Polluting. Jaguar land rover announces big plans for new electric cars. Ill ask the boss if companies and drivers a ready for a Battery Powered future. Good morning. In sport, therell be no Federer Nadal showdown at the us open. Roger federer is knocked out byjuan martin del potro, so he will take on world number one rafael nadal, for a place in the final. Businesses are told to stop pushing unhealthy food and larger portions on consumers. Shoppers risk eating an extra 17,000 calories a year from unnecessary purchases. And matt is also on the coast today with the weather. Good morning. I have dragged the deckchair to sussex. We are looking at the effects erosion are having on the coast. Details on that and they forecast starting off dry but with wet weather coming later up next. And a forecast. Good morning. First, our main story. Hurricane irma has caused devastation across the caribbean killing at least seven people. The small island of barbuda has been severely hit, making it, in th
The day before yesterday, they welcomed 500 soldiers, including their commanding general back from another deployment to iraq. They have served our country every single day, without fail since june 1917. It is a record. The first time that they fall for our country was at was in france in may, 1918. It was americas first battle for the security of democracy in europe. Were still concerned about the security of democracy in europe and we still have troops in europe. It was the beginning of a very long and important history. Introduce thisto evening speaker, matt davenport. He has written the book that he will tell you about that is about the battle. I was privileged to look at over when it was a manuscript. I had two reactions. The first was, this is the best thing i have ever read on the battle. That was one reaction. The second reaction was intense jealousy. Matt did this as a hobby. He is actually a practicing attorney. He has a real profession. He did this on the side. His family is
That came into town, to try to find them housing, to find them jobs, and to basically get through the war years and all of the fears that existed back then together. For more information on booktvs recent visit to long beach, and the many other destinations on our cities tour, go to cspan. Org cities tour. Tonights program is a presentation of the guggenheimlehrman prize in military history. A 50,000 price jointly administered by the hari Frank Guggenheim foundation and the New York Historical society. It is thanks to the leader shouppe of of great trustee, the lincoln and financial history scholar, lehrman, that we have joined with the hari Frank Guggenheim foundation this year in trying to engage Greater Public discourse in wartime studies. I want to acknowledge mr. Lehrmans vision of the importance of understanding military history for aural educated systems and his work on behalf of our great institutions and its many intellectual endeavors. Thank you so much. [applause] i also wan
Women can do anything if they are given the opportunity to do it. I think once they opened that door it was very difficult to close it. It is the women whose mothers in the 40s are some of the most feminist in the 70s, because their mothers told them, look we did all this stuff. A lot of people by the way do not believe women did all these things. When we open this park in 2008 we invited anyone who had been a rosie in the area. A woman came. A woman came up to me and she had a scrapbook and she had pay stubs, all kinds kinds of things, her card from working here. She turned her eyes and ice said whats the matter . And she said i i didnt think anybody would remember what we did. I thought that was a chilling statement because there are a lot of people who do not know what happened. They look at we can do it poster and they think maybe it was the 70s and they do not quite understand who these women were. They do not understand the sacrifice these women did during world war ii. I think i
Ascendant. Thanks so much. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Tonights program is a presentation of the guggenheimlehrman prize in military history, a 50,000 prize jointly administered by the Harry Frank Guggenheim foundation and the New York Historical society. It is thanks to the leadership of our great trustee, the lincoln and financial history scholar louis hillerman, that weve join with the Harry Frank Guggenheim foundation this year in trying to engage Greater Public discourse in wartime studies your i want to acknowledge mr. Lettermans vision of importance of understanding military history for all educated citizens and his work on have of our Great Institution and expanding intellectual endeavors. Thank you so much. [applause] i also want to note of encouragement and support of our extraordinary board share. In her philanthropic role, am has seen and understood vividly how the study of the steps to work, the conduct of military campaigns and diplomatic responses to work and play a