in columbus circle. they recommend that it comes down, yet new york state commission for social justice, is fighting to keep it in queens, alegion aashley johnsonh "chasing news." bill: thank you. >> we're joined by 7 someone who is fighting to keep columbus statue in the circle, hear are you. >> how you doing. bill: what do you say. >> america should be unified. to have a recommendation from a so-called leader, a political leader, i think that is dangerous. and only dividing another community from this sta statue s important. bill: what do you say to folks who say he came over and he killed people. and he started a genocide, what do you say? >> that that is being promoted by those who want to rewrite history, certainly not true, we have journals of christopher columbus, he became very friendly with native tribes here. bill: council woman will fight this, she is offended, good luck with your battle on this. i side with our common sense and logic, appreciate you joining me. bill: our panel again, senator

>> christopher columbus statue at columbus circle in manhattan is now at and of controversy, city council speaker wants to remove it with other controversial statues. this comes as protest have been taking place in the nation, to have confederate and controversial statues and monuments removed, cory booker proposed to remove all confederate statues from capital. but with christopher columbus stat sstatue, those i spoke to e mixed reaction. >> the while european community who colonized this land has done a great disservice to native americans. slaughters, maybe that ises wronthewrong word, killing millf native americans, not okay. >> it is a piece of our history, and in history. >> mayor bill de blasio commissions a task force. and make for a recommendation on what should be done with them in manhattan, ashley johnson with chasing news. >> thank you. >> all right bring in our panel to break it down, welcome back, happy to have you here, jenette hoffman, and jim mcqueeny, start with you, columbus circle, an iconic part of manhattan, history it happened, columbus discovered america. >> histo

ers fired up fighting to keep the statue of columbus in columbus circle. joe piscopo was there with movement as a sponsor. >> he was a very great courageous intelligence man to navigate what he did in the day, he was italian, we're putting up a statue, now they want to tear it down? not going to happen. reporter: statue could be one of several statues and monument around new york city on chopping black, counsel speaker wants columbus removed because of his brutality toward native americans and mayor de blasio will announce members of a 90 day task force to determine when statues and monuments around city, send a message of hate, division racism, anti-semitism, anything against values of new york city, bo dietl, fears that commission will be bias. >> we got to stop this mayor, this guy is not a l leader to cl of the people in new york. my italian table -- heritage is at cll be me. if they tax that statue reporter: de blasio said this something that has been needed m scratch, new yorkers will have l should be force will make recommendations. >> all right. th

. >>> monument that honors christopher columbus was vandalsed. it was laid back in 1792 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of columbus's arrival in north america, moved to its current location in 1964 and the vandals posted a youtube video to explain why they did it. >> the culture of white supremacy preceded the united states, it's the foundation of u.s. culture, business, bureaucracy and psychology, observe how vehemently republican and democratic misleaders defend terrorists like christopher columbus and george washington, white supremacy must be replaced >> the vandals started slashing the monument with a sledgehammer, police have been investigating but so far no arrests. >>> in howard county someone put a tarp. over a monument. police say they want to find the person responsible for covering up the monument.

when he first came columbus, first recorded time he came to columbus, he may have come before that. but in 1938, he came to columbus , five years after he graduated from harvard law school. he came to our city to advocate, to participate, to speak and many times thereafter, often at the naacp annual meeting in the city of columbus. he probably stayed at st. clair hotel. which is right around the corner on garfield. because back in those days, black folks could not stay at the hotels downtown like they couldn't go to the theaters downtown. so they came to this area of our community. the harlem of the midwest. and i can envision thurgood marshall walking up and down the streets of mount vernon avenue, going to our churches, walking up and down the streets of long street, i can envision thurgood marshall being in this theater at some point in time. because everyone came to this theater on long street during that period of time. so, this is an intersection between history and our future. and thurgood marshall helped set the path for the future of our country in many ways. he helped set

the national columbus memorial.evelations about christopher columbus's controversial past have caused dc councilman david russo to propose removing the name columbus from the district's attempt to gain state hood. >> i think we're should remove the statute, especially the one in front of union station. i think we're should change columbus day to indigenous day. >> this youtube video is from oldest monument in america and posted the video on to you tube channel called popular resistance. >> as humans requires tearing down monuments to destructive forces and tearing down systems that maintain it. part of our evolution of new and ancient of democratic economics that center the need indigenous african-americans. >> they're members of the national christopher columbus association. >> i think that he has a complicated history. i think the fact that he discovered america is something that italians are proud of. >> these tours from italy are alarmed to hear that the statute of the famous italian explorer in baltimore was de

