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To do in oakland. And do you have outdoor plans ited . Bring your umbrella with you. Chances are youre going to need it. And i think so. Mine got a workout yesterday. I have a feeling youre going to need it most of today and find out about a soggy saturday. And i think by dinnertime into tonight, were drying out and the second half of the weekend. We have to get through the system first. Yes, indeed. Its raining outside of the door at this hour and it gives you a look across the oakland estuary. You cant see a thing this morning, covered in gray skies and the rain is falling and how about we look at Storm Tracker 2 and zero in. Areas from santa rosa and petaluma and napa, saint helena to fairfield and i could80. You can see fairly widespread over the north bay and through mill valley. The bridge, we have light showers and steady rain there. You get farther south and that is offandon isolated. This is a look at the east bay. We may have a few sprinkles and areas over oakland, lafayette.
Blum, an investigative journalist and author of the new New York Times bestseller become become as well as many other great books. He is currently a contributing editor at vanity fair. While at the New York Times he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Several of his books were nonfiction best sellers including, among others i pledge allegiance, the true story of the walkers, an american spy family that was turned into a great mini series on cbs, perhaps some of you watched it in the past. Gang land how the fbi broke the mob in 1993. The eve of destruction. The untold story of the yom kippur war in 2003. American lightning terror of mystery and the birth of hollywood and the crime of the century in 2008. A floor of heaven, a true tale of the last frontier and the yukon gold rush in 2011. I should also mention that Warner Brothers is preparing a film of dark invasion starring Bradley Cooper as tom, the hero of the book. Please welcome, howard blum. 4 lu
Union you ever had. The answer to the question is they asked for tons of enriched uranium. Of course the white house agreed because diplomacy carried the day. But groves got in the middle of it. Groves went berserk, as you can expect, went to george marshall. Groves was one person as a onestar general that could walk into George Marshalls office screaming and throwing stuff and not get courtmartialed for it. He went into the office screaming bloody murder. Convinced marshall of the stupid idea. Then convinced stimson this is a really stupid idea. Groves got in the middle, slowed it down and eventually conceded as a compromise to give them one kilogram of enriched uranium. 2. 2 pounds which you cant do a whole lot with. This is like 10 refined uranium, too. You couldnt even make a Nuclear Reactor out of this. You need about 80 , 90 refinement of uranium to make a bomb. So, yes, he was very much they were very much looking to please the soviets because they were allies, but there was no
The house live on cspan and the senate live on cspan2. And with the new congress youll have the best access on the x] cspan networks with the most extensive coverage anywhere. ÷ track the gop as it leads on capitoh22wr rp er4bnt n say as events 0u [nunfold on tv, radio, and the web. Next on American History tv, author and journalist howard blum describes german espionage in the u. S. With a focus on the olhq years 1915 to 1917. R zn before america entered world war i. Nyax germanys secret hunt for the war innn the first teariest cell in5v r american, hei german spiesaorengaged in sabotage, germ warfare andu 9t assassinations l÷ attemptsbwnh an effort to prevent the u. S. From ÷2i 9u ay he also profiles nypd inspector tom cunning who helped develop a modern counterterrorism strategy. This event was hosted by the new York Military affai i,a mystery and the birth of hollywood and the crime of the century in 2008. A floor of heaven, a true tale of the last frontier and the yukon gold ru