Scale. An Elementary School and a Community Center designated as an Evacuation Center were flooded. They were dispatched to rescue 242 trap ped evacuees. Translator about 80 people people have been evacuated here including 30 Elementary School students. Its dark inside. We cant put on the lights. The electricity facility was damaged from flood iing. They have been the most affected so far. R. 49 people are confirmed dead. One person has no vital signs and 11 are still missing. Rivers have flooded in a dozen places. Nagasaki prefecture has seen extensive damage. Slopes collapse mud and large rocks blocked the road and a district saw flooding from a nearby river. Now for more details on the torrential rain and what to watch out for, lets turn to get the latest. We have an active rainy season that lingers. Rain has fallen since last week. As of tuesday morning, rainfall has reached almost a thousand millimeters and more than 800 millimeters. Thats twice as much as Monthly Average rainfall
Landslides is likely. They are urging people in the area to get to an emergency shel shelter or seek safety in a building with a Strong Foundation if it is too dangerous to travel. If residents cant leave their homes, theyre advised to stay on higher floors on the opposite side of any nearby slopes. Heavy rain started over the weekendnd, causing deeadly floog and mudslidedes. Authorities in Kumamoto Prefecture say 44 people have been confirmed dead. Ten others are missing. 14 of those were found at a nursing home near the kyuma river. Water was flowing out of storm drains. Several rescue requests have been received from residents. In the city of minamisatsuma, police say a man in his 60s is missing after leaving his house toto deliver newspapers. Another viewer in fukuoka prefecture took this video of what he says is a rice field, which was flooded by an overflowing irrigation channel. This one shows the water level on a river in nagasaki prefecture almost reaching the danger zone for
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Constitution Center. I am the president of this institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] cspan has a mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission which i want you to reside along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [applause] i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new book on the president s. Let us launch it at the National Constitution center. It is such an honor to welcome back to the Constitution Center the great founder of cspan, b
Politically, militarily. Country, ourhis views on gender and racial equality are shaped by the experiences in world war ii. There were black americans, hundreds of thousands of them, who served in the war mostly in allblack units. It was a segregated military. Many of them had a double v campaign. Victory against fascist opponents overseas and victory against racism at home. And the dignity, the empowerment, the sense of service, the sense of cohesion that that experience brought to black america was a propulsion system for the Civil Rights Movement after the war. The same for gender equality. We had 19 million american women working outside of the home during world war ii. Many of them went back to the homemakers after the war. But you dont put that genie back in the model for long. It showed women that they had an opportunity to do whatever men could do, that they could do things that men could do as well, if not better. Whether it was riveting together a ship, working in a science l
Welcome to the Constitution Center. Tos is such a happy day celebrate the collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [applause] nonpartisans a mission and that coincides with the Constitution Centers mission. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. I was so thrilled when my friend and colleague susan swain, the head of cspan, came just a few months ago, or rather weeks ago, and said, we have this great new book on the president s. At the National Constitution center. It is such an honor to welcome back to the Constitution Center the great founder of cspan, brian lamb. [applause] he is americas greatest interviewer. I was honored to be interviewed by him for this book, as were my colleagues. Welcoming him back to the center is so meaningful. Now to introduce this program, it is a special pleasure to wel