they're members of the national columbus association. reaction on the attack, the sledge hammer, it will just no reason for vandalism. i think it's wrong and i think that people want to remove the statute, they go for the proper channels to do that and then, you know, act accordingly. >> the national columbus memorial is located at washington's union station. every year they hold the columbus. >> i think his achievements, eclipse, the bad things that we're have come to understand in retrospect. >> over time as we're learn more about the history of christopher columbus, his arrival and the way in which he treated the indigenous mepeople there. history and the atrocity that were committed. >> the district of columbia government is considering taking steps to remove the columbus from its efforts to become -- an skbree, back to you. >> chris gordon for us in the newsroom. thanks so much. >> our county executive is defending his decision from the courthouse. crews took it down over night, hours earlier, the naacp held a rally calling for its

another columbus critic once attacked the statue with a sledge hammer.ow, sounding a theme that has led to the removal of several civil war era statues from public property across the country, more than 1000 people have signed the brown beret's on-line petition calling for the removal of this statue. jose villarreal".....they go hand in hand, whether it's here in or in charlottsville, all injustice is bound together and it's the duty of every person in every country to speak out and take action against injustice and that's what were doing here in san jose...." (rob live) stay tuned. san jose city councilman raul peralez is said to be drafting a memo suggesting a possible re-location of the statue to a more appropriate venue. live in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news (anchor) time now to check on our weather... with chief meterologist brittney shipp. not expecting much change in weather conditions heading into thursday as temperatures remain slightly below seasonal averages with overnight and morning low clouds. a warming trend will then begin friday and

your best alternate would be to take 80 to columbus parkway. exit at columbus parkway to lake herman road to cut across to 680 or go all the way to 780 to get back to 680 that way as well. we're following this with a sig alert, expected to be opened at 6:00 a.m. this morning.

christopher columbus has been a target for years! kpix 5's kiet do spoke to some people who say, a statue in san jose's city hall is offensive to them! kiet. >> reporter: yeah. we're live here with the statue in the lobby of city hall. this was donated by the italian- american community in 1958 but some people say just because it's been here a long time doesn't make it right. the base of the christopher columbus statue echoes what we read in the history books. discoverer of america. but an activist says there's more to the story. >> have the statues in city hall is akin to having a statue of hitler in jerusalem. >> reporter: he is a member of the newly formed activist group the brown berets. they started an online petition to move it somewhere else saying, this statue is obscene and offensive to the native community whose ancestry has suffered years of oppression, race and genocide at the hands of the figure that now stands at our city hall. >> we're being true. we're fighting for justice so, um, if you want to label it political cor

. >>> there's a plan to remove a statue of christopher columbus from city hall. the group called the brown belligerent rays is circulating a petition to take down the statute. they say the campaign to remove columbus from the city hall began in charlottesville, virginia. this group says christopher columbus represent the general side of native americans and should be moved off city property. >> this statute represents the symbol to my community, the white supremacy. >> people have a variety of opinions on. so if you're going to talk about one statute, then you probably need to look at everything else. >> the statute of christopher columbus was donated by the italian community back in 1958. for years, native groups called for the removal of christopher columbus from the rotunda of the state capitol. >>> this statute is near city hall. terry moriarty tells us there's a push to take it down. >>reporter: you may not have noticed the monument before, but it's gaining notoriety in the wake of controversial statutes. mainly confederate memorials. >> off the bat it looks

take that, columbus. here is your european invasion. the result of that wasn't very funny. some people got killed in columbus new mexico, and the united states government sent 25,000 troops including macarthur and patton food just gotten out of west point and our good friend said 25,000 troops go, they never found them, they didn't catch him. but right when that was happening, there were two things going on in the united states, houses were closing and motion picture houses were opening everywhere. motion picture houses showing newsreels of american soldiers in mexico with dead mexicans, thieving mexicans, so that for me is the tragedy of the mexican u.s. relations and the 21st century that at the birth of the picture, at the birth of the motion picture, these newsreels and postcards crystallize the image of other and not just any other but dead dirt he banned it others. i was trained with adhd to write about latin american fiction and i threw that look out the window. it's called politics of solitude, alienation and i never published it. it's a damn good book and it's avai

it is columbus versus detroit. our other cities doing what columbus did last night?higan, they passed a passage that would apply to companies like foxconn as well. it is part of a game cities have been playing to make themselves .ore attractive in columbus, they are saying it was not specifically done for foxconn but rather they want to have the incentive available for we arees like that and us between columbus and detroit beyond the $10 billion plan announced in wisconsin last week. david: thank you. i also want to flag a piece looking at how that program will shake out. a columnist based in taiwan. a big interview tomorrow. he sure to tune in at 8:30 a.m. new york time. lloyd blankfein will be with us live. you can catch all of our interviews on the bloomberg including that one with howard marks. tv . you can also find breaking news there and charts as well. this is bloomberg. ♪ . . scarlet: julia: it is 2 p.m. in new york, 11 a.m. in san francisco and 11 p.m. in london. i'm scarlet fu. i'm julia chatterley. welcome to bloomberg markets. scarlet: we are live at

