Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the newseums theater. I am peter prichard, chair of the newseum and we are here to mark the opening of our latest inibit, the marines and tet, the battle that changed the vietnam war. This is almost the 50th anniversary of the tet offensive, which, if youre a millennial, i will explain it. It was a coordinated offensive by viet cong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns, cities, and american and south vietnamese military facilities. It began on the night of january 30, 1968. I remember it well because i was an intelligence clerk at the time. Our new exhibit showcases the work of john olson, who, like me, was a young draftee. He was a photographer for Stars Stripes, a daily newspaper. He spent three days in february with the marines as they took back the city of hue, in what turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war. This exhibit features 20 large format photographs and 10 tactile versions of these photos, with touch activat
Ntsb, said that the plane was at about 6500 feet, had the pilot radioed air Traffic Control told them he was having engage problems engine problems and needed to return to West Hampton Beach airport, the plane lost altitude hitting lirr post at oyster bay road crossing on Hicksville Bethpage border. I did not realize what was going on, my coworker saw the plane upside down going ast the windy, he ran, he said that plane is going down call 911. Reporter the plane burst into flames, firefighters quickly responded. The pilot did not survive the crash, but the passenger, identified as Carl Giordano did and rushed to a local hospital some a small plane tried to land west of the road here clipped some of the Railroad Truck infrastructure. Reporter the ntsb said that pilot made the distress call at 7 47 in morning but by then it was too late, it covered the lirr Railroad Tracks and interrupted service, it was lucky no more lives were lost. There was no train at that point but the crossing was
Prosecution against some offenders should be dropped. In the last few hours pilots working for Thomas Cook Airlines have gone on strike. Its the First Industrial action by uk pilots in a0 years. Ill be asking the airlines boss and the pilots union whats gone wrong. In sport, big ben is still striking, at lords at least. Ben stokes takes six wickets on a crazy day at lords, with both the west indies and then england suffering batting collapses, in the 3rd and deciding test. Hello from marvellous morecambe. Once the daylight arrives, you will see that the breakfast chair is here for its final hurrah after the tour around it ands coasts. We will be looking back, Peter Thomson forward, to the future of our seaside towns. And sarah has the weather. And sarah has the weather. And unsettled day today with lots of lost three showers around. I will bring you all the details of the forecast here in the uk, as well as Hurricane Irma and where it is heading next, in about 15 minutes. Good morning.
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