Museums and historic places. Next we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington, d. C. To Great Falls Tavern Visitors Center where we will take a boat ride to learn more about the of the the history of the chesapeake and the ohio canal. [foghorn] i would like to introduce myself. My name is cassondra, and i seasonal park ranger here at the am a chesapeake and ohio canal. I think we are going to cast off shortly. We are going to go ahead and start and give you a brief history of here on the canal. All right, it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but doesnt reach the Chesapeake Bay or go up to the ohio river, and when we first started building the canal in 1828, we wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was up in ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay. So what we did was, we started building this canal. We tried earlier, it was George Washingtons dream to use the Potomac River
My name is cassandra sohyda, and i am a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think we are going to cast off here shortly. But we are going to go ahead and start and give you a brief history of here on the canal. All right, so, it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but it definitely doesnt reach the the Chesapeake Bay or go all the way up to the ohio river, and is the intention of our canal when we first started building the canal in 1828. We wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was up in ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay. And so what we did was, we started building this canal. We tried earlier, it was George Washingtons dream to actually use the Potomac River as a way to transport goods. Back then it was seen as a reasonable thing to do, so he went ahead and had a canal system built on that side by using locks to get around the great falls and Po
Have crossed over into india the territory is disputed but its being called the worst border tension between these 2 countries in decades now let me do this let me go over to the map over here on the wall so we can show you the area that were talking about this is the region i think weve mentioned this to you before its a region called doc right its described as one of the most beautiful places on earth its magnificent google it youll freak out its so pretty but like many beautiful things everybody seems to want to part of it its being its been a disputed region now since 1947 between pakistan and india and china all holding claim but its administered and this is important in this dispute its administered by india and that has. Really been respected by you know all d 3 sides until until now take a look at whats going on there right now let me show you these pictures you see these these these this is a satellite image from the Australian Policy Institute it purports to show how 802000 c
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Of people across the bay area and how you can help if youre able. Plus bright and blue. The usually red levis stadium changing its colors to Honor Health Care workers. Good thursday evening. Thanks for joining us. Im janelle wang. And im raj mathai. They will call you, text you and track you for good reason. Ucsf is now contract tracing. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is in San Francisco with the details. Sergio . Reporter Contact Tracing is what Public Health officials do to try to gauge just how widespread coronavirus may be within the community. But ucsf researchers are actually working on a few ways of figuring out just how widespread coronavirus is. Ucsf is partnering withople. The plan is to also track down everyone they have come into contact with. The department of Public Health has already been doing this to a certain extent but theyre about to get more help. Because Public Health in general has been defunded in the united states, so to do all these major initiatives, i think t