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Alert to talk about, as well. Michelle . Smoke blowing in from wildfires to our north is exaspirating increasing pollution concerns. The extreme heat is creating danger for students. Schools in the Novato School district will let kids out early again today. Schools in orinda will do the same. And the san ramon unified School District and some bay area high schools have canceled all Outdoor Activities today. Our record shattering temperatures will strain the California Power grid. Kpix 5s Jessica...

Whoo, those are a lot of numbers on your screen. 105 degrees expected in napa today. 109 in fairfield. 100 in vallejo. Concord 115. These are recordbreaking temperatures. Livermore 116. Livermore has had several days of triple digits but nothing this hot. Its going to stay that way today and tomorrow. Fremont 102. 99 degrees in oakland. Above average temperatures. Mix that hot air with smoky conditions, we are getting a lot of smoke coming from these fires to the north of us. All that smoke is a...

Ago i started the research as a dissertation. Hes an interesting figure. I will give you a couple of brief biographical insights. Born and raised in ohio, goes to west point, not a stellar student. Hes won to merit away from being dismissed every year, actually. [laughter] his best friend at west point was Winfield Scott hancock. Hes 32 out of a class of 52. He participates in the seminal wars and the new mexican wars. He sees himself being this career military person and making a life in the mi...

Condemned the Spanish Governments plans to sack the Regional Administration as a coup. Hundreds of thousands of people have turned out on the streets of barcelona to protest against the decision of the Spanish Government to take control in the region. The spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said thered be new elections to the catalan parliament. He said hed been left with no choice by an illegal independence referendum and leaders who had chosen confrontation. In the past hour, catalonias presi...

Partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to andide storage, process catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience. Were halfway there, and we welcome your help. Professor gallagher has received many awards, including the prize for the best book on the civil award for contributions to civil war studies, the lincoln...

American civil war at the university of virginia and a great friend to the Virginia Historical society. He has spoken here on several occasions and has done research here in the Rich Holdings of our civil war manuscripts. He was a member of the class in 1988. I wont tell you how old i was at that point. We were glad to have him then as today. He has also mined the collection of the Confederate Memorial Society at the museum of the confederacy for his essays. That question, that collection, as yo...

Prosperity was kind enough in the weeks before i came to actually bombard the telephones, fill the mailboxes, talking about the fact that i was going to come up and visit. I have no doubt that a whole heck of a lot of you dont know what its like to have afp go after you but its a fairly common occurrence in a place like montana. I showed up anyway. By the end of the meeting, they acknowledged that 40 of the people that walked through the hospital doors didnt have health insurance. They recognize...

From singapore. We will be meeting this week S Global Gourmet later on but first. This is a country some government said should not visit as a tourist, pakistan. Political turmoil have taken a toll on the population and as the country prepares to celebrate its 70th anniversary we had to karachi. The country is home to abedi people under 25 years old. They are changing the world. I am on my way to meet some. Karachi is pakistan is most dangerous city. But it has got safer and for a traveller like...

Which will make it to air tonight. Casualty is on bbc one at 9 05pm tonight. Time for the all important weather with tomasz schafernaker. How is it looking . I hope you have your brolly with you. It is looking soggy in the south. We we re it is looking soggy in the south. We were teased with a little bit of sunshine earlier on. Many other parts of the country over northern england, scotland and northern ireland, there are sunny spells to be had. That will continue. Still there are showers around...

Which will make it to air tonight. Casualty is on bbc one at 9 05pm tonight. Time for the all important weather with tomasz schafernaker. How is it looking . I hope you have your brolly with you. It is looking soggy in the south. We we re it is looking soggy in the south. We were teased with a little bit of sunshine earlier on. Many other parts of the country over northern england, scotland and northern ireland, there are sunny spells to be had. That will continue. Still there are showers around...