My name is Chris Mackowski, editor in chief of emerging civil war. Delighted to have you with us. Our first speaker today is derrick maxfield. Hes an associate professor and batavia new york, hometown of emory upton for those of you who are from spots of india. Derek has recently earned fame for his brand new book as part of the emerging civil war series. It is called hellmira, the unions most notorious prison of war camp in elmira, new york. Thank you very much, im very pleased to be here to talk about my latest project. Prisoner of war camps in general have been quite a surprise to me. Ive studied the civil war since i was quite young and i knew the length of the tragedy during the civil war. But it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Over 56,000 died in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarcerated in total. Although we understand that this is just a small number of casualties con
Letter to congress. We are a few days out from perhaps the most important election of our lifetime. Voting is already underway in our country. Deserve ton people get the full and complete facts immediately. The director himself as a said, he does not know whether the emails referenced in his letter are significant or not. I am confident that whatever they are, they will not change the conclusion reached in july. Therefore, it is imperative that the bureau explains this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay. I look forward to moving forward to focus on the important challenges facing the American People, winning on november 8, and working with all americans to build a Better Future for our country. Thank you. Blacks have your any of your advisers heard from comey or anyone else at the fbi today . Will in any way reveal classified information that you sent or received . No, we have not been contacted by anyone. The first we heard was in this letter sent to republican membe
Drought. D. E. S. Is now urging all residents to conserve water will you live in a drought area or not. Dont water your rain at this point. Dont water your lawn. Take short showers. Spread out your water use during the day. Reporter they also recommend repairing leaking toilets, replacing washing machines if they are 10 years or older to more efficient models. In exeter theres a mandatory water restriction in place and the town is working on implementing fines for those who don main water sources, is down five feet. The first violation is a written violation. Second violation would be a 100 fine, and a third violation would be a 500 fine and water shutoff. Reporter fines in exeter will start being issueded in about four weeks, the Drought Management Team will be met again next month. Kristen carosa, wmur news 9. Cascade mountain. Crews from the state and federal Forest Service are pumping water out of an old reservoir, to try to put out the flames. Almost two acres of woods have burned
59 in antioch. 55 in san jose. 56 in oakland. Highs today are showing a new record with oakland at 86. None in san jose. 83 in San Francisco. San rafael is 89. Stay hydrated. Sue . Looking good. Happy hump day. Slow traffic from tracy. That is typical. We will keep it there at 25 miles per hour. It picks up at the altamont pass. Up and over interest livermore. The caldecott tunnel bore one is closed from 10 00 p. M. Until 4 00 a. M. I am seeing slow traffic eastbound and westbound through the tunnel. We will be back with a look at Public Transportation openings in a few minutes. Drew has been warning us of likely recordbreak heat and we will see if people are paying attention. Matt . Good morning. My message for you is dont be fooled it is still 8 00. Even wearing a jacket. But it is going to be the hottest day of the year. I spoke with a woman who said bring on the heat. You seem ready for the cool weather this morning but it is going to be maybe in the 90s here in san jose later toda
His legislation is especially great for nevada. And well end our Energy Discussion learning his thoughts on the obama administrations clean power plan. 10 members, including my guest, congressman amodei and congresswoman titus have introduced the power efficiency and resiliency act. Currently some Energy Technologies qualify for large tax credits, and others do not. Solar energy and fuel cell technologies, for example, get a 30 credit. Now, the power act would increase the tax credit for combined heat and power and waste heat to Power Technologies for 10 to 30 . Now, congressman, i saw a companion bill in the senate from senators casey and collins. And i saw collins statement claiming that right now, quote, u. S. Utilities and factories send enough wasted energy in the form of heat up their chimneys to power all of japan for each year. And why its so important for nevada. Sure. Well, the power bill tries to incentivize businesses to utilize waste heat to power or combined heat to power