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It was a fine van that had many friends. It will be missed by many in Southern California.

A KNBC-TV vehicle either overheated in the 100-degree weather, or got a bit too close to the action covering a wildfire. (Cue the old "Can you still give me a live shot? joke.)

You are sooooo thoughtful!

Up north... The Toronto Star published a really insightful story on Peter Mansbridge, CBC's chief correspondent and anchor of their flagship news program "The National". It presents a look inside Mansbridge's life after his retirement and CBC's handling of the entire situation. Here's some points I've gathered: - CBC News will have a major graphical and structural revamp this October, "Managers are reverse-engineering every building block — number of stories, length of stories, format, tone, style, visuals, editorial stance, digital footprint, newsgathering flows — in a bid for transformation and, ultimately, relevance in an age of continuous news." - Management and staff are still agonizing over the departure of Mansbridge. "Peter is a huge presence in the organization. And to have that gone, we’re really going to feel it. It’s going to be hard," echoed by a CBC Radio host. - Mansbridge purposely did not attend internal meetings regarding the future of The National, probably to avoid influence. Furthermore, during these meetings "one anchor, multiple anchors and even no anchors" were considered as possible scenarios. - The National has an average nightly audience of 525k viewers, compared to CTV's 1M. However, The National has an average of 760K streams, daily reach of 314K on Facebook. - Mansbridge really does not like the Rogers/NHL deal considering the CBC doesn't earn any revenue from it. He also doesn't like the constant preempting of his nightly program due to the hockey telecasts. "There is no other network in the world that screws its flagship newscast like the CBC does to The National!" - Broadcasting from the deck of a Coast Guard icebreaker and covering 44 straight hours of the 9/11 attacks are among Mansbridge's top 5 memories with the CBC. It's a interesting read, take a look here.