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She is a historian of race and migration in the United States , specializing in asianAmerican History. Chinese must go. Fmaps the tangled relationship between local racial violence, and u. S. Imperial ambitions. Williams earned her b. A. From Brown University and phd in history from stanford. I believe he just spoke at sanford this afternoon. Thank you, beth, for coming and speaking this evening with us. David has worked as a social worker in San Franciscos chinatown with atrisk youth before starting his business in 1981 in exporting Consumer Products to mexico. He sold his business in 2003 and retired at the end of 2005. So now we get to work with david all the time, which is really lovely. David has a pa ....
Yes, all right. It was on, but didnt get picked up. This hearing on the Senate ForeignRelations Committee on the near east, south asia and central asia will come to order. Today were Holding Hearings on the bipartisan Syria Study Group. It was established by congress for the purpose of examining and making recommendations with respect to the conflict in syria. I want to recognize my colleagues particularly senator shaheen and my friend, the late senator john mccain for their efforts to establish this working group. We also wish to honor the american men and women who have died as part of Operation Inherent resolve, the campaign against isis in syria and iraq. Finally, i want to thank our witnesse ....
Good morning, it is sunday, july 20th. I am mike mibach. I am allie rasmus in for claudine wong. How are you doing, mark. Typically we are talking about low clouds and fog across the bay area and they have it on the uncrease and it is moving in parts of the bay area. And this morning. Key headline for today and tomorrow and pop up showers and even a chance of thunderstorm as well. This is in the bay area and to the south and east. And some of this activity is approaching the region. Little bit of coverage toward monterey bay and see most of this action offshore and it is heading out to the west. Still enough moisture out there. And look at the radar right now. Little bit of a green showing outside of Mountain View. And this is closer to San Francisco right now. Few pop up showers for this part of the region and approaching solano county. Cloud and fog. And upper 60s. By 12 00. ....
The event recorders. They are like black boxes the hope is they will tell investigators anything they can about amtrak train 188 as it round the sharp curve where itup ped the tracks. Turning a commute into jumped the tracks turning a simple commute into playcations. The speed limit is 50mileper hour from the federal Railroad Administration and tonight the ntsb is saying preliminarily, that the train was going faster than 100 miles an hour when it rounded the curve. And thats more than twice the speed limit. This thing happened and came out of nowhere and where i was sitting, it felt like the train one was lifted off. Reporter the bump on jeffs head is from where he bounded around as he sat in the second car. I heard a thud and thats all i remember. Reporter the ntsb says a video camera in the trains front end could shed light. We have suffered a tragedy here in our city. Reporter absolute lay tragedy at this point. The t ....
Im erin burnett. Outfront we begin with breaking news. The amtrak train that derailed near philadelphia was speeding bigtime. Traveling 106 miles an hour at the time of the crash. More than twice the 50mileanhour speed limit. We are also just learning at this moment the engineers name from three amtrak employees. Heres what we can tell you. His name is brandon bostian. Drew griffin is going to have much more on the man at the center of this in just a moment. The mayor of philadelphia on cnn calling that engineer reckless saying theres no excuse for the outofcontrol speed. We also now know that bastian did apply the emergency brakes just before the crash but only slowed the train town to 102 miles an hour at impact. 102 to 102, then it crashed. You can see the curve where the train derailed. As you can see, it very sharp. Horrific crash killing at least seven people. More than 200 injured, many of them in Critical Condition at ....