Tonight 99 souls are listed as unaccounted for officially. Theres been one fatality. Crews have been on the scene for almost 24 hours now using extrication tools, their hands, search dogs, microphones. Earlier today a boy who was trapped in the debris was pulled out alive. For the very latest, were joined tonight by telephone by charles briquette, the mayor of surfside, florida. Joining us by telephone, because the weather has turned so suddenly severe, we cant get a tv signal out of there, which also means think of the underground rescue effort and how that will be slowed down and hampered by rainfall. Mr. Mayor, ive been watching you on television all day. I think were pretty close to the same age. When i woke up this morning, saw the pictures in your town, i thought of the Marine Barracks bombing. I thought of oklahoma city. And then ive seen your comment all day long. Buildings dont fall down like this in america. Obviously theres that investigation, but update us tonight on the se
Want to recap a few things we did in our last class. Specifically, lets talk a little bit about the imperialism that developed in the late 19th century. Blake, do you have anything you can contribute in this regard . Blake sure. We had we were imperialistic and we thought that going sorry. One of our reasons to go were i guess humanitarian. We tried to help our little Brown Brothers down there, to try and make them more american because we felt it was superior. Joseph it is really an ethnocentrism. Blake yeah. Joseph taylor, do you have anything to add to that . Taylor the one thing that stood out the most to me was the economic aspect because the u. S. Had a lot of territorial interests in cuba and a lot of americans owned sugar plantations and they wanted to protect their citizens and investments down there. But in the u. S. , there was also overproduction, so they were also looking to advance to new markets. Joseph good, good. Anyone else have a reason . Anyone want to volunteer som
Weekend. This should be a fun class. Today, we are going to talk about the spanishamerican war. But before we get into that i want to recap a few things we did in our last class. Specifically, lets talk a little bit about the imperialism that developed in the late 19th century. Have anything you can contribute in this regard . Sure. Had we were imperialistic and we thought that going sorry. To go werereasons humanitarian. We tried to help our little Brown Brothers down there, to try and make them more american because we felt it was superior. Joseph it is really an ethnocentrism. Yeah. Joseph taylor, do you have anything to add to that . That stood one thing out the most to me was the economic aspect because the u. S. Had a lot of territorial interests in cuba and a lot of americans owned sugar plantations and they wanted to protect their citizens and investments down there. But in the u. S. , there was also overproduction, so they were also looking to advance to new markets. Joseph go
Video. Joseph i hope you had a great weekend. This should be a fun class. Today, we are going to talk about the spanishamerican war. But before we get into that i want to recap a few things we did in our last class. Specifically, lets talk a little bit about the imperialism that developed in the late 19th century. Blake, do you have anything you can contribute in this regard . Blake sure. We had we were imperialistic and we thought that going sorry. One of our reasons to go were i guess humanitarian. We tried to help our little Brown Brothers down there, to try and make them more american because we felt it was superior. Joseph it is really an ethnocentrism. Blake yeah. Joseph taylor, do you have anything to add to that . Taylor the one thing that stood out the most to me was the economic aspect because the u. S. Had a lot of territorial interests in cuba and a lot of americans owned sugar plantations and they wanted to protect their citizens and investments down there. But in the u. S
Learn more about christmas traditions tonight on American History tv. John allen shares with young military academy studentss Lessons Learned about the duties of being an officer. Hes dressed as the importance of understanding military history, and respecting americas constitutional principles. This talk was part of the American Veteran Center Annual conference in we are indeed and again fortunate to see stars today, lots of them, 4 across each shoulder. We are privileged to have general john allen, United States marine corps retired, fourstar general, former commander of Nato International Security Assistance force in afghanistan. It is my great pleasure to general john allen, United States marine corps. [applause] got an ambush and already this morning. [laughter] cadet kim was going to introduce me. I think we have got all the introduction we need outoftheway. It is an honor to be with you and incredibly humbling to come in behind a couple tuskegee airmen. Be a bad asked. I am not s