On september 12th, 19, 18 the American Expeditionary force launched their First Independent operation of world war i. We travel to northeastern france to visit a few locations and learn about a battle in a town just inside of bulge that the germans had occupied since 1914. To begin the story, here is a portion of a 1960 u. S. Army film that gives a brief sketch of the operation. In late july, 1918, pushing created the First United States Army under his command. Immediate steps were taken to concentrate American Forces on one point on the line. That point was saintmihiel. Had held a since early in the war penetrating the allied lines, 60 miles it enabled that enemy to harass operations. More than half 1 million first army troops assembled for the task to crushing it out of existence. 15 divisions were moved into division. By the end of the day, on september 11th, 1918, the first army was ready for its First Independent operation against the enemy. At dawn on the 12th, drizzling rain, th
Is live. Pump up the jam good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Markets still in the green pinning hopes to stimulus talks. Were watching headlines best week so far this morning, jon, in two months for the dow yeah. And in tech this morning, carl, hey, weve called it out here on squawk alley before. Today amd eyeing xilynks amd is a 100 million market cap down 3 on a 30 billion deal. Investors are giving this blessing a few different trends here. A hot of Tech Companies have richly valued stock to play with there is pressure to answer and three u. S. Restrictions are hurt something chip makers like xilinks and theres no end to that in site good morning, guys pat, are you surprised not a the hoff overlap here. So in that sense, maybe this deal isnt at risk but, hey, not a lot of overlap here. So maybe this is risky the. Yeah. The so as you said before, amd needs to grow. When i look at valuation, im sure stacy will will weigh in on this, it had to do something organic growth isnt
Many of us can ever remember. We know how big the stakes are. I, personally, have been through this myself when my husband got really sick and was in the hospital and was able to see firsthand how horrific this is where you cant stand by your loved ones side and hold her hand and you cant give hogs to the Health Care Workers and they are the ones holding up the phone to their ears. I know we are going to find a way out of this, but to me, the only way we find a way out of this is to make sure we have a functioning democracy. That is why i am so devoted to this issue and all of the things we were talking about before the pandemic from making progress in a big way on climate change. We cannot wait. Doing something about gun safety, racial disparity, economic inequality. We have to move now and the way we do it is with our democracy. That is why we are working so hard to pass our bill that ron and i have been leading, each of us in different ways, for years. That is to make it easier for
It was a 3. 4 quake centered in san joses alum rock. Havent heard of any damage but some people who were awake at the time certainly said they felt t as i mentioned, maybe you were sleeping. We have Power Outages, earthquakes, apparently the flu season is going to be worse. You got this, though. You got this. Lets start with kari with some of the details. Yeah, good morning. Its going to start to get windy today. Thats going to be the issue, as we go into the rest of the afternoon as well as tomorrow. Its a clear view, as we take a live look outside in San Francisco, and here is a look at our hour by hour wind gust forecast. Winds will come from the northwest and continuing to pick up, mostly this morning at about 10 to 15, but there will be spots like as you see more like 20 to 30 hours per hour in winters, causing the potential of any fires that develop to spread rapidly. Well track that and mike is starting with the bay bridge. Letting folks know we started early this morning but it
On social media, after Research Suggests that publicising offensive comments plays into the hands of so called trolls. And coming up in our sports bulletin, europe wins the last three singles matches to seal a sensational solheim cup victory over the United States at gleneagles. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Borisjohnson will hold his first face to face talks with the president of the european commission, Jean Claude Juncker, this lunchtime. The Prime Minister says hes cautiously optimistic ahead of the talks, but has made clear that hell reject any offer to delay brexit further. That meeting, which takes place in luxembourg, marks the start of a busy week for the Prime Minister. On tuesday, all eyes will be on the Supreme Court as 11 justices examine whether the governments suspension of parliament is lawful. And then on wednesday, the European Parliament in strasbourg will discuss brexit. The foreign secretary, dominic raab has been speaking this morning and insists