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Th this is abc7 news. There is so much energy and heat in the main body of the fire. The rocky fire is burning hot and intense tonight forcing more evacuations. Good evening, everyone. The rocky fire in lake county continues to grow. It has burned nearly 85 square miles and has become the largest fire ever in lake county. And it has spread to yolo and coluuso counties. 3,000 firefighters are battling the fire and it is only 5 contained. Sergio is live with the latest. Sergio . Katie, tonight we ...

Im anna dates. The other story, the boisterous crowd out of a richmond high school. President clinton chanting president clinton president clinton hundreds of students went on a daylong walkout demanding the School District reverse the decision to fire a popular teacher. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live at de Anza High School in richmond with the story. Laura . Reporter hi there. Some students still out here seven hours after their demonstration began. These Students Walk into class and ...

Over the past year our original first ladies series has look at the lives of the nations first ladies. Well show you highlights from our Second Season focusing on the 20th century. Starting with Edith Roosevelt and finishing with rosalynn carter. That is at 9 p. M. Eastern. A reminder, we will have new first ladys programs in the new year. Starting with nancy reagan on monday, january 13 at nine eastern. Followed by barbara bush, hillary clinton, laura bush, and michelle obama. Each monday after...

In 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russias the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what...

Watching tv. The white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, were watching the same thing you are. We dont know anything about it. Were just watching it on cnn. It was amazing. They had no idea it was going to happen. And within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, ge...

The white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, were watching the same thing you are. We dont know anything about it. Were just watching it on cnn. It was amazing. They had no idea it was going to happen. And within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, estonia, georgi...

Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russias the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened...

To a very prominent North Carolina citizen to take brattens senate seat. He decided to give it to the president of the university of North Carolina. And the president of the university of North Carolina at that time, 1949, was a really interesting guy. He came from an academic background, had been a history professor. He ended up proving to be a politically skilled guy. When he became president of unc, he made lots of friends in washington. He turneded that into lots of federal funding for unc. ...

Senator for a grand total of three months, elected in 1948, sworn in on new years eve. And then he dropped dead in march. A that was it. That was his whole time in the senator. And before people got used to the idea they had a senator named joseph brotten, the voters didnt get to replace him. The governor got to replace him. It was an open seat. The governor of North Carolina decided to look to a very prominent North Carolina citizen to take brottens senate seat. He decided to give it to the pre...

And before people got used to the idea they had a senator named joseph brotten, the voters didnt get to replace him. The governor got to replace him. It was an open seat. The governor of North Carolina decided to look to a very prominent North Carolina citizen to take brottens senate seat. He decided to give it to the president of the university of North Carolina. And the president of the university of North Carolina at that time, 1949, was a really interesting guy. Background, he had been a his...