medford: it was explosive.e was able to sell quite a few copies immediately by the time of the civil war in about 15 years. 30,000 copies had been sold. there were nine additions it had gone through. the north was all about it. the south was furious about it because they felt douglass had exaggerated what slavery was about. it showed white northerners what slavery really was. they could only imagine it because most of them had never seen slavery. they had never gone to the south. they had not witnessed the endless they were in place like southern ohio and they sell people trying to come across. but it showed once and for all the horrors of slavery, the separation of families, the race mixing, the rotella t of men and women and it was the kind of -- the brutality of men and women and it was a kind of thing northerners could not ignore. it was before harriet beecher stowe's uncle tom's cabin. it is a way of introducing white americans in the north to the horrors of slavery. it is as much about abolitionism , as m

medford: he was surprised. he expected in the north because there was no slavery that there would be a tremendous amount of poverty and there was. i think he did not see everything he could have seen. there was poverty in the north. but he had not expected the cleanliness, the prosperity. he had not expected to see black people living in pretty decent housing. he was saying some of their housing was superior to that of the slaveholders in maryland. he is not talking about huge mansions but he is talking about decent homes that people are living in because they can secure jobs. that is not the case everywhere. it is very difficult for free black people to find employment in certain areas of the north. they are restricted in terms of the occupations for instance. douglass finds that people working on the ships don't want to work alongside him. that kind of thing is occurring but douglass is pleasantly surprised at what he finds in the north. >> edit is in maryland in the d.c. suburbs. >> thank you for taking my c

medford. going back to medford to give this talk. so that just felt like a lovely synergy. it takes a long time to get here from norwalk, but not long as it did when child was making the the voyage. as a very young as a 12 year old. so i've often what that trip was like for her and so what i want to do tonight is give you a kind of arc of her life. so i want to read a couple of passages from my book that talk when she was here and what she would have experienced here. and then i'm going to talk little bit and then read a passage through from the middle of her life and especially about her conversion to abolitionism. and then if we have time, i'd like to close a couple of passages from much later in her life because. i think part of what risks everywhere in medford, perhaps especially is that we know that she famous one thing not going to mention the name of this poem not yet anyway. and that was for a poem children and kind of put her in a box of children's literature or we don't think of her as gone beyond that what a very early and earnest love of writing for children. so

medford: it was explosive.le to sell quite a few copies immediately by the time of the civil war in about 15 years. 30,000 copies had been sold. there were nine additions it had gone through. the north was all about it. the south was furious about it because they felt douglass had exaggerated what slavery was about. it showed white northerners what slavery really was. they could only imagine it because most of them had never seen slavery. they had never gone to the south. they had not witnessed the endless they were in place like southern ohio and they sell people trying to come across. but it showed once and for all the horrors of slavery, the separation of families, the race mixing, the rotella t of men and women and it was the kind of -- the brutality of men and women and it was a kind of thing northerners could not ignore. it was before harriet beecher stowe's uncle tom's cabin. it is a way of introducing white americans in the north to the horrors of slavery. it is as much about abolitionism , as much abou

more rain on the way seattle, portland and medford, we will likelyee sg in your neighborhood. 50s forlin and plenty of sunshine expected from casper to cheyenne. denver will be 60 degrees this afternoon. and that's a look at your forecast, guys, back to you. >>> coming up, we'll tackle the short list for the heisman trophy e > trophy >>> and the american dream can seem like a nightmare for home buyers e a nightmare for home buyers. and i use this. febreze has a microchip to digitally control how much scent is released so it doesn't fade. ooh. does mine have a microchip? ...oh. febreze smells first-day fresh for 50 days. that is a shockingly long time. febreze also has a refill reminder light... it even reminds you to refill it? so i never miss a day of freshness. your home is so fresh! upgrade to febreze plug. ♪♪ vicks vapostick provides soothing, non-medicated vicks vapors. easy to apply for the whole family. vicks vapostick. and try vicks vaposhower for steamy vicks vapors. okay, so here's my most requested hack for stubborn odors. you'll need vinegar, a large salad bowl and... oh,

edna medford porter bowman. if you wave a magic wand, what is the first change you would make to the political system? as it operates today? oh my goodness. and maybe just get rid of all the political figures and. start over. people. i think it's such a mess at the moment. but then the problem be who do we replace that people with? and i don't know that anyone who replaces them will be better than what we have at the moment. i think we as the people who are supposed to be making the decisions ultimately have to change our way of thinking. and until that happens, we're going to have mediocre politicians running our lives. just doing whatever is in their interest, not what's in the best interests of the country. we are going have to stand up collectively, say, you can't do this. this is not what we want. because what we have in congress, the moment is politicians who decided that they want things a certain way in the country and the people be --. doesn't matter what the majority wants. they're just going to go ful

