Illinois. Located on the Illinois River, today, it is one of the largest cities in the state and home to the headquarters of caterpillar. It came from when the owner to tested his tractor as it was moving through the field, and the press was there. One of the reporters of that, said it look like a caterpillar moving across the field. Everyone starting calling the machines caterpillars. Announcer 2 but it was known as the whiskey capital of the world. Whiskey was king in the early 1900s. There was 73 different distilleries and 43 breweries, not at the same time, but that many. Announcer 2 with the help of our Comcast Cable partners, over the next 90 minutes, we explore peorias history. We begin with a trip down the Illinois River on board the spirit of peoria. Sing it if you know it. Join in if you know it. Everybody, sing along. Irene good night irene good night good night irene good night irene i will see you in my dreams welcome aboard the spirit of peoria. I am the resident historia
Him of Sexual Harassment. Clarence thomas was nominated by president george h. W. Bush. This is seven minutes. Mr. Kerrey i have a very first statement. First of all, i do not think the residents of the united dates is acting in order to build a great u. S. Supreme or. I think the selection of Clarence Thomas was driven by other motivations, but the worst for me in all of these proceedings is that we will have established a precedent where the next time an individual face is the opportunity to present their case to the court, that is to say when accused in deciding how they are going to handle their case and there lawyers deciding how they will handle their case, when they attacked , they will be able to say that they are simply following the example set by the president of the united takes of america, because i believe that is what occurred over the weekend. The president meeting conscious insiden to make a team the department of justice, inside the eeoc. They did negative research on
New Court Filings submitted by lawyers in the lame closure case. Kerry good morning everybody great to have you with us im kerry drew. Robert an im rocket robert 6 00 on this 11th day of august were glad youre with us, and mike now is in on all of the ax and mike we thought we might fall below the 80degree mark but hasnt happened. Mike so far so good. Were looking at very warm conditions out there. We, in fact, have a heat mentioned. We have it up every afternoon and evening as the heat indexes come up to 95 degrees plus. But yep its happening again and we also have excessive heat warnings in effect for you down near philadelphia corridor. Our temperature as it stands right now we got 80 central park. 77 in allentown and sun is coming up in next minute or two. So its another warm day, in fact, hot outside. Hot, humid, all over again. Hazy hot humid coming together months and then hot august nights as well over next few days here. Your dew point sitting at 73 out at central park and pou
Of washington which is were you or, so you may get. Congratulations. And its very exciting to have these book talks, these free book talks, and theyre sponsored by ford. The forgetting the doctor and, of course, weve never accepted any government money. They been offered in mount vernon since the 1860s, since 1861 it took over the estate of George Washington. They were the founders of National Historic preservation but they are an all Woman Run Organization and they are all built on private donations unpatriotic individuals and foundations from the people who coming the people who coming to visit it at the great honor to serve that mission to preserve the estate at the highest level and to teach people all over the world about the life, leadership and legacy of George Washington. And we couldnt do without the generation of important donors like henry ford. As many of you know an early dont think he did not its first fire engine. And ever since weve gotten the fire engines from ford mot
That picture is spectacular good wednesday morning everyone im robert moses. Im kerry drew ben and juliet are off this morning. It is 6 00 on this wednesday. Thanks so much for being with us can i say during annas segment tts from thj. She is not. She was born in l. A. [laughter] so sorry about that kesha. Some well known singer from union county, i dont know who it is. If you know who it is let us know. I dont think shell be offended. Sorry kesha. Love you, mean it. [laughter] Audrey Puente is here with a look at the forecast but it does not feel like the holiday season. Its crazy. Taste of spripg is officially first week of the were want season. Today will be warm and wet across the tristate area. Into the above average, and tomorrow near record levels and wet weather not only today but also for your Christmas Eve. Although i think today will be more of a washout towards afternoon as o posessed to tomorrow, we have a chance of a few showers coming in across the area. Christmas day lo