to take the fortress city of vicksburg. jenne came up with this crazy idea that they should dig trenches and come up and send boats and take vicksburg from the other side to shock vicksburg when all of a sudden the union troops came in from the side that they didn't expect it. the plan didn't work, but they met during the civil war, they became friends, jenne later was a brilliant engineer, and in that area, you know, you could turn that into something very different. he ultimately became one of the early people to build skyscrapers in chicago. and olmsted went to chicago and came up with a crazy lagoon system. hadn't thought of it, but it's very possible that olmsted inspired by jenne's failed plan to take vicksburg from the other side went to chicago and came up with the lagoon system. works for me. [laughter] so -- >> great talk, really enjoying it. you mentioned the hudson river school several times, and as a painter i'm curious were the specific locations in the park in prospect or in central park that were direct quot

the louisiana side and wanted to take the fortress city of vicksburg. he had this crazy idea that they should dig trenches and come up and send boats through these towns and take vicksburg from the other side when all of a sudden the union troops come from the side they weren't expected. the plan didn't work but they met during the civil war. they became friends. later, a brilliant engineer in that area if you are an engineer you could turn that into something different so he became one of the early people that built skyscrapers in chicago and olmstead went to chicago and came up with a crazy lagoon's system. i never thought of it but it is very possible that olmstead inspired by jennie's failed plan to take vicksburg from the other side went to chicago and came up with the london system. works for me. >> you mentioned the hudson river school several times. i am curious. specific locations in the park that were direct quotations from things that are known for a general sense of space or the background? >> you will like this. olmstead -- fox -- as a plan

they were trying to take vicksburg and came up with this crazy idea across the mississippi river on the louisiana i wanted to take the fortress city. william lebaron jimmy came up with this idea they should take trenches and send those to take vicksburg from the other side. the union troops come in an aside that weren't expected. they met during the civil war. he later was a brilliant engineer and if you're an engineer you could turn that into something very different. he ultimately became one of the people to build a scrapers in chicago and olmsted went to chicago and came up with the crazy looking system. i never thought of it, but it's very possible that olmsted, inspired by chase field plan to take vicksburg from the other side what to scotland came up fairly consistent. works for me. >> great talk. he mentioned the huntington river school several times. as a painter, i am curious, what their specific locations in the park or just direct quotations from things that are known for just a general sense of space? >> well, you'll like this. olmstead -- vox rather come as a plan for centr

team searching the 21-year-old block of vicksburg street. that is where the s.w.a.t. team is hold out. the lack down started at 9:30. police found a group of suspects at a house close to the school. >> this is dangerous. they're shooting and it's little kids in that school. you never know where a bullet going to fly. >> she was worried about her niece. her school was locked down. police were all over the neighborhood with guns drawn. the suspect they were looking for kept them busy all morning. >> we had a series of violent residential robberies. and officers followed up on inzwrenls from violent crimes and located a suspect car in this neighborhood. >> the car was park add cross the street from the house where the suspects had taken refuge. police began negotiating while they took their position autos there is a tip to gather the suspect's attention. and to break out the window to possibly get them to start negotiations. >> and the first two suspects came out before 12:00 noon. two others in early afternoon. no shots were fired and no one injured except for the fifth

police searched on mel rose and vicksburg avenues and arrested four of the five suspects. the fifth suspect called police saying he wanted to surrender but was stuck in the attic of a home. firefighters managed to get him out of the house. some parents say they're upset with the way the school handled the situation. >> i heard about it through the news. the school didn't call me and this has been going on since 9:00. so if a kid would have got shot sorry won't help me. >> after the suspects were arrested, students were allowed to go home with their parents. this is the second day in a row that an oakland school was placed on lockdown because of a police search. >>> time now 5:26. singer justin bieber and his very expensive ferrari are both okay this morning after a minor crash in los angeles. take a look at these pictures. this is from tmz of his car. now police say a honda civic tapped justin bieber's ferrari yesterday afternoon. justin bieber was not hurt. the car was not damaged. >>> time now 5:26. breaking news . just a couple moments ago the search for a missing teena

now police searched on melrose and vicksburg avenue.arrested four of the five suspects, the fifth suspect called the mrs. saying he wanted to surrender but was stuck in the attic of a home. >> told us he was unable to exit the home. that he had been caught in some portion of the home. at that point we determined that he was indeed caught in a hiding place. >> firefighters managed to get him out of the house. students were then allowed to go home with their parents. this by the way in a row that an oakland school was placed on lock down because of a police search. >>> yahoo is expanding it original programming. the search engine says it will lunch eight new shows on its site. one of them is weekly show about relationships. another is called the failure club and is a documentary series about conquering the fear of failure. the office says its original program that recaps prime time network shows is one of the most watched on the web. >>> well, the search for missing teenage girl from holly store is over. her father is now in custody state

inland we are seeing hot temperatures. 91 of vicksburg, 90 in antioch, 93 in pleasanton. it will be a nice day along the east bay shores. mid-70s near oakland and richmond. upper 70's in hayward and union city. at the peninsula, a first 70's. 76 for san mateo. 674 pacifica and we will finish in the north bay. a person is expected your santa rosa. 83 expected for mill valley and 92 expected for fairfield. for those of you going to the ball game, the houston astros against the giants at at&t park. partly cloudy and mild conditions. your 7 day around the bay is showing us >> lawmakers are trying to come up with solutions to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil. joining us this morning congressman from the east bay and a journalist, they are the authors of the new book clean energy nation good morning, gentlemen. and given this current weather system that we're talking about, the hurricanes and the curse could we just had, the very hot summer that a scorching taxes and many other places, some would say they're just regular weather patterns. >> it is hard to assign gl

