Into the navy in world war ii. With the start of the war, our nation needed the strength and talent of everyone, and the navy started the Program Women accepted for waives, women accepted for voluntary service or the w. A. V. E. S. She had a degree in business and was one of the first women to take courses at harvard. As the war moved on women took on greater and groater roles to parachute riggers to gunnery instructors. For my navy women were not allowed to serviceallow ed to serve overseas until the end of the war in 1944. When we decided that hawaii was once again safe enough, it was a base of Planning Operations and we would send w. A. V. E. S. To help continue fight the war. Lieutenant winifred wick wasquick was selected with two of her friends to go and set the stage to bring in over 5,000 w. A. V. E. S. To support the war effort. She was pretty excited. Then she told me this remarkable thing happened. And i was astounded at the story because im from colorado and nothing like thi
Comey. His legal career started in San Francisco in the 70s and later he served as u. S. Attorney in Northern California. Ktvu fox 2 news Jana Katsuyama is here with more on his appointment. Reporter frank and julie, i spoke with his former boss who says mueller is a perfect choice. He describes him as someone with integrity who leaves politics out of his investigation. His appointment brought relief to republicans and democrats who now hope the 72yearold former fbi director will bring credibility to the federal probe into whether the Russian Election meddling was linked to the trump campaign, Rod Rosenstein issued the order wednesday saying my decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted. But, he said for americans to have confidence in the outcome, he felt the need for a special council who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command. I think it is a good thing. Because, it takes the politics out of it. This ha
There could be minor slowing past the area, and san jose has a structure fire near the story road, a good area to avoid, not causing a big delay since it is early. You may want to avoid those particular streets. Looking at 280 northbound up to highway 17, traffic moving well and is light at the bay bridge toll plaza. 4 31 am. A young man credited with preventing a fiery attack in a dennys restaurant in hayward. The mother of the man said that she and her 21yearold son were having breakfast on industrial boulevard yesterday morning and they heard loud noise. Five or six people had been doused in a liquid that smelled like gasoline. The mother said she saw man struggling with a lighter and her son jumped into action. My son threw a chair and hit him so that he would have to drop everything, and to startle him. That was enough time to get the fire extinguisher to shoot him in the face, and he kept shooting him in the face and pushing him out the door. The woman said her son managed to pus
The National Trust and cadbury about the omission of the word easter from their egg hunts. And coming up in the sport on bbc news. The Football Association will ask sunderland boss david moyes to explain remarks in which he told a female reporter she might get a slap. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. At least 58 people have been killed in a suspected Chemical Attack in the rebel held province of idlib in northern syria. Emergency services who arrived in the area shortly after a series of strikes said they found people choking in the street. The Syrian Government has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons. The dead are mostly civilians, and include at least 11 children. In the last hour, france has called for an Emergency Meeting of the Un Security Council to discuss the attack. Our correspondent ben james reports from beirut. This is some of the Footage Opposition Activists posted online after the attack On The Town Bauer a town here. It was said that the symptoms,
Months into the pandemic. And breaking news from the white house, an historic break through agreement between the United Arab Emirates and israel, made possible by israel for now giving up its plan to annex large areas of the palestinian west bank. Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations. They will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation on a broad range of areas. This is a truly historic moment. Not since the israeljordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago has so much progress been made towards peace in the middle east. And we begin today with nbc White House Correspondent and weekend today cohost kristen welker, nbcs mike memoli covering the Biden Campaign, Washington Post columnist eugene robinson. Kristen, the president is hitting senator harris hard and fighting any if ynew funding foe post office. Bring us up to date. Thats right, a lot of people woke up this morning to those comments by President Trump real