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want to share them are probably not occur. in the context of the book that might help us shed some light of the character? i got a grant in the science foundation to create the documentary and then create a series of programs at the national space museum and so all we could bring who had been interviewed in the book came up to washington for an event and we had probably 89 at that point i called up and i said can you come and they said yes i can but one thing, my girlfriend has to come with me. i said your girlfriend, he said yes. she s 90 and she doesn t get around very good. so his girlfriend is also more to them and they were on the council, the first african-american engineer for julius montgomerie who was the first african-american hired as a cape canaveral professor with the first african-american woman in space and who had have just gotten back from the international space station like a week ago said you ve got the whole legacy right up there at this table tog ....
arctic nation. i won t go through the list of what other nations have in terms of their assets, but let s suffice it to say that our neighbors to the east in russia have over 30 icebreakers. our neighbors to the excuse me our neighbors to well, it depends which way you re going around the globe. but our canadian friends the icebreaker capacity that they have are six. but it s not just the arctic nations that have arctic capacity through their icebreakers it s nations like china. mr. president, think how far away china is from the arctic. india is considering building an ice breaker. think how far away they are. it begs the question, why as an arctic nation are we not stepping up? so i am a he challenging my so i m challenging my colleagues, think broader. i invited all members of the united states senate to join the arctic caucus and understand what it means for you and your respective states, the benefits but also the obligations. so i look forward to the discussio ....
can see the traffic is moving very nicely at this hour. absolutely no days head no delays heading into san francisco. on the san mateo bridge, we still have the fog we had there yesterday. be careful into unionty or the opposite direction towards heyward. 4:30 back to the desk. a group of protestors camped out all night in san francisco s dolores park protesting against a new plan. christian captain is this live at the is there live at the dolores park where the campers are stirring this morning. reporter: good morning, the folks who are camped out here right now. the supervisor pitched a plan to close the city parks between midnight and 5:00 a.m. and the two dozen or so campers out here say that plan would essentially criminalize being poor. they raised awareness about the new plan and the supervisor wiener said it would give cops another tool to fight quality of life crimes like vandalism. there s nothing more frustrating than to see vandalism in the parks. ....
dropped out of school, you know they re still engaged in hip hop and rap and drawing, and tagging and all the things that we see in our communities that are tied to the arts. ifill: those are just some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: more cities in iraq fell today to a rapidly advancing wave of al qaeda linked militants. today, it was tikrit, only 80 miles north of baghdad. yesterday, the extremists took over iraq s second-largest city ....
dropped out of school, you know they re still engaged in hip hop and rap and drawing, and tagging and all the things that we see in our communities that are tied to the arts. ifill: those are just some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: more cities in iraq fell today to a rapidly advancing wave of al qaeda linked militants. today, it was tikrit, only 80 miles north of baghdad. yesterday, the extremists took over iraq s second-largest city ....