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and recovery. the morning. good morning. welcome to our panel on columbia burning: a sesquicentennial reappraisal. my name is don doyle. i will make a few introductory remarks. i want to thank robin waits for all they did to make this such a success. not just this panel, but the entire event. i think it has been a wonderful example of how to commemorate a painful episode in this city s history. thanks especially to jessica whose idea it was to do something for this commemoration . we met over lunch, and from there it grew. we partnered with historic columbia. sponsoring this event also is the history center at the university of south carolina. another contributor was the graduate school at the university of south carolina. think all of you for your help and support. we brought for scholars four scholars together. we are beating almost exactly at the time, 150 years ago, that the union troops were crossing the river and coming towards the city, toward that moment ....
i want to thank those for all they did to make this such a success. not just this panel, but the entire event. i think it has been a wonderful example of how to commemorate a painful episode in this city s history. thanks especially to jessica whose idea it was to do something for this commemoration. we met over lunch, and from there it grew. we partnered with historic columbia. sponsoring this event also is the history center at the university of south carolina. another contributor was the graduate school at the university of south carolina. thank all of you for your help and support. we brought four scholars together. we are meeting almost exactly at the time, 150 years ago, that the union troops were crossing the river and coming towards the city, toward that moment at 10:00 in the morning when the city was formerly surrendered. we are meeting right here on market street. i am not an expert on this event in civil war history. i have written a book on the civil war ca ....
to justice. where do we stand? also, a new hollywood movie highlights the work of a cia analyst credited with tracking down osama bin laden, but here s a big but, it also sheds some very serious light on in-fighting in the spy agency. you got to hear it to believe it. let s go outfront. i m ashleigh banfield in tonight for erin burnett. outfront tonight, our top developing story, we are just learning now that president obama and the white house or rather, president obama and the house speaker have spoken tonight. good news. this after they each fired another shot in the ongoing fight over how to resolve this fiscal cliff mess. cnn is now getting details about two new offers that were made and previously undisclosed, too. they kept a pretty tight lid on them. one of them by president obama, that was yesterday, then a counteroffer by the speaker. that was today. all of this as the president tells abc news tonight that he is confident that republicans will not hold ....
tragic edition there. it is all at a mall in portland, the clackamas town center. these are live pictures you re looking at. according to the portland oregonian the gunman appeared 3:30 local time, 6:30 eastern time. let s listen to affiliate koin. a man with an automatic rifle opened fire near the food court. they re only confirming one dead. they say there are some wounded. they say the shooter has been neutralized and the situation is calm there. you heard mario, the worker saying the s.w.a.t. team came in and escorted people out of the mall. we have someone else on the phone who was inside the mall for the whole thing. nina, can you hear us? yes, i can. first of all, are you safe? i m safe, thank you. you re out of the mall now? yes, definitely. tell us what happened to you today in there? so i actually witnessed first hand the gunman entering the scene. i was in the macy s store shopping. and a slender, white man in black wearing a hockey mask l ....
breaking news tonight, new detail about a crowded shopping mall outside of portland, oregon. three people are dead including the gunman after he opened fire at the clack kamans town center a short while ago. no word on whether he was shot or took his own life. the witnesses are describing a pretty chaotic scene of people who were rushing to the doors to escape the gunfire, that it sounded like firecrackers. about a hundred officers and emergency vehicles are now on the scene. and police say they do believe that this gunman angted alone, but they are still searching throughout the mall saying that customers and employees may still be in there and hiding not knowing if this incident is over yet. hundreds of people have already been evacuated and the sheriff held a news conference a short time ago updating the situation. i can confirm that we believe at this point there was one and only one shooter involved and that shooter is deceased. in addition to that, we have at ....