Buffalo, new york. On book tv will visit the mark twain room at the buffalo and here he county public library. The centerpiece our pages of the original handwritten manuscripts of adventures of huckleberry finn. Then occurrence the grain, about the history of its first ward. The irish settled here because they were desperate. They came across the atlantic and the famine and years after and still were not great. It would take maybe one relatives of find out about these plentiful jobs along the waterfront. Working in the Grain Elevators or in the mills. Work we go back to ireland that you want to come to buffalo. You would have steady employment. Neighborhoodthis called the first ward. It has to say because when buffalo was first created in 1832 as a city it was divided into five political wards. This area along the waterfront along the river has always been the first four. On American History tv. On september 6, 1901, president William Mckinley was assassinated in buffalo. Tour the Buff
Defensive. I am curious whether why do you think that is . Clicks i think it is a problem. Testified, it was just so start. It is an arcane subject. It is somehow, i dont think it just reflects the polarization people refer to all the time. It could be there are lots of possibilities. Some people say the parties have somewhat different philosophies about government interventions in power so one party so generally, less interventionist. Another is more interventionist . There are more political reasons. Good. T think it is people mean well, trying to be constructive. Reason, it has gotten very partisan. Why . Issues we all want to have a stronger economy, a stable economy. There is nothing partisan about it. To theuld go way back Jennings Bryan type of partisanship. I dont think it is that you are that it isct polarized politically understands why it is a bad idea, in part because the fed has to carry that out. That would ultimately politicize the process, reduce the credibility, and ma
Disagree, call this number. Or ave a separate line, special line for Afghanistan War veterans. If not by phone, you can weigh twitter,ial media, facebook, or send us an email. New york times, heres what peter baker writes this morning on all of this. Obamas afghan shift is tied to the iraq meltdown. As he described factors that went into his decision, the one word that president obama did not mention on thursday was iraq. His years ago, he stuck to plan to pull out only to watch the country collapsed back into sectarian strife and a renewed war with islamic extremist. Ining a similar situation afghanistan, mr. Obama has decided not to follow a similar course. Goes on to write, whether keeping a residual American Force and iraq would have made a difference is a point of contention, but the president chose not to take a chance this time. Ofseeking to avoid a repeat the iraq meltdown by keeping 9800 troops in afghanistan next year and 5500 after he leaves office, he abandoned his hopes of
Across america. Were talking about the grinch here who literally stole christmas. Why this is happening more than ever and how to make sure you get your holiday delivery. And is this the worlds saddest Christmas Tree . The people in one American City complaining about their spindly spruce. It just reminds me of Charlie Brown. Now the mayor under pressure to produce a yuletide upgrade. Hey, good morning, everybody. Lets get straight to our top story. The weather whiplash in much of america. But nowhere is the change more dramatic than in hardhit buffalo, new york, where after days of fierce and fatal snowfall, they are now looking at a whole different kind of problem, a big warmup, which will melt all that snow and produce potentially dangerous and devastating flooding. As of right now, though, that massive snowpack is very much in place, which poses a giant logistical problem for the hometown nfl team, the Buffalo Bills, who have had to move their game. Some of the players even hitchin
This male continued to shoot. Reporter shooter fled but police apprehended the suspect. Fortunately these numerous witness december cooperate with police not only telling us a good description to apprehend this individual but also positively identifying, our suspect. Reporter were told suspect was already wantedded on a warrant. We do believe was the the intended target. We believe that the shooter, knew this 17 yearold female prior to shooting her. Reporter teen is being treated at st. Christophers hospital, and she is being treated for a gun the shot wound, and subsequently a broken arm. Now the man she was sitting with, was not hurt, so far no word on the motive for this shooting. We are hes live at police headquarters, Syma Chowdhry for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Also new this morning Fire Fighters in north philadelphia, rushed to the scene of a Historic School building fire. The flames broke out around 1 00 in the old simon mayer street at germantown and allegheny avenue. The fire was