Flattened how they are preparing for this monster hurricane. The president set to hold a News Conference this hour with the amir of kuwait, a day after the president shocked republican dealers. And new reports are out about a possible trump schumer deal. Plus the News Conference live. All of that is on tap. The dow is the biggest loser, and disney is one of bob iger warned about apple is taking a hypothetical wall street journal set reporting that the new iphone is plagued by production glitches we will more on this developing story ahead. Now to the biggest atlantaic hurricane ever that is irma shes battering the crib ban, leave a terrible path of destruction on the islands already hit, now taking aismt at florida here one of the we have wmaq meteorologist kalee dione this is whats moving toward turks and caicos and south florida in the coming dayses this has weakened just a tad in the last update at 175 Miles Per Hour update for those of you in south florida, you have been added to t
Good morning welcome to squawk alley. Carlson his way to florida and that is our top story, of course, of the morning Hurricane Irma the National Weather service downgrading the storm to category 4 earlier this morning, still packing devastating winds up to 156 Miles Per Hour Team Coverage this morning with nbc meteorologist back at hq jackie is in ft. Lauderdale. What can you tell us about the path of the storm . Its on track, continuing to move to the westnorthwest at this point between the bahamas and cuba over the day to day and looks like its on track to make a land fall in south florida early, early sunday morning. So well start by looking here off to my right. Because not only do we have the category four storm of irma, but we also have jose now category 4. So back to back category 4 storms in the atlantic at this point. But, of course, our main folk us is going to be irma. So if we look at the alerts that are going on throughout the area, its going to be right around south flor
Historians talks about what life was like for freedmen after the civil war and the overall successes and failures of reconstruction. They discussed Educational Opportunities, land redistribution, and Voting Rights as well as the politics behind these reconstruction measures. This panel was part of the annual lincoln forums symposium. It is about an hour in 15 minutes. The title of this panel may be a little deceiving. If i can read it here. [laughter] Voting Rights for black freedmen. What went right and what wrong. It seems to be couched in the terms of Voting Rights. It is really about reconstruction. I think you all know that and underminesuse what the whole progressive effort to reconstruction is the lack of freed rights for those net and women. We will expand this beyond voting. We just could not get there is a nation with the 13th amendment, with the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It did not give Voting Rights to the africanamericans. And neither did the 14th amendment with its equal
I think you all know that and get it because what undermines the whole progressive effort to reconstruction is the lack of Voting Rights for those freed men and women. We will expand this beyond voting. We just could not get there is a nation with the 13th amendment, with the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It did not give Voting Rights to the africanamericans. And neither did the 14th amendment with its equal protection and due process. It took the 15th amendment. And of course that is not work either because of every effort by some to deny africanamericans this great franchise of voting. Why do you think people come to this country . One of the things is the ability to choose their own representatives. We have a great panel. I dont say that every time we have a panel. [laughter] we have a great one today. Joan waugh, a professor of history at ucla. What is so important impressing me is the groundbreaking work you do with the u. S. Grant american hero, american myth. As i told her more than
So it seems to be couched in the erms t terms of Voting Rights and it is about reconstruction. I think you all know that and get it, because what undermines the whole progressive effort for reconstruction is the lack of Voting Rights for those freed men and women. So were going to expand this beyond voting, but we just couldnt get there as a nation with the 13th amendment, final freedom, with the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It didnt give Voting Rights to the africanamericans, and neither did the 14th amendment with its equal protection and due process. It took the 15th amendment, and of course that didnt work either because of every effort by some to deny africanamericans this great franchise of voting. Why do you think people come to this country . One of the things is the ability to choose their own representatives. So we have a great panel. I dont say that every time that we have a panel, but we have we have a great one today. Joan wah, who is vice chair of academic personnel and a pr