All right. We need to go ahead and get started with our first session today. And it is wonderful to see quite the turnout at 8 30 in the morning for a panel on James Buchanan, which is we all know that James Buchanan is often overlooked, but we are going to remedy that here in just a moment. I want to quickly introduce our two speakers. First is john quist. John is the tall one standing behind michael. He is a professor of history at shippensberg university. He teaches classes in 19th century u. S. As well as civil war era. He studied at the university of michigan under j. Mills thorton. Recall Michael Nieberg who you heard last night also a student of j. Mills thorton. John has published a very important book entitled the social roots of antebellum reform in alabama and michigan, and his cospeaker today is michael burkner, excuse me, professor of history at gettysburg college. Many of you might remember that michael was the interim director of the Civil War Institute. He played a pivo
Dern day slalaery, known as life. She tells me she was trafficking survivor in 2009, i was in memphis tennesee and i was trafficed to arkansas. On the way back i was arrested with my trafficker, we were pulled over for speeding, thank d and the officer recognized the signs and some do not do. In fact, as Teresa Davidson tells us the average Life Expectancy in this s rusome industry is not 20 years, not even 15, but just 7 years. cg Teresa Davidson president f cedar rapids gives its a very rough life, they are beaten, they are starved, they have to perform a quota, they have to bring in a certain amount of money every night in order to get their meals. She also tells cg Kristin Rogers as this docusment shows president obama even proclaimed january as National Slavery and Human Trafficking month. For christi, she feels its important to share her story, and she lights up with thankfulness. Thinking about the officer who rescued mom always says she would like to find that in the paperwork
2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im excited about the friends reunion. I ordered a latte from gunther this morning. Central perk. Itll be fun to have them back together. They got together as part of a tribute to the legendary director, james burrows. More on that coming up. Now, six days away from the first votes in this president ial election. The Democratic Candidates making their pitches to voters in iowa last night during the final town hall before the caucuses. We have the president ial race covered from all angles. Lets start with nbcs andrea mitchell. Good morning. Good morning, savannah. But in separate appearances, the democrats run into tough questions when they tried to win over the undecided voters. Reporter within minutes, Hillary Clinton faced a blunt question from a young voter learning toward Bernie Sanders. Ive heard fro
You in a few minutes. Me people in aterloo are concerned after they learned that Hazardous Waste may soon be released into the air near where they are living. They received a letter in the mail from the Environmental Protection agency explaining why this is happening. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo with more details. Waterloo industries used to be located here at 300 ansborough ave. Theres still some Hazardous Waste left over in the ground from when they were working here. Thats why many waterloo recieved this letter in the mail. Epas concern that this waste will continue seaping into the building. Accumulate inside. And harm those who now work here. They plan to prevent this from happening by releasing the waste from out of the ground and into the air. An anology would be one reason why you dont run a car in enclosed garages is that the building. Whee the car is outisde it cant build up and accumulate in concentration. Its difused out within the concept. The epa sayyth
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