Coordinates. They are honored for helping pave the way to a peaceful transition after the revolution. Ill be telling you why the rare oil from these trees is big business for poachers and how it affects indigenous communities that depend on the forrest. The u. S. Says it plans to overhaul its program aimed at training and supporting Syrian Rebels. Ash carter has admitted the Program Needs to change. We have been looking for now several weeks at ways to improve that program. I wasnt satisfied with the early efforts in that regard, so were looking at different ways to achieve, basically the same kind of strategic objective, which is the right one, which is to enable capable motivated forces on the ground to retake territory from isil and reclaim syrian territory from extremisms. Rosiland jordan joins us live from washington, d. C. Ros a stark admission for a program that was doomed from the start. Thats right. The u. S. Wanted to train upwards of 5,000 or so moderate Syrian Rebels per ye
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Check on traffic now with melissa mollet. Good morning to you. Good morning. Do have a crash here, got off the phone with police. This is blocking one lane here. 50 eastbound at bay dale drive. Easy for me to say. Before the bay bridge here, youll have one lane blocked. Right now traffic looking good going across the bay bridge and coming from the Eastern Shore this way as well. 270 at montrose road, no issues there. And 66, 95, nice and green. See you back here in ten minutes. All right, thank you. It is here as we approach labor day, the unofficial end to summer. Nearly 2 million of you are expected to hit the roads this Labor Day Weekend. The Maryland Transportation Authority says today and monday leave before 10 00 or after 10 00 to beat the rush. And you can stay up to date with the latest travel delays on the nbc washington app. Find out where the cheapest place is to fill up in the district before you hit the road. The gas report will be released later today. According to aaa, t
He became one of the most reknowned performers in the country in the late 19th century. His stage name was blind tom. He was born blind. And was what we probably now would call autistic. But he was a musical genius. He could hear a piece played on the piano one time, and then play it note for note. He composed some of his own music. That was mainly based on natural sounds like birds or thunderstorms. One of his famous pieces recreation of a civil war battle on the piano. The sad part about blind toms story, the family that owned him as a slave kept control of him all of his life. When the 13th amendment freed the slaves that family went to court and had tom declared mentally incompetent. So for the rest of his life, to the end of the 1900s. 1800s they toured him in europe and around the United States and they keep the proceeds from it. The other slave has a little bit happier story. His name was horace king and was the slave of a man who was in construction and was a Bridge Builder and
Us at comments cspan. Org or send us a tweet, tweet, cspan comments. Join the conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Welcome to columbus, georgia, on booktv, located on the chattahoochee river. The river served as a Major Trading post and created a booming textile industry in the citys early history. The boats would come up the river and bring finished goods like, you know, furniture, machinery or agricultural implements x the farmers from east alabama and west georgia would bring their produce especially cotton into columbus, and it would be shipped down the river. Our port on the gulf is apalachicola, and from there the cotton would be shipped mainly to england or to the textile mills in the north. The help of our mediacom partners, for the next hour we explore columbus literary scene starting with local author Dan Crosswell as he recounts the life and career of general walter bidell smith. Basically, eisenhower was the good cop. So what he needed was a bad cop and