Tracking developing stories on several fronts including former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee making a big announcement about 2016 overnight, but we start off with new and encouraging developments in the mystery of airasia flight 8501. Indonesian investigators say they may have found key pieces of the fuselage where the jets black boxes are located. Well talk to the u. S. Commander taking part in the search shortly. First the latest from abcs david kerley. Reporter bad weather, its one of the things we know about the crash of airasia 8501. The weather was bad when the airbus went down, and stormy seas have hampered recovery efforts. Abcs Muhammad Lila is in indonesia. Reporter its now been a week since the airasia flight took off from this airport. Investigators are now honing their search on where they believe the fuselage is, about 100 feet underwater in the java sea. Just today they located what they say is the fifth large piece of debris from the plane and, of course, theyve alrea
Im martha raddatz, and were tracking developing stories on several fronts including former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee making a big announcement about 2016 overnight, but we start off with new and encouraging developments in the mystery of airasia flight 8501. Indonesian investigators say they may have found key pieces of the fuselage where the jets black boxes are located. Well talk to the u. S. Commander taking part in the search shortly. First the latest from abcs david kerley. Reporter bad weather, its one of the things we know about the crash of airasia 8501. The weather was bad when the airbus went down, and stormy seas have hampered recovery efforts. Abcs Muhammad Lila is in indonesia. Reporter its now been a week since the airasia flight took off from this airport. Investigators are now honing their search on where they believe the fuselage is, about 100 feet underwater in the java sea. Just today they located what they say is the fifth large piece of debris from the plane
[inaudible] the role that [inaudible] have had in strengthening the Iraqi Kurdistan . You repeat that . Yes. If you could please comment on the role that exxon, the oil company exxonmobil. Yeah, sorry. Okay. Thank you. Exxon is one of a number of Large International Oil Companies that have signed exploration and production agreements with the regional government. They did that under threat from baghdad, that they might lose their positions and privilege to develop oil fields in parts of iraq. P. M. They need a Banking Sector they need to be involved in regional trade, but oil is king, and exxon has played a leading role. Seems like a good place to leave these things. David, once again, you have given us a comprehensive sweep of the kurdish issue as well as the politics of the entire region. Again, the book is othe kurdish spring a new map of the middle east. And here with author david phillips. Please join me in thanking him for his insights today. [applause] booktv is on twitter and f
Achievement award to Toni Morrison and announcement of winners in several categories including general nonfiction awarded to David Ryan Davis author of the Nonfiction Book the problem of slavery in the age of emancipation. [applause] thanks louise and good evening to all of you. Its my pleasure to welcome you here tonight to the book Critics Award ceremony for the publishing year 2014. Where id have you join us this evening is now the most outstanding work of the past year in six categories, fiction and nonfiction biography poetry autobiography and criticism. Like i said in a gratitude to the others whove joined us here tonight as well as the editors editors publishers agents and publicists to help bring their work her attention to the National Book critics circle awards were founded in 1974 out of a conversation that took place at the out walk when hotel by grupo critters who want to establish a set of awards granted given by critics and sell them like other Literary Works are books t
United states definition but by 1819 the entire hemisphere, specialism argentina all the way up to the present was in open rebellion. The wars of independence had broken out in peru and argentina, mexico, and spain was real week. They been toppled by the french government in 1808 and spain pretty much have to accept the United States to dictate the terms at that point. Two years later of course mexico falls and becomes an independent nation. So really the United States was strong and occupy that space and spain was weak and failed to do so. So when they sold it, they didnt have it drawn out, someone jeffersons diplomats in spain asked the french secretary of foreign affairs, foreign ministry, so what are the boundaries . And he allegedly said i dont know exactly, but i suspect youve made a noble bargain for yourself. And so spain and france had contested the boundaries of louisiana going back to 1682. So france said we are selling in louisiana, and the french understanding of that was