Week and every weekend on cspan three. There are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering over 85 million acres of land, with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the state sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland, situated along the cayuga river, we will learn how the canal system here plays a major role in our nations westward expansion in the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio and eerie canal is part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Its basically a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river. It was part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we n
Two americans facing each other. Venus williams against cori gauff, who is just 15 years old, the youngest woman to qualify for the main draw in the open era. She said its a dream to face one of her idols, now she gets the chance to do just that. Those are some of our stories on this monday, july 1st. Good monday morning. Happy july 1st. We made it. July. July. My goodness. The countdown to christmas. Oh. All right. Do you want to know what july 1st is . What, the beginning of your birthday month. Yeah, she knows. You know we like to celebrate all month. Yeah. Let the celebrations start. Thank you for joining us this morning. We do begin this half hour on the campaign trail where rival 2020 candidates are jumping to the defense of senator Kamala Harris. The democrats are slamming donald trump jr. Over a tweet questioning harris racial identity, calling it racist and unacceptable, blaming it on the same forces behind birtherism, used to spread lies about president obamas citizenship. Ra
You are watching kcci eight news. Eric also this morning, were live at a central iowa holiday tradition. A beautiful a preview of the one, festival of trees and lights ahead. Good morning everyone. Thanks for waking up with kcci 8 news this morning. Elizabeth its on wednesday, november 25th. We will get right over to metinka and no need to bundle up metinka . Metinka it is feeling really warm out, 50 degrees right now in des moines. Cooler to the north, 43 in ames. All the locations across the state are waking up to temperatures above freezing. You dont have to worry about slick spots and right now theres no precipitation. We will have drizzle, pockets of fog developing but temperatures will stay warm. 53 degrees, a good getaway day. Weather turns a bit yucky and we start with impressive rainfall totals, maybe 12 inches in central iowa changing to a wintry mix. That will be followed by a chilly, breezy black friday. Eric millions of americans are expected to hit the road this morning f
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