At the live desk right now, continuing to watch quite a mess of people being taken off Southwest Airlines tonight. A computer problem ground all southwest flights across the country. Now, the company is telling us the ground stop applies to any flights that have not left the gat gate. Now at last check, Reagan National airports said southwest flights were landing but not taking off. And right now if you were to go to the southwest website, this is what youre going to see. An image that says were working hard to get you where you want to be. And it tells customers not to refresh their browser. Once again, were being told the faas ground stop has been lifted but still plenty of lingering computer problems for Southwest Airlines. Well check in with him as soon as he arrives. What a mess. Susan hogan. Susan, thank you. Thousands of black Police Officers from all over the country are here in washington for their annual conference. Today they marched to Howard University in memory of those k
All weekends, American History tv is featuring sacramento, california area originally built in 1856 its now a state historic are. It served as californias governor and senator and is president of the Central Pacific Railroad Area he also established Stamford University in memory of the on who died of typhoid fever at the age of 15. Posted by her Comcast Cable partners, cspan recently visited many sites showcasing best showcasing the citys history. Learn more about sacramento all weekend here on American History tv. Quest we are at sutters fort, a state historic art in sacramento, california. Hass a Historic Site that central buildings that are actually the original adobe building constructed by native American Workers working for john sutter in the 1840s. Fort of people have worked and they think that it was a really, endeavor and soderling to this is more of a fortified hacienda. Fortified just for protection but it really was an agricultural and industrial complex. Inter arrived in c
Yes, there were demonstrations against the committee, some newspaper editorials against the committees tactics. In fact, fairly widespread questioning of the committee by persons were present in many shades in the Broad Spectrum of political opinion. No doubt some communist, both foreign and domestic variety are against the committee, but we point out and we will prove with our own film that persons who demonstrate against the committee are not there thereby communists or communist dupes. If you are to be called a communist every time you stand up for basic american rights and freedoms, what is likely to happen question mark will you be silent, and if so, happen . Will you be silent, and if so, is this what the House Committee on unamerican activities is after a silent, submissive, on protesting american . If not, why the falsifications in their own film . In a moment, you will see that film, known as operation abolition, but you will hear a corrected description of the events. The evi
Important that people understand that these men aboard the submarines died to preserve our freedom. They sacrificed all their tomorrows for our today, and that is why this exhibit is here. It is not just to highlight the sacrifice of the tang, but the sacrifice of all the americans who died in submarines in the second world war. Ive learned that you can do anything you want to. You can do anything you want to, and its just such a great opportunity. I would advise any first lady to do what she wants to do. Youre going to be criticized no matter what you do. I couldve stayed at the white house, poured tea, and i would have been criticized. I got a lot of criticism. But you learn to live with it, as i said earlier. You expected and you live with it, and never let it influence me. She was her husbands political partner from their first campaign. As first lady, she attended jimmy carters cabinet meetings, championing womens rights and Mental Health issues, even testifying before congress th
Capital. West,are in the wild domes and columns in a similar look and style. It was the idea that we were part of this particular government right now. You see a lot of symbolism in the room. Later, here about the internment of japanese americans during world war ii. I remember the day we had to leave. We did not know how long we were going to go. We didnt know where we would be sent. We just knew that we had to leave our farm. We begin the hour with a visit to the Sacramento History Center and a look at the items in the gold rush collection. The concept of where sacramento is is quite ludicrous in many ways. Its lowlying marshland. Probably the worst place to put a city. But the concept that it was more important for the monetary gain than it was for the longterm life of the city. What that caused in the end and what a lot of these things helped us document was how the city had to transform and change for self. It is a story of disasters. You can ask yourself that question, what i hav