published by baylor university press. >> thank you. blocked off their jobs with a federal aviation administration. on august 3rd, 1981. one analyst noted stripes were in the making. it was the inevitable choice of. it appears to have been preparation for this moment. the controllers had such a long history of militancy before 1981 that it wasn't surprising they became the first union to state it carefully choreographed and plan a nationwide strike against the federal agency. yet the journalist was puzzled. blight kallur workers is what i thought the bathroom would call for the professionalism of your calling. workers like this would shrike against the government. the paper columnists. as they watch their family gather. when they were about to be hired for the dead line with president ronald reagan to return to work. at the moment, these were ordered a furious over been merit of these contractors and supporting became and what they called a stokely carmichael salute. the 60's were long gone, the president used, but he road 13 more years

this is published by baylor university press. muslims start coming to the u.s. >> it depends. some people think there were here before columbus. some people think that at least one of them came with columbus. but major -- of the concentrated group started coming in the 1870's. >> why? >> well, mostly from lebanon because the famine. the young people were looking for work. there were in lebanon engaged in raising silkworms for the soap industry. and there was obliged. the mulberry trees died. and so they could not raise any more, but the other thing that happened this that japanese soap began to compete. the industry fell apart. so this started to come here. >> what was the reaction in 1870's when arabs and muslims first started coming to the u.s.? >> well, became a specialist. they weren't really part of the sort of maine trade and the industry. but they began to sort of battle little trinkets to farmers. for example, connecticut in springfield. there was this woman who ran away from love and not, married to an 18 year-old man. she opened the store. they would come. there woul

a lot of speculation about robert griffin coming out of baylor university. the press scheduled for noon today. we will have a full wrap up at noon. >> in addition to super tuesday the other big story today, just a few hours from apple's big announcement. >> in today's tech bytes, all eyes are on apple. the company is expected to unveil its third degeneration ipad. many think it will put the ipad 2 on sale. artists' preferred to use a styluses. they give high marks to this brush. >> this is a stylus made to look like a paintbrush. the bristles are designed to enable a touch with the ipad screen. >> it will run you about $39. american express is using twitter to a teller card holders about deals. -- to tell cardholders about deals. a lot of studies is a video game is good for you. those are your tech bytes. have a good day. >> 5:19. we want to look at traffic and weather. we have adam caskey here. this is the day we have been waiting for. >> i posted on facebook yesterday, i am ready to move on from the snow. i will be its disappointed if we got a nice 12 venture. but i