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Probably continue for another day or two and there are a lot of low clouds out there. When you combine it with the hayes give some lower temperatures. A few high clouds even drifting around but a lot of low clouds. Smoke for all. The brief does pick up once that fog burns off. Temperatures today though, very similar to what we saw yesterday. Look at that. If you had to fly from here to the hawaiian islands, you would see a lot of gray. Morning fog, smoke and haze, little temperature change, so if you enjoyed yesterday you would probably like today which translates to near average or even sligh...

Texas. Mr. Caro is the author of a four volume biography of the 36th president. Here is the 2003 tour of the lbj library. First time i came here, i was looking for the papers and came around the corner like this. This is what i saw. The only moment in my life, the moment in my life when i felt my quitting. I was really overwhelmed. What you are looking at here the papers of Lyndon Baines johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Pulitzer prize winning author robert caro has been sifting through the millions of papers of Lyndon Johnson for 26 years. Recently booktv joined mr. Caro to le...

Ghost town. How bad is it for cal train . Its devastating. Were facing a fiscal cliff in october and the rail lane may simply cease to exist. Reporter rumming between San Francisco and san jose faces shutdown after the San Francisco board of supervisors failed to support a sales tax measure for the november ballot. The supervisor says there are bigger priorities. Our cities is facing a 1. 7 billion deficit right now. Our own Transportation Agency is suffering. Reporter muni facing its own financial crisis. Its director tweeting some sobering facts. Muni eliminating 40 bus lines. Golden gate tr...

Forefront of this, so the book became a story about that point. Susan how did the idea come to you for telling this story . Jeff this is my 22nd book. What i try to do is go everywhere the people i write about went. Id rather drive, and that way you really get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted we are going to get in a car and go everywhere we want to. Since i did not know, i thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that. As always happens when y...

Susan jeff guinn, what is the story you tell in the book, the vagabonds . Jeff the story i meant to tell is how america morphed into a car culture, from horse and wagon to everybody wanting cars to go places. I did not know until i started researching that henry ford and Thomas Edison were at the forefront of this, so the book became a story about that point. Susan how did the idea come to you for telling this story . Jeff what i try to do is go everywhere the people i write about went. I always use my car. Id rather drive, and that way you really get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line...