[wind blowing] the temperature a bare 10 degrees above zero. The wind, a cutting 20 miles per hour. The date, almost any bleak day in january, 1778. The place, valley forge, pennsylvania. The event, famine, disease. Exhaustion, and disease. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an weary eye on the wellfed british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast, on this bone chilling morning, 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. Onethird to onehalf of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, rolled log huts with clay, with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the bleak, lonely whiteness, the only cover is the crimson of blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them, bitter words and bitter memories of the war against king geo
Exhaustion. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an wary eye on that well fit british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast. Morning,one chilling 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. One third to one half of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, huts of clay with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the leak lonely , whiteness, the only cover is blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them bitter words and , bitter memories of the war of king george as they left their bloody footprints on the snows of valley forge. Yes, the revolutionary war could have ended here. Yet somehow, this winter of despair becomes the turning point of the revolution. Corps] from it, comes defeat for the , the birth of the United Stat
Cable partner traveling to toledo, ohio are coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as the glass capital of the world and in about 15 minutes the story of general mad Anthony Wayne and his role in the western expansion into ohio and later that toledo crash of 1931 we begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are taken for granted and that this shame because there is such a wonderful history here. Over the years people of toledo have built things, known as the glass city because the first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston to toledo in 1800s drawn by natural gas and also sand, edwin drummer baby brought his new England Glass Company to toledo and opened a plants on at street north toledo and its on the exact same site today p or that was 1988 and Owens Corning here downtown toledo a fortune 500 company invented
Crazy person off the street like thats a trusted person at the airline. Were learning more about the east bay man who attempted to shut off the engines of a plane while it was in the air. Good morning on this tuesday, october 24th. Start the check of our forecast. Andrew hey, good morning. So we have a dense fog advisory again in the north bay. This lasting until 10 a. M. We are seeing low visibility in the valleys of napa and sonoma county, especially around santa rosa, petaluma, napa itself, even yountville. So we take a look at visibility. Were down a half a mile in santa rosa, a quarter of a mile in petaluma, three miles in novato. And just like yesterday morning, its probably going to linger between about nine and 10 a. M. Before this cloud cover is really going to lift. Its a cooler start to the day compared to yesterday. Were down to 48 in novato 54 in the city, 57 in san jose with mostly cloudy skies in the south bay. 55 right now in concord. Half moon bay coming in at 57 degre
Six nor people diagnosed in the bronx outbreak that brings a totally of confirm cases of legionnaires disease of 60 people so far. Hillary clinton is rolling out her First Campaign ad in the 2016 race. And there are new reports this by the new york tiles over o the weekend that joe biden is very close, this close to getting into the race himself apparently it was his dying sons final wish. Wow. All right we shall see good morning everybody im juliet huddy. Ben im Ben Simmoneau, monday morning. Ben inlaws were in town. We went on saturday to governors island. It was very nice. Juliet didnt put them up in a hotel . Ben no they stayed with us. Juliet hotel rates are cheap lately. Ben it was very nice. Kind of brief. But we had a nice time. Juliet reminded of you constant isly i tweeted this. A car parked in front of my building a license plate. What does it say ben is with me. Im with ben. It is everywhere i see you everywhere now. Like youre stalking me. Ben as it should be. Mike i hope