good afternoon. good to see everyone here today. welcome. i would certainly like to welcome you to the museum, i am katie cannon and i m the curator and this is one of our tuesday talk lecture series that we hold on the second tuesday of every month. they are free and open to the public with a variety of topics so i hope you will check up on our out coming lectures. we offer a variety of events for children and adults and you can find those on our website. today s talk is entitled suffragist in washington d.c., the 1913 parade in the fight for the right to vote. our speaker today is rebecca vons roberts and has been many things including journalist, producer, tour guide, forensic anthropologists, event planner, political consultants, jazz singer and radio talkshow host. currently she is a program coordinator for a smithsonian associate was she s made it a personal mission to highlight the history of our capital city . she lives in washington dc with her husband, three sons
children and adults here at the dar museum, and you can find those on our website. www.dar.org/museum. today s talk is titled suffragists in washington, d.c., the 1913 parade, and the right to vote. our speaker today is rebecca roberts, and she has been a journalist, producer, tour guide, forensic anthropologist, event planner, political consultant, jazz singer, and a radio talkshow host. currently, she is a program coordinator for smithsonian associates, where she has made a it a personal mission to highlight the history of our capital city. roberts lives in washington, d.c., with her husband, three sons, and a big, fat dog. [laughter] please help me welcome rebecca. thank you, kate. i m so happy to be here. i m one of those rare, d.c. area natives. i started learning about this parade during the 19th anniversary of suffrage in i sat on the board of the 2010. congressional cemetery on capitol hill, which i totally you bring your family for a great tourist spot if you are
the cold air seeped in overnight with the temperature dropping into the 30s in silicon valley. santa cruz mountains saw a dusting of snow overnight. these images are from near boulder creek. how cold was it last night? oh, very cold. on the valley floor today, the delivery minister dropped in on the homeless. a blanket for each homeless person to help them through the cold. people get caught off guard because it was so warm a few weeks ago we were bringing watt err few weeks ago. reporter: he says it s not a matter of comfort. it s a matter of life and death. how cold was it? my hands burned. that s how cold. reporter: warming centers were open overnight including this one at the sully branch road library. it opens at 9:00 p.m. tonight. another warming center on the southside center on coddle road. the local shelters are adding more beds. they were freezing. people had nothing. reporter: tonight is expected to be as cold if not colder. those warming centers
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this is al jazeera america live from new york city, i m randall pinkston and president obama got good news a short time ago about the iran nuclear deal and senate democrats have gathered enough support to block republicans from voting to reject the agreement and today three undecided senators announced support and we are live in libby in washington and this appears to be a major victory for the white house. it is great news for the president s agenda randall, 41 is the magic number and 41 democrats as of this morning have come out supporting the white house deal. now, that means that the democrats have enough senators on their team that they can filibuster republican attempts to take a vote. republicans of course want to vote on a disapproval resolution. essentially rejecting the white house deal over iran s nuclear weapons and nuclear capability. now, just because democrats have 41 members supporting the white house doesn t guaranty that they will all filibuster and we are