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Was on fire. Reporter thats andy immel standing in the photo surrounded by whats left of the home he built over 42 years. H nifds gandline. Nd tdher, j s big cry. Before that it was we dont know, maybe. We kept hope. Reporter but on that morning that the immels were still hoping, this is what was happening in their neighborhood and all over boulder creek. By morning it was all rubble. The bits and pieces that make a home completely charred. This street, fallen leaf drive, completely devastated. Still there were streets that prove just how unfair a fire can be. Her burned to eground. That just ...

Bay area at this time. Take a look at the lightning strikes that are there. This is just a 10minute time frame here. And it continues to be active with hail reported in santa rosa earlier today, in addition to all of that thunderstorm activity that moved through early on. If i pull you way back, you can see where that moisture is coming from, but with the cloud cover in place today, we are actually a little cooler in many spots. Take a look at napa, down by 11 degrees, down by 9 in hayward. Temperatures right now low 60s to low 100s. 79 in oakland. Low 100s reported in livermore and brentwood....

Life, i would have written a book about Andrew Johnson, i would have told them they were crazy. Its not that i dont think hes an interesting person. He really is an interesting person. And not that i didnt know anything about him, but for most of my career as a historian, i have tried to avoid the period of reconstruction. And it sounds strange for someone who writes about slavery, which is a difficult topic to write about. But i find it easier to deal with the 17th century and 18th century and attitudes about race and slavery than i do dealing with reconstruction. Theres something about it th...

President lincolns assassination. This was recorded at the Philadelphia Free library in 2011. Its about an hour. Thank you very much. Its wonderful to be here again. I love this venue. Get lots of good questions which we will save time for at the end. This is an interesting occasion for me. This is actually the first time ive been up in front of an audience talking about Andrew Johnson. Forgive me if i say jefferson occasionally. I had to write that when i was writing, i did a spell check in there. Because it was the temptation was quite great. If somebody had told me a number of years ago or ...

Getting ready to give us an update in just a few minut czu burning south of San Francisco, so we are waiting on that. And while we do were going to check in with meteorologist lisa argen. Whats happening right now, lisa . Good morning, liz. Yesterday we had a nice welldefined marine layer. This morning not the case. Its pretty diffuse and looking at a layer of smoke over the bay area. Decreasing visibility at the shore. That 4 to 5 mile visibility from the smoke over from livermore to san jose where the air quality is unhealthy for sensitive groups there. Elsewhere, moderate around the bay. An...