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house earlier. a unique, fairly civil, can you imagine that? bipartisan debate before a live national audience. you see president trump is exchanging ideas with democrats and republicans alike, steny hoyer, the democrat to his left, standing firm, though, as far as the president is concerned on the wall, say that the u.s. has no security without a border wall with mexico. daca dreamers, chain migration, all the economic issues that meade to be solve. the president suggesting a plan in two phases, calling it dead in the water. why? adam shapiro is live in d.c., he s going explain. on wall street, well, look at the bottom ticker. extending a new year rally, as the dow, s&p 500 and the nasdaq take aim at new record closes. you see the dow is up 124. the s&p is better by 7. nasdaq powering ahead by a quarter of a percent or 17%. people love to watch the tech-heavy nasdaq. financials, industrial stocks are driving the record run. in las vegas, we re coming to you live, in ....
it s only in recent years that a lot of scholarship has focused on the fact that their the fact of how rocky their marriage was, specifically in its early days. i think in the early years, james found her a bit distant and cold. as the years went by, she had a tremendous influence on him. james and lucretia spent a lot of time with their children. they felt that education was an emancipating factor. mrs. garfield adored her time at the exhibition, but she was specifically interested in the latest sciences and technologies of the day. after james garfield s death, a number of prominent citizens raised about $350,000 that was turned over to lucretia garfield. in today s dollars, it would equate to somewhere around $8 million. her character was extremely exceedingly strong. she had a rectitude that was invulnerable. host: lucretia garfield was born in ohio in 1832. her life spans antebellum america to the progressive era of the early 20th century. a supporter ....
sun glare. you ll also need the sunglasses this morning. clear skies out there. temperature, 48 degrees by 7:00 a.m. some areas can only be around 48 degrees. mid 60s by noon. temperatures in the upper 60s. what you need to wear before you step outside. i mentioned the jacket, long sleeves. the sunglasses. you don t need the umbrella. beautiful sunrise. you won t need that umbrella until thursday. we ll talk about the increase in rain chances into the weekend. let s go outside to lauren rickets. good morning, sheena. it is chilly out here. people walk outside and realize how cold it is. i can see my breast. i think i need gloves. freeze warnings. purple right there. both of those go until 30s in dulles. dropped down to 32 degrees this morning. an hour ago they re up to 36. chilly start but we are warming things up. temperatures going to be a touch warmer than they were yesterday. as sheena said, we have rain on the way. time that out for you. back in a few minutes. ri ....
small towns to lose railroad business. this class is about an hour. tonight we have a special lecture. we will talk about redeveloped ment. nice to have him on campus. we will look at redevelopment. we are going to study a place that is trying to make a transformation from a railroad city with lots of railroad employment and connections to a first-class center with expansion of o hare. it involves redevelopment. a city that 10 or so years ago was labeled one of the 10 most dying cities in the united states. real excitement. it will be a fun project for you guys. we will talk for a little bit about why looking at redevelopment at the decline of the railroad industries a great way of how cities reinvent themselves. we are in downtown chicago. here is an old station. the first thing you probably see is the weather looks nice. one day we will get sunlight that but not today. our city, probably more than any other city in the united states, has benefited from this in the ....
202-748-8901. send us a tweet at c-span history or join us on facebook at facebook.com/cspanhistory. as we move outside to inside, one of the displays, and there are so many inside this fabulous museum, is moving beyond earth. and an example of the evolution of america s space shuttle program. and joining us again is valerie neal. we saw you just a moment ago in the tape portion. you are the curator, the chair of the space history department here at the museum. and let s talk about the shuttle program. no other country had something like that. well, briefly, the soviet union did. they built a craft called buran that mimicked our space shuttle. but it was several years later. they flew one test flight and then retired it. they didn t really have a need for a shuttle craft. but they were very worried about what we might use ours for. and they thought they should have one too, just in case. but really, in the annals of space history, the u.s. space shuttle is unique. it ....