Minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. I am the president of this wonderful institution. The only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. So great to hear those wonderful words of our Inspiring Mission statement here in the beautifully renovated theater. Ladies and gentlemen, just a few months ago we opened up this gorgeous new space renovated with the great foundation. And youre hearing me from the state of the art cool mics on these beautiful new seats. Its a thrill to see so many people here to celebrate the opening of the return of our great exhibit, american spirit. [applause] i want you to go see it after the show if you havent seen it yet and cspan viewers i want you to come to philadelphia to see this beautiful exhibit which tells an amazing constitutional story that we are going to talk about tonight. That is the constitutional story that poses an incredible question. How did it ha
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m
Knocking on the door. Mike its coming fast. Tuesday morning, its going to feel cool enough, youll start to say ooh, theres fall in the air, isnt there . Lets talk about today. High temperatures will be in the mid 80s. Near the shore line, pretty much into the upper 70s, a lot like yesterday. Yesterday, humidity went down. Today, it goes up. Were comfortable this morning, but its going to get muggy through the afternoon. All of this moisture gets scooped up as we get this ste rain overnight. We do need every drop of moisture we can get. Looks like this one will be hit or miss for a lot of places, so hopefully youll be one of the areas that gets nice downpours. By 4 00, the skies are overcast. Here comes the rain at 10 00, 11 00 tonight. Eventually moving its way over to the eastern part of the state. But its going to take most of the night. Tomorrow mornings commute could be on the slow side. Well talk more about the hour by hour breakdown of the rainfall total and the cool air that fol