And so, they said it would be a couple months before theyd call me. So, thats the reason why i did this baseball thing. I figured, well, you know, maybe i will flunk the physical or something. I dont know. But, anyway. So, it wasnt two days after i got the letter from the dodgers about going to almira that i got the letter from the navy to report to Church Street, to report to go to boot camp. So, i never got to play ball. I went over to Church Street to get sworn in. They gave us a perfunctory physical there. It was probably a couple hundred of us. They took us over they walked us over to penn station. We got on the train. It took us up to sampson, new york. This was a new boot camp. It was i dont know how long it had been open, but not very long, because we spent a lot of time, while we were there, helping build barracks for the guys that were coming after us. And i remember i went into when we got off the train, they took us in to give us a haircut and to examine us. And the dentist
Regular soldier in many cases looked very much like the one im wearing. The difference being, they would have the raised collar and they would have epaulets. Trotsky took the red army and said, i want to make it a working mans army. When you go to work, you dont wear a suit that has a raised collar and epaulets. You have a suit that has a laydown collar. As we saw on the front of that book, that was the early war uniform. It was a simple smock. The Rank Insignia were on the collar. As the war progressed, there was more and more reference to the past, to the heroics of the military achievement under the czars. So, a lot of the changes were made to kind of encourage that, to reinforce that. So, later on during the war, the uniform was now changed back to, in a sense, the czaristtype looking uniform. Again, the medals came back. Medals were prolific. The guard medals, the idea that there were famous czarist units. Now we were going to have elite Red Army Units to raise morale and encourag
16 degrees is our High Temperature. Notice by 4 00, we are dropping temperaturewise. 8 day forecast, a little bit of a warmup. Frank alyx heres another look at the Road Conditions across the state. Weve been watching them throughout the night. Blue means the roads are partially covered. So right now, more than half of the state is affected. Much of the northern and western iowa, as well as central iowa are seeing some slick Road Conditions. Certificate slow out there when you are heading out this morning. A lot of people are hoping to win big tonight. The Powerball Jackpot is now at 800 million. A big reason the jackpot is so large, so many people are buying tickets. This is a line near the arizona nevada border, people waiting for hours to get their hands on tickets. And lottery Officials Say the jackpot could grow even larger before tonights drawing. The drawing will be held at back at home, an indianola man is in jail this morning after being accused of threatening to kill multiple
his name sake, st. francis of assisi. he continues to surprise. that is the case, again, with this trip. we talk twitter. lots of fans of it out there. now you can own a piece of it. the company filing to go public. they re saying the company is worth $1 billion, billion with a b. but get this, twitter is still not profitable. #what? that s coming up. more about the woman behind the wheel. deb feyerick is here. we go to joe johns first, live near capitol hill with the latest. good morning, joe. good morning, chris. this morning, authorities are trying to figure out why 34-year-old miriam kerry rammed that barricade at the white house and led police on the crazy chase up here to the united states capitol just two weeks after the navy yard shooting. a heart stopping scene unfolding outside the u.s. capitol. the dramatic moments caught on tape by a camera crew. watch as 34-year-old miriam kerry drives away in a luxury car. careening through the streets with police in hot
0 closer on the shutdown? your new day starts right now. announcer: this is new day with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. good morning. welcome to new day. tgif. it is friday, october 4th, 6:00 in the east. we ve been reporting through the night trying to figure out why a 34-year-old woman tried to breach security at the white house and capitol. we now know her name, miriam kerry. her husband had real fears about her mental health, even contacting police about it. as we hear too often, there were problems in trying to control her behavior. we ll have much more on that, plus we ll hear from some of those that witnessed it, documented the frightening scene. plus, today is a huge day for pope francis. he s on a very special pilgrimage visiting the home of his name sake, st. francis of assisi. he continues to surprise. that is the case, again, with this trip. we talk twitter. lots of fans of it out there. now you can own a piece of it. the company filing to g