[wind blowing] the temperature a bare 10 degrees above zero. The wind, a cutting 20 miles per hour. The date, almost any bleak day in january, 1778. The place, valley forge, pennsylvania. The event, famine, disease. Exhaustion, and disease. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an weary eye on the wellfed british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast, on this bone chilling morning, 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. Onethird to onehalf of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, rolled log huts with clay, with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the bleak, lonely whiteness, the only cover is the crimson of blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them, bitter words and bitter memories of the war against king geo
Exhaustion. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an wary eye on that well fit british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast. Morning,one chilling 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. One third to one half of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, huts of clay with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the leak lonely , whiteness, the only cover is blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them bitter words and , bitter memories of the war of king george as they left their bloody footprints on the snows of valley forge. Yes, the revolutionary war could have ended here. Yet somehow, this winter of despair becomes the turning point of the revolution. Corps] from it, comes defeat for the , the birth of the United Stat
The competitors, but in this case they are different. This is something we want to get done very quickly. Vice president mike pence is scheduled to brief lawmakers on the coronavirus tomorrow. The house can start considering an 8 billion bill to fund the governments response by wednesday. Heres a look now at the cases in california. So far, 43 people have tested positive for covid19. 19 of those cases were not related to flights. Of those 19, you can see the breakdown behind me, 10 are travel related, five are person toperson, and for community transmissions. Bay area county has the most cases in santa clara and they have nine. Reporter the number of coronavirus patients in Santa Clara County have tripled over the weekend. There are now nine confirmed cases, all adults, four of them that required hospitalization. The majority of those hospitalize have Chronic Health conditions, and the others are i cited at home. Have to assume this is Community Spread now. It is still not in any kind
Good morning. Im dave clark. We have lots of clouds this morning. But will we get some rain. Steve paulson knows. No. Numerology there, pamela. I love that. Lets get to it here. 30s, 40s and 50s. This is just high clouds advance on the low. Which it went right over us. Might give a little rain. San jose too. Pressures still pretty high. 30. 09. This is in vavens advance of a system. 30s, 40s, and 50s. Looks like that low is trap tapping into some moisture. Highs will continue to be above average. Sal castaneda is here. And, this time, he will tell us. Well, were getting more crowded here as the morning wears on. You will see that traffic is going to be slow from the valley on 205 and 580. But when you get to liver more and dublin it looks good. There is all that slow traffic. 880 is also okay. But, theres already some crowding at the bay bridge toll plaza. And, this morning, the chp is investigating two separate overnight crashes on the freeway. The first reportedly involved a wrongway
President what he wants to hear ok mr kimmitt for the moment thanks very much youre watching aljazeera and our continuing coverage of developing news out of iraq more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles have been fired at u. S. Facilities in iraq at least 2 iraqi air bases were targeted one bill and the other one at the. Base in the province of anbar iran state t. V. Says the revolutionary guards launched tens of surface to surface missiles the u. S. Assistant to the secretary of defense ensued a statement it confirms iran launched more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles against u. S. Military and Coalition Forces in iraq it is clear that these missiles were launched from iran and targeted at least 2 Iraqi Military bases hosting u. S. Military and coalition personnel. And bill the statement goes on to say we will take whole necessary measures to protect and defend u. S. Personnel partners and allies in the region were in conversation with mark kimmitt formerly an assistant secretary for Polit