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this stretches from medford, oregon all the way into monterey bay, and you can see the line of very heavy rain and the potential of an embedded thunderstorm still does exist. now that front has pushed out of the peninsula, it has marched in an easterly direction. you see the heaviest rain now moving into the brentwood and discovery bay area , as well as the altamont pass. but this is what has been very odd. while all this heavy rain is pushing into antioch and streaming out towards the pleasanton area, it is void. the heaviest precipitation right there in livermore. but as you look at pleasanton, many of the streets are experiencing a lot of ponding. therefore, there was a flood advisory that has just allowed to expire just a couple of minutes ago. meanwhile, we do have heavy precipitation that continues to move into the santa clara valley. san jose has picked up over a quarter of an inch of rain in just the past two hours, which is significant for the santa clara valley. so meanwhile, the totals have been adding up. look at los gatos three quarters of an inch of rain this is just since 3

guests on this initial panel included historians, doug brinkley of rice, joanne freeman of el, and medford of howard university. one point of the discussion was the mount vernon pole that found that two thirds of americans are pessimistic about the country's ion and dissatisfied with the politi climate. >> historians on this episode o book notes plus which is available on the free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> up next, the vice chair of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral christopher grady, he talks about threats as a result of the israel-hamas war. he talks about designing a future joint force capable of meeting the challenges. this is just over one hour. >> good afternoon and welcome, everyone. my name is mike anderson and i am a director here at the atlantic council. on behalf of the atlantic cancel'-- council, i would like to determine the future with admiral christopher grady. thank you so much for joining us today. when we first launched the series in 2009 to mauer vision was to establish a flagship speaker's forum for senior military and defense leaders to discuss

tracker, two doppler radar and it's picking up this storm that stretches about 385 miles right now from medford, oregon, all the way into monterey bay. and carmel by the sea. and you can see right there, look at the shades of yellow and orange. that's the moderate to heavy downpours. and also there's so much instability with these cells that we could see the spark of a thunderstorm at any point of the day or night. now right now, the heaviest activity look at this. this is very impressive here. when i went in. and took a look at some of the dynamics associated with these cells, if this cell was just to sit over half moon bay for one full hour, it would produce over two inches of rain. but it's not happening. it is moving. and south san francisco you have some heavy rainfall. we do have moderate rain falling right now around monterey boulevard all the way into twin peaks boulevard, and then as we move in towards the city of san francisco, the mission district, marina district, you see the light to moderate, to heavy rain right now encompassing the bay bridge, the golden gate bridge. and then you

and at this particular time it is bracing that front up against the entire state of california from medford, oregon, all the way 385 miles to the south to monterey and carmel by the sea. you can see the heaviest precipitation off the coast. it's now pushing into the north bay. check this out. as we zoom in, you see those shades of yellow and orange that is downright heavy. precipitation that is entering portions of the north bay, primarily around inverness, making tracks towards forest knolls and bolinas. you know what i'm talking about right now. and all this is making tracks towards mill valley. it is now raining anywhere from vallejo through martinez into walnut creek, alamo, also in black hawk. you are void of any precipitation right now around the tracy area. discovery bay as well, but you too will get some action within the next 30 minutes. milpitas all the way that 680 drive into downtown san jose and the rose garden district. you have the light to moderate rain, and here we go, the santa cruz mountains getting hammered. peninsula. check this out. south san francisco. colma. look at

