Good morning, and welcome to the year of the woman, which you could argue every year should be. This year is incredibly special for all in america and at the smithsonian. We are banded together in celebrating the american womens History Initiative throughout the smithsonian museums, online, and through all of our activities. We are particularly grateful to have three exhibitions opening, spurring really from this one. This is democracy in america, the great leap of faith that opened a few years ago. I am in the gallery that takes us through the long and arduous and continuing effort to expand democracy to enfranchised more and more americans. As you might know, early on, only landed, white men with property were able to vote. In the 19th century, the long battle expanding that suffrage to slaves, previously enslaved, and women, culminating finally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th amendment, not guaranteeing women the right to vote but barring the federal government and states
Been morgan is in khartoum she says the judge went out of his way to make a particular point. Well the judge 1st of all outlined the charges against the president and the actions that will be taken once those verdicts are issued if hes found guilty he did indeed issue a guilty verdict against the former president im going to be here but before issuing that verdict he mentioned. That that is the name of a young man who was charged for illegal possession of foreign currency in 1989 by bush or his government when he came to power now upon mentioning him in. His defense team accuse the judge of being biased and a basically meaning towards the forces of freedom and change for mission that is the coalition that has been leading antigovernment protests that eventually led to the ousting of former president are going to shoes but they were not the only ones angry on both sides and to bashir there is anger to be felt on the streets. Supporters came out demonstrating saying that the judge has be
Though she thinks shes no good. I see what she did there. Its friday, december 6th, 2019 thats nice heres today theres eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Reporter a violent robbery attempt turned into a hostage situation. Mayhem on the streets of florida. The suspects engaged Law Enforcement, opened fire. [ sirens ] reporter democrats will two dead in addition to the shooter. Democrats be draft formal articles of impeachment. Do you think donald trump should be impeached . I think yes, sad, but yes. The pentagon is considering sending thousands of troops to the middle east. It will be considered very strongly. People talk to the streets across france over pension reform. Prosecutors charged two Russian Hackers with ripping off american businesses. It is being called one of the biggest cyber crimes in history. Right down michigan avenue. Two, one President Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump took part in lighting the first christmas tree. Joe biden had a Heated Exchange with a per
Middle east most of the east except for the bay shoreline and peninsula. And we have a high wind warning into effect tonight through monday morning with the same gusts. Also we could see gusts from 60 to 80 miles an hour upper emphasises. By 3 00 tomorrow morning we are looking at the gusty winds. And well talk about how long its going to last the rest of your weather, the sevenday outlining if a few months. Two breaking stories were following for you. The kincade fire . Sonoma county now burning nearly how acres firefighters rushing to increase containment before heavy winds move in its making pg e put much of the bay area on notice. In just a few hours well find out if youll lose electricity in another planned power outage. We anticipate that in shutoff could impact 850,000 of our 5 million electric customers. This will be the strongest event of the year. And if models are right, stronger than the october 8th, 2017, fire event. Pg e will make the final decision at 8 00 this morning w
You open your book in 1930, what was happening that day . On october the fourth, 1930, a 777 foot long airship, the largest thing that had ever flown, larger than the titanic by volume was about to take off on a trip from london to india. As part of a scheme hatched by the British Empire to connect the farflung pieces of the empire, it was a moonshot. A scheme you call it, one of your chapters is titled is dreams and imperial vision . S. C. Gwynne a nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the early days and they were fundamentally sound that could be improved. Part of what i am riding a