Down about 32 points. Nasdaq down as well as about 16. 5 points off. The s p would open down about six points. Lets take a look at whats happening in the european markets after this explosion. Youre also seeing red arrows across the board. Pretty much in sync. A quick check of the oil boards before we get to steve sedgwick, whos following the story for us. Wti crude at 41. 53. Steve is in london right now. Were going to go to steve on this story. Steve . Yeah, thanks very much indeed, andrew. Weve got a map here of the brussels city center. The first attacks we saw after 8 00 local time, 7 00 london time this morning, and there were multiple concerns it was a wide attack. We heard it was up to four explosions in the departure hull of the airport. About an hour later, we heard the rail infrastructure, the metro was being targeted. Down at a station called maelbeek. Thats very important, because thats the station that looks after the eu institutions. You have a whole host of eu buildings
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His class is about 45 minutes. Youre looking at footage of a vessel called the William Myers landing at ellis island in 1903. This film was taken by edison studios and it gives us a window into a moment of mass migration in the industrial atlantic. Lets just take in the scene. Lets start with a question for you all. First of all, let me ask you what you saw in the video. What struck you most and lets just do hands. We will put you on the spot. What did you see in that video . Sorry, film. Mostly that they carried so little with them considering it was them starting a new life. It seemed like they were carrying very little baggage. They did not have much with them. They brought very little with them to their new lives. What else . A lot of them were families it is surprising number of Young Children, because when we were learning at the beginning, a lot of the colonies were started by young , independent males, whereas now, there is a lot of Young Children and people to start completely
Emancipation. It documents the end of slavery, family ties and private victories and challenges facing the newly freed. The New York Times review of his , edwardook baptist declared that ira berlin ranks as one of the greatest historians of slavery in the United States. When people argue about what the past means, they are usually debating about the present and it would be hard to think of a period in American History more relevant to the present then reconstruction era. The arguments about whether reconstruction worked, what to do today to ship tomorrow shape tomorrow. Ira berlin has written extensively on American History Atlantic World in the 18th and 19th century. Please welcome ira berlin. [applause] professor berlin thank you so much for that very, very generous introduction. Said, archivist to whenever i come back to the national archives, i feel like im coming home. The first volume of the project came out in 1982, but we had been working at the archives since 1975. , we hadbee
Youre looking at footage of a vessel landing at ellis island in 1903. This film was taken by edison studios and it gives us a window into a moment of mass migration in the industrial atlantic. Lets just take in the scene. Lets start with a question for you all. First of all, let me ask you what you saw in the video. What struck you most and lets just do hands. We will put you on the spot. What did you see in that video . Sorry, film. Mostly that they carried so little with them considering it was them starting a new life. It seemed like they were carrying very little baggage. They did it have much with them. They brought very little with them to their new lives. What else . A lot of them were families and when we were learning at the beginning, a lot of the colonies were started by young independent males wear now coming down the line is a lot of Young Children and people to start completely new lives in the country. He saw a lot of women and children. That is unusual because we know t