So as a forecaster when you have to cover for that cover storms into the 5 00 a. M. Forecast, you have to get up really early. It is really challenging. Sometime some time ago, i read erik ons storm larsons book. It is a remarkable account of the worst National Disaster in history, the galveston hurricane of 1900. The book brings to life america at the turnofthecentury and the destruction of the city, at the time the jewel of the south, the new york city to be of the gulf coast. Author joins us here today and brings to life human drama, survival from a massive hurricane that slammed galveston almost 100 years ago, coming up on september 8. Given that it is the 100th anniversary, this is the great time for us to look back on the tragedy in the nonfiction andunt of erik larson the nonfiction account of erik larson. Before i introduce him, i want to discuss the anatomy of hurricanes, how we go about cutting it forecasting, and i want to step back in time to show footage taken after the da
Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,
Good evening, everyone. To all of our friends here and those watching by cspan and on facebook live, my name is stuart. And i am the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to commute to the Historic House as well as to the White House Historical association. Tonights we had to fear many former officials from the and other administrations have the print of the validation and were honored at you here tonight this year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States under her leadership white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of any presidency the significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but its very important lost here at the white house of our mission which was inspired as most of you were all of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservatio
And im marcus washington. Mike will get us through the commute but first we start out with the forecast. Beautiful today with temperatures well above normal. Reaching into the upper 60s up to about 69 degrees in san jose and even 70 in morgan hill. Well be slightly cooler than yesterday but this is all still well above normal as that sunshine continues in the forecast. Well take a hook ahead to the weekend. Mike, you were concerned about the san mateo bridge. It is not on the chp blotter but our live camera let us see what is going on. Still flashing across mid stan and slowing now from the toll plaza view. Now the sensors havent shown a major problem but the starting to turn, you see that yellow, well watch that. I believe that issue will be cleared in the next few minutes but the dumbarton is just fine. The rest of the bay shows a light volume so right back to you. Thanks, mike. New overnight for you, an elderly man is recovering after he disappeared while hiking in the th in the nor
We honor distinguished leaders who champion for equality and human rights. Privileged at georgetown to have such a wonderful bond with the justice. You might have seen her portrait as you were coming down into the amphitheater. Was aloved husband remarkable member of our faculty for many years. We have a chair in his honor. The Martin Ginsburg professorship. I have to say, i am often asked, dean, what is my favorite memory . It is what we just saw. Walking into this room with Justice Ginsburg and seeing our students look with such admiration and inspiration on somebody who is one of the great figures in the history of the world but also a cultural icon. [laughter] [applause] when Justice Ginsburg gave the first lecture in april of 2018, everyone was so energized. I said to her, the one not great thing about the lecture series is you gave the first lecture and the second lecture is going to be a disappointment. [laughter] she said, i think i can handle that. So, good job, justice. This