mr. fisher: we are standing near the geographical center in san antonio, texas. we are in front of what is called the spanish governor's palace in town that was set up here due to the conflict between two european empires, france and spain, in the 18th century. spain had, of course, established itself in latin america and south america and mexico and northern mexico, especially important to spain because of very rich silver mines. france was over to the northeast in louisiana. it reached up to the northern border of new spain along the red river where it was causing trouble with the indians. looking straight across the empty reaches of texas into the silver mines. the spaniards knew they had that have some sort of defense and they came upon san antonio. in 1618, 302 years ago, san antonio was established here. the first challenge they faced was getting water. the first thing the priests did was to build a church. the second thing they did was set up a water system. in texas, you have rivers, but you do not have a lot of green fertile areas. to address that, they

this is over snow from the snow factory mr fisher you can move it around easily because it's quite sandy tales of iraq right before the blade and it binds together pretty well once we have gone over it and then you have a really good ski slope history the 2 well johan is does his rounds the tourists enjoy some place ski fun the touch. the touch the next morning the party's over on the slopes as well overnight the rains came and melted most of the snow leaving grass and mud in their wake but undaunted some winter sports enthusiasts gather on the slopes where skiing and snowboarding is still possible place. i guess. i mean. at least the slopes johan is a groom to the night before are still open thank you. thank you. however nico blink months slopes are pretty much snow free for the ski rental business he runs on the side is also deserted. even one off day can cost him several $100.00 euros for cards when they're told last night it rained unfortunately and now it's raining again it's very nice when are you really notice the sudden change because many davies is simply staying away so we have

mr. fisher. >> what? >> we can't ask eric to take the poly. it has to be his idea. understand?doing now. >> stephen: blowing cizs from a distance? that's nice. nice to meet you. >> thank you, nice to meet you. >> stephen: congratulations. i think we just missed your birthday weekend. >> did you. >> stephen: 49. >> i tried to miss it. >> stephen: why? it's great. you have the big one coming up next year, 50. >> i'm going to spend the next year training to run 50 kilometers. >> stephen: now how much is that in everybody distance? >> everybody distance? i think it's 31 miles. >> stephen: wow. so more than a marathon. >> yeah. >> stephen: why? why? ( laughter ). >> you know, i guess ostensibly because it's 5-0. it's 50. it makes sense. but also because a number of years ago when i turned 40. >> also ran 50 kilometers, which doesn't make much sense. >> stephen: it does not. i was about to say. >> this friend of mine, this return, scott jurick. america's great long-distance runner. he was in the book "born to run." he said he wanted to honor the long distance runner ted corpet, who w

[applause] greg fisher, fisher, mr.enjamin, michael todd, cheryl bowser, stephanie murphy, manny diaz, and tony all of hillary goes a and michael nutter. [applause] and all the mayors of local leaders and everyone else i believe dennis to endorse our candidacy this morning i called 75 people to say thank you those of the 75 best conversations i have ever had. they really believed and they were as proud today that they endorsed us that as they were the days before. your support and trust meant the world to me and to them and i look forward to working forward to working with you in the months and years ahead. i've been doing this for a long time and i can tell you today, sorry we did not win but it still the best day of my life and tomorrow will be even better. [cheers and applause] [chanting] also thank you are those to give honest advice even when we didn't want one - - wanted it. [cheers and applause] >> mike will get it done and i will promise you i will keep working and i hope you will too and i can tell you all of m

and funlg part of the fight against covid-19 marc casper is the chairman and ceo of thermo fisher scientific. mr. casper, welcome back to "mad money. >> jim, thank you for having me today, and i really appreciate the opportunity to talk to you and let me start by thanking my colleagues at thermo fisher that have been engaged around the world in addressing this pandemic >> marc, when i saw the press release i said oh, they got the professionals involved you know how much respect i have for your company how did this come about and how are you able to produce the numbers? i know a lot of people feel like we were caught flat footed or whatever but i care where things are going, not where they came from you were able to produce something that could save a lot of people's lives. >> so jim, you know, once the outbreak started in china, our teams mobilized to actually start to develop a test and during the course of the last month we've been working on that once in the u.s., the state of emergency was declared about a month ago by the secretary of health and human services, we actually started working v

fisher which occurred in december of 1864 and january of 1865. though beaten back at the first engagement the union army remained determined to capture the fort and control wilmington, north carolina. mr. gragg is author of "confederate goliath battle of fort fisher." >>> again, my name is jerry desmond, i'm the executive director here at pamplin park. i'm happy to introduce rod gragg, military historian and author of more than 20 historical books. rod is the director of the crestcom bank center for military studies. gragg's work on battle of gettysburg won an award for best civil war book that year and his history of fort fisher earned a prestigious fletcher pride award for civil war history is that's given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. let's give rod gragg a warm welcome. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you. pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned, i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. and i appreciate that. before i begin, if you don't mind i would like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelor's

they invest in a relief package focused on restoration to help support fishers and workers in coastal communities. [applause] >> mraker thank you to the honorable calling for the question we acknowledge the conservation measures that covid-19 has had significant negative impact on the economy including the other sectors. we are working with our partners and stakeholders to consider action to help minimize the impact while achieving conservation efforts will continue to work with those to make sure they stay safe. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. speaker the recent report reveals the claims of natural gas will display school replace greenhouse gas commissions came from an industry insider. he admits he neglected to include the emissions from gas in fact that has the same greenhouse gas that as burning coal. fracking also contaminates air and water and causes earthquakes. those around the world that band fracking will the government do the right thing to ban fracking? >> the minister of the environment. >> canada is strictly regulated and doing very specific procedures as the honorable member knows the shale an

mr. bragg? and i said yes, and she said you wrote that book on fort fisher. and i -- she said you wrote bad things about general bragg and he is my ancestor. >> yes, regarding the overfiring of the fort, i heard that when they were observing the initial firing, they noticed they were firing at the flag so they moved the flag and many of the shells went into the river. >> i had not heard that, that would be the right thing to do, but it is true reports say that the sailors were undisciplined insiders and they got into a contest to try to knock down the garrison flag, and they over shot the fort. and in the mid 20th century, shrimp boat captains were complaining about picking up spots in their nets over the river. i need to find out about that, thank you. anyone else? you have been a great group, thank you so much. >>> we have a preview of what is available every weekend on cspan 3. this weekend, the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp. and marking international holocaust remembrance day followed by scholars talking about the brutality of the nazi re

fisher which occurred in december of 1864 and january of 1865. though beaten back at the first engagement the union army remained determined to capture the fort and control wilmington, north carolina. mr. gragg is author of "confederate goliath battle of fort fisher." >>> again, my name is jerry desmond, i'm the executive director here at pamplin park. i'm happy to introduce rod gragg, military historian and author of more than 20 historical books. rod is the director