Funeral services are scheduled for today and later this week for the victims from the amtrak crash. New questions this morning on what caused the amtrak train to derail. This is also the part of the larger debate on americas infrastructure. Do you support or oppose more Infrastructure Spending . If you support more spending 202 7488000. If you oppose, 202 7488001. You can also join in on the conversation on our Facebook Page, facebook. Com cspan. Send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Or send us a tweet, cspanwj. Good sunday morning to you. This is the headline from todays philadelphia inquirer, suddenly there was darkness and chaos. Jumping the tracks just outside the 30 street station in philadelphia. We want to get your comments and calls. First, the president who spoke about infrastructure last thursday. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] president obama we should not be thinking smaller today, we should be thinking bigger in this Global Economy. My hope is that we have a chan
Area, they didnt know about telephones. It was interesting to see things happen. This was the turn of the century, 1907, they built mr. Bryans home, and they built mr. Ed kings home. 1911, that is when the phone system was built. There was a lot of growth and things happening fast. Keith and within a few months a board of trade was established here. Reid bryan toms brother, was the president of that. Within another month, they had town meetings where they all agreed that they would incorporate officers. Incorporate and elect officers. Within another couple of months, that had happened. By the middle of 1911, Fort Lauderdale was officially incorporated as a town. Timothy in order to have the city we have today, it is Fort Lauderdale it is important , to recognize the pioneers that started this area. All of those men, when we look at philemon bryan and we look at Henry Flagler there were things happening here. People want to preserve that history. Keith what i feel, that was the start of
Pleasure to talk to you. To allow small boats to go in and out of the lake into the ocean and that was the prelude to the major project which started in 1927 to proceed with a port here of what is now Port Everglades. A detonation eventually occurred to open the curt and turn the channel into cut to turn the channel into a navigationable channel. Since then weve grown to the second largest cruise port in the world. On a typical year we see up to 800 port calls by cruise ships. This year we had 40 different ships from ten different cruise lines that moved 4 million passengers to the port. The Economic Impact is over 2 billion and its also over 6,000 jobs directly tied to the persons who would come in and out of Broward County and greater Fort Lauderdale to go on those cruises. People are staying in hotels and theyre also staying in hotels after their cruise is over. That once again brings jobs and brings people into the local community. The state of florida actually has the most memorab
Japanese people, but also among american historians of the bomb, its frequently used. This term would apply to the japanese americans who were in hiroshima and nagasaki at the time. Correct. After the bombs were dropped, what happened to the japanese americans . What was their situation . Immediately after the explosion, i think their situation was very comparable to many other survivors, regardless of their nationality. Obviously, the devastation was just simply overwhelming. But as part of my work, i have been conducting oral history interviews with those u. S. Survivors. And one thing i am very fascinated by is how their National Belonging to both japan and america came out very strongly. Even as they tried to respond to the devastation in 1945. To give you an example, there are some japanese American Family members who lost each other. So they didnt know where they were. I mean, they really spent a lot of time looking for each other. One survivor, u. S. Survivor, i talked to, she w
Overnight human charred remains have been found. Are they the remains of Christopher Dorner . We have expert insight into the unfolding drama. And president obama lays out his vision for the nation in the state of the Union Address. His big schal length . Getting congress to act on gun violence. The families of newtown deserve a vote. The families of aurora deserve a vote. Also this morning, the two gop responses. Well dig into those as well. Also new this morning, Pope Benedict xvi speaks out for the First Time Since his shocking resignation. What he told followers as they celebrate ash wednesday. Plus, 4,000 people on that stranded cruise ship slowly being pulled to shore at this very minute and it is frankly gross out there. We have the latest. Wednesday, february 13th. A special edition of starting point begins right now. Welcome, everybody. Youre watching starting point. Comi coming to you from the nations capit capital. We have complete coverage from the president s state of the