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jeff flannery: thank you. i am the head of the reader and services section and i would like to welcome you to the library of congress. the manuscript division is custodian to approximately 63 million primary source documents. among our other personal papers of 23 u.s. president and numerous other well-known americans, including the poet walt whitman, aeronautic pioneers orval and wilbur wright , and a civil rights icon rosa parks. 170 years after his death andrew jackson still dominates the period between the founders generation and the onslaught of the slavery crisis. during the age of jackson, one could mark the expansion of democracy, trace the development of modern political parties, and witness a wave of political partisanship that would not look unfamiliar to modern art and since modern audiences. one of it is here that the collections and personal papers of the nation s leading figures shed light on their hopes and ambitions. the division not only holds the m ....
wall to withdrawal sunshine today. those temperatures will reduce because of the dry air and all. how did we stand 24 hours ago? close but behind in spots, around the bay, 4 degrees behind for open, reedy for school forecast at 70. 77 by 3:00 p.m. 74 around the bay. we will take a closer look coming up. that tells you we need more security. you don t know what is going to happen. you don t know if somebody is going to die the next day or come back and shoot again. the search continues for the gunman who shot and injured 4 high school students in san francisco. at the june jordan school yesterday afternoon and administrators say school will be in session today. will tran is live this morning with more on the search for the gunman. will? reporter: i talked to the public relations woman and i asked why they are starting school. there was concern the school could be shut down today until they make an arrest. she said they thought about it and they believe this m ....
i m mary calvi. first we begin with campaign 2016. i do question her judgment. a heated democratic debate in brooklyn, and the republican gala in midtown is interrupted by protestors. we begin with the battle in brooklyn. the gloves were off as hillary clinton and bernie sanders faced off in the democratic debate cbs2 s brian conybeare has this report. hillary clinton and bernie sanders came out swinging. do we really feel confident about a candidate saying that she s going to bring change in america when she is so dependent on big money interests, i don t think so. this is a phony attack that is designed to raise questions when there is no evidence or support. what started as a civil as the race tightened. sanders backed away from his claim clinton is not qualified jab. does secretary clinton have the experience and intelligence to be a president, of course she does, but i do question her judgment. well, the people of new york voted for me twice to ....
speak for yourself on what the big one is that everyone will be watching. there s another big one? there s only one big one as far as i m concerned. comcast. yeah. i think some other people are interested in apple but, you know, when you say the big one some people. they are both companies that have invested the market. apple up 9%, comcast up 7%. there you go. apple down in the last three months 5% though verses the market being off. a little bit of a rotation. comcast has done better. with comcast i like to see because we talk all the time. is it glacial or is it greatly exaggerated or is it happening quickly and i m talking about your cord cutting and worries about old media. my view on comcast don t try to pretend like you have always liked it. you have thrown that in with the rest of the old media. i do not. because we have the nbc portion which is the content portion which i think long-term that is but the pipes are great to ....
in this 1983 photograph, president reagan meets with a group of afghan commanders in the white house. matteluary of 1988, gorbachev announced the soviet government would withdraw their 100,000 troops from afghanistan. the final troop withdrawal was one year later. next on american history tv, an author and historian explains why native americans were so vulnerable to european-introduced diseases. indigenous populations had little to no exposure to diseases like smallpox or to colonization. however, illness was only one piece of a larger puzzle in the native populations don t fall. the kansas city public library at the university of kansas school of medicine hosted this event. it s about one hour and 18 minutes. i m the director of the kansas city public library. it s a pleasure to have paul here to talk about cherokee medicine and colonial germs, the topic of his recent book. we are honored to have him here and are equally honored that this is cosponsored by the kansa ....