And the final frontier. Leaping for joy. China celebrates 10 years of space exploration. But first, at least 20 people have been killed, many more have been injured in the central philippines by an earthquake. It was a magnitude 7. 2 quake that hit the island. The power has been cut, many buildings have been destroyed. The area is a popular tourist destination. Rescue workers are searching for survivors. Robert pool is a journalist from tokyo on holiday there when the earthquake hit and joins me for you on the line. 7. 2 magnitude quake, robert a powerful earthquake. Tell us what you saw or heard. Reporter well, i was riding a bike outside of one of the main cities when it happened. Obviously i was on the coastal roads, the earth was shaking and it really felt like it was floating during the quake itself. The roads in front of us cracked, the electricity cables came down, we encountered many bridges after that which collapsed i am not in the center of the epicenter of the earth charact
New frontier. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. It appears as though something has happened in the motorcade group. Osgood after dallas, the horror of his end, the dashed hopes of what might have been. Throughout the morning well be remembering key moments of that have friday afternoon and the three days that followed and well be taking the measure of a kennedy legacy. The john f. Kennedy who loom sod large in our National Memory very much a mixture of fact and legend. Rita braver will examine the facts, far teichner the legend. Reporter when you think of the kennedys, is it what actually happened during j. F. K. S Administration that comes to mind thor . Think bank on all the pains that you remember. We all got to think that the kennedys were mythical. They were royal, they were beautiful. Reporter ahead, the immortality of camelot. Osgood during the good times first Lady Jacqueline kennedy played a
Or fiction. Mr. Gibson, some of the books their viewers may see on booktv this fall. What are you publishing quick are several things. The first thing i would tell you about is paul roberts book, the info society. In 1879 there is a book called the culture of narcissism, classic and still lives in a defined our American Culture that is a very narcissistic culture. Paul roberts has picked up from that almost 38 years later in the info society is about the instant Gratification Society we have created here which has enormous ramifications and personal lives in economics and the economy and politics. Hes done a brilliant job. I think i was synthesizing this historic week taking about 40 years, beginning with the rise of the internet at some level and Mass Communication at that level. We have created a desire for instant gratification across the board. He takes it back further. His opening example is henry ford versus arthurs on the sunday general motors. Henry ford had a one size fits all
Preparations are underway. One of the bay areas biggest veterans ceremonies crowd for us. Charles clifford is there for us with a live look at how the city is thanking veterans for their service. Whats the turnout like out there, charles . And were going to be doing to celebrate. Yeah. Well, its a Beautiful Day here in petaluma. Just fantastic. Take a look behind me here. You got people already getting their seats, getting ready for the parade to start. It begins. At 1 oclock. So theyre still doing some set up getting ready. Lets go and take a look at some video here. Now, organizers tell me this parade takes about a year to get everything together and get everything ready for this parade. Theyre going to have a marching bands in here. Lots of floats. Lots of people walking in the parade. Lots of veterans in the parade going to pour says, and im told there may also be a flyover, although i have not confirmed that yet. Well just have to wait and see what happens now, the theme of this y
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