Into its operations. Then the anniversary of the magna carta. Later, donald trump joins joni ernst at an event in iowa as it could be to veterans. Host good morning. A live look at the Lincoln Memorial and the mall in washington, d. C. With the Washington Monument in the foreground and the u. S. Capitol on this thursday, august 25. Today marking a Centennial Anniversary. It was on this date 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signing a bill that created the National Park service. Today an estimated 20,000 employees, more than 200,000 volunteers, staffing americas 413 National Parks, memorials, battlefields and Historic Sites. And last year alone, nearly 310 million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the Summer Travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary well be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park Service Experiences and we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 2027
After 20 years. But just five days later, a new allegation, charges of attacking a corrections officer at the clark county detention center. That individual brought the violence to the officer and the officer did nothing to start this fight. Reporter Larry Hadfield with metro police. During that fight, that officer was by himself. He was struck with a flashlight that became dislodged from his belt in the face area and being choked out by the suspects legs. Reporter in this brandnew criminal complaint, hes now charged with one count of attempted murder with use of a Deadly Weapon and one count of battery. District attorney Steve Wolfson said he will appear in Court Next Month on this case. And if convicted, face the possibility of more prison time. One might say enough is enough. But the bottom line is he is a consider this new case but we felt the charges were appropriate. Reporter and wolfson said theres video of this jailhouse attack, evidence that will be used against him in court.
From there, the Attorney Generals Office will decide what comes next. Authorities say three young men, all brevard high students, walked in to a largely black neighborhood wearing ski masks, caring knives and rope. From the students information from them, this had been an ongoing thing. It had been building to a climax. Reporter the three young men were going in search of a classmate, who is black. All three were arrested in the end. And months later, the fbi is in town. We feel it should have been classified as a hate crime because of everything that it involved. And all the circumstances surrounding it. Ashlea the naacp head said hes had two meetings with opened the investigation after an anonymous tip came in. We took it very seriously and acted accordingly. So we cooperated with the fbi. Gave them all the information that we had. Ashlea School Officials say theyve handed over all the information they had on the case and cooperating fully. Schools in general reflect whats going on i
3 donald trump wins big in the nevada caucuses. Meanwhile, as reid binion reports, democratic contenders Hillary Clinton and senator Bernie Sanders talked with voters at a cnn town hall event in South Carolina. 3 trump now were winning winning winning the country. Donald trump rode to victory in the nevada caucuses tuesday. trump we won with young, we won with old, we one with educated, we won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. But with trump highly favored even before results came in. The real fight was between ted cruz and marco rubio for second place. Cruz, spinning his showing in nevada as progress. ted cruz we are one step closer to turning the the pages on the failures on the obamaclinton disaster. Rubio, touting his establishmentcandidate identity as critical for a general election win. rubio i am a conservative that can unite this party. As the republicans watched the nevada returns. Democrats hit them on the issue of race at cnns South Carolina town hall. sander
And what with our research and development, we are going to continue to do our work to be able to understand what we need to do to be able to resort forests and address the insect and disease outbreaks and continue our work to be able to find ways to expand current markets and develop new markets or would to be able to make use of the biomass that has to be removed from the landscapes to restore the healthy forest. We also provide an adequate level of Fire Suppression to deal with fires to suppress fires where we need to come in at the same time be able to manage them in the country. We will have over 21 air tankers in the 300 plus helicopters, over a thousand engines and the hotshot crews. The thing i need to stress, and i appreciate the support from the committee on finding a solution to pay for the cost of Fire Suppression. I appreciate the additional money that was supplied into the account, but i think that we have all seen what happens with the account and whether that will help