The duration of their song. It is moving. It gives me chills every time to see the pride on the men and women, their faces. Those are those children. It is always an amazing moment for me. An estimated 21 million americans in the united states. Two million in the state of california. Two million veterans in our country are women. I think of sacrifice and the ability to vote in the election that we just had. Thank you to all of the veterans who have served. Yes, indeed. We will talk more about veterans day throughout the morning. We want to bring you breaking news. That hazmat situation at a recycling sorting center on pier96. These are pictures shared by firefighters. 22 people got sick when they came into contact with something that should not have been in the recycling. There is no shelter in place for People Living near the facility. Were following another big story this morning. Oakland Police Investigating a triple homicide. It unfolded shortly after midnight at 92nd avenue and sa
System of parks. In 1933, the chief concern of the American Government was break the back of the bad depression. Among the conditions to be remedied were to that president roosevelt recognized it will. Employment for hundreds of men and war young veterans was imperative. Has a crocs havoc by soil erosion. One solution for both problems, the organization and work of the civilian corps was undertaken. Within two years, both problems were well on their way to solution. Resources of natural with conservation, pure and simple. One important phase of this was more than that, the making of a nationwide system of recreational areas, smaller more numerous state parks closer to the men and war veterans people, mark festival r their use. Work in all its many phases is being done in the state park areas from one end of the country to the other. Better facilities for forest firefighting are being provided. Speed is imperative in fighting forest fires. The trees and dry undergrowth are being cleared
Attraction in one of marylands state parks. It is a most interesting veteran of three wars. The french and indian, the war for independence, and the war between the states. On bold banks near morehead city, north carolina, the civilian conservation corps is doing another job of repairing the ravages of time. At fort mikan, the sea and wind have been destroying one of the early masterpieces of fortification. On this site for 200 years, forts of one kind or another protrekted this Strategic Point from invasion from the sea. The present fort required 12 years to build. When completed, sometime after 1824, it was considered the last word in Coastal Defense and cost the then amazing sum of 463,700. An active commission during the war between the states, it was seized by the confederates in 1861 and recaptured by the union forces the following year. The walls are of brick and mortar, four feet thick, and theyre rock solid after more than 100 years. Arches, garrison rooms and ammunition magaz
That summer and in the midst of this were electing adams versus jefferson, but theyve learned their lesson. They say well run two guys but you cant specify which is which. So when jefferson wins the election he ties his own Vice President candidate and of course burr and jefferson being tied means by the constitution the election goes to the house of representatives so the first thing we do in our new capitol is basically the house of representatives has to elect the new president and they have to vote more than 30 times before the tie can be broken so now youre saying okay. Weve learned our lesson, lets fix it. So the 12th amendment comes along to straighten out the way of electing a president. But you look back to these early days and theyre managing to find out what doesnt work which isnt much and find out that most of that constitution does, and so were able to today look at that room thats much smaller than the senate today but the senators who sat here, pretty much do the same th
That nationwide the continues to see the effect break havoc in this country. What will you do to improve the voting and there it is again. I would like to see open primaries everywhere. Federal voting holidafederal vor registration in 18 years of age we have joel here to join us. You will hear it again. And the automatic voter registration. Lets start with the congressman on this money and if you can be specific on the primaries of the voting i think it is a great solution we should have been in the state of florida. I think republicans should embrace this because we can grow the party by embracing the conservative solutions that appeal to independents and those that are no Party Affiliations so i would say yes to the open primaries and on the other issue whatever makes the voting more accessible and successful so we have greater participation. Congressman. First i have to introduce legislation for this purpose as i indicated before it introduced more than any other member and i introd