Dispersed throughout the city. Its not just certain neighborhoods, and this figure, 40 of the children, and when we talk about poverty, were talking an adult with two kids making less than 20,000 a year, or deep poverty, less than 10,000 a year. What should city hall, city council, the mayor do with this report . Well, one thing is, they should talk about it. We dont talk about this. Jim kenney ran for mayor, and to his credit, said that this is a disgrace, and we should all be embarrassed by it, but the poverty rate has not changed an iota since he became mayor, and i think you need to use the bully pulpit to talk about this tale of two cities narrative we have going on now, because center city is booming, and two miles down the road, you have abject poverty, and cities dont ultimately overcome that kind of discrepancy. And were kind of inured to it, as well. I mean, the news comes out, and its like, yeah, you know. Were in last place, guys. Were the highest, most horrible poverty sit
Action news. Holiday rush, home is on here across the country. The enjoyment of the holiday will be tempered for tomorrow day by travel headaches. And police hunt for four armed masked men who made a Home Invasion in the point breeze section. Eagles hope to keep their eight game winning streaking we will be live at the linc. But first lets find out how weather is for tailgaters at the linc outside we will go to meteorologist chris sowers and accu weather chris. Little breezy. That will be only issue for eagles game this afternoon. Temperatures wise we are seasonal, numbers close to 50 but when you factor in that breeze it feels like upper 30 s lower 40s. Lets take you on a tour around the viewing area. Fortysix in allentown. Fortynine in philadelphia. Fifty in wilmington. Fiftyone in millville. Fiftyone in dover. Fiftythree in Atlantic City. Sustained wind speed are generally in that 10 to 20 miles an hour range out of the west northwest. 17 miles an hour in wilmington twelve in philad
Television and weapons of the modern era. For more information about the National Firearms museum and the n. R. A. Visit their website. You can watch American History tvs american Artifacts Program online any time. This is American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Each week, American History tvs reel america brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. Republican Herbert Hoover served as president from 1929 to 1933. Remembered most for his time in the oval office at the start of the great depression, hoover also served as the secretary of commerce under president s harding and coolidge. In this hourlong 1960 nbc interview, hoover discusses his life beyond the presidency. Speaking with reporter ray henle, he delves into topics including his childhood his time in china during the boxer rebellion and involvement in supplying food to civilians in german occupied belgium during world world war i. This is part of the stanford librarys department of
First ladies fashion choices and how they represented the styles of the times in which they lived. And then at 10 00, former nbc news anchor tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day on the cspan networks. For a complete schedule go to cspan. Org. American history tv visited the mcarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia, which was hosting a symposium marking the world war i centennial. Author Sean Mcmeekin talks about the events in 1914 that led to war, and how it might have turned out differently. He argues against the idea that an arms race between germany and britain provoked the war. Instead, he describes a series of decisions made by heads of state that had a domino effect. This is about 50 minutes. Professor Sean Mcmeekin did his ph. D. At uc berkeley and he talked at many universities before beginning at professor of history of russian and eurasian studies at bard college in new york. Among his recent boox are the russian origins of
Of i mean you could imagine a different outcome. But thats not the way it was. Hello. Ive recently completed, or read, history of world war i by john keegan. And he expressed a view i had not heard before. What he said was before austria issued its ultimatum which was very weak and crumbling even then, sent its ultimatum to serbia, he first contacted the kaiser as to whether the kaiser would support him if he invaded serbia. And the kaiser answered yes. And his view was that was the real spark that brought about world war i and, in essence, caused the allies later to blame germany for the beginnings of the war. I wonder if you have a view on that. Well, i knew john keegan actually just not because we shared a subject. And we talked about this and i think that was a very valuable way of looking at it, to tell you the truth. The only thing i would add to it is what i have been talking about today, which is if willie had been different, if the kaiser had been different, he might not have