Science and technology being applied to deal with them today. After that, Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Then a campaign profile of joe biden. Host eric jay dolin, in your new book about hurricane history i , thought it would be interesting to start our discussion with one of the stories you tell because its the deadliest hurricane in American History and also the 120th anniversary. Eric in early september, a hurricane was fully making its way across the atlantic going inbetween cuba and florida, but the local meterologists in galveston, texas, isaac kline, based on his understanding of how hurricanes operated, he had told residents of galveston that the odds of a hurricane hitting galveston are virtually nil. The laws of hurricanes indicate that hurricanes would rarely hit texas. They were lulled into a false sense of complacency. As the hurricane got closer and closer. Isaac kline became more and more alarmed. It was really up to the Headquarters Office
Interesting to start our discussion with one of the stories you tell because its the deadliest hurricane in American History and also the 120th anniversary. Eric in early september, a hurricane was fully making its way across the atlantic going inbetween cuba and florida, but the local meterologists in galveston, texas, isaac kline, based on his understanding of how hurricanes operated, he had told residents of galveston that the odds of a hurricane hitting galveston are virtually nil. The laws of hurricanes indicate that hurricanes rarely hit texas. They were lulled into a false sense of complacency. As the hurricane got closer and closer, isaac kline became more alarmed. It was really up to the Headquarters Office of the Weather Bureau in washington, d. C. To decide whether or not a hurricane was coming and whether or not you needed to put up hurricanes warning flags. The local meterologists such as isaac kline had left latitude in calling the shots. So on the morning of september 8,
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Because we know that not all immigrants were welcomed into the country. Not all immigrants were able to achieve their american dreams. But rather, we picked and sifted and chose which immigrants to let in and which immigrants to let out. Or keep out. And many times, this really was dependent upon an immigrants race, ethnicity, gender, class, this idea of who is fit to become a citizen and who is not. And this is the history that is best exemplified through immigration through angel island. This is in the San Francisco bay. It is that other island, not alcatraz, but that other island in the San Francisco bay that is now a california state park. So, the immigration station on angel island was open from 1910 to 1940. We primarily think about it as an entry point for immigrants from china and japan. And two thirds of the immigrants who did come through angel island were from those two countries. But as you can see, there are over 80 countries represented for the immigration stream that cam
Welcome back. I am excited to talk to you this afternoon. So many of us as americans, we grow up learning about the history of immigration through ellis island. Right . This is what we talked about last week. It is the history of european immigrants coming to the new world under the shadow of the statue of liberty. It is often told as a very uplifting and romantic story where immigrants become americans. But not many of us know the history of immigration through angel island. This is the immigration station in San Francisco, and it is an important site not only for what happened back then in the early 20th century but also because it is so timely today. It is timely because, when we pick up any newspaper, we see headlines like this. This is just from last week. Republicans slam obamas immigration townhall. Obama i will fight any attempt to reverse immigration action. Moving forward to fix our broken immigration system. House conservatives warn boehner dont cave on immigration. U. S. Im