Twitter as manipulated media. The outrage at this hour. Behind bars. The former Atlanta Police officer who killed Rayshard Brooks set to face a judge. The other officer on the scene speaking out and we hear from one of the witnesses who was in that wendys parking lot. His car was hit by one of the bullets. Wildfires raging in the west. That monster bushfire in arizona spreading over 115,000 acres. More evacuations under way. Ginger is tracking the latest. Firework boom . Reports of illegal fireworks soaring around the nation. Thousands of complaints pouring into police departments. What is setting off the spike . Celebrating juneteenth this friday. The holiday marking the celebration of freedom for so many, the momentum of the black lives Matter Movement now leading Big Companies and over 20 nfl teams to honor juneteenth today and the superstar stepping up calling for it to be made a National Holiday. And all the feels for fathers day. Superstar will Smith Opening up about becoming a d
We want to get your thoughts on it this morning. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Ndependents, 202 7488002 if you are a Daca Recipients, 202 7488003. Us at thatcan text number, 202 7488003, or go to cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan to post your comments there. Ning us on the phone excuse me, joining us he is him is Robert Barnes with the Washington Post, here to talk about this decision. Robert barnes, what did the chief justice right about the rationale for not allowing the Trump Administration to end this program . He said that the Trump Administration can end the program if it wants to, but its got to follow the law in order to do that. There are various justifications that have to go through, go along with ending a program such and there was no indication that the department of Homeland Security, the agency in charge, really looked at all the aspects of this. That is a program now hundreds of thousands of people effectse forward, it undocumented workers who were bro
in danger. state officials prepare to testify in this week s hearing, i ll speak exclusively to a democratic committee member, congressman adam shiff and a republican congressman, fred upton next. and recession looming, high inflation and gas prices are hitting americans where it s hard but president biden said a recession is not inevitable. i m using every lever available to me to bring down prices for the american people. when will prices start to fall? energy secretary jennifer granholm joins me exclusively to discuss ahead. plus, marking juneteenth. the nation celebrates a momentous day in american history. i ll speak to a democrat who worked to make it a federal holiday, congresswoman sheila jackson lee ahead. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is worried about our democracy and our wallets, yet there is one bright spot this father s day. children as young as 6 months old are now eligible for covid-19 vaccines after more than two ye
Sail training, seamanship training. We have our adult seamanship training. Once a year, we take the vessel out in into the gulf of mexico for a series of day sails and our volunteers end up learning how to sail the ship on a real onetoone basis. Its one thing reading about sailing these ships in books. But to actually fistcanvas, to climb the rigging, feel the ship breathe and move while youre sailing is a unique opportunity and one that is available to people that join our volunteer program here at texas seaport museum. Juneteenth is a celebration of the abolition of slavery in texas on june 19, 1865. In galveston, the end of slavery was announced by Union General gordon granger. That story, next here on the span cities tour. [music] the emancipation proclamation, it was signed into law in september of 1862, to go into effect january 1 1863. But the word, the enforcement of the emancipation proclamation did not go into effect here in the south until two and a half years after the effe
You had europeans, mainly germans coming into the port of galveston and as a group settling a different parts of the state of texas. If you had been here in the 1850s german was the most common language spoken in galveston. On the streets, that is what people were talking in. We have a number of groups you can see in galveston today if you go to the garden, you can see what became the center for german entertainment and social life. You can go to st. Joseph church the first German Catholic Church in texas. You can see where they worshiped and where they were educated and how they spent their lives in galveston. But the height of immigration with the late 19th century and early 20th. And it continued up to 1954 when it was no longer a point of interest for immigrants. But the story of that is the backandforth between the state of texas managing immigration and eventually the federal government doing immigration. But it became a place where there want they wanted to push immigrants away