Shut down yet again. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. Five of the bay areas nine counties have announced the new stayathome order, taking action before they reached the states 15 threshold for icu bed capacity. San francisco, contra costa, santa clara, and alameda counties will all be under the stayathome order by midnight tonight. The order in marin county starts on tuesday. So far at least san mateo, sonoma, and solano counties are not telling their residents they have to stay at home. Now under the order there will be no indoor or Outdoor Dining at restaurants. But takeout orders will still be allowed. Wineries and bars will also have to close, so will hair and nail salons. Officials are warning people not to gather outside of their own households during the holidays. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama here now with how people and Business Owners spent the final hours before the order goes into effect. Jana . Reporter frank, some of the businesses said they saw a last minute rush. Peopl
Six years. Peter scott, one of the things that john and i have discussed with many of our guests is interpretation on Civil War Battlefield parks. We have also talked about the partnerships with academics and we have seen with many of our guests, including our guest on thursday, nina Silver Silver was one of the first historians that came to the park and had conversations with the park staff about ways to broaden the interpretation of gettysburg and time and time again john and i have noticed that these connections between academics and public historians, you cannot conclude there is this a great gulf between these two sides as i think there once was. I thought we could open by having you reflect upon how battlefield interpretation, how it changed over time during your career and if you wouldnt mind, i would be interested in what you see as opportunities as we look ahead. Or iimportant observation my girlsy fun fact cameron and isabel carmichael, i have to give them a shout out today b
Spreading beijing the greatest threat to washington today and its sign a spy scandal is unveiled. Welcome to the weekly here on our to international where we bring you the latest Headline News on the top stories from the past week. Paris was engulfed in renewed on rust on saturday over a controversial security bill 142 people were detained amid clashes with police riot officers use water cannon and tear gas as the situation spiraled out of control theres been huge anger over plans to protect Police Officers by handing them extra powers and boosting surveillance. Was at the rally for us. So we have seen the number of what i would describe the smash and grab spike the Police Members of the security. He forces going in to the crowds and crapping out individuals that they think of causing trouble buffaloed tensions where apostles accept a whooping for the Police Officers who are so hard to see gas already deployed to add to gases being used directly from arab source sprains x. The protests
Next, we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington, d. C. To Great Falls Tavern Visitors Center where well take a boat ride to learn about the history of the chesapeake and ohio canal. I would like to introduce myself. My name is cassandra and i am a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think were going to cast off here shortly, but well go ahead and start to give you a brief history of here on the canal. So it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but definitely doesnt reach the Chesapeake Bay or doesnt go all the way up to the ohio river, which is your intention of the canal when we first started building it july 4th of 1828. We wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was up in ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay, and so what we did was we started building this canal. We tried earlier, it was George Washingtons dream to actually use the Potomac Riv
Now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Youre looking at a timelapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danishborn journalist, social reformer, and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director in the Interpretive Programs Office at the library of congress. Im barbara baier, curator, of this exhibit and im the historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition, jacob riis revealing how the other half lives, is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that th