1990s as a successor to the organization of the same name that originally built and administered grants tomb in new york city until it was transferred to the National Park service. The gma is dedicated to the preservation of grants tomb, the largest monument in the western hemisphere. Grant, the principal author of Union Victory in the civil war, and our nations 18th president. We revived the gma tradition to commemorate grants birthday with a dinner in new york city. The program each year has been an educational one, highlighted by a hollow a colloquy in which general David Petraeus interviews a historian about different aspects of grants story. Another celebration is the commemoration of grants birthday at his tomb. Because of the pandemic, we are advanceriencing, both if vince have been canceled, but we thought it was important to celebrate grants birthday. It also means we can reach a great many people who otherwise would not have been able to make it to dinner in new york. For tho
Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson and los angeles and cover festivals in new orleans and san antonio as well. All canceled. We know the effect its having on book fairs and large gatherings but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses. Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of bookstores in based in coral gables florida called books and books mr. Kaplan has coronavirus affected your business . Yes, unfortunately it has. We been holding on as long as we could it looks like it looks like tomorrow will be closing down all six doors we have in the miami area and trying to move our sales online. And encourage people to buy at our website this is happening i believe across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. Like normally happens independent bookstores are very representative of whats happening with Small Business. There are many many thousands upon thousands of Small Business people who are suffering the same way we are. Are you doing this because the st
Every weekend. The cspans city tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. This weekend we travel to san antonio, texas. Coming up in the next hour we will feature the citys local authors including John Phillips santos on culture and hometown. In about 15 minutes we will visit the special collections at the university of texas in san antonio. And later in about 40 minutes, the debates surrounding confederate statutes and memorialization. We begin our special feature with lewis fisher on his book saving san antonio. We are standing near the Geographical Center of san antonio, texas. We are in front of whats called the Spanish Governors Palace in a town that was actually set up here due to the conflicts between two european empires, france and spain in the 18th century. Spain had, of course, established itself well in latin america and south america and in mexico and northern mexico was especially important to spain because rich silver min
formula and we are up the creek if they don t come and plow us. just thinking about this. can we send them some baby formula please. we are glad you are with us. back to back coast-to-coast winter storms spreading misery and growing more dire and as you heard baby formula is running out. piles and piles of dirt dug up and east palestine in ohio. where is it being shipped to? we will take it their life. an american shot and killed and we have our live report from jerusalem. we begin this hour with the dangers back to back winter storms wreaking havoc from california to new england, nearly 50,000,000 people under winter weather alert north east. out west the situation is going dire. a live look in san bernardino where another barrage of heavy snow has left community stranded. residents running out of gas and baby formula. the sheriff says food and grocery supplies have reached critically low measures. let s come back to new york. athena jones is tracking this where it s n
Ground attack. Hello, im matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. President joe biden has urged israel not to be consumed by rage this was confirmed soon after by Prime Minister netanyahu whose office which said no aid will enter from israel as long as its hostages arent returned and it will not block the delivery of food, water and medicines from egypt. Joe biden his visit was overshadowed by a devastating explosion and hospital in gaza city. Hundreds more were wounded. Israel has blamed it on a palestinian islamichhad rocket, which it says misfired, hitting the hospital. President biden appeared to agree with that that it was caused by what he called the other team will stop in the last hour say israel was not responsible based on the latest information. Responsible based on the latest information. But arab countries have joined hamas in blaming israel for the explosion. President biden appeared to agree wi