Paint intimate portraits of all 451st ladies. Their lives and visions, and unique partnerships with their president ial spouses. The series in the book provide an up close, historical look at these fascinating women who provide the scrutiny of the white house, sometimes at great personal cost while supporting the families and famous husband. Sometimes, changing history. Our program tonight will feature lively discussion with some of these contributing historians who will hear more about shortly. To moderate tonights program, we are pleased to welcome susan slang, the moderator of cspans first later influence an image. Susan slane is president and coceo of cspan, should sharing responsibility for all operations of the Public Affairs cable network. She oversees programming, marketing for cspan Television Channels and cspan radio. She helped launch the washington journal, book tv, American History to be, she has also been involved in the creation of numerous cspan history series such as a
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. This is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. American jets today hit positions near a key dam in Northern Iraq that that had been captured recently by islamic extremists. This, a day after the extremists members of the Islamic State are said to have massacred dozens of yazidis. The extremists reportedly had demanded members of that religious minority convert to islam. For about all of this, we are joined now via skype from duhok in Northern Iraq by liz sly of the Washington Post. So, weve heard about several more air strikes in the region this morning. What can you tell
Weather and i will have full details coming up at 6 15 a. M. We have had a few incidents this morning but so far, no hot spots. There was a car fire in san leandro. This was at the old friend. This may be blocked and this may back up traffic. Over at the beit bridge or westbound ride, the metering lights have been activated. Your quick commute check shows the heaviest traffic is still one interstate 580. Highway 4 in antioch to pittsburg. Were following a developing story out of hayward this moring. One man is dead following an officer involved shooting. Joining us live now is kron 4s mike pelton. Mike whats the scene like Police Stated that a 12 Year Old Girl alerted them to the apartment. We are kept outside of the apartment. You concede that the Hayward Police cars are still here. Here is video and Police Stated the this began at 9 30 p. M. Last night when she called to state that her parents were fighting he was privy to kill her mother. The disk masters heard them arguing in the b
On this thursday. It will be announced this morning when the new eastern span of the bay bridge will open. We have a preview of what the two men found guilty for their roles in a gang rape well tell you just how many years they face in prison. Good morning and thanks for joining us on this thursday august 15th. Im mark danon. New eastern span of the bay bridge will open. There is some hope that the bridge could open Labor Day Weekend. As isbut there is also the possibility that the opening could be delayed for months because of broken safety bolts. Kron 4s j. R stoke now thake a look at what needs to be that police are starting their investigation. We have a lieutenant was a point, to get more information but certainly if this is a developing situation with a dramatic break and here at the tiffany store in downtown walnut creek. For darya i can hear people in the background. This is a busy place. At 7 00 the bart for it should be opening soon. Are people talking about this because it i
Approaching the dublin interchange. Just keep in mind in the counter commute direction there is construction east 580 at greenville. It has shut down a couple of lanes and will be closed until 11 a. M. Mass transitwise youre in good shape no delays for bart, muni or the altamont commuter express. We begin with breaking news. We are learning the ntsb is launching a go team to investigate this mornings u. P. S. Crash. The cargo plane crashed near an airport in birmingham. The federal Aviation Administration says it happened just before dawn. It was en route from louisville, kentucky and we still dont know if anyone was injured. Some breaking news out of egypt where government raids on two protest camps are deadly. We have live pictures where you can see some of the resisters throwing rocks. Right now the unrest continues there. The Egyptian Security forces followed through with their threats to clear out camps which are protestors who support president mohamed morsi. Armored cars, bulldo