Members of congress who served in the military. Now, a brief conversation about the project with director Robert Patrick and reference specialist megan harris. What is the idea behind the veterans history project . Patrick the project is to collect, preserve, and make accessible the wartime memories of veterans. Congress saw the wisdom back in 2003 as part of the American Folklife Center at the library of congress. The way we are doing that is collect primarily oral histories of veterans, sitting down with them, having the talk about their experiences, particularly during the time they served in the military and particularly during the time of war. We take in these histories be a audio or video but also original materials like photographs letters, diaries, things families find themselves with that they do not know what to do with. They also tell a very compelling story. As i said, we do this with the american Folk Art Center at the library of congress and try to make it accessible to a
Gathered in this little room off the Senate Chamber, and he came bustling in and sat down with us. For the next 30 to 40 minutes, we all talked with him about health care while literally a dozen members of the u. S. Senate at one point or another poked their head in. And in those kinds of conversations you have with people that you really know, abbreviated little, did you look after yeah, i am on that and did you take, yeah, i got that. Back and forth, back and forth between him and his colleagues in the u. S. Senate. And when we left that day, i thought to myself, in a business where it is so much easier to stop something from happening than it is to actually find your way to get something done, this is how this guy succeeds. Relationships, trust followthrough. It was all on display that day as a sidebar to the meeting that we were having about health care. In short, senator kennedy absolutely was the bigfoot from massachusetts in so many ways if you needed somebody to help you get so
This hour. Well talk about his decision and new job. And syrias civil war is in a very dangerous perhaps decisive Tipping Point right now. Can the world prevent Bashar Al Assad from using chemical weapons against his own people . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with president obama taking his battle to extend tax cuts for the middle class into the heart of the middle class suburb today. He visited a family just outside washington, d. C. , using their story to dramatize what will happen in just 26 days if he and congress cant make a deal on the socalled fiscal cliff. A source of great concern for so many people, everyones taxes will go up, will go up if theres no deal. Lets go live to our White House Correspondent dan lothian. Hes on the scene for us over at the white house. How did it go, dan . Reporter well, wolf, weve seen the president do this before in the past whenever hes locked in negotiations with lawmakers. He heads out on the road, either goes to a back
Well see the rain tonight. Kathy . You saw that line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the south of williamsport hea heading toward the south and east. This we have been to be watchful of overnight. My eye is on this right here storms moving across the bay along the Eastern Shore of maryland at about 30 miles an hour and they will be impacting delaware soon. You can see the severe thunderstorm watch right now extending as far east as Lancaster County. And well keep an eye on that overnight to so if it gets extended thunder to the east into our region. But focusing on this cell right here talking about heavy rains associated with it, and also freak lightning. Some ponding on area roads with very heavy rain. This cell will be near crumb ton at 11 01. Seconds away here at this time. Dover by 11 41 and in bauers by 11 55. Its not severe but its very heavy rain, 40 miles an hour winds and also frequent lightning. Overnight threats with these storms heavy downpours. Frequent lightn
In philadelphia this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Some people trying to beat the heat tonight with a cool treat as our hot and humid weather continues. But we are tracking thunderstorms on storm scan3 right now and they will move in soon. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im chris may. Lets start off with meteorologist kathy orr shes keeping track of when and where well see the rain tonight. Kathy . You saw that line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the south of williamsport hea heading toward the south and east. This we have been to be watchful of overnight. My eye is on this right here storms moving across the bay along the Eastern Shore of maryland at about 30 miles an hour and they will be impacting delaware soon. You can see the severe thunderstorm watch right now extending as far east as Lancaster County. And well keep an eye on that overnight to so if it gets extended thunder to the east into our region. But focusing on this cell right here talking about heavy rains associat