Around 830 this morning. About 330 this morning the chp said amanda was hit and killed as he was walking out on the freeway. The pronounced dead at the scene to people were in the honda civic that hit the man. A passenger was treated for minor injuries they do not believe drugs or alcohol was a factor in the crash the Coroners Office and that is removing the body from the scene is unclear why that person was walking on the freeway. Chp says that the person could possibly be a transient. Caltrans crews are still out here in the far right lanes of 1 01 southbound. Reporter the turning our attention to the weather taking a live look outside at the embarcadero on the saturday morning rain is on the way for your Easter Holiday weekend. Thank you for joining us on kron 4 newsweek and i am anny hong then rubin is here with more on your forecast. Reporter one after another and the second is being the stronger of the two storms we will then enjoy some nice weather today enjoy it while it will l
Many highways and streets and especially in this country as well, you know . Phillips 66 has become as familiar to many people out here as a coke bottle. Its that iconic in the minds of many motorists. Well frank got his start in the oil business in a sort of convoluted way. He was actually, he was not from oklahoma. He was actually born on the nebraska frontier out in the loop valley. His father was a civil war veteran, fought in the union army, and his parents moved out into nebraska territory. And thats where he was born in 1874. And they came back short will have a that shortly after that the phillips, to their home country in southwestern iowa. And thats where frank grew up. So he had those basically midwestern roots. Came from a big family, big family, many brothers and sisters. He was the oldest and he was the dominant sibling by far. His ambition was strong but it wasnt necessarily pointed towards the oil business because there was no oil business to speak of when he was a youn
Which is getting the best possible education for your kids. But we will see. People disagree. We have time for one more question. That was good a good one to end on. Thanks. [applause] she will stay for a few more minutes if anyone wants to ask a question personally. Thank you so much for coming today. You are watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. This land is your land, this land is my land from california to the new york eye lens from the redwood forests, to the gulf stream waters this land was made for you in the a note of welcome to tulsa, oklahoma on booktv. Locator on the arkansas there its the second largest city in the state with a population of almost 400,000 in the early 20th century it thrived as old town oil town. With help of our documentation cable partner we learn about its history and literary scene from local authors. We begin our special feature on tulsa with oil magnate Frank Phillips and the founding of
100 years have passed since an evening in london when a curious audience gathered to hear a lecture by James Mcneill whistler. [clock ticking] he began by saying that the artist stands in no relation to the moment at which he occurs. He is no more a product of his time than is a scientific truth newly asserted. The assertion requires man to make it but the truth itself exists independently. [clock strikes] James Mcneill whistler arrived in paris on november 3, 1855 resolved to be an artist having left america never to return. He was 21. His mother hoped he would follow a career at west point, as his father and grandfather had before him but his temperament was not suited to the discipline of army life. He failed out of west point. In paris whistler began his studies at the academy of charles gleyre, who had a reputation for providing solid groundwork in drawing and painting yet encouraging individuality. Following his admission to the academy whistler was issued a pass to the louvre, w
music all petty and exacting details vanish and i see thing as they are in greattrong masses. The buttons are lost but the garment remains. The sitter is lost but the shadow remains. The shadow is lost but the picture remains. Anthat, night cannot efface from the painter imagination James Mcneill whistler. Narrator painter, printmaker, designer, and critic whistler was one of the most original and controversial artists of his time. He was born in 14, in the Industrial Town of lowell, massachusetts. When he was nine years old his father was hired to oversee construction of a railway in russia the family moved to st. Petersburg. Whistler later claimed that cosmopolitan city as his birthplace. I shall be born when and whe i want and i do not choose to be born at lowell. After eight years in russia, the fami returned and settled pomfret, nnecticut. rapid drumbeats in 1851, whistler entered the military academy at west point. Whistler was often in my room and there made skches in india ink.