Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers, natalie portman, philanthropist cindy mccain, music from Dave Matthews featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening, im seth meyers and this is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Thats great to hear lets get to the news. Theres just one week until election day and whatever happens, it will be nice when my email inbox doesnt look like i just broke up with it the senate yesterday confirmed President Trumps nominee, judge Amy Coney Barrett, to the supreme court. And just think, someday youll tell your children about this, whether you wanted children or not. During a swearingin ceremony for judge Amy Coney Barrett last night at the white house, President Trump said, quote, this is a momentous day for america, for the United States constitution, and for the fair and impartial rule of law. Momentous in that its the last day for all of those things. First Lady Melania Trump campaigned for her husband i
Actually, im part cherokee native, but im a mainland writer. And so my the time i will have to speak in hawaiian is thick. Well talk a bit about the hawaiian language. But the first thing i need to do is make some disclaimer of humility. Because captive paradise is intended to explain the essentials of how the United States, how we got our hands on the place. Ive never gotten such good well, im used to getting good reviews. But the reviews that i got from wall street journal all the way to honolulu magazine were just extraordinary. Really wonderful reviews. Which did not prepare me for the anger that i saw in the native independence blogs. They hated it. And hated me just another damn halely trying to make monday off our history. Parentally they think people make money off history which tells you something about their understanding of the publishing business. The there was on one of these hawaiian history and culture blogs a native xlor wscholar wh, yeah, hes whut, ite, he should have
Disabled vehicle and that is reportedly blocking your right lanes, so that will be an issue, a couple lanes down, unexpectedly, so watch for the flashing lights but the Speed Sensors dont show a problem through the area. Were also tracking the incident affecting tennison and onramp and nimitz freeway and construction in san leandro. A smooth drive and getting lighter for the backup at the bay bridge cash lanes are open. Breaking news for you this morning, a busy morning for firefighters in southern Santa Clara County. A brush fire flaring up along highway 101 in gilroy, and cal fire is on the scene. So is today in the bays kris sanchez, joins us there riff with the latest. What do you know, kris . Reporter well, as of right now, cal fire is no longer here because the fire is out. The smoke smell is still really heavy in the air, and about two hours ago, that fire was inching up along the shoulder of highway 101 here in gilroy. This was the scene about 3 00 this morning, off highway 101
U. S. And japanese navies. Leading off is a review of the war in pacific prior to june 1942 then new information about the japanese at the battle. This is live coverage on cspan3. We are pleased and very very proud to be hosting it. I would like to thank our partners that helped put this together. The Hampton Roads Naval Historical Foundation and world war i and world war ii come mem ri commemoration. We couldnt have done it without you. [ cheers and applause ] now, before we get going i do have housekeeping items to pass along. First of all, turn off or silence your cell phones. Keep your programs. We have something of a limited supply of those and please wear your fwbadges throughout the da. Keep in mind we are on cspan so during the q and a use the microphone deployed here on the square. At this time i would like to bring forward my counter part john pentanjelo who will make some remarks, john. [ applause ] thanks, chris. Good morning and welcome. The Hampton Roads naval hue see yum
And hank kudzik, also a navy veteran, make up the panel. I cant tell you how excited i am to be here today. Thank you, wes, and jim, and the American Veterans center. Ive been here all day yesterday. I was at the Wounded Warrior experience. Its tremendous to read about history. As we heard from general richie yesterday, its more important that were hearing it from those that participated in history. And we get to hear it from some phenomenal and amazing men and women that weve heard from the last couple of days. The mofford marines, i never heard that story before but ill be reading more, how can you not be interested after that . What i thought i would do is just give you a brief overview on the battle of midway. But really keep my portion short, because i think we all want to hear from these three gentlemen that were there. And the can offer much more information than what i can give you. But i will say, in the last five to ten years, were very fortunate, some fantastic books have be