And, 2. 5 million women honored for their service and a singular surprise. Soledad the only woman ever to receive the medal of honor, Mary Edwards Walker. Find out what this Civil War Veteran did to earn the honor. Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Its memorial day weekend, a time when we pause to remember and honor those who died while serving in the u. S. Armed forces. Today, our salute is a look back on the service of some of the bravest among us. The medal of honor is the highest award that can be given to a military hero in this country. It is bestowed by the president on behalf of Congress Following an extraordinary act of bravery. An honor reserved for those who risk their own lives, above and beyond the call of duty, in action against an enemy. More than just another accolade, it advances careers, provides a lifetime stipend, and allows the children of honorees a smooth path into the military academies. For those honored, it makes a world of difference. Toda
First possible outbreak of the illness and a longterm care center more than 50 people in a nursing facility are sick and being tested for the virus, a woman in her 40s who works at the facility and a resident in her 70s have both tested positive for coronavirus. We believe that these are cases of Community Acquired transmission acquire here in king county. When what that says to is as we test more will likely find more cases of this disease because most of them are mild, we expect infection will increase over time and so we know we can stop it. Its going to its here and its going to be here with us in the us for quite a while. Officials in oregon Washington State and here in california are worried about the Novel Coronavirus. Spreading through west coast communities because people are being infected by unknown means Santa Clara County announced its 4th case of coronavirus the countys Public Health Department Says the patient as an adult woman contracted the virus by being in contact wi
Night. Lost on a tenth inning grand slam. The Washington Nationals advance for the first time in their franchise history, and thats fine, congratulations to them. So i tend to watch you spray each other with champagne. Now before they celebrate the players put on ski goggles. [ laughter ] to me, if you stop to put on goggles before youre spraying champagne, forget about spraying the champagne. Its like swimming to alcatraz with floaties on. [ laughter ] our president may be the only sports fan in washington who isnt celebrating. According to a fox news poll, a majority of americans favor impeachment and removal from office. [ cheers and applause ] which is a big deal coming from fox news. We cant even get a majority of americans to agree on who should play batman. [ laughter ] this is a poll, 51 support removing him, up 9 points from july. I would love to have been with him when he saw this. Hes sitting there enyouing lou dobbs time, this pops on the screen, i bet they spits his mcflur
Breaking news in contra costa county, quake struck just before 12 30. Seismograph, 10 33, 4. 5 preliminary magnitude earthquake in Pleasant Hill, north of walnut creek, along 680, concord greenville fault. Felt strongly in the area, as far north as santa rosa. Guerneville, south in san mateo and other places in San Francisco. Widely felt earthquake by a number of people tonight. Cornell barnard is live in emeryville. Reporter yeah. Certainly got the attention of a lot of folks in emeryville tonight. We were working in east bay bureau not far from christie and powell streets, i thought somebody was moving furniture on the floor above us and whole room basically started to shake and figured out right then and there, definitely earthquake. 76 station on powell, all attendants inside, walked in, did you feel it . Oh, my gosh, we totally felt it. But nothing fell off the shelves. They didnt want to speak tonight but lot of folks, including the manager, kind of rattled about pli 4. 5 earthqu
Im italian, or im an italianamerican and many of my fellow italianamericans get defensive about Christopher Columbus. Im not sure why. First of all, he was working for spain. He wasnt yvoneven working for italy. Second, never even got to north america. He was never here. Did you know that . The closest he got was the bahamas. He died thinking he went to india and found a trade route to china. He did neither one of those things. This was a guy with three boats and a bad sense of direction. [ laughter ] columbus is basically the 1492 version of the people who write first in the youtube comments section. [ laughter ] but for some reason italians think its an insult to you are our ancestry to say no to columbus. Columbus missed india by 9,000 miles and still decided to call everyone he met indians anyway. [ laughter ] you know, Leonardo Da Vinci invented the helicopter in 1493. He drew a helicopter. Why dont we celebrate him . There are 100 maybe 500 more deserving italians we could be cel