about his book, "implacable foes: war in the pacific, 1944-1945" co-authored with world war ii veteran waldo heinrichs. it won the 2015 bancroft prize bancroft prize for history and diplomacy and examines grand strategy as well as the experience of the common soldier during the final bloody months of the war. the new york military affairs symposium posted this 80 minute event. >> marc gallicchio, a history professor and chair of the history department at villanova university. he holds a ba from temple university, ma from pennsylvania state university, and a phd from temple university. he is author of several books on american-east asian relations,

gallicchio: the 86th, waldo's division.y co-author. >> anyways, uh, their morale was absolutely awful. you also have the issue of the national guardsmen who were called up in 1940. my father among them. and they just wanted to go home. and this points system allowed them to go home in great numbers. so you would have a unit with a company clerk who didn't know what an index card was. so, it's a problem -- no, i'm up on a soapbox. and i acknowledge the problem. anyway, army-air force units and i researched headquarters in orlando, the, the morale was god awful. and anyway, uh, well, it failed as a question. i'm going to let it stand as a comment. and hand it off to some more erudite person. >> i have two questions. number one, you mentioned that general marshall was threatening to resign in 1945? it seems as though that he -- that perhaps he has been making a habit or had been making a habit of that. if it looked like he was not going to get his way, he would threaten to resign. i'm referring to 1948, 1947 where he threatene

where's waldo? >> there's waldo. >> oh, my gosh.sh. >> your name's not waldo, what is it? >> turner. >> hey, turner, how old is turner? >> 8 months. >> where are you from? potsboro texas. >> is this also turner's first snowstorm? >> yes. >> that's fantastic. we're easing you into it little buddy. oh, my gosh. so cute. >> thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> we all want to take turner home, is that going to be a problem? >> i was tempted to go in for the grab. >> i know, what a cutie. >> i feel like i know exactly what turner's going to look like when he's 40. he's got that face, you know. >> he's a handsome fellow. >> i love a bald baby. look how cute he is. >>> coming up, more of our resolution revolution. this morning something probably we could all use, a digital detox. we're going to tell you how you can track your screen time, tips to lower how many hours you're spending on your phones, and even some, get this, vacation deals if you're willing to put down your devices. >> oh, sounds like a fair trade. >>> speaking of travel,

i am referring to waldo heinrichs and myself. what we have argued is that general marshall let macarthur conduct these operations because he realized that the harbor at manila could not handle all of the troops and equipment necessary to stage for the invasion of japan and that if by conducting these other operations macarthur would be taking control of the smaller port cities in the central philippines that might allow for the staging of individual divisions for the invasion. so there seemed to be some military purpose for that as well. but as i said, these were all debilitating and weakening, sapping the strength of those divisions. all of these operations of course were a prelude to of the invasion of japan, which was intended to take place in two stages. the first would be with the invasion of the southernmost island. here the objective was to really hold the bottom third of the island and to build the air fields that would contain the planes that would cover the second operation, which would be the invision of the tokyo area

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talked about his book, "implacable foes: war in 1944-1945", co-authored with world war ii veteran waldoichs. it won the 2015 bancroft prize for history and diplomacy and examines grand strategy as well as the experience of the common soldier during the final bloody months of the war. the new york military a

the waldo gradei it's wet out there. standing water overnight. use extra caution. take a look at the south bay commute in a few minutes. >> thank you, sue. developing news in san francisco, the man police say brutally beat an 88-year-old grandmother is off the streets this morning. >> officers arrested 18-year-old them saturday after he committed another robbery. details of that crime are unclear. police believe they beat her in a park before breaking into her nearby home. police haven't revealed how they linked him to the attack. wong's family is slowly improving. >> the san francisco police officers association offered a $10,000 reward leading to an arrest in the case. it's unclear if it will be given out because police released few details about the arrest. a go fund me page for wong and her family raised just over $10,000 of the $25,000 goal. we have a link to on our website. abc7news.com. >>> a one-day walkout on friday, the union set a date for teachers to take a strike authorization vote. the vote will be taken over four days beginning january 29th. the teac

there was roadwork over the waldo grade. we'll check to see if that was picked up. roadwork that we'll check on in a minute also. >>> breaking news this morning. tesla is cutting its workforce by 7%. this is the second major layoff in less than a year. >> elon musk said thousands of people will lose their jobs as the company struggles to make a profit. abc 7 news reporter matt keller is live in san jose. matt? >> reporter: good morning. disa pointing news for employees as the road ahead for tesla is going to be very difficult. this was all announced in an e-mail to employees this morning. it was also posted on the company's website. musk is hopeful tesla can post a tiny profit in the current quarter. he said the company cannot support the size of its staff after expanding the workforce by 30% in 2018. musk previously stated that tesla had 45,000 employees. 3,150 is a cut of 7%. this comes after they delivered 245,000 electric cars and suvs last year, nearly as many as all previous years combined. the company still fell short of its goal of manufacturituring m than t

