Trains are bustling with travellers. Almost 49 Million People are expected to travel 50 miles or more. We look at Philadelphia International airport this years Holiday Travel is expected to be the busiest every for u. S. Airline and 27 million passengers expected to fly during the Holiday Season. We are live at 30th street station ready for the expected surge and added more trains between washington, d. C. And boston. Let go live to action news reporter, john rawlins along 95 in newark. Reporter hi there. Well southbound 95 over my shoulder we are at the Delaware Welcome Center according to the estimate. 90 of those who travel this weekend holiday will travel by car and it certainly doesnt seem that that is a stretch. This is miles of i95 that cuts through delaware very, very busy today. Here at the travel plaza they are doing a brisk business and it looks like a Shopping Mall a few days before christmas. Its jammed with people and jammed with cars, i95 runs from miami to the canadian
Mothers who have traveled overseas and zika infected areas, more on the new development now from ktvus Jana Katsuyama live in the newsroom. Jana . Reporter Public Health Officials Say they cannot release any information for privacy reasons but we have learned from a source that the mother did not contract the virus here but got it while traveling. The mother delivered her baby at the Medical Center within the past six months. She apparently contracted zika virus while traveling in guatemala. Her baby was born with a severe case of microcephaly, unusually small head. Zika virus can infect the nerve cells early on in development and cause damage. So that is sort of what is thought to be causing the small heads and brains. Reporter affected babies are prone to seizures and developmental delays. Doctors dont know the long term effects. California Health Officials say to date 114 californians have tested positive for zika virus. 21 are pregnant women. All were travel related cases. The viru
Bit. After yesterdays storms. Rolled through. Are there any chances we could see a repeat . Lets check in with 13 first alert meteorologist bryan scofield. Bryan blue cut fire continues to burn within southern california. Current acres burned is 37,000 acres with 26 containment as of friday. The smoke from this fire should stay away from las vegas this weekend so the air quality should stay in the good to moderate levels. With only ozone being our main our upper level low of calnevari is holding onto some monsoonal moisture and whipping it up into Southern Nevada today. Timing changes every hour but so far the common window looks to be between 1pm to 5pm this afternoon. The rain chances are small just like yesterday; ranging around 10 with mainly sunny skies being common for the valley. Highs will range around normal values which is close to 100. Now. To those massive flames. Tearing through california. Bernardino county. Destroying homes and scorching tens of thousands of acres. Abcs
Don you are welcome. [applause] narrator you are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Like us on facebook at cspan history. Week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next, a visit to the National Museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. Present day. The in the second of a twopart visit, we pick up a story in the 1880s, when an era of Mass Immigration brought thousands of immigrants to the United States from Eastern Europe every year. We started to see big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is the archetype of the arrival story. People were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places like galveston, texas, and california as well. We have on display a number of the types of documen
See big waves of immigrants coming to america. They included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. Coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is sort of the archetype of the arrival story. People were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places you would not think of like galveston, texas, and california as well. We have on display a number of the types of documents immigrants would have needed when coming into these ports. Everything from passports to visas, luggage tags, Health Inspection certificates. These are things that people tended to save for a long time afterward and even past down to their children. They carried great meaning for them. Jews left europe for many different reasons. One of the most wellknown is the antisemitic violence that happened in europe. Things which were antijewish riots, and would break out from time to time . They are strongly remembered even by the greatgrandchildren of people who left that