Its backed up solid before you get to mission north. Mission north over to this wiggly road here and the slow down on niles canyon road. That takes you through the windy dark area. Theres mist and drizzle this morning. This is complicated by this crash on 680. Roz has been out there for hours. Whats going on . Reporter weve made our way a little closer to where this accident happened. In the distance there those flashing lights is where the big rig jackknifed and where the fuel spill is. Were going into hour four now. This happened around 2 00 this morning. People have been stuck in traffic. You can see traffic is moving fine on 680 south. All lanes still blocked on 4680 north. Weve been here for two hours. Folks are trying to get to work. We spoke with an uber driver who has been driving all night and is trying to get home. Hes been sitting here for three hours. All lanes blocked. Were told there is a fuel spill, a hazmat situation. That will take a while for them to get it cleaned up
Im delighted to move us to our second panel the Conservation Movement in state and National Parks and we are lucky to have lauren meyer or historian and Landscape Architectsts serving s moderator to kick off this event. Lauren has a longstanding relationship with the olmstead having edited the list of Design Projects which were just mentioned as well as part of the near 12 volume thousands and thousands of pages. He is currently the cochair of the nonprofit partner of National Historic sites and with that welcome lauren. Thank you enough i can figure out the technology here i will pull up the next i might need someone. [inaudible conversations] there it is. Right in the middle. Welcome everyone to session to. Im going to kick off this panel covering sort of a flyover of the role of the olmstead and the National Park service. Followed by scholar and historian Hope Christian who looked into the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, jr. And ending with sam hodder who will talk about the importan
Second part of the Calvin Coolidge centennial Conference Marking the centennial of the 30th residence extension to the white house at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on the presidency pete souza for white house photographer for president S Ronald Reagan and barack obama talked about the daytoday workings of the presidency including the history making moment he witnessed, exploring the american story. Watch American History tv saturdaysn cspan2 and find a full schedule on your Program Guide or watch online anytime cspan. Org history. I am delighted to move us to our second panel. The Conservation Movement and state and National Parks. We are lucky to have lauren meyer a historic on an Landscape Architect serving as moderator kick off speaker for this event. Lauren has a longstanding relationship having edited a master list of Design Projects which i just mentioned, as well as parts of the papers of Frederick Olmsted amiri 12 volumes thousands and thousands of pages. She screw the coach of the friend
Taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. So talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought in every war from the revolutionary war on up until that time. Within a couple years the organization broadened its mission to want to construct what they called a National Memorial building to negro achievement and contributions to america in all fields of endeavor from business to education to the arts, et cetera. Essentially a National Muse
Culture. We look at exhibits and artifacts chronicling the africanamerican story from slavery through the inauguration of the first africanamerican president. And we talk to Museum Specialists. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. You are looking at the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture on the mall in washington, d. C. It is the newest Smithsonian Museum opening back in september. And this week it welcomed its 1 millionth visitor through these doors. Tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that for artifacts that chronicled the africanamerican experience and also telling a shared american story. Well be live for the next 2. 5 hours. In about 40 minutes well be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. 100 year mission to create the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture. Thanks