Conventions are considered to have delivered the best speeches of their political careers. Cuomo, anddan, mario annrichards in 1988 richards in 1988. Barbara jordan became the first black woman to give the keynote address to the dnc. She received a law degree edit with the first black woman to serve in the u. S. Senate. She talked political ethics at the university of texas in austin entered the on immigration reform. She spoke to delegates in new york city. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. [applause] are neither ladies nor are you gentlemen. Gentlemen, in case you do not know it, may i now present our second keynote speaker, the honorable Barbara Jordan, democrat of houston, texas. [applause] Barbara Jordan thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen for a very warm reception. 144 years ago that members of the Democratic Party first led a convention to select a president ial candidate. Since that time, democrats have continued to go to been once every f
The night session gets underway at 8 30 p. M. Eastern. The Democratic National convention concludes tonight with a fourth night of speeches. Three keynote speakers from past conventions are considered to have delivered the best speeches of their political careers. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan at the 1976 democratic convention, three term new york governor mario cuomo in 1984, and future governor ann richards keynote speech in 1988. In 1976, Barbara Jordan became the first black woman to give the keynote address to the dnc. She received a law degree edit law degree from Boston University and was the first black woman to serve in the u. S. Senate. She talked political ethics at the university of texas in austin on immigration reform. It recommended immigration be cut by a third. She spoke to delegates in new york city. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen. [applause] ladies and gentlemen. [applause] you are neither ladies nor are you gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, in case you do
As we talked about yesterday, theres a lot of busyness on the map and i want to really quickly review some of the things we talked about yesterday. Remembering ten days ago, 18 to 20 different fires. You can see on the map, identifiers where all the fires were. All of these separate fires have been contained and no longer pose any threat. Several fires burned together adds we talked about. We had split that into two separate zones. Those separate zones now split or have joined together into one fire. This is all now being held as one large fire. A lot of good work has happened in the last 24 hours and we talked yesterday about the difference between looking at red line on a map and black line. Black line being an area of the fire perimeter thats been contained. We no longer see a threat before movement of the fire. Youll see we have black line all the way up this east side of the fire and north top of the one piece of the fire. That is great news and really provides a lot more safety f
I want to zoon in on live doppler 7. You can see a pair of returns here thankfully moving into Santa Cruz County. We want to get you an update on the czu complex right now. The statewide situation in california at the moment before we get started here specifically in these two counties. Since saturday, august 15th, we have experienced 615 fires across the state of california, and more than two dozen of those fires have turned into major fires. With that, the second and Third Largest fires in california history are burning around us at the moment in santa clara unit and up in lmu and the lake napa unit. With that, theres over 14,000 firefighters assigned across the state at this moment with this lightning siege. Additionally, theres over 2400 fire engines across california fighting these fires. And cal fire alone has 96 of all firefighting engines committed to an incident somewhere in the state of california at this exact moment with. That, we have 95 aircraft assigned to incidents in c
Three keynote speakers from past conventions are considered to deliver the best speech of their political careers. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan at the 1976 Democratic Convention, three term new york governor mario cuomos address in 1984 and texas state treasurer and future governor and richards keynote speech in 1988. In 1976, congresswoman Barbara Jordan became the first black woman to give the keynote address to the dnc. She received a law degree from Boston University and was the first black woman elected to the texas senate. House,erving in the u. S. She taught political ethics at the university of texas at austin and later chaired the u. S. Commission on Immigration Reform which recommended immigration in the usb cut by 1 3. She spoke to delegates in new york city. [applause] ladies and gentlemen [applause] ladies and gentlemen [applause] ladies or arer you gentlemen. Gentlemen, in case you dont know it, may i now present our second keynote speaker, the honorable Barbara Jordan, d