For six years we traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book scene to our viewers. Watch more of our visits at c spab. Org slash cities tour. Back in 2008, the brooklyn anniversary th party that the city of new york threw. And mayor bloomberg presided over it and he said that the Brooklyn Bridge was the icon of new york city. And hes absolutely correct because if you look at television, or read magazines, its very hard to watch tv and not see repeated images of the Brooklyn Bridge. It really is the icon of new york city. And it originated here in trenton. John was born in 1806 in prussia which later became part of germany. The town he was born in is about 100 kilometers southwest of berlin. When he came here, he had a first class Engineering Education in germany by some of the best architects and engineers in europe and he arrived here just as america was taking off in terms of the industrial revolution. And there were very few train engineers here. Trained engineers here. So he showed
The father knew and his ancestors were first from the island. Either as islanders. Leonard returned. And the conspirators of the union club. When a that had been placed. The first ocean. In a dramatic race. Covered and skipped the first flight of 90,000. 1871, in 1873 having been presented with the prince of wells in 1873, jennie and mother were invited at the invitation of Queen Victoria posessed son on the ship, hms on the 12th of august, 140 years ago. What is remarkable is we have the invitation still both that jenny and lord randolph kept. Jenny was 19. Randolph, 24. He arrived from the royal yacht steps to get onboard the ship to see jenny and her sister talking with a merry group of people. Both were dressed, adorned by fresh flowers. Randolph arranged an influction. Though he suffered headaches while dancing, something that carries on in the family, he asked jenny to dance of which he was unsure of the steps. Afterwards they sat out and talked and talked sipping champagne. Rand
The guest chaplain mr. President , members of the senate, may the lord be with you. Let us bow our heads in reference to his presence. God, our help in ages past, be our comfort still. Thank you for this great, great nation, and its foundation of one nation, under god, indivisible. Thank you, lord, that we can emphasize indivisible. Thank you for the liberty, the justice, and the freedoms we enjoy. We pray for all who walk these hallowed halls where lifechanging, worldchanging decisions are made. Bless this austere gathering of men and women chosen by you and the American People to serve us all. Give them wisdom to acknowledge you first in all they do. Give them grace, as has been extended to them. Guide them, o holy spirit. Guide them, o holy spirit. Fill them and this chamber with your presence, and fill these halls with your glory. When they leave today, may they say, we have not just been in the presence of men; we have been in the presence of god. Now, in the name of the one i tru
The rest of the area is at marginal risk that i am saying stuff fire up, but storms around pennsylvania down toward maryland and virginia, others in the midwest. As a rethink moves northeast the first opportunity to get a shower or thunderstorm will occur in the morning possibly around rhode island and connecticut but even if that does not affect the wide part of the area we have another shot in the afternoon especially later into the this is the situation. It will become very humid tomorrow and that means there is a lot of energy and available to the atmosphere. If you should he impacted by one they will be a high chance of heavy rain and a lot of lightning. The forecast in a few minutes. Man says he was assaulted at hotel this weekend but he is the one facing charges. Explain. John he is facing charges and so are three others but he is hoping that Surveillance Video from inside the lobby of this hotel proves that he is the victim. He is bloody and bruised in suffering a lot of pain a
Spot, doug. We cant think this early. Mike look at the numbers. 68 degrees right now. Towards hartford, its 76. Humidity is coming up. Warm air is trying to push along with the humidity. We need that to set us up for a chance of thunderstorms tonight. Whats the timeline on the thunderstorms . This afternoon, by 4 00, notice the cloud cover thickens. We may see a few scattered showers or sprinkles out in the the real rain event doesnt show up until 10 00 tonight. You see a line of thunderstorms here that marches eastward. Not arriving in the boston area and the eastern part of the state until 4 00, 5 00 in the morning. When this moves through, there could be the occasional downpour. Watch out, there could be ponding of roadways for the morning commute. Behind it, the skies clear. Today, well start with sunshine, throw a few clouds in this afternoon. It will get cloudy and humid toward the evening hours. Then the rain later tonight. Antoinette were staying on top of the breaking news in