Ktvu, fox two news at six. n election day is tuesday and the candidates are making that last minute push to win the state primary. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im heather holmes. The seats up for grabs here in california includc those held by some longtime congressional lawmakers to get. The weekend before super tuesday saturday, state senator scott register and vote hes not facin himself, but wants to get involved to increase voter turnout. We got to get the vote out. Turnout is really low so far and we want to make sure people know about this election and know that it matters. Two years ago, during the june midterms primaries, voter turnout statewide was about 33, according to the secretary of states office. The general election that year, in november was about 50, the lowest its been in nearly ten years. Hi, rebecca. This is matt mehan, your mayor. Im just calling a bunch of volunteers today in support of sam liccardo for congress. How are you doinge candidates he suppo
Mississippi. Roofs were sent from buildings crashes. Were they found themselves a badly broken town. They couldnt cover the windows and they improvised with tape. Shattered store fronts are everywhere. Thousands of homes would require repair, before the owners can move back. Millions in aid have been allotted as authorities try to preliminary assessment of the damage. Toppled mobile homes are fury. Nts to her the storm roared its way across the land. Towers were radio knocked down while buildings untouched. E with land communication shattered, authorities relied on of radio amateurs. They worked around the clock to relay word of the few people trapped in flooded homes and people who failed to heed warnings to move out. 100 million sugar crop was damaged. Some can be salvaged but the of this crop alone expected to reach 40 million. Towarda swung north South Carolina the people of lafayette prepared to return to ofir homes to begin the task repair. A small town was hard hit. Here ten peo
Traveled there to learn about history. Boulder andbout other stops on the cities tour at cspan. Org localcontent. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Each week american artifacts takes you to museums and historic basis. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the panama canal opening, curators presented items from their collection for a special exhibit. Work on the canal began in 19 know for. In 1904. Workers came to panama to build it. The canal was not only an engineering feat but a subject of fascination for americans. Who follow the progress of this construction with keen interest. She music was produced about the canal, newspapers published regular updates. And photographers took hundreds of pictures of the construction and the people who lived and worked in the canal zone. Name is juan manual perez, a reference specialist in the hispanic division. Exhibit tries to be a window i to the past and to give the tople who see it a way understand the
And has another book out on the famous case of loving versus virginia, which will be out in 2014, called race, sex, and freedom to marry loving versus virginia. It is an honor and a privilege to introduce peter to all of you and turn the podium over to him. [applause] thank you, paul. And thank you all for coming out today. Why are you in here, anyway . I cannot speak for the other speakers, but it is rare for me at least to have the u. S. Senate imposed on the structure i am standing before. It is a privilege and an honor, and i am happy to be here. Ingress came together december 1865 for the First Time Since early march. Told,r had ended, we were and slavery was over too, we were told, but that made for Big Questions left unanswered. And if we assume, as it is so easy to do, that former slaves must clearly not the citizens, we somehow conflate the turbulent events over the next year or two, or three. And i want to catch the wave early on in that unfolding history. The 15th amendment
War, which was of course 1911 to 1915. I found this quote. Ill tell you where it comes from in a little bit, but it seems to me to encapsulate the feeling of the early 20th century. The days of the civil war now belong to the historians, the poets, the writer of romance, and the fromtist. Now i think you would add the reenactor there, probably. But of course, this is a period at which the civil war is still very much a part of living memory. Right . There are livingductions of the war, people involved in combat who are still alive. In 1912, state of pennsylvania issued an invitation of honorably discharged veterans of the civil war to come to gettysburg for a reunion of sorts. And you probably have already seen pictures of this or read about it in David Wrights book. I want to spend a little time talking about that. That marked something of the high water mark. It was kind of the peak of their aspirations. They invaded the north. The defeat of gettysburg was in many ways the beginning