Many of you may know that the library of congress has the most comprehensive collection of sound recordings, Radio Broadcasts in world, honor to host this event with wgbh educational foundation, our collaborators in the american archive of public broadcasting or a apd. A apb. Up. T my centuries mixed [laughter] 1964. The National Education television and radio center. Incidentally, last month, we digitized two of these programs so they could be more accessible the of the librarys website. The librarys public Broadcasting Holdings have grown since 19th before to include tens of thousands of film, video, and audio masters from eta, and inet and w addition to the thousands of excess copies, we routinely acquire as copyright deposits from public broadcasting stations and producers across the nation. Americahief steward of s in the world record of knowledge, we took to heart the television and video preservation study commissioned 20 years ago by the library of congress, which characterized
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Yes, Bruce A Coralville based group of volunteers is actually heading down next week. The group is called Community Health initiative haiti. The Nonprofit Organization has been going to haiti for years to setup week long free Medical Clinics. This trip was already planned, but the group of 28 volunteers is each planning to take an extra suitcase of supplies to help with recovery efforts. Where they hold their Medical Clinic was not hit as hard as some areas. But they have staff who live down there who were in the town of lagon. There was a lot of flooding in the downtown area, which is similar to newbo, and we dont what thats like in iowa, so it was pretty devastating for a lot of people there. If you want to help the group, weve posted more information on live in iowa city, mark carlson, kcrg tv nine news. Kcrgtv9s phil reed spoke to a local travel agency. He joins us from destinations unlimited. Phil, the hurricane is causing some inconvenience. Its causing headaches for people wanti
Up the coastline. More than one million homes in the Sunshine State are dark tonight after power lines went down. A live look now from folley beach in south carolina. Within the last hour matthew weakened to a category two storm but experts warn it could still produce life threatening winds and flooding. Officials say some weakened to a category 2 storm. And some areas could see a storm su in haiti, cleanup is slowly beginning after that storm devastated communities, killing more than 800 people. And an iowa nonprofit just built orphan guages and dental and medical in that country. And most of that work was destroyed by Hurricane Matthew. Karen has the night off tonight. And were in the weather center. Weve been tracking this the land and we saw the devastating consequence consequences. It got really close to florida. It did not really make landfall. I saw photos out of jacksonville and Saint Augustine and we had roads washed away and the waves coming over land and now as it starts to