After 30 inches of rain in the forecast with four Southern States already declaring an emergency. Landfall is expected in the next 6 to 7 hours and the big concerns tonight are flooding and potentially life threatening storm surge. Here is a look at the satellite loop sally expected to make landfall near the alabama Mississippi State line. Right now is it is a category one hurricane with 85 mileper hour winds. Reporter that rain continues to just constantly following top of us, really soaking me and drenching me all neethling long. We have this Tropical Storm force winds over and over again. But the storm, as he said, is pushing to the east. That means some folks are going to be released. Others are now going to be in harms way. Waves pick up along the gulf coast as Hurricane Sally inches closer. The storm is packing 85 mile perhour winds, threatening Southeast Louisiana to the florida panhandle. With devastating storm surge and potentially deadly flooding. Sally is expected to make la
First we are going to talk about general william t. Sherman and what he did in 1865, at least the first stage of his campaign in 1865 when he left the state of georgia and began to move north into South Carolina. He built up a little bit of a base at the conclusion of that campaign and began to talk about heading north. The conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions behind it, political questions, which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into South Carolina. There were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the Southern Side would begin to react to that. Of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. One of them, something of an alert fellow, general beauregard, reacted and saw what was on the way. And of course, technology is always a curse in here. There we go. He discus
We take you live to the u. S. Senate where to date lawmakers who will be on a defense programs and policy bill. You are watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will ohm the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of grace and mercy, in these divisive and polarized times, remind us that words have consequences. Help us to remember that we are accountable to you for every idle and careless word we speak. Lord, teach our senators to be obedient to your commands, doing your will as your presence fills them with joy. Today, surround our lawmakers with the shield of your favor, as they labor to deep our nation to keep our nation strong. May they be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Manifest your power through their labors so that this nation will be exalted by righteousness. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of alle
This is about an hour. Okay. Its 11 00. I think we know you are excited to be here and to hear Adam Hochschild tell us about the legacy of the First World War today. Thank you for being with us over these past three days. Its been very exciting for us to see how excited and engaged history educators are. Thank you so much for that. If i didnt say it, im grace leatherman. We are loving doing this online conference with you. Its a pleasure to be with you, because really there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with than teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums, historical sites and so forth. All that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers that i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject t
National conference for History Education move their Conference Online because of the coronavirus outbreak. The session up next features to mystic unrest during and after world war i, including antigerman sentiment, race riots and arrest of suspected communists. Hes the author of to end all wars. It is 11 00, so i think we know you are excited to be here and to hear about the legacy of the First World War today. Thank you for being with us over these past three days stop it has been a exciting for us to see how engaged history educators are even when they cant either. Im the executive director of the National Council for History Education. We are loving doing this online conference with you. It is a pleasure to be with you because there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with ben teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from areege, and also people who involved in teaching public history while by working in museums an