they're doing thatri it's mostly this southbound direction coming off the waldo grade.e san 14-minute ride. no delays here. that wasn't the case yesterday afternoon. we had late in the commute yesterday, we had quite a bit of traffic on both dumbarton and san mateo. now it looks good. >>> thank you, sue. the fbi arrested roger stone a long time associate of president donald trump. >> special counsel robert mueller's office released the development this morning. jobina fortson live in the newsroom with more. jobina. >> seven counts by the special counsel, including one count of witness tampering, one count of obstruction of justice and others. stone has been under scrutiny by the special counsel for months. but he has maintained his innocence. all of this deals with what he knew about wikileaks and the damaging information about hillary clinton and what he was telling the trump campaign. they claim stone misled investigators. he told george stephanopoulos he was curious about wikileaks, but he did not cooperate with the group. >> like any political reporter, i was intere

ralph waldo emerson, arguably other ding intellectual north, put it rather succinctly, on all not ready to go back this law. now, i sometimes say to my students, i'm in the confusion business. i'm in the business of trying to omplicate clear versus evil narratives. party of good guys and party of bad guys. i think i contest, would like to believe, at least not openly, publicly, no one slavery was athat heinous evil. to what policies were to e pursued to manage this problem of two different countries trying to be one, that's a more complicated question. and one of the most confusing aspects of this history, and you an probably anticipate where i'm going with this, is that braham lincoln, however reluctantly, supported that law. more than once. most famously probably in a friend, i 1855 to his hate to see the poor creatures to ed down and returned heir stripes but i bite my lip and keep quiet. and in that same letter he great body of the northern people do crucify in order to s aintain their loyalty to the constitution and the union. now, ed ayers, i don't know if ed said he room but last

we also have the mud coming down south 101 around the waldo grade.found the wind in fremont. back to you. >> thank you so much. >>> did you feel it, 3.4 magnitude quake shook up parts of the bay area this morning. it hit about 4:45 centered in piedmont. some people about 50 miles from there reported feeling it. no reports of damage, however. >>> early morning fire critically injured two people in san francisco, started a little bit before 1:00 in the morning, damaged two buildings near the daly city border. in all, five people were injured, and firefighters say it displaced 20 people. head to our home page for more video from the scene and of course more details. another local news update in half an hour. as a powerful stor team will be all over the story. today in the bay is bringing in crews early tomorrow-- to track possible flooding and damage. we )re going on early tomorrow morning... starting at 4 a-m. join us. good morning, it )s 7:26... >>> it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, double trouble. back-to-back storms set to slam the country coast-to-c

we're actually in monomery county, we're moving around and playing where's waldo so you won't be abl w to knowre we are for the next this is rockville pike. not common to see rockville this bare at this time of day. by barry mean, of course, bereft traffic. there's a car going up rockville pike. not having too much of a problem. as you can see, it's bn hit. it's been treated. you won't have too much of a problem getting around but watcd your spe again because of thend surfacestopping that's a whole different thing getting going. burning question that i've had people asking me about -- they will remain nameless, the quality of the snow for make snowballs, and i'm still having trouble. i don'know, maybe i'm just challenged in that department. that's a pretty decent one, it's a start and if it getetter that will make the snowballs different. lks are being advised to stay off the roads, give the pollution chance to get through and treat i we've actually seen the road conditions getting a little bit works and that is expected as we get more of the snowfall throughout the day. the temperat

ralph waldo emerson, arguably the leading intellectual other north, put it rather succinctly, none was not ready to go on all fours, would back this law. now, i sometimes say to my students, i'm in the confusion business. i'm in the business of trying to complicate clear versus evil -- clear good versus evil narratives. party of good guys and party of bad guys. no one will contest, i think i would like to believe, at least not openly, publicly, no one would contest that slavery was a heinous evil. but as to what policies were to be pursued to manage this problem of two different countries trying to be one, that's a more complicated question. and one of the most confusing aspects of this history, and you can probably anticipate where i'm going with this, is that abraham lincoln, however reluctantly, supported that law. and he said so more than once. most famously probably in a letter of 1855 to his friend, i hate to see the poor creatures hunted down and returned to their stripes but i bite my lip and keep quiet. and in that same letter he wrote, that the great body of the northern peop

