Devices but one piece of new information we know that omar manteen killed 49 people, the local hospital there saying there are still five people in what they describe as grave condition. They just said that moments ago. Now, there is also a focus of investigators on two trips that this man is said to have made to saudi arabia a few years back. We know of one trip, and weve confirmed that at fox news in march of 2011 and another trip, second to saudi arabia from manteen a year later. March of 2012. They were said to be part of something called umra in the muslim faith, which is a nonmandatory visit to mecca as opposed to the mandatory to mecca. In march of 2011 and march of 2012. Now, i think president obamas comments gave something of a preview of what we may hear in more detail of this fbi briefing coming up in a few minutes. He said one thing. Theres no clear evidence that manteen was in any way directed, that he put externally or part of any kind of larger plot. He says he was appar
Banks of the cedar river until we head into saturday morning. It goes on for a period of time. It falls slower than it rises. Again in progress right now with the current stage of 16. 9. Slow rise as we go next several hours. Bruce and beth. Thank you joe. Traffic is pretty much crawling at times on i380. Thats one of two ways to get over the cedar river right now. The other is highway 30. Our tv 9 crew and viewers have said that the wilson side of the the real advice is just be patient. Also of course highway 30 is still open. Now the left lane of interstate 380 going northbound and southbound is reserved for emergency vehicles only. And we do see people using those as a regular lane which is not advised. Downtown cedar rapids has pretty much cleared out this hoping and praying that all of these preparations over the last few days will protect the downtown and other vulnerable areas in the city. Dave franzmann joins us near the cedar river. What is it looking like from your location.
Nba star paul george is recovering tonight after indian apacers forward suffered a nasty injury last night during team usa scrimmage. He runs back and jumped up and foot gets caught between floor and base of basket snapping lower right leg in half and we blurred out the video its that gruesome. George is in surgery and he will likely miss all season if not more time. Sixers center noel coming back from his own injury feels for george. My prayers go out to paul George Family and the whole Indiana Pacers organization. It takes a lot it was tough to see. Just coming back from that injury, you know i wish my best for him. We caught one noel down the shore. Hes high fiveing sixers fans at avalon at 16th annual beach batch. Everyone is having a lot of fun. All right. Arena league, football playoffs tonight ron jaworksi watching the soul play their heart out. Dan rodenbaugh 47 yards for the score. Take the lead on two point conversion and cleveland one last shot one second to go, game winning
Benhur. In fact, his career goes all the way up to 1970 when he retired just before making the movie that he had really hoped to be able to make, which is the movie that became patton. Mark harris is the author of five cameback a story of hollywood and the Second World War, and among the directors he features, william wyler. Thank you very much for being here with us on cspan3s American History tv. Thank you. Youve been watching a special presentation of our reel america series. Join us every sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern for more archival films by government industry, and educational institutions. Watch as these films take you on a journey through the 20th century. Again, thats reel america, every sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan3. We want to tell you about some of our other American History programs. Join us every sunday at 6 00 p. M. And 10 00 p. M. Eastern for a look at american artifacts. Travel with us to historic sites, museums and archives to lea
Director john houston and the battle of san pietro a 32 minute film depicting the 1943 battle which destroyed the town of san pietro, italy. Praised for a realistic portray portrayal of a battle that killed over 1,000 americans the film was composed almost entirely of reenacted scenes. Before showing the film we speak with film historian mark harris. The book is titled five came back a story of hollywood and the Second World War and joining us from new york is mark harris. As we look at some of the leading directors from this time period including john houston. What can you tell us about him . Well houston was a really fascinating, larger than life figure. His career in hollywood was just starting when the war broke out. He had had a kind of neerdowell adolescence, and early 20s, he had been involved in a few car crashes. He fled to paris at one point. His reputation was really not great. And then he came back to hollywood, started to build a reputation as a screenwriter, particularly