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The people couldnt take refuge in their homes. Then they also had to secure food water communications. Literally the city had to resurrect itself from the bottom up. Every year, about september especially september 8 the Houston Television stations will show footage taken from the aftermath of the 1900 storm. Then they show photos. The newspapers may do interviews. But certainly the potential for destruction from future storms is always kept in mind. Certainly the 1900 storm was one of the gatew...

Headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. President trump is in poland this morning where hes expected the lay out his vision for u. S. Ties the europe. Hes meeting with polands president and later today he travels germany for an economic summit. There hell hold meetings with leaders in germany and chai nachlt but its tomorrows highly anticipated meeting with russia president Vladimir Putin is high on the agenda. Hena daniels is here in new york with the latest. Hena, go...

Process of seeing this crash cleared along 880. This is right near 7th street. And no longer blocking any lanes. Tow truck just arrived so everything should be cleared out of the way. Speeds just below the limit at this point still in the green 55 Miles Per Hour. Over at the bay bridge toll plaza, we have a bit of a backup here in those cash lanes. You can see its that time again, that shift change. But still, just a 10minute ride easygoing as you make your way from the maze into San Francisco. ...

57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. President trump is in poland this morning where hes expected the lay out his vision for u. S. Ties the europe. Hes meeting with polands president and later today he travels germany for an economic summit. There hell hold meetings with leaders in germany and chai nachlt but its tomorrows highly anticipated meeting with russia president Vladimir Putin is high on the agenda. Hena daniels is here in new york w...

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The business senatehouse seriously did they take it . Very. And then to devote the resources. So it was very small. For the first few months the union navy would buy a pair of reship it could find not just building new warships but purchasing every civilian ship to use it on of blockade. Not just for the coast to not go into combat a lot. That is probably right so the union navy expanded the very first for with active service to over 600. And did became much more effective simply because then th...

They think of the campaign in georgia and shermans march from atlanta to savannah in late 1864 and up through the carolinas in late 1865. Sometimes theyll think about the campaigns that took place in tennessee and mississippi. For example, the siege of vicksburg. There werent a lot of Major Military actions that took place in texas. And so that texas sometimes doesnt get the attention that it probably should. Galvestons role in the civil war was an important one. Galveston at the time, in 1860 w...

Active service to i think, over 600. And the vast majority were on the block aid around southern ports. The block aid became much more effective as the war went on because the union navy expanded so much at the very beginning of the war. The first ship appeared was a uss south korea South Carolina and it was just one ship. It blocked galveston and the entire coast. More came after that and it expanded. By 1864 there were a dozen union war ships just awful galveston. They took it seriously and de...

The storm began at noon and raised in dramatic intensity and finally when it tapered off that evening. This hurricane was and still is the deadliest natural event in the history of the United States. The destruction pull 28 to 30 million certainly the destructive hurricane. Many buildings did survive with major damage but the death toll is why we remember this event more than anything. It can happen again. Saturday, september 1900, people went to the beach, the rising tides, the rising wind cert...

The issue is. People are not required to vote a particular because there are only two parties. Its just much its much more engaging as a result i think if we dislike that in the trendy we would have higher levels of participation. Thats another thing that we dont admit that we really should, that is we have at the most about 60 , 65 of the population voting. We go to other countries and they have 80 . You go to australia and you are required to vote. If you dont vote you are punished. In the Uni...