Plus, Hurricane Dorian, a massive storm churning in the atlantic with the bahamas in the cross hairs. Dorian has just been upgraded to a category 5 hurricane. The latest forecast coming up. But lets begin with the mass shooting in west texas. This one played out after miles and miles of a routine traffic stop. The gunman went on a rampage between the texas cities of midland and odessa. Garrett is in odessa with the latest. Good morning. Were learning more about the victims of the terrible shooting. One of them a local high school student. The other a little girl just 17 months old. What we dont know much about is the shooter. Police have not released his motive or his name but they say the threat here is now over and the investigation is fully underway. Theres an active shooter. A traffic stop turned deadly. The shooting right there. At 3 25 p. M. Authorities say state troopers stopped a gold vehicle on the highway and the driver began shooting out the back window with a rifle wounding
New this morning a pedestrian is recovering after being hit by a car in cedar rapids on sunday. It happened at first avenue and Second Street southeast at around 2thirty yesterday afternoon. The woman hit is expected to be okay the driver has been charged with failing to yield at a crosswalk. Still developing this morning authorities are now trying to figure out what caused a tour bus to plow into a killing 13 people and injuring more than 30. 30. The deadly crash happened near palm springs california the bus was returning home to los angeles from a casino. The Highway Patrol says the bus was moving so fast that First Responders had to use ladders to search for victims because the door was unusable. That bus is halfway into that trailer. Thats only half of the bus youre seeing. Thats road. Federal records show the company in charge of the bus only owned one single bus and only had one driver. That driver was killed in the crash. Despite recent flooding that damaged damaging many towns
And let me just leave you my definition of leadership as i think about stewart udall. Leadership demonstrates an unwavering philosophical underpinning of service to others. Anchored in humility, courage, humanity, and gratitude. And if you were to take a look at those whom we have honored as a people in your National Park system, theres a lesson there. There are those who have given of themselves, who have given of themselves, that in the end as the people of the nation, those are whom we honor most of all. Its interesting. Just take a look at those individuals by name. Those have been of service to others. That is the american legacy. To honor those who have given to others. Lastly, before we open it up to questions, on this centennial. Yes, august 25th is a big day. And i know you historians like to traffic in facts. So contrary to popular belief, i was not there for the signing of that act in 1916. Ive been around a long time but not that long. With respect to the centennial and the
Wilderness society for some few decades or more, and as of 2014, serves as vice chair of the organizations governing townsy. Council. My own role working with the National Parks service goes back to the first collaborative agreement signed in 199495 when i was president of oah and ive worked in philadelphia with the Independence National historic parks and others and was one of the coauthors of imperilled promise that ill speak about after bob stanton talks, and i was a member of the Second Century Commission which delivered the report to congress on the state of affairs in the National Parks service. So with those introductions, ill turn to bob stanton, whos going to reflect on all these years in the Parks Service and some of the problems he sees. He or she is a better citizen with a keener appreciation of living here in the United States, who has toured the National Parks. Steven mather, the first director of the National Parks service. Good afternoon. Its a pleasure to be with you.
The National Parks service done by four members of oeh and issued a few years back. So bob stanton here to my right. Grew up in ft. Worth. He was recruited into a summer seasonal job while he was a student at houston hiliton college. That began a long career stretching out some 54 years in the Nations Service as a stalwart member of the National Parks service. So he started at the bottom in Grand Teton National Park and worked his way all the way to the top when bill clinton, president bill clinton appointed him the director of the National Parks service from 1997 to 2001. Before that, he was superintendent of National Capital park in the d. C. Area as a virginia islands National Park. He then served as regional director for the National Capital region. And then he made the mistake of retiring, which meant that he was even in greater demand. And so he has served as Senior Adviser to the secretary of the department of interior, and then was appointed by president obama in 2014 for a fou