong is responsible for the ten-year capital plan, it's capital budget and the implementation resilient s.f. plan, thank you, including the earthquake safety and emergency response bond p

the tubbs fire in october, 2017 destroyed the school's administration building, library on, offices andlassroom spaces. the football field was spared but the improvement project to the field was delayed for months in the aftermath of the fire. >> improving facilities is, big or small, means a great deal to students because it means they will get to participate better and the project is substantial because it is the first largest construction project we have started post fire. >>> in addition, football, soccer and lacrosse will be played on the field. is school spokesperson says the project should be completed in time for cardinal newman's homecoming football game in october? >>> it was a gray of grief and sadness. sydney the city employees remembered a dozen callings in a workplace shooting last friday. >>> big news for juliana/. what it means to face a investigation in sweden. >>> here is where to watch the bay area's local live from air newscast on ktvu plus. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ so, you went online and got so confused. that your brain went offline. next time, ask your helpful cvs pharmaci

. >> i don't know how this is going to work, tubbs.s i'm no box of candy. >> television very much was the small screen. it was interesting about the pilot screen play. he said it was very much not that. very much the approach was okay they call this a television series but we're going to make one-hour movies every single week. >> here we go. stand by. >> they were just describing the show as sort of a new wave cop show. >> yeah. a cop show for the '80s. we use a lot of mtv images and rock music to help describe the mood and feeling of our show. >> in a lot of ways you don't get "miami vice" without mtv because it was a long video in a lot of ways. music was such a big part of that show. >> there is an allure to using great music that everybody was listening to as opposed to the routine kind of tv scoring. ♪ >> it not only was not afraid to let long scenes play out, it would drag -- a car going from point a to point b could be a four-minute phil collins song. you know. and it was. >> being able to take a television series like "miami vi

sonoma county and city of santa rosa are part of of a $415 million settlement for the devastating tubbsa county is part of the same settlement which covers the 2017 atlas fire. an attorney with a law firm that hammered out the deal explained to abc 7 news how the cities and county could spend the money. >>a lossome tax, property tax burdens, it goes to deal with roads and infrastructure. it goes to deal with damages to personal and public property that they own. >> so who is going to pay that billion dollar bill? critics of pg&e are afraid it will be you, the customers who end up footing it. >>> 6:46. president trump will spend most of today in florida after official kicking off his 2020 re-election bid in the sunshine state. last night mr. trump held a major rally in orlando making his case for a second term. the president's hour and a half long speech rehashed many of his past grievances of the 2016 campaign taking aim at hillary clinton, the news media and the political establishment. he also touted a list of accomplishments. >> our economy is the envy of the world, perhaps the great

the 2017 tubbs fire did extensive damage wiping out entire communities and at the time, was one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in state history. napa county and the city of napa are also in on this agreement. that area was hit by the atlas firehineedof buildings but we need to be clear, the settlements do not affect residents or business who have taken legal action against the utility. also, the settlements must be approved by a bankruptcy court before they are paid out. >> a family of a cab driver is devastated and confused because their loved one was found murdered overnight. >> a sheriff's deputy found the man in the middle of the night on skyline boulevard in san mateo county. news reporter vic lee spoke with the family of the man in an interview you'll see only on abc7. vic? >> reporter: chris and larry larry, the family has an apartment here in this daly city complex. we have are of course, keeping our respectful distance from that apartment. but we've seen many friends and relatives an rbi an the doorstep this afternoon. many of them have talked to us about the

l it's what t of journey's end mobile home park, still desolate after the tubbs fire20 struck i.nding are 44 houses that survived, but they are empty. no one is allowed to live there. the fire devoured more than a hundred homes. n t oddly enough, the folks whose houses remaisay they essh they had burned too. 84-year-old therudall's home was unscathed by flames, but likeer neighbors, she can't move back. >> i used my entire life savin to pay for that home so sort of ticks me off that now it's being held hostage. >> reporter: the fire destroyed the electric, gas, and water systems that supported the homes. former residents with homes still standing aren't allowed to live there, but they've also had trouble getting private and federal insurance funding. richard weinert is depy director of codes and standards at the california department of housing and community development. >> this is a report from november when we did an inspection, the 44 units left there. >> reporter: he says private owners are in control of the land beneath the houses, not residents like theresa. tewith no utili

the bill stands from the deadly tubbs fire. investigators found two senior staffers in santa rosa, left senior citizens to fend for themselves. that investigation found more than 20 people would have died if family members and firefighter his not saved them. the measure would add abandonment to elder abuse laws. >>> president trump and former vice president joe biden will be in iowa in what could be a preview of the upcoming presidential race. doug luzade ser live in washington with the showdown. >> reporter: this could be a coincidence. but both of them are in iowa, and no doubt both of them will be talking about 2020. >> air force one taking president trump to iowa, a state he will have to share with democratic front runner, joe biden. who gave us somewhat of a preview. >> any plan to talk to president trump in iowa. >> i'll probably talk about him. biden referring to trump. the kind of thing his democratic rivals like to point out. >> because i'm not spending my time with high-dollar donors or with corporate lobbyists. i'm s

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