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you can see areas like medford, seattle, portland picking up several inches of rainfall for us here.or some areas in the north bay could pick up half of an inch of rain. look at that timing in just one second out there. right now, we're starting our day mainly in the 50s. so not too chilly thanks to that additional cloud cover we have upstairs right now. looking at the day planner today. your sun's up here at about 708 this morning. we'll have those temperatures beginning in the 50s. and it's just a mostly cloudy day. we'll find those numbers below average thanks to the limited sunshine. we'll find our daytime highs mainly in the low and mid 60s. taking a closer look at those highs today, 63 in oakland, the same in san francisco, pretty popular, high temperature today, the same in half moon bay, 65 in san jose. we'll go to 61 in napa, 60 for the high in antioch overnight tonight, we'll begin to lose a bit of that cloud cover. it's a blend of stars and clouds out there as high pressure begins to build in it will create a cooler night on the way. we'll go into the 40s and low 50 as we

time as a slave in baltimore and his escape north breeze our guest is historian and author edna greene medford. watched c-span's encore presentation of books that shaped america weeknights at 9:00 eastern on c-span. or go to c-span.org/bookstha tshapedamerica to view the series and learn more about each book featured. c-span is your unfiltered view of government funded by these television companies and more including comcast. >> do you think this is just

close eye on that flood watch on the coastline because between seattle and portland, portland down to medford and eureka, we could see 5 to 15 inches of rain. they saw -- you could see anywhere from a half of foot to a foot of snow further inland. again, they are in for rounds of storms in the coming days. that's a look at the weather across the country. let's see what's going on a little closer to home. >> somara: and that, my friends, is your local forecast. erielle? >> erielle: somara, thank you. >>> to the big weekend in college football. the conference championships and then the playoff selections today. top-ranked georgia falling to -- failing to take the s.e.c. crown, falling to alabama. a big upset there. abc's morgan norwood is here with that. good morning, morgan. >> reporter: good morning, guys. what a night. what a shocking upset. i mean, so many people talking about this game, and it's got pretty big implications. alabama's shocking win over top-ranked georgia now creating a big head-scratcher for the selection committee who by the way in just a few hours will announce which four

guests on this initial panel included historians, doug brinkley of rice, joanne freeman of el, and medfordf howard university. one point of the discussion was the mount vernon pole that found that two thirds of americans are pessimistic about the country's ion and dissatisfied with the politi climate. >> historians on this episode o book notes plus which is available on the free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> up next, the vice chair of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral christopher grady, he talks about threats as a result of the israel-hamas war. he talks about designing a future joint force capable of meeting the challenges. this is just over one hour. >> good afternoon and welcome, everyone. my name is mike anderson and i am a director here at the atlantic council. on behalf of the atlantic cancel'-- council, i would like to determine the future with admiral christopher grady. thank you so much for joining us today. when we first launched the series in 2009 to mauer vision was to establish a flagship speaker's forum for senior military and defense leaders to

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no, in terms of the ppe that michelle mone from medford . that michelle mone from medford.ated . things like that, investigated. things like that, criminal offences , in my view, criminal offences, in my view, they bought gowns and masks that weren't fit for purpose . that weren't fit for purpose. that all ended up being burnt or destroyed and that i think is completely and utterly abhorrent. the it failures were also a disgrace. >> yes , but it isn't a blame >> yes, but it isn't a blame game . the main thing is, as you game. the main thing is, as you rightly say , is a focus on rightly say, is a focus on pragmatism, which is what? what do we do next time? >> and that's why i think there are major questions to be asked. do we shut down schools again if it happens again, do we shut down schools? do we lock university students inside their universities? them out? i universities? let them out? i mean, the things that we know are major issues that we may have to face again, this inquiry should be answering those questions. >> absolutely. they want to do that they're not doing i

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there's a little called the simpson tavern in massachusetts, in medford in massachusetts, and they plaqueue. so we have of the plaque, have a picture of the plaque, and picture the and we have a picture of the plaque. they plaque. this is what they did. but as to but there's a dispute as to whether it was actually whether or not it was actually there. bells composed. there. so jingle bells composed. here what it says in 1850, in here is what it says in 1850, in this pub is basically what it was. and there's a little bit of a dispute because basically it's 19 high street in medford square and actually it's what's now the district. i care the parking is available. you can go and visit this plaque. and what happened is basically he didn't do it for christmas , but he did it for christmas, but he did it for thanksgiving. are and if you actually listen to the lyrics, there no reference at all to there is no reference at all to christmas. there's no reference at all to december. and it's all to do with thanksgiving . and his to do with thanksgiving. and his father was a pastor and what? it was