Theyre kind of pulling them out here with the big old tow trucks, but right now the ramps from route 100 to go south on 202, down in toward west chester, are blocked, youre best bet if you exit at boot road. That will get you over to 202, youll be on your way, probably for the first start or maybe the next couple of hours here until they get that all cleaned up, that will be the detour, otherwise kind of quiet out on the roadways, live look at the freeway coming in toward philly. Mass transit running with no reported delays. Like to hear that, bob, thank you. 4 01, Philadelphia Police are after armed rob here is trying to kidnap her victims. There have been at least two incidents, our Lauren Johnson outside walmart in crescent ville. Thats where one of the incidents took place. Good morning to you, lauren. Reporter good morning, thomas, imagine youre in the store, get everything you need, make it outside here to the parking lot. This was the backdrop hereof that abduction, last thursda
Military history professor Christopher Gabel discusses the importance of railroads and Steam Powered locomotives to the union and confederate armies and explains how railroads made the scale of the civil war possible and describes how and why the confederacys powerful Railroad System broke down as the war progressed. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this hourlong event. Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for being here. Folks, you know when we look back at the onset of the american civil war, we view it through the lens of the war, itself. That shapes what were looking at. If you view the onset of the civil war a little more objectively instead of being all seeing all of the differences between north and south, youll tend to spot all the similarities. Think about it. The two sides in this conflict. It was a war of brother against brother and in some cases literally so. The two sides shared a common language. They had similar cultures and religions. They shared a ver
Advantage for the north, maybe that statistic is not really important either. Its whether or not the railroads actually were that significant in the conduct and outcome of the civil war. And if the answer to that question is no, we can save a lot of time here tonight. Ok. Well, this is the game changer right here. Water turns to steam and expands 1600 well so what . People have known this for thousands of years. Ok . Well, in the 1820s somebody figured out how to take that expansion and turn it into forward motion. You collect excuse me you collect the steam. You send it down to a piston. The piston drives the rod back and forth. The wheels go around and around and it goes forward. All right. So what . Well, here is the so what. With a Steam Powered locomotive pulling a train, you can carry more cargo farther on the same amount of fuel than you can by muscle power. A sixmule wagon carrying 1 1 2 tons of cargo can go roughly 333 miles on one ton of mule fuel. So you multiply 1. 5 tons t
War it self. That shapes what we are looking at. If you view the onset of civil instead oftively, seeing all of the differences between north and south, you tend to spot the similarities. Think about it. , a two sides in the conflict war of rather against brother in some cases, literally so. The two sides shared a common language. They had similar cultures and religion. They shared a similar political philosophy. The north and south employed virtually the same weapons, used the same tactics, their top commanders graduated from the same military academy. Union put an army in this war, the confederacy put an army as well. Large, bute been as an army is there nonetheless. In other words, this is a surprisingly symmetrical war. In fact, it is hard to think of a more symmetrical war. Data such as these, which you have all seen . You have seen figures like this showing the resources of the north and the south in everything except cotton. Well, folks, i put it to you. If these statistics were
Good morning, everyone. Im randi kaye. It is 10 00 on the east coast, 7 00 a. M. On the west. We start in gaza this hour, as people there have to fear death from above. Israeli war planes have been relentless in their attacks on targets in gaza. They are hunting rocket launchers, but dozens of civilians have been killed as a result. The latest round of this conflict started wednesday, and there is no end in sight. Sarah sidener is in gaza city for us. What are you seeing at this hour . Are you hearing or seeing any air strikes . Reporter were hearing drones above, but just five minutes before we started this show, we saw rockets coming out of central gaza, literally a few hundred yards away from us. We could see the rockets going up into the air, and they were sort of white, and then they would disappear and they were pointed, of course, towards israel. Usually when that happens, you see that happening and then you hear the sound of planes above shortly after. And then usually that are