Welcome to everybody. Im the director of the david National Center for white house history. Im conkrncurrently the senior e president for Educational Resources and i would like contexturely to put this in a nice picture, share background of the association and that places tonight was talk if to a proper context. Were private, nonprofit ed Educational Organization and the mission of the place is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of the executive mansion and that means 56 years at this point. Its 1961. This is during the Kennedy Administration and first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy founded the ass association and its purpose was to help the white house collect an exhibit, the absolute very best of American History and culture but underscoring all of that to inform and excite the public about the hist raeof the executive mansion. So today were still doing this. Acquisition, preservation, research continue through the sale of our books, our products. The official white house orname
Welcome to everybody. Im the director of the david National Center for white house history. Im conkrncurrently the senior e president for Educational Resources and i would like contexturely to put this in a nice picture, share background of the association and that places tonight was talk if to a proper context. Were private, nonprofit ed Educational Organization and the mission of the place is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of the executive mansion and that means 56 years at this point. Its 1961. This is during the Kennedy Administration and first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy founded the ass association and its purpose was to help the white house collect an exhibit, the absolute very best of American History and culture but underscoring all of that to inform and excite the public about the hist raeof the executive mansion. So today were still doing this. Acquisition, preservation, research continue through the sale of our books, our products. The official white house orname
Investigation are now coming out by the minute. We have network and local crews working this story. Our coverage continues on nightly news. Lester holt will join us at 5 30. We are also following breaking news out of Contra Costa County. A News Conference underway right now as were learning more about a man investigators say set fire to a bunch of cars in the east bay. James bishop iii was arrested over the weekend after this car was torched. One of a series of fires that happened the past couple of weeks throughout county. Youre looking at a map showing all of them. Jodi hernandez is live at that News Conference with more. Jodi . Reporter thats right. Investigators told me that they noticed an uptick in car arson fires at the beginning of april, but things really heated up last week with backtoback arson fires across the county. Well, tonight, just a few minutes ago, the task force began a press conference to announce that charges have now been filed against the alleged firestarter. T
Company, the firestorm and what hes now saying this morning. Its a beautiful night and bachelorette shocker. An ending like weve never seen before in series history. Rachel gets her happy ending. Will you marry me . Yes. Its the guy no one expected. The couple flying coast to coast overnight live here this morning. The ring, their plans and is it true love . I think i want to marry you and good morning, america. Hope youre well this Tuesday Morning. It is a good Tuesday Morning for rachel and bryan. Yes, and i know you were up all night, george, watching it because we cant wait for rachel and bryan to join us live this morning after a very dramatic night last night. A lot of people thought she was actually going to pick the runnerup peter but she surprised everybody and picked bryan. A lot of reaction. A lot of reaction to that. Thats coming up. But first, lets get the latest on that Severe Weather that is slamming the country, a powerful storm system stretching all the way from texas
Medical professionals who treat addiction, lawmakers from hard hit areas, we want to in just a little bit. Well open our phone lines and you how the Opioid Epidemic is affecting you personally, first, part of our conversation from the author of he book dream land, the true tale of americas opiate epidemic. I want to ask you about something you wrote on your blog. Days g about heroin these is another way of writing about america. Who we are and what weve become. That. Ou explain sure. I began, it began to occur to me as i began to write. In the middle of this project, and i began to wonder this problem was affecting appalachian, but why it was affecting charlotte and salt lake and places that did very well in the last 20 to 30 years, not rustbelt areas at all. Common denominator . I began to understand that the denominator was our own isolation and that you were really writing about much bigger than simply Drug Trafficking. My background is as a crime thought i was writing a book about