Do it. I feel strongly. When i take a quiet walk on the beach i just think of the ancient tribes that fished here. I think of all the salmon that was caught here. I dont know. It means a lot to me. It is home. It is a community of family. Ive lived here for 35 years. Ive raised both of my children here. You get to know your neighbors here. We have the border on one side and beaches on three sides. The boarder is a challenge. It change our daily lives continue outsidelycontinuously but it keeps our community quite and rural. That sense of community is rare and beautiful. In terms of adversity, absolutely precious. This is American History tv on cspan 3. Our 2014 cities tour has taken us on the road to cities across the america. Working with our cable partners, weve toured city sites and interviewed local historians. Coming up, highlights from our travels. See the schedule of where weve been and watch video from all of our stops. The importance of olympia oyster today is it was one of th
While two wildfires threaten hundreds of homes in california. And an entire town is told to be ready to evacuate. Were live at the scene. And drama at sea. A group of people had to abandon ship. Well show you the rescue, as it was videoed. Well show you today. August 5, 2014. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today its its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Tuesday morning. A tragic story to tell you about out of afghanistan. Another deadly insider attack at a base just west of kabul. Lets get to the pentagon and jim miklaszewski. Reporter at least one highranking American Military official was killed in in attack, sudden attack at this Training Base for Afghan Soldiers in kabul. According to official, the americans along with german allies had gathers with afghans at this base for some kind of event or meeting when suddenly, one of the Afghan Soldiers, at least somebody dressed like
An allstar salute for yankee great derek jeter as he makes his final appearance in the midsummer classic. And hes going out like a winner today. Wednesday, july 16th, 2014. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Did you see the game or any of it . Well, no. No. Had a great game. After all the hype i was worried he was going to fizzle. Nearly spectacular play in the field. The double in the first inning. And he got a wonderful ovation. So congratulations to jeter. Absolutely. Well get to our top story now. Its the Third Straight day of powerful and damaging storms across the east. Well get to nbcs craig melvin this morning. Hes in bellmore, new york on long island. Craig, good morning. Whats the situation there . Reporter savannah, good morning to you. Take a look at what happened. Were in the back yard of a house here on long island. That storm you mentioned c
Crisis in ukraine took a new turn today. China and russia pledged to strengthen military cooperation with each other and plan to hold military actions in the asia pacific region. Hong kong with the ongoing crisis rocking ukraine. Both they say have been instigated by the u. S. And its allies to undermine russian power this the world. Meanwhile, the Government Troops and prorussian separatist battle continues. Makes russians feel fear. Military exercises in nato states and russias real concern is preventing ukraine from joining the nato military alliance. Russia is demanding guarantees to make sure that never happens. While nate hasnt formally formal while nato hasnt formally invited ukraine to join its rarntion, nranks, no country ise suspicious than poland is. In 1980, a new independent trade union called solidarity challenged poleds cold war regime. By 1990 poland was able to transition to democracy and pivot itself towards the west, eventually joining the European Union and nato. A
Real money. In the new cold war, no country has paid a bigger price than ukraine. Areas in the east have been seized by prorussian rebels. Crimea has been annexed to russia outright, and Russia Threatens to cut off Energy Supplies mid went. Government infighting has delayed getting money to them. Such is ukraine, one year after prowestern protests erupted against the then prorussia leader. Sparking the biggest east west crisis sings the last cold wars. To show support for ukraines embattled leaders, joe biden flew to ukraine, in all, u. S. Has given ukraine 118 million in socalled nonlethal military aid. So far, the u. S. Has hesitated to send actual lethal aid which would be viewed as a major escalation by the russians. These increased tensions or ukraine have kicked off a new era of tensions between the nato alliance. Its not just europe that these tensions are being felt, it spread to the arctic, gaining foot holds in the north, that is said to hold 13 of its undiscovered oil and 30