Reporter two days before the accident, a concerned worker filmed an upper floor of the 18story hotel under construction. He points to a series of red flags like this floortoceiling temporary beam supporting concrete slabs. In spanish he says they couldnt remove this one because its too bent. It has too much pressure. This is serious. This was a cascading set of failures. Reporter Civil Engineer Norma Jean Mattei watched the video. It makes me wonder why. Was the brace ged . Was the concrete placed not of adequate strength . Was the concrete just not Strong Enough . Reporter Governor John Bel Edwards said the possible of Tropical Storm winds moving in tomorrow is posing a danger for the two damaged cranes still standing. We are working as hard as we can on a timeline that will allow for those crane towers to actually be taken down safely. Reporter omar villafranca, cbs news, new orleans. To chicago now where teachers in the nations Third Largest School District walked off the job today.
Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. On this 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing, todays washington journal in conjunction with cspans American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern space flight. For the next three hour, we are live from the national air and space museum here in washington, d. C. , where we will talk about apollo 11 historians and michael collins. You want to talk about that day, your impressions of it, 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post cspanwj your thoughts and impressions of the 50th anniversary. You can do the same at our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based to hear from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts of the apollo 11 mission. It was astronauts Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins, the team for that day and the launch, youll remember took place july 16, 1969, at 9 32, to be exact. The moon landing on july 20, of july 69 at
In the house of representatives, a lot going on today. If you want to find out more about the activity, go to our website at cspan. Org. We now take you to the house. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] rage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 17, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the ouse of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders fo
Lets get going. 195 million, close to 200 million under heat watches or warnings. It could get worse over the next 24 to 48 hours. Jackie deangelis on who stands to be impacted. Hey, jackie. Reporter neil this is the calm before the storm if you will. It is not quite sweltering out here in times square just yet. Temperatures here, across the country, they are going to be at record highs. It is important that everybody is ready for this heat wave. 290 million americans are expected to see temperatures of at least 90 degrees this week. The humidity of course, remember makes it feel much hotter than that. Temperatures in the northeast will be 10 to 15 degrees above average this week. At least two dozen states, they are currently under a heat alert. Here in new york city the Mayors Office issued a extreme heat emergency declaration. It is so severe, that the new york city triathlon actually can sell for the weekend. That is the First Time Since it started in 2001. We caught up with some fo
Morgan 50 years on humans once again have their sights set on the moon also in jordan explains. Apollo weapon was the result of hard work little sleep and billions of dollars 300000 kilometers away a small blue planet watched in awe of 4 of. Our. American Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon we didnt get to see the the moon until we were just practically at the end of our trip through it when we were when we rolled out looked at it oh it was. Really was the current head of nasa tells aljazeera the u. S. Is ambition was field both by science and by politics the president. At the time john f. Kennedy said we need to have a vision and a goal. We choose to go to the moon and just again and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are odd and the goal is to get to the moon and so it resulted in this space race at the time that was i think. It was motivated by that basically competition return american astronauts to the moon establish a Permanent Base there and devel