Revolutionary war. Mark malloy is a historian with the National Park service and he is like, what can i do this revolutionary war . I said, this is the civil war. We decided we would let him talk about fort sumter because it is as close as we can get to the revolutionary war era. Asay that because mark is delightful historian, wonderful guy, wish i could get him to laugh on cue. [laughter] his most distinctive feature is his laugh. We are delighted to have him come here today to speak about the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. Mark . Mark thank you so much for that introduction, chris. It is a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. We would love to have done in person, but being able to do it digitally is a wonderful way to do it as well. Mentioned my main passion is the American Revolutionary war. Work for the National Park service and we take care of a lot of important civil war sites. I started my career with the National Park service
Controlling this area meant access to charleston, South Carolina, an important confederate port city. This was part of the emerging civil war blog symposium. Its 50 minutes. Its my honor to present our next speaker who currently serves as a primary and secondary educator with the Public School district in northeast ohio. Previously dan was the Education Programs coordinator for the Gettysburg Foundation and also continues to serve as a seasonal park ranger at Gettysburg National military park. Dan received his bachelor of arts from Youngstown State University where he studied instrumental music education, particularly in the french horn, which i understand is pretty much means learning how to play on the upbeat for anything that souza has composed. Dan provides a valuable service here for emergence civil war, something you receive every month. He solicits all the news and notes for the merging civil war newsletter. And its certainly a tasking, thankless job. For as much as we love to w
Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. In the bahamas, the long, underway. Hurricane dorian has practically flattened the islandll destruction. The death toll is expected to rise. The category five storm eventually weakened while moving up the atlantic coast. Dorian could have been a disaster for south carolina, especially charleston, a lowlying port city. Scientists say Climate Change is causing the sea level to rise there, which means more tidal flooding. Over the past 100 years, the sea level in charleston has risen one foot, and is predicted to rise more rapidly over the next five decades, anywhere between a footthis map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows how parts of the city could become inundated with water. As part of our ongoingie there are preparing for what could become charlestons biggest safety and economic jessica charleston, south carolina, a place developed around water, dependent on water, and now defending itself against wate
derail the special counsel probe of donald trump. president biden tells the dnc and his campaign team to stay quiet about trump s indictment inside his 2024 strategy. plus, fierce fighting in ukraine as vladimir putin tries to claim kyiv s counter offensive is failing. we re live with an update on what s happening on the front lines. and breaking right now, what investors have been waiting for, a key decision from the federal reserve on interest rates. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we do begin this hour with that breaking news from the fed. cnbc s morgan brennan is here for cnbc on msnbc. i think, morgan, we re on a ten-meeting streak by the fed of raising interest rates. what just happened? hold, that is what just happened. so we had ten raises, and now we hold. the federal reserve hitting the pause button on its campaign of interest rate hikes, as i say these words, keeping the federal funds rate unchanged at 5 to 5 1/4%. this a
looming large over this summit is the role of cartels pushing migrants and drugs into the u.s. and the question of whether mexico truly controls its own border. biden s dhs secretary admits the vast majority of migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally go through smuggling rings. and mexico tried to show strength with that high profile arrest. it s been described as a gift to biden and a message that mexico s approach to cartels called hugs, not bullets, prevents blood shed. tonight, president biden receives a dignified reception in mexico city for the summit with his north american counterpart to talk immigration and drug trafficking. but just days before. [gunfire] it took three it thousand 586 mexican soldiers descending on sinaloa to capture drug king pin son of chapo. cartels forced down two air force planes and shot up a commercial airliner. and authorities confiscated 26 barrett rifles, six machine guns, 26 long arms. nearly 600 magazines. bullet proof vests and