historic reign. queen elizabeth ii was born into the royal family. she was never destined to be queen. so when the duke and duchess of york announced the birth of their first child on april 21st, 1926, no one could have guessed their little daughter, elizabeth alexandria barry would one day rule great britain. all of that was to change however when elizabeth s uncle prince edward add indicated his right to rule to marry american divorce say. took the throne becoming king george sixth in 1936. 10-year-old elizabeth became his i heir. the home school princess began to perform royal duties as well as doing her bit when her country was embroiled in world war ii. 1945 trained as a driver and mechanic in the women s auxiliary service. she and her sister joined other britains to celebrate ve day in the streets of britain. she also had a sweetheart her third cousin superintendence philip of greece. the couple were engaged to be married shortly after the princess 21st birthday. the
Marker. Their blood type, their d. O. B. , their social, in case the very worst happens. Thats how dire and how broad this storm is on the coast of texas. So obviously, over these next few hours, well be covering this. Were a bit hampered because communications right at this point, after landfall, can often enter into a kind of dark side of the moon phase. Some Satellite Television trucks because of rain fade and high winds lose their ability to broadcast a signal. Even some Satellite Phones cant work. Cellphone service is down along with power. So well bring you reporting from it from our friends at the Weather Channel, from our own meteorologist bill karins, when we can. Now to the other news that is happening tonight. Somewhat under the cover of the first Natural Disaster of his presidency, a category 4 Hurricane Making Landfall in the united states, the president and
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scottish the palace probably will house it s thought it the queen attend week when she was based in scotland. and it s expected that there will be some form of ceremony receiving the coffin at saint charles cathedral in the royal mile in edinboro. there is still some speculation as to whether or not it will travel south by plane or possibly by train. there was an early report, for example, that flowers charming country might be throne on the train and then there will be a train following which would pick them up from the line. i mean, there is no question that the scottish element in this is very important not only was the queen s mother scottish but also given her scottish an seed dents and scotland has a
from the hurricane hunters, the brave people who tonight are flying through the center of the storm. we re not making up these forecasts or the inches of rain they re expecting. but this is all of a piece. this is all a kind of slow motion attack on some of the aspects of our society. i totally agree with you, brian. i think the problem is, i don t want to sound too dark and orwellian here. i ve seen it as a foreign correspondent in many societies that i ve covered. when presidents do things like attack the news media and try to undermine our credibility, it s one pillar of a democracy. they try to attack other institutions. we ve seen it going on in venezuela, attack the judiciary, attack the legislature. you want the people to only believe in you. that is what we ve seen, president trump is trying to make his people believe only in him and not trust anyone else. where this becomes a huge
little corkscrew action, that s the reason why this storm will be historic, a billion-dollar weather disaster, because of this forecast right here. this is pink, 20 inches of rain, widespread. look at all the square mileage that is from victoria to corpus christi, outside of san antonio, outside of houston, outside of austin, all the way through houston with upwards of 36 inches of rain. brian, the hiydrologists that ae responsible for the river forecasts, they re coming out for across the board record crest on all the rivers in this region. that s unheard of. that will go well into the middle of next week. there s people that will be spared from the wind and the surge that then will lose their properties from the epic flood about to occur. we ve got to remember all the souls in the path of this storm, our fellow citizens tonight having a very rough friday