[laughter] so, 25 years ago i was reading a biography of the famous british explorer richard francis who visited the united states in 1860 and disappeared for several weeks somewhere between washington, d.c. and new orleans. i don't know what he was doing. and i don't think anybody does. i had a hunch that there might be a compelling story to be told about british spies in the american south on the eve of the american civil war and if you sort of played with those elements, fiction or nonfiction maybe you could sort of have them meet the confederacy. and it seemed like a good idea. so i picked this up and put it down. but one day that i said i'm going to do nothing but work on this book was early in september, 2001 i closed the door and turn off the tv and did you see the fit hit the world trade center said that was the beginning of the time i was not working on the book. meredith's change as they develop and so does the history that we are living. i can across the british council who was queen victoria's man in charleston south carolina from 1853 to 1863. he had been a footnote abou

>> we started -- i focused on bunch when i was doing this research about richard francis burden and i was going to the counselor dispatches which is a great to work. you could go, it's terrible well organized and for this work, anyway, looking at 19th century diplomatic -- you can photograph all of it. that's what i did. i would go into -- go to cue and get what i wanted and photograph hundreds of pages and look at everything on my computer when i was working on the book. but that a lot has been looked at for about maybe half a dozen books and papers over the years. what hadn't been looked at is correspondents. there was a oxford, library where you can find the correspondence up until 1856. his correspondence with others was north of record office in england, and then as it happened, the biggest pro it's the most unusual experience that i ever had, castle, which is the duke of north state was and still is, it's an enormous castle. if you ever saw the movie young victoria, it doubled and the archives are kept in the ar chie tower and you go into security and you go to the archive tower

. >>> pope francis offered prayers for the migrant crisis. it's a desperate situation as so many flee their homelands and often don't survive the journey. richard engel has that story from the hungarian border. >> reporter: the mass exodus continues. thousands of desperate migrants mostly from syria, iraq and afghanistan are seeking refuge in europe. in serbia, we met this man from aleppo, a syrian city devastated by the war. >> all the killing, war. >> reporter: a pharmacist, his shop was destroyed in an air strike. >> it was destroyed. >> reporter: he left home two weeks ago and is now trying to get into hungary, a member of the european union. but it could be his biggest challenge yet. europe's borders have largely been reduced to reminders of a different era. the migration crisis is changing that. hungary was the first country to start to tear down the iron curtain. now, a quarter century later, it's taking the most extreme measures in europe to put up razor wire border fences again. hungary is building a feesnce along itstentire border w

. >>> pope francis offered prayers for the migrant crisis. it's a desperate situation as so many flee their homelands and often don't survive the journey. richard engel has that story from the hungarian border. >> reporter: the mass exodus continues. thousands of desperate migrants mostly from syria, iraq and afghanistan are seeking refuge in europe. in serbia, we met this man from aleppo, a syrian city devastated by the war. >> all the killing, war. >> reporter: a pharmacist, his shop was destroyed in an air strike. >> it was destroyed. >> reporter: he left home two weeks ago and is now trying to get into hungary, a member of the european union. but it could be his biggest challenge yet. europe's borders have largely been reduced to reminders of a different era. the migration crisis is changing that. hungary was the first country to start to tear down the iron curtain. now, a quarter century later, it's taking the most extreme measures in europe to put up razor wire border fences again. hungary is building a fence along its entire border wit

. >>> a woman in francis will receive monthly disability payments because of her so-called gadget allergy. >> yeah, a court ruled that 39-year-old maureen richards has a hyper sent tiff to wifi and other electromagnetive waves. she says she is suffers from headaches and heart problems. to cope with the condition she's been living without threat and drinking well water since 2010. the court gave her an 85% disability. >>> new numbers show california are getting the message about conserving. the state water board says the cities have cut by a combined 31% and above the 25% mandate issued by governor brown, so we are doing our part. >>> we are conserving. that's half the battle. and we're still waiting on getting the water. >> here's kari hall. not likely in the forecast anytime soon? very slight chance the north bay will get it, but most of the bay area not expecting any rain. taking a live look from belvedere, such a gorgeous shot, all clear skies, the temperatures are hating up, the north bay is in the upper 70s. it is 87 degrees, 88 drools in dublin, pleasanton 92 degrees, and in brentwo

the next day police killed another suspect 40-year-old richard yaquez. police are still looking for that third suspect. he's the one seen wearing a mask. friends and family tomorrow will say a final farewell to contra costa county deputy carlos francies. he jumped into the water to try to help a friend who was struggling and then drowned. the friend was able to survive that incident. >>> okay. rielgt now it's 9:27. a look at weather and traffic into the weekend after this. welcome to fort green sheets. welcome to castle bravestorm. it's full of cool stuff, like my second in command... and my trusty bow. and free of stuff i don't like. and in my castle we only eat chex cereal. chex cereal. it's full of delicious crunchability. no artificial flavors, and it's gluten-free. and that's something even my brother ... sister can understand. mom, brian threw a ball in the house! >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. well, we're starting to get some clearing across the bay area. and temperatures rising into the upper 60s. very comfortable now all across t