Good morning. I would like to welcome you to historic fort stevens. Come on up. On behalf of the National Park service, we would like to welcome you to historic fort stevens and the 55th anniversary of the battle of commemoration. I am the Program Manager for the civil war defenses of washington, and that is a long or what encircles the National Park Service Number which manages 18 of the forts, as well as battleground national cemetery. Presenttime, we will the colors. Today, representing the 54th regiment of massachusetts and the united colored troops from connecticut. Withe going to open now the presentation of colors. [national anthem] [applause] please be seated. For those who are wondering, that was the hymn from the 1861 weldon,itten by oliver sung by harold hartford. We have greetings from our part superintendent at this time, julia washburn. [applause] julia good morning, everybody. What a Beautiful Day we have. We really lucked out on the weather and it feels like it may be h
Day three and a four and a five. I have removed the icon. On this image. I dont want you to focus on the centerline. 99 times out of 100 the storm does not hit her the centerline is. But the range of possibility. Category three hurricane making landfall somewhere south of miami. All the way north to north of jacksonville by savannah georgia. There is a wide range of possibilities for the landfall of the storm sometime sunday or monday which will be labor day. It encompasses the entire east coast of florida. Category two or three hurricane heading toward florida the next couple days. The storm did not we can over pottery go. Good news for puerto rico. A stronger storm heading to the southeastern coast of the u. S. Is coming up this holiday weekend. Our local forecast is coming up. 14yearold boy is under arrest for a police chase in santa cruz county. That left a car full of teenagers injured. Chp said officers tried to pull the driver over earlier this morning in capitola. A short pursu
And great adventure. Meet a grandmother on a joyride of a lifetime. Welcome to the cbs overnight news. Im elaine quijano. A horrific attack in afghanistan a suicide bomber attacked a wedding in kabul killing dozens and wounding many more. Reporter its a sight thats become all too common in afghanistan. Rows of fresh graves holding the victims of the latest attack. This time a suicide bomber targeted a wedding killing dozens of people and wounding o. I heard an explosion. A lot of guests were killed. Reporter the attack took place at this wedding hall west of the city. Mostly populated by shiite muslims. Isis has claimed responsibility. Eyewitnesss say the bomber walked prong the children dancing before detonating. The carnage was so great some bodies couldnt be identified. Their shoes are all that remain. Afghanistans president condemned the bombing saying the targeting of our people in such events indicates the i atrocity of a terrorist group determined to kill innocent peel. Even the
Good morning, everyone. Im peter carmichael. A member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Also the director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this morning to welcome aaron sheehandean. Aaron sheehandean is the is it fray . The fred c. Fry professor of southern studies at lsu. Aaron is a native of michigan, not far from lansing. He did his undergraduate work at northwestern before spending some time working in washington, d. C. As a congressional staffer and then moved on to the university of virginia where he studied under gary gallagher. Published his dissertation with the university of North Carolina press. The book is entitled why confederates fought family and nation in civil war virginia. His most recent book published by harvard entitled the calculus of violence how americans fought the civil war just, again, published in 2018. Aaron at lsu is a great place for him, of course, being in baton rouge and not far from new orleans, aaron is a selfproclaimed fo
Tunnel shut down now for more than three hours. Lets take look at this scene live right now. Can you see they have removed a number of the vehicles and a lot of evidence here. L poe are still on the scene. There is hope that they could open this tunnel soon, but, agin, its been shut down now for nearly three hours. This is what it looked like earlier. The focus here, this golen explorer. Police say that the gold explorer ran into t backof a darkcolored sedan. The occupants of the darkcored sedan and the gold explorer got out. Thereto was an argument. A man from the darkcoloredpu sedan out a gun and shot the driver of the gold explorer, and then that darkcolored sedan took off. Here now, here n hear now fro morgan cain,he First District commander. What do you make what happened here . This is actually i make that this was unnecessary. This is truly tragic, that a simple accident, vehicle accident, its an accident, can escalate into a shooting. So that to me is very sad and heart wrenchi