With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners well explore the citys history and literary community, beginning with author pat oneill on the history of irish immigrants and how they helped build kansas city in what it is today. One of my Favorite Places in the whole cold is browns market run by john and john mcclain and cary brown. And they start the business in the late 1880s. Irish style. The oldest continual Retail Operation in west of the mississippi, maybe in the whole world. But browns is kind of our community center. One of those great Little Corner Neighborhood Grocery stores where people are extended credit in the neighborhood, people came here for generations, and its now kind of the same thing. People come here just to gossip and compare notes notes and head kids. So, its a much like a small town Crossroads Store in ireland. The title of the book, from the bottom up, its in the sense that in kansas city, were along the rivers, and the Missouri River in the kansas river and it
Are in a great group but if you look, its not nearly as crowded as it was this morning. It looks like there is only a handful of people checking in, if you swing over this way and look at the security lines, people are breezing through, no long lines, definitely looks like the afternoon flights are much better than the people that were here for the morning flights. Inside terminal to the lines have improved since 5 am. At its worst we saw lines wraparound the escalator to get to security. Usually it is a breeze at this airport, but we are in the normal line. I think a priority line as well, they combined. Those flying into sfo had mixed experiences. I have precheck. So it wasnt really bad at all. We went up to the front of the line. They changed planes, and that was 4 hours later. My flight back to china, i couldnt catch that flight so here i am. 160,000 passengers have got there sfo today. And they created a new express drop off to avoid the heavy traffic of the terminal. We are makin
Events dies at the age of 82. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. President trump is expected to sign a temporary funding bill today, avoiding a government shutdown. The shortterm measure passed in the house and senate yesterday. It allows funding through january 19th. Hena doba is here in new york. Hena, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. Lawmakers on capitol hill have left themselves some work to do before the new year, proving to be a shortterm solution to government funding. Had they not, the government faced a shutdown at midnight tonight. These are the last votes expected in the house for the day, the week, the month, and the year. Before fleeing d. C. For the holiday thursday, lawmakers in the house and Senate Approved a stopgap measure to fund the government for the next four weeks, narrowly averting a shutdown. The bill serves as a shortterm extension to the Childrens Health Insurance
Viewers. The political machine boss of 1925 to 1939. Om the political machine got its start from toms older brother, jim pendergast, who came to kansas city in the 1880s and got started establishing this machine in the first ward of kansas city, which was in the industrial west bottoms down by the river. An irish committee, africanamerican community. Very diverse. Lots of workingclass people, saloon. Pendergast had a this machine that was based on favors, basically helping people get jobs in exchange for votes, helping people through giving them loans that they did not have to get a jim wouldk loan, and loan the money settling gambling debts, skimming money off of the top of illegal activity such as gambling money and prostitution and so on and so forth. Was gettingdergast older, his health was failing, his younger brother Tom Pendergast got started in the s. Hine around the 1900 he was elected city alderman and was in charge of streets for the early years of the 1900s. Tom pendergast
Bin laden is long gone, and today the head of the f. B. I. Said that when it comes to threats to america, al qaeda has been surpassed by another terror group, isis. Heres chip reid. Isil is not your parents al qaeda. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey told the Aspen Security Forum that the reason isis, also called isil, has surpassed al qaeda as a danger to the u. S. , is because it has mastered twitter and other social media. With al qaeda if you wanted to consume their propaganda, you had to go find it somewhere on the web. Reporter but with isis. If you want to talk the a terrorist, theyre right there on twitter direct messaging to communicate with. Reporter elliot zweig is with the middle east Media Research institute. The way that isis does it is it puts out a message among several accounts, but that message is then picked up and distributed and redistributed and reredistributed. In the way of crowd source, it sees thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands in a