Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle. The appalachian mountains. Our first president , george washington, happened to be a canal engineer, had an idea. That idea was to create a transcontinental water
Little point in continuing to talk. Global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im karina mitchell. This is bloomberg. Rishaad carrie lam with a lengthy policy address on wednesday. She laid out her vision for greater integration with the mainland. Benefiting from its proximity to the mainland and longstanding support, hong kongs Economic Development will be given new impetus. The key is to somehow open up the border with china, because we are part of china, and the homecoming hong kong economy was not just set for domestic consumption. It was really set for 1. 4 billion people across the border. In any case, most of the key Investment Decisions will be driven by how china is operating and the Big Companies in hong kong are all chinese oriented. So i dont really think a policy address will be of that much difference to investors as it might be elsewhere. Stephen engle has been covering
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Voters also coming up all street in mourning the chancellor Sebastian Cordes condemning what he calls a repulsive terror attack 4 people shot dead by a supporter of socalled Islamic State and germanys intensive care units freezing for a 2nd wave of coded 19 patients hospitals say they have enough beds but its infections keep climbing they may not have enough nurses to care for patients. Im burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome well tonight millions of americans are casting their votes in one of the most polarized president ial contests in u. S. History turnout is set to shatter all records around 100000000 had already voted before polling began today. Well thats nearly 3 quarters of the total number who voted in 2016 today long lines have formed in many states democratic hopeful joe biden made a last Minute Campaign stop in his childhood home of scranton pennsylvania thats that crucial swing state hes ahead in National Poll
That is facing the u. S. Voter anchor austria in morning. Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz is condemning what he calls a compulsive terrorist attack, for people shot dead by supporter of the state. Hospitals say that they have enough beds, if infections keep climbing, they may not have enough nurses to care for patients. Brent i am brits i am brent goff. Welcome. Tonight, millions of americans are casting their votes in one of the most polarized u. S. Contests in recent history. Voter turnout is expected to shatter records, around 100 million. That is nearly three quarters of the total number that voted in 360. Long lines have performed in many states, and joe biden made a stop and his childhood home, scranton, pennsylvania. The race and many battleground states is looking tight. U. S. President donald trump has been thinking his campaign team. Reporter asked the president today either he had prepared an acceptance and a concession speech. Pres. Trump i am not thinking about a speech yet. Ho