Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. Its brought you today by your cable or satellite provider. President george w. Bush has taken up painting creating a series of portraits of military veterans. They have been published in the book, portraits of courage. At the president ial library he talked about why he painted veterans of his time in office. This is one hour. Good evening. I have the honor of being the president of the foundation. Thank you. In honor of our men and women who defend our freedom around the world in uniform, please stand in germany for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, please be seated. Pledges that are. [applause] on that know there are a few other people i would like to recognize starting with the board of
Well, he didnt shut up but he did a whole lot of dribbling and dunking last night. The king and kevin durant teaming up to beat steph currys team in l. A. Those are some off the top stories on this monday, president s day, february 19th. Say good morning to everybody on this holiday. On this president s day. And we begin this half hour with the students who made it out of that florida rampage alive. They delivered an impassioned message, one by one demanding strict new gun control laws to keep kids safe. Some will meet face to face with the legislatures and the president himself. Parkland is strong reporter students who survived the High School Massacre who killed 17 people in parkland, florida are speaking out, channelling grief and frustration and calling for a nation wide student and teacher walkout to fight for antigun legislation. The people who are throughout, the kids who need take part in this are every day kids just like us. There are students who need to understand that this
We will climb with a lot of sunshine into the 70s and the humidity stays low today. At the shore, the winds will be picking up. The rip current risk that will be increasing today. Now to a special report from nbc news. Were waiting on that. Well take it when it comes. Good morning, everybody. As we come on the air, the wrath of harvey is being felt across southeast texas. Houston, the fourth largest city mostly under water at this hour. Mandatory Evacuations Ordered overnight. Several neighborhoods there with another several feet of rain possible. Lets get right to gabe gutierrez. Gabe, good morning to you. We can barely see you. Whats the situation. Savannah, good morning. We have been seeing rain constantly throughout the night. This event is not over. As you can see behind me, many roads are impassable. Houston the nations fourth largest city is paralyzed. Overnight the rivers have continued to rise. Runs through the heart of downtown houston. At record stages. Authorities are consi
Moment earlier he toured the coastal 11. 4 . 15 percentage point swing. Areas. Well bring you the live and meantime a news alert on pictures from austin as soon as another retailer, this time its the president lands. But we begin today with an target event that shook the market ari levy has that scoop for us. Cnbc has learned that target overnight. North korea launching a missile is making a major move off over japan amazon web services. While stocks have made up early our sources are telling us that logs eds, more details about whether there will be an this is a longtime coming. Targets been hitting Amazon Official full u. S. Response. Has been hitting target at every hans nichols out at the pentagon with all of that have. Corner imaginable and most reporter we do have a response coming from the office of the secretary of defense, and they are saying, this is an recently in whole foods. Target is taking their money intermediate Ballistic Missile missile, irbm. It gives you an indicati
Long range missile over japans second largest island. Were in tokyo with the prime ministers angry response. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener your world in 90 seconds. Imminent flooding. Across the Southeast Texas coast into louisiana. Incredible, unprecedented, and historic amounts of rain. Thousands rescued as harvey refuses to let up. The water is still rising. It rained overnight and more heavy rain is expected today. However, nothing is getting in the way of the search and rescue crews here. People holding out hope that this is going to get better, that the rain is going to pass and were going to get through this. The president s been leaning into this disaster from before it ever started. President trump will travel to texas to survey the first stages of recovery. The president asked about his pardon of sheriff joe arpaio, particularly the timing. In the middle of the hurricane, even though it was a friday eve, i assumed the ratings would be higher than