Provider. Amy is with us today courtesy of the aerospace corporation. Amy is a spaceflight historian. Author, youtube or, public speaker, and popular space personality. Not unlike her subjects she is one of the only academically trained young female spaceflight historians writing for a general audience. She runs the beloved log of vintage space hosted by Discover Magazine and to a Youtube Channel with over 3,125,000 subscribers. Shes a regular writer for discovery seeker and has hosted numerous space and science related shows. Among them, nasas unexplained files. She gives talks about spaceflight all over the u. S. And america. Please give a warm welcome to amy title. Bring it down to short level. Thank you for coming to listen to me talk first thing in the morning. Its weird about hearing your bio read like that. Ill try to live up to everything with just i want to start with the brief audience participation about who hasnt heard about mercury 13. Theres like a decent number of hands,
Television companies. It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Next on American History tv, historians discuss the social and political impact of several events leading up to the civil war. Including the fugitive slave act and abolitionist john browns raid on a federal armory at harpers fairy. Erry. This was part of Yale Universitys Gilder Lehrman center for the study of slavery, resistance, and abolition. This was the most fun to , deciding which events, which problems, which moments of the precivil war era would we represent. Said, thisanna and is one you should moderate. Speak on no, i want to it. [laughter] which is great. Hook herst trying to into being moderator. The shock of events. The passage by douglas at the nation, the way he put it, not educated by theory, they are taught by events. We all know, we lived through events that no one predicts. Who predicted pearl harbor . Some people, sort of. Who predicted the end of the cold war in 89 . 9 11 . Last ye
Cutting wait times. Tsa looking to use computers instead of humans to inspect carryon bags. Keeping athletes safe in rio. The zika brought that off bug spray, the official partner at the olympics. Another win for netflix to report a deal with comcast allowing customers to use the streaming service on set top boxes. The currency trade driving markets across the world this morning. The british pound fell into a new 31 year love versus the dollar. Check futures right now. We are looking at real impact across the world. A low opening for wall street this morning explaining to clients yesterday. In europe, weakness across the board as well. John a quarter of a percent. The cac and the dax in paris and germany even worse off. In asia overnight, market lower. Investors around the world seeking safe haven asset. In japan, they yielded a 20 year bond dipping into negative territorys meaning investors would have to pay to on those bonds. We will talk all about that this morning. Fox Business Net
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Ill del walters. British politicians battling it out today in parliament over britains involvement in syria. Britain is considering joining Coalition Forces in the fight against isil inside syria. The Prime Minister using Strong Language to make his case. Think Prime Minister understands that Public Opinion is moving increasingly against what i believe to be an illthought out rush to war. And he wants to hold this vote before the opinion grows even further against it. Lets go live to dana lewis in london. It has been a tense day as the british Prime Minister not mincing his words in his push for expanding the mission. Reporter sure, del, and it would appear that mr. Corbin who we just heard from, is certainly in a minority here. I mean it looks like that there is probably 60 to 100 votes that the Prime Minister will have at the end of the day to push this through. He started off by saying they are plotting to kill us right now, referr
Supports the right to bare arms whether any gun laws need to be changed . We begin this hour with what is shaping up to be major mie style in the relationship between the United States and cuba. On the heels of a telephone call between the two leaders, they are now expected to meet facetoface tomorrow. It will come at the sum milt of the americas conference in panama. This will be the first meeting since the Obama Administration in december moved to normalize ties. Mike viqueira is in washington. And mike what does the white house now expect will be achieved with this meeting . Well that big step that would normalize relations between the countries. The state department from what we understand from a democratic senator who has been briefed by the state department has recommended that that state sponsorship of terrorism designation now held by only four countries around the world, including syria, iron sudan, and cuba be lifted against cuba. There are a number of economic restrictions i