wellesley always treats me extremely well, and really it's great. you guys love history and you love books. so put those two things. yes, very much. this i want to tell you, is my 703rd appearance is as an author, 703. and now five of them have being here, which means 698 in other places. but still, that's pretty good. like really, really want to thank you guys for being here excited about this book. as peter said, the book came out in april six months. it's done well. it seems to be resonating not just in this area across the country. i will tell you this, literally, i've gotten more emails on this book, the great abolitionist, than any other book that received. so they keep coming from all these different places. so it's been now i don't know if that's going to continue. like if you take dark child, my first book that's now 21, almost 22 years old, you know that probably if you add that all up over that time, maybe more. but so far for this period time, this opening, the great abolition seems to have piqued the interest of so many people. so for m

wellesley to business people and civil society have come votes here to discuss ways to make the world a better place. but this yeah, the gathering coincide is with president trump in organization. and the sweep the executive orders assigned, including imposing thomas, put in go to the powers climate agreement and cracking down on migration. or do you commission president or sort of underlying hold time this could lead to a low base to the bottom. as this competition intensifies, we will likely continue to see frequent use of economic tools such as sanctions export controls and tablets that are intended to save scott economic concessional security. but it is important that we balance the imperative to safeguard our security against our outputs show only to innovate and have our prosperity ukraine's president. one of them is that in sky is also well with his biggest concern. trump negotiating with, put in to end the war with concessions, painful to t. v. lensky quotes for you are up to have its own defense policy. and you are must have a seat at the table and deals about war and peace o

se ve por la cantidad de vegetaciÓn que hay aquÍ en la zona y eso fue parte de los factores o los wellesley ya que como sabemos, estamos en condiciones secas y al pasto, y el zacate puede propagar estas llamas y esparcirlas por todos lados y causar todo tipo de daÑos. asÍ que ha llamado como siempre es muy importante a despejartodo su alrededor en su casa, mantener ese pasto cortado a un nivel bajo, regarlos, tratar de mantenerlos humedecido lo mÁs que se pueda en esta Época de invierno y despejar todo tipo de objetos que en caso de una emergencia, puedan dificultar la labor de los bomberos. se investiga a esta hora que fue lo que causÓ este incendio en plena madrugada aquÍ en carmichael. por ahora es la informaciÓn aquÍ carmichael paso contigo maribel. maribel: que bueno que repÁsaste ese espacio. aquÍ veÍamos un ejemplo de lo que no debe de ocurrir, es mantener esos patios limpios no? juan: ciertamente maribel, y sobre todo el tema del pasto. como decÍamos condiciones secas, ese pasto es un detonante para que cualquier llamas esparza muy fÁcilmente y en esta Área, es todo lleno de casas.

according to the chp, the pickup was speeding east on wellesley road, eastf w avenue. the truck then crossed over into the westund lane and hit the suv and another car. 50 year old jesus carlos ramirez of mountain view was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence. in antioch, firefighters have gotten control of a fire at a gas station. skyfox overhead this scene about 30 minutes ago in the area of lone tree way and rural road. an aggressive attack appears to have kept the flames from spreading out of control. no one was hurt. the cause is still under investigation. it has been a violent start to the new year in san francisco. three shootings in the first two days of 2025. ktvu christien kafton joining us live from the scene of one of those shootings tonight. christian. >> yeah, as you said, three shootings in just two days. one of them happening right here behind me. now, police say all of the shooters are either in custody or dead. but 2025 has started off pretty deadly. 2025 is off to a deadly start with a series of shootings, including this one shortly

this happened near wellesley and new avenue, where authorities say torres was speeding and veered intog traffic. a gofundme account to support her family has been set up. today, the city of san jose began enforcing new parking restrictions on rvs. chenowith avenue is the first of 30 sites for the oversize lived in vehicle enforcement pilot program, known as olive city. teams will notify rv residents that they have two weeks to move, though people will be given information about available services and safe parking sites. and then after those two weeks, trucks will be towed and they will have removing any remaining vehicles. >> spend a week posting signs, distributing fliers and talking with vehicle owners at each site before any action is taken. residents who are living in their vehicles will be given time to move their vehicles, and will be offered information about existing resources, including any available housing resources, if available. >> this comes as the city plans to open a new safe parking site next month, with room for 85 rvs on berryessa road. all right. taking a live look

catherine lee bates was a woman who becomes educated at a place called wellesley, a school that stillxists, and when she is an adult, she becomes a professor there and she spends the summer on a train trip across the united states and we visit the 1893 world's columbian exposition in chicago which was truly a marvel. that event, you could write -- people have written entire books on it and it never stops being interesting. all of the things that were invented for the columbian exposition, all of the events that took place, and she references it in a lyric to america the beautiful. she talks about alabaster cities and that is a reference to the columbian exposition. but her journey eventually takes her to colorado where she takes a tram up to -- up to a beautiful view of the mountains and she says that it is almost like this lyric record this line of poetry -- it is not a song at the time -- sort of floats into her consciousness and she later describes it as she does not really know how to explain how it gets there. maybe it is some sort of divine inspiration although she is not quite