through our doors first and maybe she will come back here to give a lecture of her own someday. before spro deuintroducing our i m really excited to let you know we have a special guest who was able to join us at the last moment. her name is marion lee johnson. she was one of the space program s hidden figures. ms. johnson was an engineer at nasa s marshall space flight center in huntsville, alabama, working for boeing, the sponsor for tonight s event. she worked on the team that determined the path, the parts of the thsaturn 5, would take, the rocket fell back to earth. their work was vital for safety planning. after boeing and successful career in computer technology she now teaches the next generation of computer workers. please join me in recognizing and welcoming ms. marion lee johnson. [ applause ] like ms. johnson, tonight s speakers certainly know what it s like to blaze trails and defy expectations. throughout this year s 50th anniversary celebrations of the apollo
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i m randi kaye. tens of thousands of nasa employees worked on apollo 11 to put the first man on the moon. you got to meet some of them tonight. one unique individual came to our attention as the film was being researched. turns out there was only one woman allowed in the control room during the launch. her remarkable story has been mostly hidden all these years. she played a critical role, and as we learned, spending time with her, she remembers it well. here s her story. we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard. the space program in the early 60s was dominated by men. but during the historic launch of apollo 11 on july 16th, 1969 one woman stood out in a sea of men in the control room. 28-year-old joann morgan. i was the instrumentation controller. the instrumentation controller needs to know is there a problem? if so, i need to tell the right people in the test team. so how di
terms. we re a president who promoted hate and division, encourages white supremacy. the most dangerous president in american history. because we re not going back. we re not going back. this is our chance in 2020. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. good to be with you this sunday. 2020 democratic candidates head to south florida this week for their first debate. the presidential hopefuls in south carolina yesterday making their pitch to voters, trying to stand out in a really crowded field. cnn was there. reporter: nearly the entire democratic primary field descended here on south carolina. all but one of the 23 democratic presidential candidates was here pitching their message to voters. you had senator elizabeth warren talking about the need for structural change, saying the time for small ideas is over. and senator kamala harris was trying to sell her experience as a prosecutor, saying she s the best person to prosecute the c
o donnell: good evening. it s good to be with you. this is our western edition. and we begin with breaking news in washington, four democratic congresswomen of color have just spoken publicly as a group for the first time about the racist tweets aimed at them by the president of the united states. president trump continued his attacks at the white house today, again inviting these congresswomen to leave the country. and cbs news has learned that speaker nancy pelosi met with her leadership team tonight to discuss a house resolution denouncing the president s language. republican leadership in congress, they ve been noticeably silent. white house correspondent weijia jiang begins tonight s war of words. it s time for us to impeach this president. reporter: late this afternoon, four freshman congresswomen of color known as the squad fired back at president trump after he tweeted over the weekend they should go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested pla
many of the candidates here today, bernie sanders being one of them, and one thing that bernie sanders often speaks about when he s out on the campaign trail is trying to solve economic and inequalities. here at the south carolina democratic party convention he made that argument about economic inequality, and also tied it to racial inequality when it comes to income and other economic issues. you ll remember south carolina, the black vote is very important in this state. last time in 2016 black voters made up 61% of the economic primary electorate. so you ve seen candidates here in the past two days trying to court black voters, both at this convention along with last night, jim clyburn s world famous fish fry. he had 21 of the 23 candidates out there last night. later this afternoon, we re going to hear from a few more of the 2020 contenders, beto o rourke, cory booker, joe biden. they re slated for the final hour here. i understand there was a stunning moment, moments ag