And now the contenders. Our series on key political figures who ran for president and lost, but who nevertheless changed political history. Tonight we feature former House Speaker henry clay of kentucky, known as the great compromiser. The program was recorded at clays ashland estate in lexington, kentucky, its about 90 minutes. This is an encore presentation of cspans original 14week series which first aired in 2011. This is a portrait of kentuckys henry clay, known to us in our history books as the great compromiser. During his 49year political career clay served as secretary of state, speaker of the house and as a u. S. Senator and he was a contender, making five president ial bids, including the election of 1824, 1832 against Andrew Jackson, and 1844 when he ran against james k. Polk. Tonight we are on location at ashland, henry clays home in lexington, kentucky and for the next 90 minutes we will explore the life and legacy of this man. Unsuccessful in his long quest for the white
Ashland. Henry clays home in lexington, kentucky, and for the next 90 minutes we will explore the life and legacy of this man, unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. And we are in henry clays parlor r parlor right now. Let me introduce you to jim plotter, historian. Thank you for being with us. Good to be here. Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . On a couple of accounts, his famous quote, i would rather be right than be president. Its a call to people whatever were doing, which is to do the right thing. In a sense, politicians need to remember the country and sacrifice for the country and i think that is still something that we need to remember, as well and the man known as the great compromiser, and a man that forges these compromises that not only kept the nation together, but were constructive and those are the kinds of things we need to remember about henry clay as well as the things that he did in
Hard to follow this because the devastation is just so massive in scale. And its not going to come to a close anytime soon. Heres the problem. Were looking at Tropical Storm harveys center right here. Now, to the, which is the typical biggest damage zone, you see these heavy bands of rain. These are the arms of the storm that are just pounding the houston area. This thing is near stationary. Its been pounding the houston area for hours and hours and hours, which is leading to catastrophic flooding and life endangering conditions all throughout the houston zone. There are reports of more than 20 inches of rain that have fallen portions of houston. Still to come, 15 to 25 more inches are possible. And there in lies the problem. If you have near two feet with the possibility of two more feet, the flooding will leave to some areas being uninhabitable. We are going to talk more about harvey in a minute, but i want to get quickly to our forecast as well. In the 50s right now in allentown and
7th street exit ramp. One dash camera angle shows hill looking out the window, the other the moment the t tck crashes through the guardrail in a freefall to the park below. How did he survive that accident . I mean, he fell 75 feet. He was ejected from the truck. The video c carly shows it. And still he survived. Glenna that smith survived this ordeal has even veteran investigators using words like miracle and born again. And i heard a boom thought it was going to explode. Even more so because the multiare ton garbage truck itself fell on cars marked in jose marti park below andnone of the people that is last president s day afternoon last month. And now almost thee weeks later you can see that light of colored concrete. That is the newly repaired guardrail up there oat southwe 7th street ramp over the park. And by now you know you can see that the dark color asphalt, t t broken bricks weeks thats still to normal. So a lot of things that this sh cam videos shows investigators is frame
Plans to revive old and vacant spaces the news starts now. Amy and thanks for joining us a person is facing several charges months after deputies found the bodies of several cats in a dumpster on the outer banks county sheriffs deputies found the dead cats in december the recently arrested twenty six year old oregon boy can charging him with animal cruelty. Heres ariel a bow in your county Sheriffs Office as a take down these animals in a bus we went by the boykin family home here in merry yelling i spoke to someone who identified himself as jordans brother he says his brother doesnt live in a bun. We had no idea who face these charges four counts of animal cruelty or when twenty six year old jordan boykin is charged with this after deputies say they found several dead cats in a dumpster and they believe their dance. Deputies would not specify exactly how many cats were found where or how they died but they were made aware of these animal cruelty cases. Last december and last week in j