Im walt your perez. Big story is four alarm fire in old city this morning. Action News Reporter anni m mark joins us live from third and chest nut where people with forced to flee from safety, annie. Reporter walter, sarah just mentioned hot spots you can see right behind me still an active scene when Fire Fighters are still working on this. It has been under control for hours but fire crew is still remain out here traffic around this area of olde city right now number of roads are closed because they are still working on this luckily, nobody was injury, in this fire. Just after 3 00 a. M. The four alarm blaze broke out at third and chestnut, the flames, and thick smoke force 160 people out of their apartments at 239 chestnut and guests at best western hotel. The fail fire department, responded with a 150 Fire Fighters and medics, at this point residents believed that the fire started on the top floor of the apartment building, officials are still assessing the total damage to build go
Caught on camera fleeting to the ground landing 0 on a busy road hitting a truck. How the quickthinking pilot saved lives. Good morning, america. A lot to get to this morning. Got that big new poll out this morning, senator marco rubio rising in the race for president. There he is right there. Walking over from starbucks. A little different from yesterday in the stretch limo and donald trump and hes here live in the studio. Well get to him. We will. First we begin with the breaking news overnight. An American Airlines flight forced to make an Emergency Landing. A passenger making threats on board that flight. Abcs Pierre Thomas has the latest and is here in the studio with us. Reporter good morning, robin. The American Airline flight left phoenix late tuesday afternoon with the expectation it would arrive at new yorks jfk about 4 1 2 hours later but that dramatically changed when chaos erupted midflight. Listen tower, could use emergency 622. A scare in the air for 121 passengers on fl
At home in new orleans. And where i lived for 10 years. What i want to do tonight is introduce you to this case that has a kind of that has kind of disfreard the american memory, but at least for the summer of 1870 captivated the nation, newspaper readers across the country and try to explain to it you in the so that you can see what i saw as i stumbled across it. I began writing i found this story while i was doing much more traditional legal history. I was researching the famous slaughterhouse cases, the first case where the Supreme Court intercepted the 14th amendment and i was reading every single day of the new orleans newspapers in 1870 and suddenly theres this story about a bhite baby being abducted by two africanamerican women, and the rumor begins to circumstance late that the baby has been abducted for use as a voodoo sacrifice. Its just like holy smokes, what can that possibly be about . Is that true or is the press just telling a story . They talked about ghost sightings an
Its nice to be here surrounded by pictures of Edgar Allen Poe and books about poe and baltimore in many ways has a feel a lot like new orleans, an old port city with traditions and a quirky and sometimes spooky history. And i always kind of feel at home in baltimore just as i feel at home in new orleans. And where i lived for 10 years. What i want to do tonight is introduce you to this case that has a kind of that has kind of disappeared from the american memory, but at least for the summer of 1870 captivated the nation, newspaper readers across the country and try to explain to it you in the so that you can see what i saw as i stumbled across it. I began writing i found this story while i was doing much more traditional legal history. I was researching the famous slaughterhouse cases, the first case where the Supreme Court intercepted the 14th amendment and i was reading every single day of the new orleans newspapers in 1870 and suddenly theres this story about a white baby being abdu
Tvs afterwards, damon root on the long standing battle of Supreme Court activism and ju additional restraint and sunday at 10 00 p. M. , jonathan yeardley, who retired after 33 years with the washington post. And on American History tv on cspan saturday at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on the civil war, historians and authors discuss president lincolns 1864 Reelection Campaign and sunday afternoon at 4 00 on reel america, tried by fire. A 1965 film that chronicles the 84th Infantry Division of the battle of the bulge. Find our complete schedule and let us know about the programs youre watching. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Next on American History tv, author and history professor michael ross discusses his book on the 1870 kidnapping of molly digby. The child of poor irish immigrants in new orleans. She was abducted by two black women and the case exacerbated racial tensions brought about by reconstruction. The Pratt Library hosted this 50minute event. G