A sign of the format in germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz and political scientist lawrence murphy. The elected 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. The resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click key words in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149 east german families. The footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just People Living their lives despite the dictatorship. And with me here is alberto herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open memory box welcome to the show thank you now we hear a lot of people from east germany say yes it was a dictatorship but it wasnt all bad is that part of what this project is trying to show. Its no i would say that we have and this project has not. Anoth
Ago but now to documentary filmmakers are bringing the pounds back to life for a new generation. Im so much god thats good to have you with us prodemocracy protests in hong kong marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of china have turned violent one of protesters in the hospital after being shot in the chest by police now a video appears to show the moment that a Police Officer fired his handgun at close range the protester was treated on the scene before being taken to the hospital and his condition is on no it is the most serious incident in months of demonstrations in hong kong todays antichurch china rally started peacefully with thousands marching in the streets before some started throwing molotov cocktails and demonstrators also threw eggs at a portrait of chinese president xi. And good of you charlotte shells from hell is covering the protests for us in Hong Kong Charlotte as we heard there has been a major escalation a Police Officer shooting a protester what can you tel
And now its on the rocks. Jon yes. Yes, lady wearing cross on television. laughter religious freedom is on the rocks the rocks of course, not as on the rocks as it was in the 17th century when your friends the pilgrims outlawed christmas celebrations as a sacrilege and declared gifts and Christmas Decorations satan cal, levying a fiveshilling fine on anyone for saying Merry Christmas. Five shillings. I mean, in those days thats two milk cows and a buckled hat. laughter if the pilgrims were alive today, this is how theyd decorate the town square. laughter or perhaps youd prefer to celebrate christmas the way our Founding Fathers did . On december 25, 1789, the United States congress sat in session and continued to stay open on Christmas Day for most of the next 67 years. Jon hows that taste mother bleep ers . laughter thats right when the country was founded, congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of christmas celebrations that a 7eleven does today. Yeah, were open. F
The crane operator was off latimer avenue. And our reporter is on the scene. They are working to get the crane off at home right now. Here we are 10 hours after it happened. Let me show you what this looks like now. They had used these large cranes to get the wheels of this crane back on the pavement. The arm is still extended over the homes. They are working to retract that safely and get it pulled away from this residence. It has been busy out here as they try to make sure everyone is safe as they do this recovery effort. Then for the residents, this was a very close call. The crane was fully extended, 190 feet in the air. Suddenly it toppled over before noon on tuesday, crashing down on a house and several other structures. We could hear a loud crash. Something i had never heard before. It reached a house and a storage shed one street over, they were surprised to see it had collapsed, and a narrow escape, fade in their favor today. I just thought of all of the damage. It was suppose
We know it will be hosted by ryan seacrest. I would love to be considered. I have ample experience lying around in robes and being irrelevant. Im sorry, that was in appropriate. Im done talking now. Someone is always in our war room. Check us out on line at current. Com thewar, rules. Link up and check out our exclusive web i canes. Thanks for joining us. Have a great night. Welcome to the the young turks. Well, it looks like were going to get a new pope. Why is the old pope leaving . A little bit of controversy. Well have both sides for you on whether hes leaving for the right reasons for the i dont think reasons. And then do you remember the guy who shot Osama Bin Laden. Binladen was confronted by the navy seals in his bedroom. His youngest wife by his side. The guy who shot him is not getting any Health Benefits from the u. S. Military. Outrageous. Then well go inside the fiscal cliff to tell what you happened. He said im giving you 100 billion in tax revenue what do i get for it .