City tours takes you to denver. We will visit Historic Sites in colorados capital. People drive past the denver mint all the time. It is right on a major thoroughfare, but people dont know very much about its history. It has a fascinating history, and it was a story that needed to be told. Capitol,lorado state like any capital, serves as the heart of its community. It is where history is reserved. There are murals, paintings, stained glass windows that celebrate and educate the people anybody whoand comes to see the state. Announcer john murray talks about denver today and shows us some of the historic neighborhoods. This is downtown denver, colorados capital city. Lived downtown for over a decade. The city has changed. T is a city on the move this is john murray, the city hall reporter for the denver post. While we were in town on our cspan cities to her, he took a ride along in our vehicle cities tour, he took a ride along in our vehicle. Give me a sense of the city. Denver is a city
Exhibition. Museum director lonnie bunch and paul gar dull lo talk about the saga of the ship called sal jose. Take us back to december 27th, 1794 camps bay off south africa and the final hours of the sal jose. On december 27th, 1794, a ship that was heading from Mozambique Island around the cape of good hope heading towards brazil, northeast brazil, came close to capetown, south africa. Capetown was often a landing point for ships before they made their way across the long atlantic voyage. This ship came to close to shore and got call in swells in a storm and struck rocks about 100 yards, 350 feet or so from shore. The captain was captaining the ship called the sal jose tried to salvage what he could from the crew. They attempted a rescue from ship to shore. He rescued himself. He rescued along with the crew he rescued about half of the 400 enslaved mozambiquens were all aboard and the other half captured from the interior of africa and brought on board in early december perished in t
Eastern. President ss covered h wn, ford, reagan, george bush, and clinton as a white house correspondent. Next he speaks about covering those president s. This is about an hour. Three decades, gibbons covered six presidencies from jimmy carter and the iran hostage crisis to clintons impeachment, first with upi and then with reuters. He served as a panelist in the 1992 president ial debate between ush, clinton, george h. W. B and ross perot. He also served as president of the Television Correspondents association. As anned a nonprofit editor, shaping coverage of state policy and fiscal and economic issues, health care, demographics, and the business of government. As a fellowserved at Harvards Kennedy school of government. I know you will agree with me that he is uniquely qualified to talk with us today about why journalism is important. These welcome please join me in welcoming gene gibbons. [applause] much,thank you very kristin. Boy, what a couple tough nuts to follow. Demanded a ch
Rhetoric and examining the issues from healthcare in kentucky to minimum wage in alaska, and soon well know who is going to capitol hill as America Votes. The long and expensive Midterm Election campaign is over. Today voters are casting ballots that will have widespread impact. It will come down to a handful of days. We go to David Shuster who joins us with more on what to watch. Lets talk about control of the u. S. Senate. Yes, tony, for the purposes of calling a senate majority, the first wave of results on the east coast could be crucial. Around 8 00 p. M. Of republicans could flip either New Hampshire or North Carolina, where were favored the chance to reaching 51 tonight will rise dramatically. Keep an eye on kentucky and georgia, seats that republicans are defending. The Democratic Victory in either kentucky or georgia would raise the democratic chances of holding on to the u. S. Senate. Mitch mcconnell stands to become majority leader if republicans gain control. The reason why
The numbers are on the screen. A very good morning on a snowy tuesday morning. Headlines about the congress in papers here in washington and around the country. Here in the Washington Times mcconnell letting to take the helm of the senate is the headline there. The starledger, what to expect from a new congress, including health care, invigoration immigration and border. And another headline the crop of young outsiders remakes the face of congress. In the u. S. House, 246 republicans, 188 democrats and one vacancy. That one vacancy, of course, republican my Republican Congressman Michael Grimm of new york who submitted his resignation after a guilty plea in a tax evasion case. Still, republicans start the year with 240 six republicans, the largest gop House Majority 246 republicans, the largest gop House Majority since 1946. The senate makes up 36 states having both from the same party 21 with two republicans and 15 with two democrats. There are also 53 former house members as members