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County as well. Al o seeing the brighter white in Suffolk County before all is said and done. Temperatures still flirting with being above the feezing mark. 33 in the city. At freezing in white plains. Still freezing across a good portion of new jersey and the Hudson Valley. Probably get below freezing in the next couple of hours. City, a good chunk of new jersey, southwest connecticut, its a winter storm warning in Suffolk County because conditions there could be worse. With as much as 5 to 8 i...

Satellite that could answer an old mystery about mars. And we begin tonight in turkey where 130,000 Syrian Refugees have flooded across the boarder just since friday. They are running away from isil as they close in on a key kurder town in syrias north. The growing crisis comes as the u. S. Pressures turkey for more support against the troop. Stephanie decker has more. Reporter frustration is met by force. Turkish forces try to control the few hundred kurds who want to return to defend their hom...

Particularly if you start moving around outside this morning. Once that sun gets up over the horizon and starts hitting you it will feel on the humid side. Dewpoints are in the mid 60s in the immediate region and closer to 70 across much of south jersey. Once you hit 70 youre talking somewhat oppressive humidity. Its definitely out there this morning. 79 by 9 oclock, 87 today by noon and it is going to be hotter this afternoon than it was yesterday. 91 by 3 oclock with a high of 92 probably arou...

Caster. The army recognized soldiers in combat after it was discovered his award originally went to the wrong person. David culver introduces us to this war hero who finally received his silver star. Took nearly seven kekd rb decades but today ralph is wearing his silver star. One of the main things they live to this moment to receive it. The reasonablk÷ orwt n this humble ceremony dates back to world war ii, september 22, 1944. As forces withdrew he got orders to hold the line. He organized a ...

Tens of thousands of people. Why this family is being forced to retire their trusty twowheeler after 30 years. Dad i miss you i miss you. A sombre day in new york city as one of two officers killed last weekend is about to be laid to rest. Good morning to you. Im Morgan Radford, welcome to Al Jazeera America thank you so much for joining us. The funeral for officer rafael ramos comes after an emotional wake on friday where thousands paid their respects to his heartbroken family. Courtney kealy i...

Who writes his memoir 40 years after the fact, writes it in a flowery 19th century flowery style. When wallace says they arrived here in the morning and lit their camp fires, hell Say Something like, you know, the ste ste steely ska gave way to the orange sun and which was great. You have to balance what wallace says in his memoir with his telegrams from the battlefield. His after reaction report two weeks later because wallace had a way of making himself sound really good. And, you know, he did...

At this point in the war, he was the commander of the unions middle atlantic department, which was basically his job was he was military governor of baltimore. It wasnt a very plum assignment. Well, reading the same intelligence that the union high command got and didnt do anything about, wallace did something. The other thing that helped him here was that the head of the b. N. O. Railroad, a man named john garrett, he had his network of intelligence who were the station masters all along the b....

Kind of oversaw the fortifications during most of the war, as they redid and reconstructed some of these forts, he decided new guns would go in and help cover this which it wasnt doing before. So your plans for the fortifications, the system of fortifications did change over the four years of the war. Coming back, i told you we would stop and i would show you what some of the 360degree angle guns look like. See, the carriage is a little bit different, but this shows you, and you notice the botto...

There. Units from washington came out to do some skirmishing. The next morning, july 11th, early, whos one of those generals out on the horse leading the men, made it right out here, right to the outskirts of fort stevens. If you can picture washington, d. C. As shaped like a diamond, we are right at the very top of the diamond, in the northwest portion of washington, d. C. Early about noontime was out of the gates of fort stevens right out here. He had the capitol dome in his sight at noontime,...

You are watching American History tv all weekend. Today, we are focusing on the civil war, showing you a recent forum on the 1864 election hosted by the Lincoln Group of washington, d. C. Abraham lincoln ran for election on the reform of restoring the union and emancipation of slaves. Our coverage of the forum will resume in a moment. Each week, we take viewers into ar kooifs. Washington d. C. Was a lightly defended city and vulnerable to attack. By the end of the war, however, the nations capit...