Tthe nationwide total now excees 42,000, more than 1,000 people have died. Health Ministry Officials say more than 4,000 people were being treated for the virus at hospitals as of last wednesday. The figure was just under 700 on july 1st. Since then patients in tokyo have quadrupled, but in terms of increase, other pleeskts have feared mmuch worse. Patients in oh sasaka jumped 20fold. The Health Minister says jjapan currently has enough hospital beds to cope, but he also says the situation needs to be closely monitored with some hospitals increasingly under strain. Some local governments are asking residents and businesses to do their part to curb the spread of the virus. In tokyo the governor is requesting barsrs and restauran to close by 10 00 p. M. As our next story shows, its pushing many establishments to the brink. Reporter its been an anxious few months when sales plunged after the government declared a state of emergency. As rrestrictions gradually ease, business was finally st
This island, for Many Americans is the place where their , american story began. A lot of people do not know about ellis island before this time. I am going to talk about ellis island itself. Size, we are 27 acres in but originally it was three acres. A small island in the middle of the harbor that barely came above sea level and highside. T high tide. For most of its life, it was a military installation, and the the world of 1812, and as a storage depot. Somewhere around 1890 it was decided it would be the place of the first building specifically constructed for the processing of emigrants. They did construct that between 1890 and 1892. This is not the first Processing Center. It is the second. The first one burned to the ground during a furnace fire. The federal government decided they needed to build something more permanent, something that would reflect the grandeur, so the structure you see here is andt between 1898 and 1900 it opened in december of 1900. Its a beautiful building
Arms race and siflt righcivil r. Enjoy it tonight and every weeke weekend. 24 wthis was the europe of. The nazi blitzkrieg had overwhelmed france, holland, belgi belgium, denmark, energy way. Russian armies were in desperate retreat. Italian and German Forces were menacing egypt. Their objective, to defeat an opposing british army and dominate all north africa. And there was a bloody quest over china. Only one was stirl nll not at w. The United States. It was a sunday afternoon in 1941 and the statue of liberty towered over new york harbor as if she were the last symbol of freedom left to the crumbling fr free world. Afternoon in new york. Early morning in hawaii. And another great harbor where american ships were dockside. Planes stood idle when suddenly without warning, the immediate Japanese Military objective was no knock out United States naval and air power in the pacific at a single stroke. They reasoned that we were committed to eventual entrance in the war in europe, convinced
Least 45 people and on a mission to mars china sends its 1st unmanned spacecraft to explore the red planet. The sport has once again marks one year to go to the dealing in the pits. Thank you for joining us 5 west african heads of state are meeting in mali today to try to resolve this deepening political crisis 6 weeks of mass protests have demanded the resignation of president. At least 14 people have been killed in recent days the m 5 Opposition Movement activists leads the protests accusing the president of corruption mishandling the economy and failing to improve security they rejected a unity government. Goals from the Regional Organization echo us. Rebel groups linked to al qaeda and i so gain strength using mali as a launch pad for attacks in neighboring nations as there is nicolas following the story from senegal he joins us live on the newshour so nick a regional effort stepping up to try and resolve this crisis in mali tell us 1st of all who was in bomb ago today and can they
How did the revolution survive its darkest hour . Because, of course, while all of this lofty language about liberty and rights and creating constitutions and remember the ladies is going on, the Largest Overseas expedition in european history is headed towards new york. So the mural that you see beside me here is an eyewitness depiction, which weve blown up as a mural, showing 5000 british warships and about 6,000 british and hessian troops in landing boats about to land on manhattan baynd in kept bay kips on september 15, 1776. At the time, one of the soldiers saw the ships gathering in new york harbor and later said i thought all london was afloat. So, it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many, many more years of struggle. And the first thing americans had to do was just survive the onslaught that was coming in the form