This discussion. Watching on cspan three. My name is stewart mike lauren and im the president of the White House Historical association. Its my privilege to welcome you, many of you back to historic deindicate historic Decatur House and another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my great friend jane campbell, the new president of the capitol Historical Society. And i would like to welcome her tonight. On june 4th, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The sufferagists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to the cause and tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens rights to vote. Before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple of other intro
What he is saying this morning. Right now hospitals and medical centers running out of supplies. Babies born as their moms are rescued from the floodwaters. Gma live in the middle of it all. Announcer this is a special edition of Good Morning America. Good morning, america. We have never seen a storm like this. Four days after Hurricane Harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, it is still going strong. That is houston, texas, right now, roads have become rivers. The rain is still falling in houston. The rescues are still under way. Evacuations under way as well. This is nowhere near over. Lets take a look at that radar image thats over the gulf coast where harvey had briefly gone out to sea but there it is whipping back around for a second hit on texas and louisiana. It is heading east. Right now, so many dramatic images coming in overnight. You saw victims stuck in the aftermath of harvey. Desperately seeking to be rescued. So many pitching in to help. Thats right, and the Texas National
Doors of his houston megachurch. What he is saying this morning. Right now hospitals and medical centers running out of supplies. Babies born as their moms are rescued from the floodwaters. Gma live in the middle of it all. Good morning, america. We have never seen a storm like this. Four days after Hurricane Harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, it is still going strong. That is houston, texas, right now. Roads have become rivers. The rain is still falling in houston. The rescues are still under way. Evacuations under way as well. This is nowhere near over. Lets take a look at that radar image thats over the gulf coast where harvey had briefly gone out to sea but there it is whipping back around for a second hit on texas and louisiana. It is heading east. So many dramatic images coming in overnight. You saw victims stuck in the aftermath of harvey. Desperately seeking to be rescued. So many pitching in to help. Thats right. The Texas National guard sharing this rescue video overnight
Center and struck a vehicle. His truck then hit another vehicle headon and the driver in that vehicle, 31yearold christopher wright, of garner, died. Munday had nonlife threatening injuries, charges are pending. Opening statements begin in the trial of a man accused of killing a North Raleigh woman during a burglary. If convicted, Travion Smith could face the death sentence. Wrals tara lynn is live at the Wake County Justice Center with more. Reporter it took more than a month to find enough people to fill the jury box. People willing to consider the Death Penalty in the case. The trial will be starting officially in just about an hour and a half. 23yearold Travion Smith is on trial for his life. He is charged with killing melissa hugginsjones two years ago. The 30yearold mother had just moved to raleigh with her 8 yearold daughter to start a new life well as new job. Prosecutors say smith and others were breaking into cars in the area near north hills autopsy results revealed that she
Can refuse to acknowledge samesex marriages performed in other states, in other words, it could be a historic decision. The cases will consolidate together in april with a decision likely in june. Given that timing what is the impact on the 2016 president ial race . I would be shocked if there were not five votes for this maybe even six, kennedy might go along with the liberals, they beat even roberts. This is really going to impact republicans. They are going to have to decide if they are going to overcome this or be more like jeb bush or say i dont like this but live and let live and we navigate what has been a historic sweep of public opinion. One of the real things for the republican one of the real secrets for the republican party, which is not a secret anymore, is that it moves dramatically so that it takes it off the table. The matter where you go, it puts the issue back in the middle of the public discussion and put you in an uncomfortable discussion where you could be on the w