Welcome to nashville, tennessee on American History tv. In the 19 century, it earned the souththe athens of the because of its reputation as a wealthy and refined southern city. Today, nashville is known for its ties to Country Music. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, we will exhibit two exhibits at the Country Music hall of fame and museum. One about music raging political gaps in the 1960s and another about the origins of Country Music in nashville. Now call Country Music comes from the confluence of the fiddle that came over from ireland and the banjo that came over in the minds of african slaves. Resultose combined, the was the music that came to be called Country Music. It was not originally centered in nashville. It was in large part a radio. Tation this year later, visit the Civil Rights Movement at the Nashville Public Library and learn how nashville became a model city for integration in the south. It was the only methodical and Strategic Movement led by students in
After world war ii, they would come in and compromise every liberalthinking social Democratic Party and crush them and take over the works. It was a terrible economic idea communism and made into an evil force by a totalitarian nature by what we were experiencing. I was sympathetic with what president ial candidate Ronald Reagan said, but its a lot easier to say than it actually is to do. Im not of the school if we were to ramped up our effort in vietnam we would have won it. The most important thing we underestimated was presuming that communism was monolithic and that vietnam was a pep pet of the soviet union and china. Yugoslavia was a wellknown sort of renegade inside the communist party movement. The suggestion you might characterize it is go big or stay home is a little shorter version of what Ronald Reagan said on that particular occasion. There is a lot of legitimacy, i believe in that statement, but theres lots of qualifiers too which suggests that if you dont if those element
Schools are closed today. Moore county schools will be delayed two hours. You can see a complete list scrolling at the bottom of your screen or any time on wral. Com. At loaf we didnt get another round of really, really bad, bad weather overnight. We appreciate a little bit of dry weather because this festival is this weekend. Wide open Bluegrass Festival. It is a big deal with thousands of fans gathered. Lets go to iz who is one of the biggest bluegrass fans i know. Thats right. Im excited to be here in downtown raleigh for the Bluegrass Festival. But there are a lot of things going on here. We have a bunch of fans here getting ready. We stepped away from the stage because the earls of lester are doing a sound check right now. They are getting ready for the festival. Lets talk about the weather. Was going on now that the sun is up. Wave been here since about 5 charleston 30 this morning. Since about 5 30 this morning. A lot of low cloud cover. On the radar picture, we are seeing a lit
Convention center. It was still good but just something about having it outside. If you are coming to the Bluegrass Festival today, wear your shorts and tshirts. It is really warm and muggy. Yesterday, we had very heavy rain at this time and down in that same area, we have a storm that has developed. Well zoom in down south. You can see the storm, when we talked about it 20 minute or so ago, it was moving across lightning with this. This is an area that saw devastating flooding yesterday. Dont be too concerned about this bringing us any more flooding. There are still some flash flood warnings down in that area. We have ahay cell move through roxboro. That moved up into virginia for the most part. Still lifting out of Person County right now. This is what well see all through the morning, just these isolated cells popping up with brief heavy rain. Morning. It is 73 in downtown. 7 in rocky mount. We check our forecast for today. Looking at temperatures visibilities very quickly, quarter
Space station. This week scott kelly will blast off for International Space station where he will stay longer than any american in history. Feel like im just moving and im not coming back. How will he eat . This is cranapple. How will he live . Thats the bedroom. Preparing for the very long haul. Ahead on sunday morning. This is where you do space walks from. Osgood works of art truly deserve to be called cool. For example ones lee toy juan will show us from the arctic circle. Might never look at an ice cube quite the same way after seeing this. Its a race up in alaska to sculpt ice into giant works of art. A little crazy to do this. This is our spring break. Instead of beaches and margarita, were polar bears and ice. In the light theyre even better. Artists with ice in their veins, ahead on sunday morning. Osgood those who are mad about mad men the tv show just two weeks to go until the start of the final series of episodes. This morning Anthony Mason takes us behind the scenes. Good