In the video you can see that the gunman just walks up to the deputies were sitting in a patrol car and opens fire without warning or us the Sheriffs Department put it without being provoked one male and one female deputy were hit multiple times. Theyre said to be in Critical Condition right now and undergoing surgery. Once again this happened in the city of compton, this evening. That area where theyre at is a metro station of the metro station there in los angeles where those officers were parked and you see that person that suspect the gunman walked up and just start firing. The suspect in this that you see theyre still at large tonight. No word on exactly who he is no suspect description at this point. But once again we are standing by waiting for a News Conference with the only county sheriff alex who is expected to provide more details on the situation that is developing with those 2 deputies down there. La county as soon as that News Conference does start. We will bring it to yo
The news station. Youre watching kron 4 news at night youre just looking at really bad air quality continue from yesterday and unfortunately we continuing on through the weekend 40 things took a turn for the worse on friday. Were seeing a lot of smoke mixing down from a number of sources. Unhealthy air is just sitting over the bay area this weekend. The extremely poor air quality just doesnt want to leave. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 9 im justine waltman im Jonathan Mccall right now air quality levels across the bay area needless to say are at unhealthy levels get this. Some areas like livermore seeing air quality levels at nearly 500 thats dangerous folks we have Live Team Coverage of that bad air including one event held today in the east bay. Despite the spoke it conditions forced gayle ong is live right now for us in livermore with details good evening, gayle. Good evening just cnn jonathan where you are in the bay area, the smoke is bad. Organiz
Social media. Follow us at cspan history. In 1939, Eastman Kodak company gave newly released kodachrome color film to photographers working for the u. S. Government. American history tv visited the library of congress to meet Beverly Brannan to learn about the collection of color images documenting agricultural life and war production during the Great Depression and world war ii. Beverly in the 1930s, the United States experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. The great drought. People were not able to make a living on their farms. They begin moving other places, looking for a new lands to live on. People were in dire straits. One of the worst hit areas in the economy was agriculture. A Program Began under tugwell who was one of the advisers to president Franklin Roosevelt to document the conditions under which people reliving. Were living. This is back when we did not have television. We had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity. So they could not
The great drought. People were not able to make a living on their farms. They begin moving other places, looking for a new lands to live on. People were in dire straits. One of the worst hit areas in the economy with agriculture. A Program Began under tugwell , who was one of the advisers to president Franklin Roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. This is back when we did not have television. We had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity. So they could not listen to the radio podcast of find out what was going on in other parts of the country. They sent off photographers to take pictures of what was happening and put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines, journals, things like that. It was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs, because nobody really wanted to face up to what was happening. But roy striker, an economist from columbia university, was persistent. He was the head of this project.
Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean patterson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It doesnt mean he doesnt have money. He did have money but needed cash to cover expenses of moving out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done. Except Herbert Hoover but hoovers time in office was much briefer, trumans presidency covered far more to multiple us history tumu