. >> and there is police cordoned off vicksburg avenue. take a look.t's going to zoom into that house at the end of the block. and this s.w.a.t. team truck you can see is across the street from the house. and we've seen police are looking for a couple. a man and woman may be snekts a series of home invasions and robberies. and about 9 thirlt police surrounded a house not far from where five home invasion suspects had taken refuge. all surrendered. and this school a block away with 300 students was locked down until sometime after 4:00. the students were allowed to leave with family members and others who came to pick them up. police thought it was over. and in the mid afternoon, they found a car and that may somehow have links to some suspects. they found it here and we don't know if anyone is in that house. we don't know if they're simply looking for evidence and in that house police may be looking for a search warrant to go into that house it's quiet and there are police officers and s.w.a.t. team sitting in trucks. so we don't know why police are wa

it brings us to the town of vicksburg. this is the spring in big spring.t was a popular watering hole for settlers heading west. those days are long gone. you won't believe what people around here are having to do now to find drinking water. crews are now building a $13 million water treatment plant that will turn sewage waste water into drinking water by the end of next year. treated raw sewage water, lake water. >> i will never drink it. >> the idea still doesn't taste right to a lot of people. >> that's not a good idea at all. >> reporter: you don't like it? >> no. if they do we will have to leave town. >> reporter: really? >> yeah, yeah. that's too much. >> reporter: are you kind of the salesman for this plan? >> somebody has to. >> reporter: john direct it is colorado river municipal water. it is his job to find drinking water for half a million people in the area around midland odessa. he has to get people past one big hurdle. when you hear people say oh, my god, these people will be drinking their own urine. >> there was a fellow in midland i heard

in the suspect was freed in taken into custody but the investigations continue what portions of vicksburg avenue that was blocked off officers continued to search a nearby residents they believed to be linked to the suspects. >> back alive, you can see that there are still police in the area there are a few streets closed down around college in foot hill. the school is pretty quiet most of the parents have gone home we will stay here and keep an eye on things and bring you the latest for now live in oakland, charles clifford with kron4 news. >> we will talk with you later, nearly one year after a gas pipeline exploded in san bruno where eight people were killed and 38 homes were destroyed the national transportation safety board has completed its investigation and it is blaming pacific gas and electric not only for putting a faulty pipe into the ground before having an adequate inspection program to detect problems with its network of pipelines. we have team coverage and we begin with dan kerman that has details on the hearing. >> phlogopite, flawed operations and flawed oversight. it was

the civil war is famous for the diplomatic turning point, gettysburg and vicksburg is aimed turning point well, in some ways a critical turning point was the seven days. the war changed. it took a new course because of the seven days. lee and his army are going to change everything in the east and for the next year. with george mcclellan's held in the sense he wanted to retreat and get away from them, but when they achieved that, the war is going to change, and that is because of lee willing to do this. now, this is an army that will be not the army that he think about later. it's just a couple things that struck me as i was doing this, one of the standard things of course and there was a terrible miscommunication, jackson had a bad campaign that had been given over to fatigue and illness we are not sure what he doesn't do very well. in fact he had serious questions about stonewall jackson's conduct in that campaign. but one other thing that struck me was the amount of struckman. my goodness there was a lot of good southern boys that were not interested in fighting. when they can close to

the civil war is famous for the diplomatic turning point, gettysburg and vicksburg is aimed turning point well, in some ways a critical turning point was the seven days. the war changed. it took a new course because of the seven days. lee and his army are going to change everything in the east and for the next year. with george mcclellan's held in the sense he wanted to retreat and get away from them, but when they achieved that, the war is going to change, and that is because of lee willing to do this. now, this is an army that will be not the army that he think about later. it's just a couple things that struck me as i was doing this, one of the standard things of course and there was a terrible miscommunication, jackson had a bad campaign that had been given over to fatigue and illness we are not sure what he doesn't do very well. in fact he had serious questions about stonewall jackson's conduct in that campaign. but one other thing that struck me was the amount of struckman. my goodness there was a lot of good southern boys that were not interested in fighting. when they can close to

the civil war is famous for the diplomatic turning point, gettysburg and vicksburg is aimed turning point well, in some ways a critical turning point was the seven days. the war changed. it took a new course because of the seven days. lee and his army are going to change everything in the east and for the next year. with george mcclellan's held in the sense he wanted to retreat and get away from them, but when they achieved that, the war is going to change, and that is because of lee willing to do this. now, this is an army that will be not the army that he think about later. it's just a couple things that struck me as i was doing this, one of the standard things of course and there was a terrible miscommunication, jackson had a bad campaign that had been given over to fatigue and illness we are not sure what he doesn't do very well. in fact he had serious questions about stonewall jackson's conduct in that campaign. but one other thing that struck me was the amount of struckman. my goodness there was a lot of good southern boys that were not interested in fighting. when they can close to