They became doctors and lawyers. One became the first female manager of any department at northrop airlines. They became principals, surgeons, politicians, pilots, and they were able to do that because they had access to professional baseball. So when i asked them what did it mean to you to play in the league and they say everything, its exactly right. What did it mean for this country and the efforts of these women to help during wartime . It meant everything. Ive asked a number of these women, so, what was it like to have to play baseball in a dress . Of course their answers varied. Some i can repeat. Some i cant. Basically the message is we would have played naked, whatever it took. We got to play baseball and we truly believe we helped keep baseball alive during the war. As i said, the league ended in 1954. It lasted 11 years. The league expanded over that 11 years from four teams to 12 teams. Its possible that the expansion maybe happened too quickly. I think the fact there was ex
Women were being told to go back to some of those more traditional roles. All of those things, including the arrival of television and Major League Baseball on television helped to bring about an end to the allamerican girls professional baseball league. If we look at the impact of africanamericans, women, japaneseamericans, any other group you could possibly think of, if we start to pick that apart, if we start to look at their actual role in winning the war, in surviving the war in some cases, we start to see a more full picture of what life was like for people involved in the war and those who were involved, even on the periphery. When we started this conversation today, this discussion today, we talked about the fact that total war, that war was this completely allconsuming thing, that it was not just about two ar ms. Shooting at one another. We started to think about that and what that meant and how can we further understand world war ii if we bring all these pieces and parts toge
Were there . Reporter yes, fbi agents right now are interviewing leland yee here. He was one of about 30 people arrested in what is called a massive fbi sting. I was one of the only journalists on the scene. As you mentioned, they led him out in handcuffs after spending about an hour and a half inside interviewing him. He was arrested for his work and campaign work. Yee is a democrat that served in the assembly as a San Francisco supervisor and school board back to the 1980s. One of the promises he just received an award for was to increase transparency in government. It was part of a larger operation. Here is what the fbi told us a couple hours ago. This morning the fbi is currently executing multible search and arrest warrants throughout the bay area. I have no more comments at the time because of on going investigations. Also arrested was raymond chow, a chinese gangster. Since his release he says he has reformed. Keith jackson was also arrested. He is a well known political consult
I heard the cars colliding together. It was a huge sound. The motorcyclist was seriously hurt but is expected to survive. An investigation is underway. As long as the trains keep running i dont care. Another bart strike looms. They battle to keep some trains running. Bart management and the union are far apart from reaching a deal. That means trains could not running after october 10 bart management is considering Something Different for riders. Its time to get serious about the possibility that bart may not be running. Reporter you heard it. The possibility of yet another bart strike. We feel we have an obligation to see whether or not it would be possible to run a skeleton bart service. Reporter those with bart say they have 209 Union Managers because of their background in transportation. As trained operators or other rail operations. Reporter bart is in the early stages of evaluating how this would work and how trains operate. As for the bay 6 very limited in scope and duration. It
Committed to a negotiated solution with respect to syria. We know that russia is likewise. We are working hard to find the Common Ground to be able to make that happen. Well, kerry and lavrov will continue discussioned plans for syria to surrender those chemical weapons. That will continue today. Assad, he now says he will only comply if the u. S. And its allies stop arming the opposition. Happening right now the National Guard brigade to colorado after just days of major flooding out there in very heavy rains. Theyve been getting hit so hard. Trucks started rolling in early this morning as president obama signs an Emergency Declaration to send federal aid out to that region. Nbcs leann greg is in boulder right now, one of the hardest hit areas. Leann, good morning. Rain has diminished, but the problems will continue for possibly days, even weeks. Search and rescue teams to help stranded residents isolated by floodwaters. Yesterday teams delivered supplies and brought out a handful of