Watching the weather conditions in the window particular. But first lets go live to Alyssa Harrington mmunity cente we understand it is at reporter there are 200 people spending the night here. I want to show you the sign in the wall. There is also a local pet unit for small animals. We know that about 2000 people had to be evacuated because of the fire in the geyserville area. Some residents packed other cars and filled the Community Center. There are also hundreds more at the santa rosa Veterans Memorial building. That is one of the other Evacuation Centers. Horses and other livestock can be brought to the fairgrounds. Evacuated told ktvu they could see flames creeping towards their neighborhood and some really did not have much time to grab their belongings. We walked out on the deck and from that we had a vantagepoint to the geyser hillside. Select the Sonoma County sheriffs came through with lights and sirens, blow horns, firefighters have been working all night on the containment
Talk about the National Native American Veterans memorial. We broke ground for the memorial this morning. And we will turn to the business of building the memorial next week. And so were glad that youre here. Were excited to be talking about the memorial. Lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt. Harvey is a citizen of the cheyenne and arapahoe tribes of oklahoma. He is a cheyenne peace chief. He has been a career Law Enforcement official. Hes a working artist. And he is a marine and a vietnam veteran. So please greet harvey pratt. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. So, harvey, what caused you to submit a proposal, a proposed design for the memorial . Well, our veterans director just kept after me. I had no really had no hope that i would even come close or submit a design. He just kept after me. He said do it for the tribe, harvey. Come on, submit something. And i thought about it, and i said, well, let me dream on it. I said i have to dream. Some of my best creativity is done ea
Memorial this morning, and we will turn to the business of building the memorial next week. So we are glad that you are here, we are excited to be talking about the memorial and lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt, harvey is a citizen of the shine rapid traps of oklahoma, he is a chief, he has been a career Law Enforcement official, he is a working artist, law and he is a marine and vietnam veteran so please greet harvey pratte. Thank you. So harvey, what caused used to submit a proposal of the proposed design for the memorial . While our veterans director just kept after me. Then i had no hope that i would even come close or submit a design and he kept saying to it for the tribe, submit something and i thought about it and he said let me dream on it. My i think some of my best creativity is done early in the morning during that dream period and so thats what i did, i went home and i dreamed about it and i got up and got my big chief out and made some sketches and it just cam
All right, good afternoon its great to see you all here. My name is kevin gover im the director at the National Museum of the american indian. Where here to talk about the National American memorial and broke ground for it this morning and we will turn to the business of building the moral next week. So, were glad that youre here and were excited to be talking about the memorial and lets get right to it is with me is harvey pratt with. Hes a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. He is a piece chief and has been a career Law Enforcement official. He is a working artist and he is a marine and vietnam veteran. Put your arms together for harvey pratt applause what caused you to submit a proposal opposed designed for the memorial . Our veterans director just kept after me. I had no one really had no hope that they would come closer. He just kept after me and kept doing it for the tribe and i said let me dream on it and i said i have to dream. Some of my best creativity is done in the morning a
Later we visit downtown rapid city for a look at their collection of lifesize statues of our nations past president s. We begin our special feature with the story of Calvin Coolidge in the black hills. We are here in south dakotas black hills in Custer State Park and we are at the State Game Lodge which is a 1920s era building that was constructed can several years before Calvin Coolidge made his summer white house here in 1927 and he and the first lady stayed here for three months from june through september 1927 while they were on vacation. Calvin coolidge took office in 1923 when he was Vice President and Warren Harding died so he served as the last little bit of Warren Hardings term and was elected to his own term in 1924 and so he came to south dakota in 1927 when a lot of people were speculative would he or would he not run for another term in 1928 and it was widely expected that he would but he came here in 1927 because he was looking for a place to escape the oppressive summer