Million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the Summer Travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary well be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park Service Experiences and we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 2027488001. What had been your experience at National Parks across the country, including a new one designated this week in the state of maine. You can also send us a tweet at spambingswj or join us on facebook. Com cspan. Good thursday. Thanks very much for being with us. If you pick up todays wall street journal or Washington Post, two editorials commemorating the National Park service including this from Terry Anderson. Happy 100th birthday National Parks and Jonathan Janis writing these lands are your lands, america. Read them online at wsj. Com. Some background on the National Park service. It was signed into law on this date by president Woodrow Wilson in 191
Into its operations. Then the anniversary of the magna carta. Later, donald trump joins joni ernst at an event in iowa as it could be to veterans. Host good morning. A live look at the Lincoln Memorial and the mall in washington, d. C. With the Washington Monument in the foreground and the u. S. Capitol on this thursday, august 25. Today marking a Centennial Anniversary. It was on this date 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signing a bill that created the National Park service. Today an estimated 20,000 employees, more than 200,000 volunteers, staffing americas 413 National Parks, memorials, battlefields and Historic Sites. And last year alone, nearly 310 million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the Summer Travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary well be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park Service Experiences and we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 2027
Welcome to your world im stephanie sy. Piecing together the clues and trying to find a motive between the killing in kalamazoo, washington and jason dalton shot eight people and first at an apartment complex and dealership and restaurant parking lot and killed six people and right now two others are in Critical Condition and andy is following to story for us and believe he chose the shooting victims at random, where does the investigation stand this morning . Well, stephanie that suspect 45yearold jason dalton will make his First Court Appearance today in Kalamazoo County Court charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder and authorities still dont know what led to the seemingly ran done, unprovoked series of attacks saturday night and meantime the same kind of bewilderment was felt at a prayer vigil last night for the eight victims in kalamazoo and sang Amazing Grace and they too just tried to make sense out of something so senseless. Shots fired and one victim right no
U. S. Marine corps futenma air station is to be moved from ginowan city to the less populated area. He was instructed to rescind it, but he refused, citing it was too much to bear. The lawsuit is the first of its kind in decades. He called the request disappointing and unjust. Frances president called for aggressive action to defeat the terrorists who attacked paris. Francois hollande said he will meet with other World Leaders to discuss a joint response to International Terrorist networks. Translator the acts of war of friday were conceived and planned in syria. They were organized in belgium and perpetrated on our soil with french accomplices. Hollande told parliament the constitution should be amended. He says the government needs more flexibility to combat terrorism. He will meet with the president s of russia and the United States. France will step up air strikes on strong holds of Islamic States in syria. The military will triple the bombing capability of french planes by deployi
Under the government plan, the u. S. Marine corps futenma air station is to be moved from ginowan city to the less populated area. He was instructed to rescind it, but he refused, citing it was too much to bear. The lawsuit is the first of its kind in decades. He called the request disappointing and unjust. Frances president called for aggressive action to defeat the terrorists who attacked paris. Francois hollande said he will meet with other World Leaders to discuss a joint response to International Terrorist networks. Translator the acts of war of friday were conceived and planned in syria. They were organized in belgium and perpetrated on our soil with french accomplices. Hollande told parliament the constitution should be amended. He says the government needs more flexibility to combat terrorism. He will meet with the president s of russia and the United States. France will step up air strikes on strong holds of Islamic States in syria. The military will triple the bombing capabil