Announcer next, an American History tv exclusive. Ou cities tourr to rapid city, south dakota. For eight years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits tour. Span. Org cities the cspan cities tour is on the road, exploring the american story. With support from our cable partners, this weekend we travel to rapid city, south dakota, featuring lifesize statues of each of our nations mr. President s. We experience this history of this city of 5000. We will take you into the Black Hills National Forest with a trip to Mount Rushmore national memorial, the states most visited tourist site. In 20 minutes, it is onto one of the most Sacred Places in the world for many native americans. And later, we will visit the Journey Museum to hear about the devastating flood that changed the look of rapid city. We begin with the history of Mount Rushmore. The heart of south dakotas black hills. There it is, the 6
The judge described Oliver Schmidt as a key conspirator in this scheme to defraud the united states. Andrew plant reports. Oliver schmidt, once one of volkswagens top american employees, now sentenced to seven years in prison. A car manufacturer in a competitive market, vw admitted fitting around 11 million diesel cars with what is called a defeat device. It meant the cars could sense when they were running in the uniformed conditions of a testing lab and automatically reduced their emissions. Cheating a test the vehicles should never have passed. It meant that schmidt was able to certify that vw diesels complied with strict american standards and that meant boosting sales targeting environmentally conscious customers with supposedly cleaner cars. The scandal came to light in 2015. Oliver schmidt is the second employee sent to prison. A veteran vw engineer was given a0 months in august. Schmidt was arrested while on holiday in miami. But five more of the companys employees are wanted i
Drought, and hey, even though were in a drought and have this rain coming your way, we urge you to please keep the conservation efforts going, because even the storm system that could dump eight inches or more of rain in the higher elevations, it is not going to bust that drought. This is what you can expect through this afternoon, sunshine, that rain moves in tomorrow evening into the north bay, then were talking about really dangerous conditions by thursday. Torrential downpours. In fact, theres a Flash Flood Watch issued for the entire bay area due to localized flooding on streets and rapid creek and stream rises. Also we have a high wind watch for the entire bay area and northern california. Gusts in excess of 60 Miles Per Hour. And this one is going to dump snow above the sierra nevada. 5,000 feet, thats where the snow level will be through friday. Were talking maybe two to three feet of snow above 7,000, looking like a foot above 5,000, but its the snow pack that we really need t
The read it. I think and work order for costs but air pollution remedies. He would try to use apathy about it finally did offer to pay for the actress debated where to find the right under the common good. But before that would take a look at the top right of the year in china. First the pro beijing youth daily. We tell parents will be rewarded for getting a second child. From the beginning of the year when prompted and cities in china are preparing to carry out the new one child policy couples are allowed to have a second child. If one of their only child. Recently begun accepting applications for giving birth to a second child. At the same time and other applications also available. We tell parents can apply to voluntarily give up the right to have a second child. In this case local government where were the five hundred and fourteen dollars to each parent. For the newly qualified families can get a one time one hundred dollars reward for following the previous one child policy. For
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