Has transitioned away from Space Shuttle missions to one focused on exploration. Everything we do in this agency is with the express purpose of making life better for people here on earth. He answers, in part, to senator ted cruz, chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Space Science and competitiveness. Cruz is also a Climate Change skeptic. I dont worry about trying to change someones mind, i try to present data that is very accurate. Bolden service at the Agency Follows a decades long career with the marine corps, he retired a Major General. Its a carrer a young black man growing up in the segregated south could never have imagined. I ended up going in the marine corps and ah, servin in vietnam. My family and friends were sometimes bein killed on the streets back home, i knew what i was going to face when i went back and yet, in that same period of time, we put a human on the moon i spoke to Charles Bolden at nasa headquarters in washington. Well, youve been on the job almost six years.
Wake is held for freddie gray the young man that died in custody. How far have we come . Its amazing. Ruby bridges sharing her views in a battle against racism. Japans Prime Minister arriving in the u. S. For a visit. In the week ahead we look at the changing americanjapanese alliance. A race against time. Hungry. No Drinking Water sending hope and supplies. Rapid response rapid rescues and relief response to the situation in nepal is our primary mission and the fear of more devastating aftershocks. We have been coming in and out of the house all evening due to aftershocks as well together the latest on the earthquake in nepal. Tonight the death toll is climbing. More than 2500 and growing. Many expect the number to rise as search crews reach remote areas. The disaster prompting an international response. The priority is disease. In places like kathmandu, where people are forced outside, living in tents. The quakes epicentre was 50 miles from nepals capital city. Andrew simmonds said m
Face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs good morning, we begin in baltimore with cbs news correspondent Wyatt Andrews. Good morning, bob. Related to the demonstrations here in baltimore last night there was a much different attitude yesterday especially compared to the violence that we saw on monday night. The difference in that mood came directly from the charges that were filed against the police on friday that six officers involved in the arrest of ready gray. Thousands of people marched on saturday first assembling around city hall then occupying an intersection in northwest baltimore close to freddie grays home. Plenty of anger was expressed but there was also celebration due to fridays arrest of Six Police Officers on charges that range from assault to Second Degree murder. In a community not used to the arrests of police christine foreign forbes said its about time. Lot of times theyre notctions. Justice was served. I heard the call, no justice, no peace. When it was announ
After the homestead act is enacted all these civil war soldiers moving to kansas. We are the soldiers state long before we are the son of former state because of the civil war veterans coming west. You cannot overstate the role of kansas. Host the book is called the contested murder of Latasha Harlins justice, gender, and the origins of the la riots published by Oxford University press. The author is ucla history professor stevenson. Who was latasha . An africanamerican girl 17 at the time of her death living with her grandmother and her aunt and cousins and a freshman in high school and was killed 1991 in South Central inside the Empire Market. By the shopkeeper. Host why was she killed . Guest there was the struggle over a bottle of orange juice that cost 1. 79. Latasha harlins enter the store you can see this on the video camera. She entered at 9 30 a. M. And goes to the refrigerated case to picks up a bottle of orange juice and places it in her backpack she walks to the counter and
Substituting tonight, peter alexand eve tonight. More violent aftershocks rattle the region. For the first time were seeing dramatic video from the stop of the world, base camp at mt. Everest, the moment the massive earthquake struck. D is shaking. The quake triggered a huge avalanche, climbers sent scrambling for safety. It was the deadliest day of nearly 100 expeditions on the worlds highest peak. The death toll is rising tonight. More than 2500 dead including at least many mo injured. Our team is there tonight and we begin with ear chief foreign corr engel. Flying into kathmandu today, it was clear that after saturdays massive et quake, l i bracing for worse to come. We felt an aftershock a big one. Outside the airport, tensions turned to scuffles. People her want out before the next quake hits. Kathmandu is a poor and crowded city built with brick and cement. Theyre staying as far away from the builds as they can. Here understandably dont to spend time indoors, with etly loan spend