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Welcome to new perspectives and sources on the elaine massacre of 1919. The panel is devoted to advancing our understanding of the horrific series of events that began just over 100 years ago in which africanamericans were hunted down by a paranoid and enraged crowd of whites inside delta arkansas. I want to recognize first the work guy lancaster did in helping to organize this panel. Unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us and participate. All three of our scholars here on this panel are contributors to a book edited by guy lancaster and we are shamelessly plugging that right here. The the elaine massacre and arkansas a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919. Full disclosure, im in there too. But this is not about me. I want to introduce all three of our panelists first, and they will each present for about 20, 25 minutes. And after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts designed to generate discussion. And then i will get out of the way and ....
Enough to fight fire at night. Over time well have the capability of operating those with night vision goggles at night on fires. Reporter the chopper can drop more than three times the amount of water than the old fleet. The cal fire hawk features a retractable snorkel capable of sucking up a thousand gallons of water in just 45 seconds. Hopefully with the speed involved they will be getting more water to the fire quicker to support those crews. They have a hoist. Reporter the Current Fleet of vintage is more than five decades old. They were used originally in vietnam. Reporter the upgrade is badly needed but it is not just the chopper fleet getting a boost. Seven c130s are also in the pipeline. The f w dp four times more retardant and utilize a bigger crew. Firefighters hope the new aircraft will help them knock more fires down quickly. And save lives. Hopefully be able to give a bigger punch. Reporter we are back here live looki ....
Here are their remarks. Good morning. Good morning. As we gather today, first let thank all of our honorees that we are saluting this year. It is important on king day that we do things in the spirit of dr. King. Mr. Sharpton dr. King as a federal holiday was a result in and of itself of struggle. So we do not take it as a day off. We take it as a day on. To do something in the spirit of human rights and civil rights that dr. King stood for. The National Action network started 28 years ago on those principles and weve been blessed to partner with martin who thought to spend this federal holiday every year with us at the breakfast. He had brought his mother to our Convention Many years. So we are in our d. N. A. Kinglike. And no year is more important than this year. Because we are meeting on a morning of king holiday where the nation has been more polarized and divided than ....
Resident trump wayne and yesterday on the protest. Saying this. To the leaders of iran do not kill your Protesters Thousands had already been killed or imprisoned by you and the world is watching. More importantly the usa is watching. Turn your internet back on. Let reporters roam free. Stop the killing of your great iranian people. The u. S. Blaming the attack on iran. No group has claimed responsibility yet. To you first. I just told up this New York Post. The protesters wont trample them. They call it a real enemy. With iran admitting that it downed the ukrainian airliner and this is the response in the streets. A lot of the outrage comes from the beginning that they denied that they have done it. I think the people knew they were being lied too. It reminds me of prior to the fall of the berlin wall. I think this is one that is good to get more and more attention i th ....
Cue ramy on right on cue, the foreign minister put out his response to this that the act out of the United States is an active International Act of terrorism. Were going to get you more details on this story, information thats been for the lastough two or three hours or so. The state of the markets are looking like this. In terms of risk assets, going into the lunch break in hong kong, u. S. Features down 20 points, dollaryen low to the day, still fairly strong on the japanese currency, fly under the asian benchmark, and gold is 15401550. Wards 4 , but still substantial gains. He was features are looking like this u. S. Futures are up my mistake, moving up as london joins wakes up. Good morning to you. Well get to the latest on all of this. Jodi schneider is onset. And we have another reporter joining us. Jodi, im going to start with you, the significance of this act. Jodi ....