The ozarks region covers most of the southern half of missouri, much of northern and northwestern arkansas, northeastern oklahoma, and the physical ozarks region lapse into the tip of the southeastern kansas so it covers parts of four different states. The cultural ozarks does not necessarily correspond with the physical ozarks. There are people who live in the physical ozarks who would not identify themselves as an ozarker and there are people who live outside the physical ozarks who would. The trilogy i am working on is called a history of the ozarks. It is published by the university of illinois press. The first volume comes out this year. It is called the old ozarks and it is a history of the ozarks before the civil war. There is a brief chapter on prehistory. Im not a anthropologist so that is why it is brief. It looks at native American Life in thehistorical period ozarks. The early settlement of the first europeans who came into the region who were generally french who came down
Originally i didnt think much about it and then a few minutes later i had realized that like the train was like still there. Reporter emergency crews say they will have to bring in a crane to remove the train from the tracks. That should happen sometime tonight, but then they will need to inspect the track which was damaged. Probably about 100 feet of damaged rail. We are waiting for a crane to come in which will probably be after the rushhour, roughly around 7 00, 7 30 tonight. Reporter and they are hoping to have the train removed by around midnight so that way everything will be all set, all ready to go for the morning rush. Anybody trying to go westbound between 4 00 and 8 00 tonight from ronkonkoma, there is no service. Right now heading westbound, again, 30 to 40 minute delays. We are live in westbury, im Kristin Thorne, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Kristin, thank you. Another developing story, this one in manhattan, investigators are on the scene of a deadly fire on southern place
Oneonone interview witith big names from the b business wod. In the past we have featured exclusive interviews with the likes of bill marriott and the cofounder of twitter. This week, while Rebecca Cooper is off, we hand over the michael the microphone to one of jupiters. He sat down in front of the business crowd with the entrepneur and former secretary of commerce as well as trade in virginia. Hitting ther about bamboo ceiling and balancing success and yourur fily as well , innnovative techniques china producing paper that just might surprise you. A lot of people said, i could not get my raise, my promotion. I hit the glass ceiling, the bamboo c ceiling, whatever ceiling. I have the opportunity, lets go do it. Of course, that is a great option. Entrepreneurship is a great option that hit ceilings that they want to overcome. It is a great option especially for minorities, a lot of women that hit the glass ceiling. We see a lot more people going into that. If you are comfortable, yeah,
The issue is important and there is a general agreement on the solution around high skilled immigration. The problem is is the politics and the economy and jobs have been prumped by the politics of immigration. I think there are four paths. One could be the pass the senate not be taken up in the senate. There is a lottery that would flult raising the overall level of immigration. If there was an agreement to include that that bill could be passed. A second option which is what the president has ind indicated he favors is to link high skilled immigration with the dream act. So it is a broader solution around immigration. The third would be to say this deals with the 50,000, this deals with a million five. The third would be deal with 11 million which clearly we have to as a nation deal with and there is a desire now more than there might have been a month ago to do. That and ive heard a number of people talk about the need to take up the issue and called for a comprehensive solution. So
Like Honey Boo Boo and im watching its. I think that is a huge part of the experience and i think it is sold short. I still think a lot of americans love the enjoyment of escapism and being able to roam around the tv jungle finding things they did not know were there. Michael powell on the future of television. On cspan2. Now a forum on highly skilled immigrants on the u. S. Economy. A panel talks about how immigration laws affects mat scuents. Well hear from mark warner. Hosted by the university of virginias center this is about an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you, david. Good evening. Welcome to the National Press club for the keynote round tail. I would like to pay special tribute to mark kaplan whose vision has made this annual conference possible. His commitment to Public Service has been stead fast through the years and were grateful for his abiding friendship. I also want to recognize, as david has, the hard work of david, mike, jeff, of the center. Who is responsible for convenin