Weapon in history over hiroshima, japan, followed by a second detonation over the city of nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing an end to the second world war. I have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government. This is a full acceptance as of the potsdam declaration. The Unconditional Surrender of japan. Through the work of cspans cities tour, we will share stories of people who contributed to this world altering event. We begin in new orleans. The National World war ii museum. We are here on the road to tokyo exhibit. That will take us through the war in the pacific from 1941 to 1945. One of the interesting aspects is how quickly the turning point came in. The bombing of pearl harbor was 1941 and about six months later, after the japanese ran wild through the pacific, the battle of midway was fought. At the battle of midway, dive bombers destroyed no fewer than four japanese aircraft carriers in a brief battle. That was a major portion of japans nav
My count there were 60 or 70 people out here tonight. The police are out here on the scene but so far everything has been peaceful. Now, the folks out here protesting accuse the city of wasting millions on a problem that they say keeps getting worse. Critical of the citys policy of tearing down encampments and throwing away personal property. The city of course says the encampments are a health and fire danger so they have to do that. Now, as we talked about earlier the protests began earlier today ask ktvu was out here talking to some of the people involved. Reporter a collection of encampments and individuals pitched tents outside of Oakland City Hall on sunday. It is a protest of oaklands handling of new housing and growing homelessness. They point to the millions in funding to support the home tphaols it homeless. That was to provide people with portapotties and water and solar powered hand washing stations. We believe the city wasted the money. The mayor has not followed the direc
Highway 4. Looking at the bottom of a screen, crash on 87 and slowing that did clear to the shoulder. This exclamation point is part of our next big story. The slowdown continues to build, the motorcycle crash blocks your two left lanes at hillcrest, westbound highway 4, jammed up from about laurel and building coming out of antioch and that is an issue also the brentwood area but the deal is that injuries sounds like theyre at least not so severe that they couldnt move the motorcycle rider. The rider was sitting in the back of a pickup nearby. The rest of the bay approach toward the bay bridge moves smoothly, a crash moved to the shoulder at the toll plaza. Well check on that next. A man is clinging to life after a brutal stabbing at a south bay gas station. It happened right off of highway 17 and campbell. Kris sanchez there right now. Kris, anything new from police this morning . Reporter well, it looks like theyre starting to wrap up their Crime Scene Investigation here at the shel
One giant leap for mankind. On this 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing todays washington journal in conjunction with cspans American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern spaceflight. For the next three hours we are live from the national air and space museum here in washington, d. C. Where we will talk about apollo 11 with historians, command module pilot Michael Collins and you. You can call us and let us know your impressions of apollo 11 if you watched the moon landing and you want to talk about that day, your impressions of it, 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post cspan wj your thoughts and impressions of the 50th anniversary, do the same at our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based here from the national air and space museum. A couple facts about the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission, it was astronauts Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin and Michael Collins, the team for that day. The launch
Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. On this 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing, todays washington journal in conjunction with cspans American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern space flight. For the next three hour, we are live from the national air and space museum here in washington, d. C. , where we will talk about apollo 11 historians and michael collins. You want to talk about that day, your impressions of it, 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post cspanwj your thoughts and impressions of the 50th anniversary. You can do the same at our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based to hear from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts of the apollo 11 mission. It was astronauts Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins, the team for that day and the launch, youll remember took place july 16, 1969, at 9 32, to be exact. The moon landing on july 20, of july 69 at