Mr. Axelrod admiral, great to see you again. We are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. There are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. And i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. You grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. Dad flew that for about two years during the war. But my grandfather also served in world war i and i
James adovasio, who has been leading Archeology Research there for almost 50 years. We are currently 46 kilometers southwest of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, in washington county, on the north bank of cross creek, which is a small tributary of the ohio river. In 1972 there was a vacancy in the Anthropology Department at the university of pittsburgh. I joined the faculty there. One of the parameters of which job was to set up an archeological Training Program that would train not only graduate and undergraduate students in anthropology and archaeology in the protocols of modern excavation, but also to train people in ancillary fields, geologists, climatologists, flora and fauna specialists and so forth. Because i didnt have the opportunity to search for a location for the Field Operation due to research commitments in the eastern mediterranean, i circulated word amongst my colleagues, who directed me to see this particular site, which had actually been discovered in 1955 by the land owner,
Still needs 17 Electoral College votes but were getting new information. Whats changed from yesterday the president is behind in pennsylvania there you see joe biden with an 8,000 plus vote lead in pennsylvania the president behind in the state of georgia, 1584 vote margin thats a really squeaker in state of georgia the president needs both of those to advance here. Pennsylvania is the big kahuna joe biden gets that this race is over take a look. The state of arizona where in last hour we got a new wave of vote from Maricopa County. Thats in arizona near phoenix that pushed bidens lead down. It was just under 44,000 or right around 44,000. Joe biden at 50 even donald trump 48. 6. The difference 4377. 9. So the biden lead holding in arizona. Nevada similarly, weve been getting new vote throughout the day. Yesterday and through to today there you see joe biden ahead 49. 8, donald trump 48. 1. The difference there just over 20,000 votes, guys so a very close race all of this is being watc
Quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane. Because at the time when we entered the war, we did not have plans to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. But my grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii. He was an army surgeon. My dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said i remember what got me in the service. It was when i was a young boy, i saw the soldiers heading off to france in world war i board the trains in his small town. He said there was such a sense of pride, there was son such a sense of duty and patriotism that it was infectious. In addition to obviously watching his father, that really spurred him to join the military and then i g
Outcome of the election now hinges on 4 battleground states where many also votes are being tallied and in other news the u. N. Calls for an immediate deescalation intentions as ethiopias Prime Minister it was in troops following an attack on a military base in the tikrit reach. So we begin in the United States where joe biden is pulling ahead in the race for the white house we cannot project a win for biden in the key battleground state of michigan its one of the socalled rust belt states that donald trump won in 2016 helping deliver him the presidency within the past couple of hours the democrats also flipped neighboring wisconsin which donald trump won 4 years ago now ali and that means that biden now has a toll of 264 Electoral College votes one donald trump has 214 remember the magic number to become president is of course 278 in yellow you will see the states that are still in play georgia and North Carolina in the south nevada in the west and pennsylvania in the northeast Donald