Crystal blue caribbean sea. Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news america. Laura this is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. The second powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7. 3 hits southern japan 24 hours after another tremor toppled buildings and left at least nine people dead. Five people arrested in britain suspected of terrorism. It is part of an investigation into the paris and brussels attacks. And a visit to bhutan. The duke and duchess of cambridge in one of bhutans holiest sites. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. For the second time in roughly 24 hours, a powerful earthquake has struck southern japan. This time it was a 7. 3 magnitude quake. The first tremor on thursday night toppled buildings and cut power supplies. Nine people are known to have died, and more than 1000 are i
And subsequent financial reforms. Im donald ritchie, the senate historian, and we are in the Senate Caucus room in the Russell Senate Office Building. Before cspan started covering the senate, this was the most famous room in the capitol complex th, becausee this is where major hearings had been televised coming back newsreels covered it in the 1920s and 1930s, but television came along in 1940. This is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, the kefauver crime investigation, the mccarthy hearings and the watergate hearings. So this was the most televised room until the Senate Chamber was open to television. I bring people in here from time to time. You can hear the echoes. Point of order, mr. Chairman. You can hear the gavel. Of the chairman. My point of order. [gavel bangs] counsel advised the chair that the senator is engaging in a statement im getting sick of getting interrupted in the middle of a sentence. Mr. Chairman, do i have the floor or do i not . Oh, be quiet
Not a u. S. Citizen per se. About an hour ago Indiana University confirmed that one of its students, carline keger was a doctoral chemistry student, on the schools rowing team, was from amsterdam and was on the flight and died as a result. Meanwhile the United Nations also meeting as we speak. It has released a statement with its condolences to the victims of this flight talking about how it wants to move forward with the investigation. The u. N. Has offered to put an International Team of investigators together. They made that offer to the ukraine. Obviously the area where this plane went down is not in a ukrainiancontrolled area, so we dont know what will happen with that offer from the United Nations. Weve also learned that at least one person from the National Transportation safety board from the United States will travel to the ukraine to help with the investigation there. The question now, though, is how effective will this investigation be. Nbcs tom costello has an explanation o
Representatives came. In the 1850s, they had to put on the wings. By the 1870s, they were crowded. They couldnt find space for the sn senators to work. Offices were their discs in the chamber. Of course, they were constantly besieged there. So eventually they kept adding space to the capital. They built terraces in the 1870s and added extra rooms and that p wasnt enough. In the 1890s, they bought an old apartment house, which is down constitution avenue about where the taft stands today. For a while, senators moved in there, to the envy of many house members, because that gave senators private offices, at least some of the senators. But the building had been built as an apartment house, not an Office Building. The weight of an Office Building was too much. It began to sink. The elevator shaft was seven inches lower by the time they moved out. That was pulling the floors apart. It was unsafe. It was a fire trap. It was very uncomfortable. People complained about it. It would have been e
Before cspan started covering the sessions, this was where the major hearings were televised going back to news reels covering it in the 1920s and 30s. Television came after long in the 1940s. This is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, army mcarthur hearings, water gate hear agos. This was the most famous televised room until the chamber was open to television. I bring people in here from time to time. You can hear the echoes. You can hear the gavel of the chairma chairman. The story of congress is the story of the nation. Thats a story of growth. The capital started as a very small sand stone square box. It sort of grew as states entered the union and more senators and representatives came. In the 1850s so many entered they had to put on two wings for Current Senate and house chambers. By the 70s they were crowded and couldnt find space for senators to work. Initially senators offices were their desk in the chamber. They were constantly besieged there. So eventuall