The city doubled. There were horses and horse and buggy was was the travel there are street cars and elevatedres no subways but the cycle came along. Has been something that special specialized riders but safety bicycles came along and the mass started to ride. The bicycle became the most popular form of conveyance. People who had just relied on the slow moving horse and buggy world had a way to get around cleanly, fast, very efficient, and for a lot of people this was their own form of independence, around this time, for example, a woman who has writing about suffrage, wrote a biograph called how i learn to ride the biffle. So gives you a sense of the new world of the bicycle and the most popular sport at this time was cycling. Much more so than baseball, for example. If you wants to see fastmoving sport you went to one of the men bell dreams and there were white races and black dominated race but to the main races were dominated by white riders. Major taylor had been born in indianap
A major problem in india in recent years more than 300000 farmers have killed themselves in the past 25 years a study found a 5th of those deaths were due to Climate Change and even a marginal increase in rainfall lead to fewer suicides that year. The government has encouraged farmers to insure their crops against failure through a nationwide scheme they say they have distributed more than 60000000. 00 to farmers in this district this year. And the condition of crops there is a Prime Ministers scheme and i will get the insured amount. But many of those who are supposed to gain protection say it doesnt work. Says insurers wont cover his silk farm and morris says he also cant get support it has a rich poor people the middlemen big door so it doesnt benefit the poor farmers. And bar mentalists say whats really needed is for farmers to stop relying on crops like cotton and sugar cane which takes lots of water to grow. If you look at b. Its continuously in drought because of Sugar Factories
Heading to court ultra wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein set to go before a judge today to face new charges of sex trafficking minor girls. The raid on his new york mansion and the covert operation to arrest him. Breaking new developments in the terrifying road rage incident caught on camera. A driver opening fire on a family truck with children and fireworks inside. The suspect turning himself in overnight. The search for answers after the shocking death of a young disney star who passed away in his sleep. New details and tributes this morning. And celebrating baby archie. A Family Affair for the young royals christening. Everybody was there and the special honor for Princess Diana. Good morning, america. Hope you had a good weekend. Good to have both of you back. How much fun was it watching celeatr the big win. Ght there. Ei orall the the home. Eir hotel france thiing or otheiway a late night of celebrating, george. The team were out in full force at the afterparty calling it party
A gunman on the loose in the Mission District. And there was a police chase. We are in San Francisco. Here is the latest on what we know. Good morning. Reporter good morning. People have started waking up this morning and coming to see the crime scene that is still somewhat active this morning. There actually some apartment buildings just above the businesses here on 24th street. A couple of people have come outside of their homes this morning. A surprise, of course to see the crime scene tape around this area. You can see what appears to be a bullet hole in one of the windows. This is a hair styling salon on 24 street. That appears to be a bullet hole. We will take you to video of what the scene looks like earlier this morning and tell you exactly what we know so far. Officers found a man shot on 24 street here. He died on scene. The sidewalk where he was found is blocked off by police tape. The whole situation started at midnight after shots were reported here in the Mission District
Bodies. Hundreds without a home and just in thailand. Reporter im with the sports includi including. Gianni infantino begins day one as f. I. F. A. President and vows to restore trust in footballs governing body we begin in syria where activists are reporting conditional ceasefire is being honoured. The Russian Military says it stopped air strikes as part of the deal. There has been some artillery and machine gunfire but no major attacks have been reported so far. Almost 100 rebel factions agreed to respect the truce, but it doesnt include some of the most powerful armed groups in the country like alnusra front or i. S. I. L. Alnusra is calling on rebels to ignore the truce and even intensify attacks on Government Forces. Syrian government is saying it will continue to bomb the area of adaaya. Daraya. Reporter just over 40 minutes before the cessation of hostilities was due to come into effect, a vote by the u. N. Security council to endorse it. It was unanimous. Ambassadors were addre