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The blast. badly injured but miraculously still standing. a photographer for "life" magazine captured this haunting image from her two-month stay in the hospital where doctors removed two dozen shards of glass from her eyes. remember, 1963 was a momentous and dangerous year in the struggle for civil rights. the march on washington had taken place just weeks earlier. just months before that in june, civil rights activist had been assassinated in mississippi by a member of the klan. but the backlash was especially violent in birmingham under governor george wallace. it's where bull connor unleas...

>> believe it or not, the massive shortage of fire hoses, we went into this fire season with a shortage of fire hoses. that's all i heard from my guys back east and the midwest, more fire hoses. >> no fire hoses? the president saying today the firefighters not just fighting the wild fires in the west but all over the country have been hobbled by a shortage of fire hoses. the pandemic affects everything. it affects couches and computer chips and also the hoses that your local firefighters need to put out fires everywhere. today president biden said he was fixing the fire hose shortage. he has i...

Of the worst wild fire seasons we've ever had. the president in his visit today stressed the correlation between these increasingly devastating wildfires all over the west and climate change. he says the u.s. should be investing in solutions to protect the country from more extreme weather in the future especially since we're already starting to live with its consequences. but in the midst of that big picture stuff, he also brought up a very small picture problem. a more immediately, more granular right-now problem facing the smoke jumpers he met with today and facing other firefighters. it is...

That the country needs. he first used it to boost the production of covid vaccines earlier this year. today he announced he has invoked the law for the second time in his presidency, to manufacture 22,000 new fire hoses. these hoses are manufactured by an american company based in oklahoma and then they get into the hands of firefighters all over the country. honestly, it's a fascinating story, right? the president using this tool from another era to basically magic unfair hoses to help this brutal fire season out west. he keeps saying that what he feels like he needs to prove to the world rig...

The president saying today the firefighters not just fighting the wildfires in the west but all over the country have been hobbled this year by a shortage of fire hoses of all things. the pandemic affects everything. it affects couches and computer chips and also the hoses that your local firefighters need to put out fires everywhere. today president biden said he was fixing the fire hose shortage. today president biden announced he was fixing the fire hose shortage. he has invoked the defense production act, the wartime-era law that lets the federal government essentially take over private bu...