And at the base of capitol hill, speakers included in the world designer frank perry, former secretary of state, senator pat roberts and president eisenhowers grandchildren david in susan eisenhower. Exploring the american story. Watch it on cspan 3. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the ramification of the 14th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Up next on American History tv, climbs in University History professor oval vernon why was essential to ratify after the abolition of slavery. This is hosted by the u. S. Capital Historical Society is 45 minutes. Now with great pleasure, i get to introduce our first speaker oval Vernon Burton, who holds the judge math jay perry distinguished chair. In history panafrican studies sociology anthropology and computer science. If you think its weird but i do baseball, vernon does it all. Hes actual one man university. At Clemson University in South Carolina. Hes also the director of the clients Cyber Institute in addition to that, he recei
We have new video coming in from the fires burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. More than 20,000 people have been evacuated in that area. This is affecting a lot of peoples lives and you can see this video ththres cr homes. It has burned 25,000 acres so far in the hills of santa cruz and San Mateo County and at least 20 buildings. We saw a lion of a dozen fire trucks going to that area but cal fire is having trouble responding to all of these fires, as we have been talking about. They are spread very thinly, two First Responders have been injured in this firefight. Thsh d at structure you saw burning was a long empire great road. All of these are under evacuation orders. For the people in San Mateo County, this is the same big complex for them. Tey can go to Half Moon Bay high school. We will continue to watch the fire activity this morning as cal fire updates us on how much progress they may have been able to make overnight and in the meantime, the weather is a huge factor and mary le
Bird i iran should not repeat these reckless and dangerous attacks, but must instead pursue urgent deescalation. Mr. Speaker i know the thoughts of the house are also with our friends in australia as they tackled the bushfires. As they are with the families of those killed in the Ukrainian Air crash. Mr. Speaker this morning i had meetings with ministers and callings i and others i will have further meetings later today. Mr. Speaker the disease is a terminal illness where the third of the people dying within a year in more than half within two years of diagnosis. The last thing terminally ill people should work be worrying about our their finances. The scrap Six Months Campaign with this association which is based in my constituency of northampton south. I went to bring this important issue of payments to those terminally illnesses to the floor. And i welcome to work with the pensions review for terminal illness. But can i ask the Prime Minister to join me in pressing them to complete
Ie t do reporter they started the harvest urban market on eighth and howard 16 years ago, but times have changed a the lot. Ive found people in bathrooms with needles in their legs. Reporter shes been attacked numerous. He pushed me up against this thing right here. Reporter on friday gil was bitten in the arm by a violent homeless man whom he tried to subdue. He also sustained bietd marks in june by a homeless woman. A girl came in trying to get her to exit the store, and she grab might arm and just bit me. Were not even running our business anymore. Were basically dealing with street people. Reporter theyre everywhere in this south of market neighborhood, living on the street and in the numerous alleys intersecting eighth street. Also here, police and public works cleanup crews. Homeless are told to pack up and leave, but they come back hours later, many to this super market. They come in disoriented, high, the bathrooms are used to do drugs. Reporter the attacks have become so bad t
Professor watching the debate with us and well join us live in a few minutes to breakdown the big take aways from tonights debate. The debate lasted for three hours. If you didnt watch it all, well get you caught up. Here are the highlights in under two minutes. Reporter in the third democratic debate, one after another, the top contenders on the stage open the debate with a common message, their mission to defeat donald trump. What unites us up here, the ten of us is much stronger than what divides us. Reporter but the unified front quickly dismantled after the conversation shifted to health care. Former Vice President joe biden going headtohead with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders over their support for medicare for all. 160 Million People that like their health care now can keep it. I never met anybody who likes their health care insurance. Reporter chiming into the debate taking aim at sanders. While bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. Reporter and in the harshest