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it is windy coming off the waldo grade. be careful across that span there. in fact, all bridges here in the bay area have high wind advisories at this hour. good news headed towards newark. eastbound 84 to southbound 880. that ramp has just been reopened. we had a big rig flip over on its side about 10:30 last night. they finally got it cleared and traffic is getting by just fine. >>> thank you, sue. 49ers receiver marquise goodwin is opening up about why he missed two games in the second half of the season. he and his wife morgan lost their twin boys 19 weeks into the pregnancy. this is the second time the pregnancy ended prematurely. goodwin scored an 83-yard touchdown and collapsed in the end zone and this was the game following the loss of their first child. >> the couple talked about the difficult situation on their youtube channel. >> we appreciate y'all for supporting us so much through this time. >> yeah. finally i had the courage to open up and talk about it. because i really didn't want to. >> she didn't want to. i think it will probably be good fo

you are fog-free even other waldo grade into san francisco. it's looking great. we have a bit of a grind over the altamont with at least a one-hour commute in the westbound direction. the eastbound is even slow past 205. >>> mike? >> most of us are going to have rain for the next six days. showers, heavy at times, lightning and gusty winds and a snow level down to 3500 feet this weekend. our strongest storm will be friday with heavy rain and strong winds. look at that. half inch to 2.5 inches of rain and another chance of thunderstorms. we're at 7:00 in the morning, the gray and the cloud cover. by noon, we've got light rain breaking out in the north bay and the warm sector ahead of this storm. by 4:00 to 5:00, moderate rain moving into our neighborhoods and it keeps going during the evening and overnight hours. that's why we're going to have a 2 on the storm impact scale. once this passes, we've got showers all weekend. some of those could be rather chilly at times as temperatures will fall back into the low to mid-50s for highs. >>> thank you, mike. the music w

the zipper trucks, two lanes in the northbound, four lanes off the waldo grade. looking great over the span into san francisco. then san mateo bridge with a few brake lights before the highr e highrise. otherwise, a 14-minute drive towards foster city and the 101 side of things. we'll take a look at the overall traffic maps with about a 45-minute delay getting up and over the altamont pass. otherwise, we're pretty much green all over the bay area. that is good. >>> thank you, sue. today, many federal government offices should begin reopening now that the longest government shutdown in u.s. history is over. >> it could take some time for things to get back to normal. abc 7 news reporter matt keller joins us live from mountain view. matt? >> reporter: gorge, reggie and jessica. the janitorial work eshs and others were hit hard here at nasa. the last may paycheck was on december 27th. it says welcome back ames family. federal employees are worried about their pay. the treasury department not expected to clear the backlog until next week. families, including the jani

donald trump announces troop withdrawals, at least two of his aides go on a where's waldo trip of therld to reassure people we're not going to do what the president said we're going to do. putin's goal, gain recognition for the illegal seizure of crimea. trump says russsia is part of crimea. >> i forgot about that. >> because they speak russian, thank you, mr. president. trump's payout, repeatedly undermine european allies and nato. >> lord, when you put it that way -- >> he has mirrored it at every point. what i can't do is connect the dot and say there's some secret putin e-mail or text or memo that goes to donald trump. i remember during the annexation of cry mimea and trump basicall said crimea was part of russia and ukraine is basically part of russia. i don't know where he gets that. the whole thing is very strange. again, just as a patriotic american, i would say i dearly hope he is an unwitting agent of russia and putin, rather than a witting agent. that somehow he is mirroring this without quite understanding why. because if he's actually affiliated, a russian agent, you know

. >> well, and specifically, oleg deripaska surfaces who got the polling data -- >> where's waldo? >> who got the information at the madrid meeting? who did it ultimately go along to? it went along to oleg deripaska. paul manafort was reportedly in debt for a lot of money to oleg deripaska, and so you have a key figure who is also -- he's the beneficiary of these sanctions being loosened. >> tim, this does seem like such a trumpian kind of rundown. you know, we start with the, you know, fbi is shuttered and can't prosecute crimes, we move on to rudy's mayhem and mess, rudy is crazy like a fox, we're on to another putin ally benefitting with, you know, a cash infusion, basically, based on u.s. policy that was opposed by republicans in congress. >> and essentially getting treated with kid gloves in the end. when they first impose the sanctions on deripska, it was meant to be a signal that the white house despite trump's comments to the contrary was willing to be tough with russia. and, you know, to reinforce what elise said, let's remember who oleg deripaska is. he's not just another

or maybe the president had been playing an incredibly easy version of where's waldo or elf on the shelfg himself and accidently left the poster on the table, which really can't be it because that would be psychotic. not to mention if you're going to make a fake movie poster, you should at least come up with a fake movie title. "sanctions are coming"? really? it's not even a play on the title. it's a ripoff of the catch phrase. >> winter is coming. >> winter's coming. >> winter is coming. >> and winter is coming! >> winter is coming. >> winter is coming. >> winter is coming for him. >> winter is coming. >> and winter is coming. >> now, i'm no expert on fake movie posters, but i do love my "game of thrones", and i have been compared to a white walker, which i must admit i do sort of see a resemblance. but if you're going to rip off a tv show, should this white house be riffing off a show in which john snow leads a caravan of refugees through a border wall? i think that particular irony might be lost on the president. call me crazy, but it might be possible he might get a really big kick o

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