Directed the American Heritage Rivers Initiative at the White House Council on environmental quality. Today miss newman will discuss the post war impact on the forts, on the surrounding neighborhoods in washington and their evolution into parks. And kim elder. Miss elder is the National Parks Services Program manager for civil war defenses of washington. She is responsible for the management, the Oversight Program development of 16 for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries opened and operated by the National Parks service. So today ms. Elder will highlight the parks today and provide us with a preview of this weekends activities at fort stevens. So let me begin now with dr. Cooling. [ applause ] good afternoon, folks. Pleasure to be back in this lovely facility even if every time i come here i go in the wrong entrance to the National Archives. As a researcher, i became very accustomed over 30 years or more of going in the other side. Well, you dont want to hear about that today. Ill
The survivors lay dead in the field and they were fired on by machine guns at close range. Machine guns were fired at these men. They fell to the ground. December 17, 1944, an american convoy traveling to belgium is spotted and captured by german troops. Ginny parker on the massacre on sunday night at nine eastern and pacific. Part of American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Our special booktv programming continues in just a moment with peter piot in his career fighting viruses. And a little more than an hour, lori andrews on personal privacy rights and social networking. After that, the swearing in of the governor of new hampshire. It will be a busy day tomorrow for members of congress. The house meets at 10 00 a. M. Eastern to consider a bill regarding Hurricane Sandy relief funding. You can see that live on cspan at 10 00 a. M. At one eastern, a joint meeting of congress. He will count the electoral boards for Vice President and president. Now, peter piot on his book, no time to
Pay 100 per year. [laughter]. Lose. From the council on Foreign Relations in new york city, this is a little more than an hour. Good evening. Welcome to the council on Foreign Relations. I am laurie garrett, senior official for the Global Health program. I am very pleased and excited about our discussion today. We have a very big treat. We not only have doctor peter piot, the founder of the United Nations a program, but we have the current director with us as well. We have a true continuity that stands for several decades. And i think youll have a lively and fantastic conversation. What brings us here today is no time to lose, a life in pursuit of deadly viruses, doctor peter piots memoir. It is not an attempt to write history of anything. But rather an attempt to describe how the world in the history developed through the eyes of a key player who is really on the front lines of each individual step along the way. Because the memoir is far more accessible, it goes through an adventure
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U. S. , the usns comfort arrived in port today where officials hope the floating hospital will relieve the burden on the citys health care system. Lets go to cnns nick watt, joining us with more on todays coronavirus developments. There have been some very dramatic developments, nick. Give us the latest. Reporter well, wolf, here in california weve seen the number of hospitalizations double in just the past four days. Pretty much any expert you talk to will say this is still going to get worse before it gets better. An ominous sign, virginia today implemented a stayathome order. And that is going to be in place, unless something changes, until june 10th. That is more than ten weeks away. A life lost in brooklyn. One of thousands now across this country. I would like to avoid it. I wouldnt be surprised if we saw 100,000 deaths. Reporter today a Navy Hospital ship docked in new york city. The last time this great hospital ship was in new york was in the wake of 9 11. A Field Hospital now