Next, baseball historian phil dixon talks about the kansas city monarchs, the longestrunning franchise in the history of baseballs negro leagues. The Dwight D Eisenhower president ial library and museum hosted this hourlong event. And museum hosted this hour long event. First i want to say good afternoon, and i want to thank some people, of course, tim for giving me this opportunity to come down and speak with you today. Im really excited about it and samantha who handled a lot of the publicity for the event she did just a wonderful job and without people like that, also there was a local Radio Station that did a great interview, and between newspaper, radio, im always appreciative of all the people who support your visit and so i want to thank all of them before i get started. Im going to jump right into it and tell you a little bit about why im here. The kansas city monarchs was a Negro League Baseball team and most of you have heard of them. Maybe you heard of Jackie Robinson or Sat
Hosted this hour long event. First i want to say good afternoon, and i want to thank some people, of course, tim for giving me this opportunity to come down and speak with you today. Im really excited about it and samantha who handled a lot of the publicity for the event she did just a wonderful job and without people like that, also there was a local Radio Station that did a great interview, and between newspaper, radio, im always appreciative of all the people who support your visit and so i want to thank all of them before i get started. Im going to jump right into it and tell you a little bit about why im here. The kansas city monarchs was a Negro League Baseball team and most of you have heard of them. Maybe you heard of Jackie Robinson or Satchel Paige. They were organized in 1920, 194 they won the first world championship. That was 90 years ago. I was trying to figure a way to honor these great men who purely played for the love of the game because they didnt make great salaries
Attack in exchange for a captured jordanian pilot. The fate of a japanese journalist also being held is not clear at this time. Jordans willingness to make the deal with isis puts it at odds with u. S. Policy. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Annemarie, good morning. The u. S. Policy, of course, being that u. S. Does not make concessions to terrorists. The state Department Says it will not interfere with the Prisoner Exchange as long as it complies with international law. We may very well see by sunset in jordan that is the deadline around 10 a. M. Eastern time a prisoner swap with isis terrorists. A sunset deadline has been set n by isis in the prisoner swap negotiations involving the lives of japanese journalist kenji goto and a fighter pilot. The pilot was fighter plane crashed in syria during a bombing raid last month. The freelance journalist was captured in syria last year. The Islamic State released a chilling new voice last night, in it a voice said to be j
Camera pre much softer than even drizzle out their visibility dropped about under a mile and santa rosa down to zero and a bottle. Synge and onehalf miles in and out of Half Moon Bay along highway 11 this morning. So clearings today that fog is going to be pretty stubborn hang with us as we head into the afternoon at noon. I shall see the sun shine along with that much cooler temperatures. Beckel don continues into tomorrow before we want things right back up to a weekend full extended forecast talking awesome rain on the horizon coming up at 715. we are still tracking some hot spots here but the 680 ride south on and walnut creek and unconquered at 242 Pleasant Hill on 680. With two separate accidents north main street in the southbound direction three it is a slow ride getting into the corridor coming on oakland this morning. Early morning crash southbound is 92ยข on the shoulder for a long time and again next and westbound on 92 leading up to a toll plaza of sematech a bridge that j
Mcdonald gaga for johnny . Closing arguments at the thrifle former governor and his wife. And Labor Day Weekend is here. Ill take a look at rain chances, next. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org first at 11 00, an important warning for parents be on the lookout for symptom ops whooping cough. Montgomery county schools sent home a letter to parents telling them of three confirmed and nine suspected cases of the disease. Whooping cough is highly contagious and theyre concerned that it could spread to others. Do they know how these kids got sick . We have learned that all of them attended a summer camp in pennsylvania and there are fears tonight that the number of cases could go higher. We have learned that 200 kids at that camp were warned they might have been exposed. Students with eerlt confirmed or suspected cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, attend robert frost middle school, julius west middle school, cold spring elementary school. This womans son is