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Americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. The Smithsonian National museum of africanamerican history and culture opens in stores to the public for the first time on saturday. American history tv will be live from the National Mall 8 00 a. M. Eastern leading up to the outdoor ceremony. Speakers include president obama and Founding Museum director, loni bunch. Also, first lady, michelle obama, george w. Bush and mrs. Laura bush, chief Justice Roberts and david scorton. Live saturday at 8 00 eastern on cspan 3. Cspans washingto...

Iraq. Is on the highest agenda, the highest place on the agenda. The retaking of mosu. L. You were there during the iraq war. It will Say Something about the plight of isis. It has a lot of meaning. Give me a sense of how you see it. Gen. Petraeus it does. It has symbolic meaning, and very tangible meaning. There is no question were going to defeat the Islamic State in mosul and throughout iraq. The real issue actually is post Islamic State governance, the capital of which is mosul, an area i was privileged to serve during the 101st Airport Division in baghdad. This is the most complex human t...

Time has gone by, wouldnt you say . I had read from the book by gene Edwards Smith he would have easily gone to the u. S. Naval academy, but he was accepted at west point. He graduated 61st in a class of 164, so this is really openended to any one of you. He was a pretty average student. This is what made getting an aminus very difficult. Now we know the rest of the story. I do know he attended the general Staff Command College at leavenworth and he graduated first in his class on that one. He said that that was what really it was his paradigm shift to make the army and leadership his career. ...

You who served in world war ii who are with us here this evening, and i have to tell youa that i have some sense of what it was like to have a ut his relationship with your supreme o commander. After we put his body on the train that went from washington out to abilene, kansas, and mary and anne can tell each tell their own story on this, the thing i remember most is that we stopped in every little town along the way and at about 2 00 in the morning, because, you ju know, we couldnt sleep at all. I looked out the window and just as we were passing there was a sole, solitary figure standing nex...

Grapevine. Some areas are reporting rainfall of four to six inches an hour. Amazingly no injuries reported so far. By all indications this is a very wet day. It could raise our drought entirely. The drought is an issue. An inch in just couple of hours. Its heavy rains over the past to three hours. Multiple lightning strikes and also hail a half inch. Two and a half hours of this heavy rainfall before they begin to get break. Its exactly as we anticipated. The warm weather not good for sierra snow pack. We may not get as much sierra snow. Back to you full forecast ill have that in 15 minutes. T...