Everything from your littlest little ones on up to enjoy here during the season. We have lots and lots of decorated Christmas Trees here this year and our affiliated garden clubs are wonderful. Theyre madly creative. This year their theme was flights of fancy, so they all took that theme and ran with it and decorated the trees in all sorts of different ways. Interpreted it with blimps, with pollinators, with angels all over the place and thats one of the fun things for us as staff is just to walk through take a look at all these really cool themes that they have come up with. All of the Christmas Trees are spread out throughout the indoors here at the botanical garden. So any time, you know, any kind of weather thats going on youre going to be safe and nice and warm and dry inside, but we also have a spectacular light display outside this year for the first time. Staff cant get enough of it. We keep going out, were not getting a lot of work done. Were going outside and looking at all t
I started thinking about competitive elections long ago, and i started the project thinking that i was writing as a devils advocate. I saw people assume without question the competitive elections are intrinsically good and intrinsically healthy, and i thought it was important to have somebody make the argument in the other direction. Later, go inside the Cleveland Public Librarys special collections to explore the life of harlem renaissance writer Langston Hughes and his connections to the city. During Langston Hughes time here, he lived in about five different residences. He said he lived in a lot of basements. He enrolled in Central High School which was one of the first public high schools in the country, first in the city. But first, we hear from author john gras bow sky about the history of cleveland and how transportation has shaped its identity. East boulevard and University Circle, but i wanted to look at a history, and i worked on this with my wife, diane, that looked at the i
[inaudible conversation] book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. I hope to finish a couple books, first of all im reading freedoms task which was given to me by senator roy blunt and this is a book that is about the dome being put on the Capital Building precivil war but what i found is especially interesting is as i get into the book of focus on the House Chamber and Senate Chamber and how those were added to the original Capital Building and one of the main proponents of that is Jefferson Davis so while we are approaching the civil war, we have Jefferson Davis really helping our country, helping build a Capital Building which would serve our entire country and we know later that he became the president of the confederacy so that the book im hoping to get through, i started it and i need to finish it. I also want to read about destiny and power which is the book by john meacham on george hw bush. I would like to get that done t
Biggest speech of his life. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Republican National convention with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from cleveland. Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to cleveland and welcome to a wednesday morning and welcome to halftime of the Republican National convention. Should i get two hot dogs and a beer like usual. Yeah. They have now selected trump and pence as their nominees for president and Vice President. And the evening theme was make america work again and it was heavy on attacks against Hillary Clinton. We have it covered starting with national correspondent, Peter Alexander. Reporter w the history books. The Republican Party now officially embracing the firsttime politician, the billionaire, donald trump, as its president ial nominee. And the big night for mike pence of indiana. And its my honor to be able to throw donald trump over the top. After a primary Campaign Like no other, a moment of triumph for donald t
Keeping up the Live Team Coverage with meteorologist tara blake. Some folk still trying to get it together. And thats kind of round one. Round two is a bit different and it doesnt pack a punch, very heavy rainfall and you and the family need to stay indoors until sunset when the storms will die down. Lets take a look at the southern winds leading to the eruption of showers and thunderstorms. On the west side of sandusky, if you know anyone at cedar point call them and make sure they are ago. The lightning flashes close and heaviest rainfall headed east. Berlin heights and florence heavy rainfall as well. East siders, we have an actual flood advisory because of has greatly diminished. Still heavy rainfall in northern sections of twinsburg and aurora and driving on 422 and 322. Lighter and moderate pockets on the east side and with that flood advisory until 5 15 and some storms dumping two inches per hour. It is hot and humid. We will take a look with humidity coming up. Want to go back