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and today i m in birmingham, alabama, which is in the rolling foothills of the appalachians. they say that wars are fought to change maps, and this episode of strange inheritance is actually about a map, a very old map, and one that survives in a family whose history spans from texas to virginia and then back here to alabama. my name is patrick martin. my parents died in 1999, and my sister and i inherited the house and contents. we were surprised when we figured out what it contained. the house that patrick and his sister, peggy, inherited here in birmingham is now their home. patrick, thank you so much for having me over. it s our pleasure. patrick s parents moved to alabama from maryland and bought the house in the 1960s. patrick, an architect, returns to take care of his ill parents in 1994 but then has his own health scare. i had a quintuple bypass surgery here. patrick s heart trouble leads him to an early retirement at age 47. with lots of time on h ....
rain and in a few embedded thunder results many traversing the area at this time. but, right now, we have the mobile weather watcher cruising the streets checking out those wet streets ponding on the roadways, now cruising right now in pitman, and gloucester county new jersey. tommy g taking to the roads using windshield wipers be sure to keep the headlight on but for our evening commute we are not going to be dealing with this rain. it is going to move out very quickly and we might even be dealing with sunny skies by late day commute. little ominous looking at center city philadelphia. low clouds, in the scene there just had heavier band of rain, move through center city philadelphia . heavier rain, you may be hearing rumbles every thunder down the shore with embedded thunderstorms right now moving across portions of the atlantic then we are watching the thin band, very thin band, of heavier rain moving through just moved through philadelphia now moving into south je ....
mountaineering championships. this was the scene on the southern slopes of the mount etna volcano. a spectacular setting and a dogwas even prepared to brave the cold and accompany the skiiers. the race had to be delayed for two days as the freezing conditions became simply unbrearable. it was exhausitng workjust to reach the finish line. you have to just hope it was worth it! that s all from sportsday. we ll have more throughout the evening. let s get more now on the heavy snow and freezing temperatures that have caused disruption and created treacherous driving conditions across parts of the uk. we can speak to our correspondence in maidstone and newcastle. peter whittlesea, thanks for joining in maidstone and newcastle. peter whittlesea, thanks forjoining us. clearly it is dark behind you and we can still see this now but there has been a big problem from lorries on the motorway there. there has been a problem all day. in the last ten minutes, it has been snowing on a ....
had stopped it from delivering aid to the area. and scientists warn king penguins are under threat as global warming impacts their habitats. good evening and welcome to bbc news. snow and freezing temperatures have caused major disruption across many parts of the uk today with forecasters warning that there is much worse to come this week. parts of south east and north east england, scotland and north wales are badly affected. police say driving conditions are ‘treacherous‘ in places. there has been disruption on many major roads with 20 accidents in a space ofjust three hours on lincolnshire s roads including a fatal crash which left three people dead. rail journeys have also been badly affected with southeastern cancelling more than 100 services between kent and london. services in east anglia and north of london have also been affected. more than 560 schools schools were shut across england, wales and scotland and forecasters say some rural communities may be cut ....
james risen. and we will hear highlights from the first republican debate of the 2016 race. mr. trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don t use a politicians filter. however, that is not without its downside particular, when it comes to women. you have called women you don t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. your twitter cloud account line only rosie o donnell. amy: all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. we are broadcasting from toronto, canada. 10 leading republican presidential candidates faced off in the first debate of the 2016 presidential election thursday night in cleveland. the main topics of the primetime debate included immigration, abortion, the soper claimed islamic state, and u.s. health care system. during the debate, donald trump stood by earlier statements that the mexican government was sending the bad ones ....