On this saturday. Lets bring in rosemary for a look at how our weekend is shaping up. Good morning, its a cooler day out there. Partly cloudy to start the day. The breeze is going to continue into the afternoon. Today is going to feel a lot like yesterday. Giving you a look at what you can expect, cloudy skies, breezy conditions, lower 60s at the coast, mid 60s inland. We are on another warming trend. That is coming up in just a bit. This is the day many bart riders have been waiting for. Two new stations open today wrapping up a project that was decades in the making. We are live with more on that. Reporter thats right, decades in the making. The bart stations to san jose and milpitas start today. They are part of the berryessa line, the first train leaves the station less than an hour from now. Bart operators have been training for weeks on the new line, Officials Say this will impact people in the south bay who have grueling commutes. The ride is expected to takes over an hour into
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im a board member of the Abraham Lincoln institute and a former executive director of the commission. Thank you for joining us today. Unlike that of winston churchill, abe lincolns humor tended toward selfdepravation. The spectators shouted that lincoln was being twofaced. Twofaced cried lincoln. If i had two faces, do you think i would wear this one . [ laughter ] lincolns humor was an essential component of his personality and political persona. Richard carwardine will explore with us whether his humor might also occasionally have been a handicap. Richard carwardine was educated at corpis kristy. He taught history before being appointed professor at Oxford University and a fellow of st. Catharines college. He was elected president of the college in 2010 and served in that post until 2016. He is the author of one of the finest modern biographies of the 16th president , lincoln a life of purpose and power which was awarded the lincoln prize in 2007 a
Are we hearing anything from the welleducated black because they that was very nervous about police. Police side of things . Do have an actual advantage we wont be disbanding our donald trump and mike pence police. Today. Its sort of the a similar this morning ill talk to question i had to tim scott. Provided them a familiar face in senator tim scott who is leading and thats why reaction was the efforts on Police Reform and intentional, chuck. Can the president , because of his history, even his recent extent that this guy will govern i have to remind you, we were former defense secretary bob in a way that that will be gates. Covering the protest and it was instincts here, can he play a plus the coronavirus spike. Specific with our values. Half of the u. S. Is now seeing a less than six weeks ago and we constructive role without sort of acknowledging views that he well, you make an important postmemorial day surge. Saw officers now facing charges we saw even more acceleration had in th
Contributions africanamericans had made, so i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. He started looking around the city for someone to take on the opportunity of a challenge just depending upon the perspective they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he found a young lady that said, i will take on the opportunity. Her name was Dora Franklin finley. Dora was my double first cousin. Thats another tour. We wont take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. She spent five years of her life doing research on places that africanamericans had made significant contributions to the city of mobile. When she finishes, she had 39 locations throughout the city. We will visit about 20 of those today. I took you on all of them. I have to find out how you like your fish. Fried or broiled . Do you like your steak medium or well . Because it will take a probably about six hours. She set it up so we should be able to get through it in about two hours. I cant
War era Study Program and did graduate work in university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long im not going to try to read them all to you. You can go to his website to get a full accounting of not only his publications but oerjt sail ient elements of other saileint elements of hig biography. Im going to offer five books i think is pertinent. The first is called Abraham Lincoln published by william b in 1998 and the first of allen lincolns prizes. Lincolns emancipation pags proclamation end of slavery in america. Publish in 2004 brought his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas the debates that define america. 2008. Some reason didnt win the lincoln prize. Faithful lightening new history of the civil war and reconstruction came out from Oxford University press in 2012 and the 5th title i will mention is is gettiesburg the last invasion published in 2013 which brought a third lincoln