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the 2017 annual meeting of the organization of american historians. our session is called historians in court. it examines the complex roles of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. thanks first for organizing this session and, in particular, to the president for her support of our endeavor here today. today, we will address a timely topic the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. there s no systematic study, but the evidence we have indicates that the use of, for instance, scholarly amicus briefs, where scholars file amicus briefs in court proceedings, has been increasing. there s a long history of scholarly input into appellate court cases stretching back at least to the famous brandeis brief in the supreme court case in 1908. but for our purposes, our pedigree as historians might be traced back to the brown versus board of education litigation in which the distinguished helped the naacp make the case against school segr ....
many reenactments? i m a vietnam era veteran and we don t reenact it but people born decades after the civil war still go out of their way to reenact the great battles. there is something in the american spirit that we are dealing with that can t be casually dismissed. but black folks see a rebel flag and they think ku klux klan immediately. i m talking to fellow americans about this. it is not easy to persuade them otherwise. it is a reality. you don t wave the red cape in front of a bull and don t wave the confederate flag in front of black folks and expect them to clear. host: might, florida, republican mind. caller: good morning, mr. page. first of all i would like to offer my heartfelt condolences to the victims and families in the state of south carolina. it was a horrible action and it always goes back to the gun owners and makes us look bad. what i really want to comment on today is the situation and mr. page mentioned it, talking about gun ownership in comparis ....
worker became trapped in the belly of a plane going to dulles. and tonight, talking to news 4 about working with a president trump. news 4 at 11:00 starts now. good evening, first up tonight, holiday trips coming to a slow and frustrating crawl for thousands of airline passengers all over the country tonight. u.s. customs and border protection says a system-wide outage led to delays at several major airports. news 4 s darcy spencer is live at dulles with a look at the situation there. reporter: definitely some bad timing there, we re told that that outage lasted for four hours. all systems are back on line now but i talked to passengers tonight. there were major delays. george sanker is waiting for exchange students to china at dulles international airport. it was two hours and counting just to get through customs. we have a couple of students coming out hopefully soon and they have been there a couple of hours trying to get through the system and it has been ....
they may have been hit. they were allowing cars to make a u-turn there, and i think that is 14th. the 14th on camp. as we told you before, it reopened at about 5:20 or so. that is 40 minutes ago. the damage was you can see the busy spots in red. the emeryville camera shows you the back up on to 80. westbound traffic going to the bay bridge is on the righthand side. and nelson chang tweeted thus picture showing a line of red lights. s.w.a.t. teams closed in on an apartment building and they re deploying hot gas into the building. vic lee is live to explain what is going on. vic? this is a tense situation here, we re on the corner of coy drive. if you can pan over, that is blossom hills estate number two. you can see some flashing lights that is a focus, take a look at his mug shot now. the operation is going into his fifth hour. we re told a brief foot chase through the park and apparently the suspect ran into that unit. he made may be hiding in. residents told us th ....
a car had to make u-turns to get out of the gridlock. lyanne melendez is live with more information. all i can say is holy moly. and sthat is more than an hour and 30 minutes. that is backed up to highway 80 and that is nearly nine miles. this happened after a man and woman were driving when someone in another car. they exited on fruitvale avenue and we re told they re in stable condition. now, the chp closed because it became a crime scene. they may have been hit. they were allowing cars to make a u-turn there, and i think that is 14th. the 14th on camp. as we told you before, it reopened at about 5:20 or so. that is 40 minutes ago. the damage was done. you can see the busy spots in red. the emeryville camera shows you the back up on to 80. westbound traffic going to the bay bridge is on the righthand side. and nelson chang tweeted thus picture showing a line of red lights. s.w.a.t. teams closed in on an apartment building and they re deploying hot gas into the bui ....