When the fukushima tsunami hit japans coastline in 2011 it destroyed everything in its path the jewel in the body more. Suitable wore jeans in the middle of the would move up the opposite actually. In the aftermath of the thorazine began building a massive new seawall along 400 kilometers of coastline. Its meant to help protect communities from future wags but some feel that its putting them in even greater danger water to shoot off and you know have got to get it caught his eye wall and we have to lay all sorts of get out of this. A lot of us. One on one east explores japans efforts to tame the oceans power. School students are visiting the japanese coastal town of tara to learn about the 2011 tsunami. Or all. Of the law or even your or soon earn food nonny. In law. Could also get it but you know george of the work that youve been able to do not for that but youll get there. A past victim of tsunamis thought it was finally protected thanks to an unbreachable sea world. This 10 major h
Rich and deep history, the conditions are optimal for inventing president ial and first lady laura and legend, but as we see with the gilbert story, for example, history is often, gated and complex often complicated and complex. This and otherh programs on her website, where all of our video is archived. The cspan cities to her is exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History to be on the road. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we travel to san antonio, texas. Experienceur we will the history of the history of this southwest texas city. The san with a visit to antonio mission historical park. Following that in 20 minutes we hear about the role the city played in early military aviation. Visit one of the citys most recognizable features, the historic riverwalk. Later, a trip to the Spanish Governors Palace, one of the oldest old dings in the city, dating to the founding. We begin our feature at mission four colonialof Spanish Missions i
In this portion a group of Business Leaders discuss the future innovation and competitiveness environment in the u. S. Good morning. Since the councils beginning in 1986, weve seen over and over and time and again how technology has transformed our lives, and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period of change. 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a florida infliction point. We needed significant chance to enhance our innovation capacity which lead to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative it, and now another 17 years later here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Throughout the day as debra mentioned in her opening remarks well hear stories about the changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by t
Force base at 11 30 tonight. Good evening, everyone. Here is a look at where that plane is currently flying. You can see it is over the pacific. Not far from the coast of california. And here is a live picture of Travis Air Force base where cdc officials are ready to take in those infected with the virus. The Authorities Say at least 355 people, on the diamond princess cruise ship, have been diagnosed with coronavirus, 44 of them are americans. Reporter melanie is one of about 300 evacuees who packed up and finally left the quarantined diamond princess cruise ship that had been docked in japan to board a chartered flight back to the United States. She posted videos of her ordeal on it has been very trying and it looks like we are on the second half of this ordeal. And there is going to be a brighter light. Reporter she left a rose and a get l note in her cabin. They shot video boarding buss and their flight in tokyo. 5 hours on a bus waiting to get off of the bus. It is crazy. Crazy. R
Work of our National Innovation initiative. Now, another 17 years later, here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Today well hear stories about these changes as theyre foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by the Council Board on this stage is a multiyear effort to reimagine americas innovation potential and to chart a new path for competitiveness in the 21st century. And as this slide shows, just a little less than a year ago, with our core leadership team, we began to build this effort. And by august we had pulled together a powerful and diverse set of commissioners, nearly 60 leaders from across this country from industry, from academia, from our Labor Union Community and our National Labs. And the commission has already started their work. As deborah mentioned, todays launch is our 2020 roadmap of activities that we hope will change the future traject