Here i am bringing dynamite, back. Right new, this is going to be your drive through san jose. On 87. Beyond julian street. Southbound traffic is not existent. We have an accident in san jose. That is ahead but first, the bay bridge toll plaza with a few cars from the east bay but no problems to get started. Preeing news, police in hayward are accepting for the driver involved in a wild chase that ended with a crash into a power pole. Amy hollyfield is at the scene and what pg e is doing. The man trying to get away had a woman and a child in the car with him and he crashed 9 car into the power pole you can see hype me and pg e is trying to repair it. Police have shut down this part of the road in hair at ruus road. The area has been closed for a while as they work on the damaged power people starting before 1 00 oclock in in the morning when the c. H. P. Pulled this man over for a minor Traffic Violation were he took off. They do not know why he ran but he pled and crashed soon after t
Plus. With walmart today workers say they have nothing to sing about and they are going on strike. All parents want the best for their children, food, shelter, a good education. But the syrian war is robbing hundreds of thousands of children of their chance to learn, that is according to a new u. N. Report. More than half of the 2. 2 million registered Syrian Refugees are children. Lebanon has almost 400,000 child refugees and a staggering 80 of them are not at school. Jordan has taken almost 300,000 from syria and 56 of them are not at school. Even in the country that has given them a new home syrian refugee children are not safe and vulnerable to exploitation and abuse because they have to work to provide for their families and missing out on an education and dana reports. Reporter she is 11 years old. She escaped the war in syria only to find herself facing a new danger in lebanon. Her school is safe but like her many of these refugees also have to work once classes are over. A man
Woman, leaning and kissing a woman in times square in new york on the third day. Or maybe you prefer politics. How about churchville, stalin and roosevelt a filter sitting down together. Maybe that image. Or maybe youd rather think of something from the america of that area roughly, maybe a little bit earlier, the great depression, to get an image in your mind of the great depression. If youre having trouble, think of it tired him a worried looking at another stare off into the distance with a ragamuffin child leaning on each shoulder. Can you find that famous iconic image in your mind . That image by Dorothea Lange called migrant mother that has come to symbolize the great depression. The images youve conjured up in your mind have been black and white. Very, very likely. So id like you to do the same exercise but think of japanese imprisonments. Think of the imprisonment of japanese americans during the war. So what are you picturing . Does it look like this . A bunch of young, japane
The title is taken from a quote from ulysses s. Grant. He looked back on his career, and mountain memoirs, he writes frankly about the experiences he had, the good and the bad making for good reading. What he talk about late in life was his role in the u. S. Mexico war in 1846, and grant said, you know, at the time, i do not think there was ever a more wicked war than that waged on the United States by mexico so i thought at the time as a youngster only i had not moral courage enough to resign. Grant, of course, in the war was a young lieutenant, and i found this is really moving quote, and thats why its the title. The fact of the matter is grant was not alone in thinking that the u. S. Invasion of mexico was somehow wicked. One thing that i talked about in the book and ill talk about tonight is the evolution of the American Public in the course of the u. S. Mexico war, not a long war by any means from being really enthuse yays tix and in favor of invading mexico to largely turning in
The answer was there is no plan. I blew up, not for the first or last time, and said, how can it be the head of the soviet union dies, and we have no contingency plan. It was criminal, said the president. The truth was the United States and the other western nations had very little idea of what was happening behind the iron curtain. Two years later at the first summit meeting of the cold war era at geneva in 1955, the United States still did not know who was running the soviet union. They sent four leaders, one tall white man in a white suit with a white goatee who looked like Colonel Sanders from kentucky fried chicken, clearly, a figure head. The head of the red army, ikes ally in defeating the nazis in world war ii. Eisenhower spent his son, john, to do some spying. Subdued and shaken, just whispered, things are not as they seem. President ize president eisenhower found out who was in charge on the fifth day of the conference. The big pier of the nuclear age was a surprise attack. P