Next 24 hours saturday is looking raw, damp and dreary. The steady round of rain again late tonight into early tomorrow morning. It will be breezy but not as windy as it has been, winds generally out of the northeast 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. We have to wait until sunday to see some peeks of sunshine but sunday is looking a lot better than saturday. We just got the latest in from the National Hurricane center on matthew. This storm is now a category four hurricane. This is a major hurricane, the first major hurricane in the caribbean since sandy and this could threaten the u. S. Next week. Ill talk more about matthew coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Monica and rick. Thank you cecily. Thanks cecily. New at 5 00 police and fire Officials Say heavy rain may have caused this Building Collapse in downtown wilmington. The building is home its home to a Property Management company in the 900 block of walnut street. It happened sometime this morning before anyone arrived for work. So
History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Next on the presidency, a conversation about William Leuchtenburgs new book, the american president from Teddy Roosevelt to bill clinton. Douglas with historian brinkley about the president he has met and shares his insight on others like william taft, harry truman, and Calvin Coolidge. The New York Historical society hosted this 90 minute event. [applause] good morning, thank you for being here. One Public Service announcement. We will be taking questions. When that happens, we ask you to just ask one question, tried to keep it brief, but also tell us your name. We will try to get as many people through the microphones as we can. Two Staff Members will be on hand. We will be going back and forth and picking up people to ask questions. It is an absolute thrill for me to be here, because William Leuchtenburg is a hero of mine. I did my doctorate in u. S. President ial diplomatic history, and his books were a seminal reading when i was co
Good morning, thank you for being here. One Public Service announcement. We will be taking questions. When that happens, we ask you to just ask one question, tried to keep it brief, but also tell us your name. We will try to get as many people through the microphones as we can. Two Staff Members will be on hand. We will be going back and forth and picking up people to ask questions. It is an absolute thrill for me to be here, because William Leuchtenburg is a hero of mine. I did my doctorate in u. S. President ial diplomatic history, and his books were a seminal reading when i was coming through the ranks and getting my doctorate. I still now use and teach his books at my class in Rice University on the american presidency. I found that one of his books about fdr, was just an absolute classic. You have not even considered understanding our modern times without reading that book. What a long legacy fdr passed on to our politics after his death. We want to begin today by asking you congr
Conversation, a lot of confidence comments already on facebook. Supporters only, why are you supporting donald trump for president . Here are the front pages, and we going to go through all the pages this morning to show you all the articles mentioning donald trump. His is usa today harris the wall street journal. Trump is attacked from all corners. His picture with the others from the debate last night. , rivalsington post says pile on trump and republican debate. The new york times, romney calls trump unfit as party erupts in discord. And Financial Times even has donald trump on the front with a picture with tiger woods from 2013. This is about golf, but they managed to get him on the front page as well. Finally, the washington times, trump at center of the pub republican attacks. Those are just some of the papers and we will go through more as we go. 202 7488000 if you live in the east and central time zones, 202 7488001 for those in the mountain and pacific time zones. Why are you
Now, betty ford. This is about 90 minutes. Being ladylike does not require silence. Why should my husband or yours prevent us from being ourselves. I do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. [applause] betty ford spoke her mind. Prochoice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president ford expressed her experience with breast cancer. Through much of her familys public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency. Confronting it defined her post white house years. Tonight, we will tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of our 38 president , gerald ford. For the next 90 minutes to tell her story is Richard Norton smith. He is one of our academic advisors for this whole project and he has helped launch a number of president ial libraries, among them the library for the forts. You bring that to the table. In the interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible but i was very fortunate to become good