because it all started with columbus.ell, if that is the strategy that the left adopts, it almost plays into bannon's hands. eventually, we're going to need a truth and reconciliation process in this country where we decide which statues stay and which statues go. i think if you took a vote and asked people, do you agree we ought to pull down the statue of andmbus b because the racism anti-native peoples all started with columbus? even if it did, most people would side with bannon. he is astutely playing off liberals and decent people against thisis idea that the whe working class is beleaguered. he does this much more adeptly than his boss does. you get the feeling that trumps default setting is down just pure racism and nativism and even getting in bed with at-nazis, where as bannon least has a grand theory about what he is doing. there are two ways to look at what is going to happen going forward. either with dan and out, trump becomes even more unhinged left to his own devices, or he decides now is t the time to pul o

someone smashed a statue of christopher columbus in baltimore this week. in san jose, more than 1,400 peemt have signed a petition demanding this statue be removed from city hall. activists from the san jose brown berets say the statue is obscene and offensive to the native community. city leaders like councilman sergio jimenez understand the concern. >> certainly christopher columbus doesn't evoke images of positive, positive images for me personally but i understand obviously to the italian community they see him a little different. >> reporter: the plaque said the explorer discovered america. it doesn't mention his role in enslaving and killing native americans. >> individuals who may well have had a very prominent important role in history, also had a very dark engagement in history as well. it's important for us to have these public discussions. >> reporter: mayor sam ricardo welcomes debate, but said city leaders can make a bigger impact working to uplift communities. >> how we expand to the communities of color, protect our immigrant communities in

another columbus critic once attacked the statue with a sledge hammer., sounding a theme that has led to the removal of several civil war era statues from public property across the country, more than 1000 people have signed the brown beret's on-line petition calling for the removal of this statue. jose villarreal".....they go hand in hand, whether it's here in or in charlottsville, all injustice is bound together and it's the duty of every person in every country to speak out and take action against injustice and that's what were doing here in san jose...." (grant) an oakland woman has filed a complaint with the california veterinary medical board after her dog went missing from a pet grooming salon. it happened at "after hours grooming" on park boulevard around 4:30 friday afternoon. the groomer says she believes that the one year old yorkshire terrier named saucey slipped out of her restaint, jumped off the grooming table and escaped thru a small hole in a door. saucey's owner and her family confronted the groomer today about the disapperance and beca

whether or not christopher columbus took him down.ot that it didn't occur to me about robert lee. i knew that i was a direct descendent of richard stockton. yes, he was a slave owner, who is not a slave owner at that time. that was what people did come of these people that worked on the farms. he was also a founding father. the whole point of the constitution is that all men would be created equal. >> is your mother mrs. stockton? >> yes, that is right. >> let me ask you, how are you related reign. >> he is seventh generation on call. richard stockton was a quaker. keep that in mind. quakers did not like slavery. >> thank you guys. we appreciate that. we would like to now bring in our panel. it is good to have you, vinnie. >> thank you for having me. >> and we have bob, former county prosecutor. thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> so is there a mixed emotion when you hear about this? >> as a lifelong naacp member, it is not so much a mixed emotion but understanding that we are bringing up a time and are his tree that i thought was

it dwarfs the ship christopher columbus sailed. we need to understand how china views the pacific as ancient sea, enormous sea and when you know they have sailed for centuries. in the american mind when we think about the pacific, what do we think about typically? >> world war ii. attack on pearl harbor, campaign to retake the pacific. this is a period of time the early 1940's when the united states navy has not hundreds of ships as we do today, we had hundreds of aircraft carriers, today we have 12 aircraft carriers, hundreds of aircraft carriers, we dominated the pacific. in america so few of the pacific tends to inculcate the dna. but another nation is rising at sea and it's an ancient nation, ancient civilization and it is china. these are chinese ballistic missile nuclear powered submarines. highly capable, i put them here as examples as the rise to the chinese fleet that we have seen really over the last decade, chinese now have two aircraft carriers, again, we have 12, but they are building and they are on a constant increas

dollars worth of expansion and renovation at the blank on mobile bay detention facility and the famed columbus circle statue in new york city the next on the statue chopping block all that and more coming right up. good afternoon and it's tuesday august twenty second four pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part you're watching our team america we begin today with major shake up in the ones waning war in afghanistan monday night president donald trump vowed to win the sixteen year battle but offered little detail beyond increasing troops and lifting military restrictions. sario reports his actions not only to contradict his previous stance on the war but also threaten to expand it beyond afghanistan's borders in his first formal address to the nation as president donald trump acknowledged frustration felt over decades of middle east involvement the american people are weary of war without victory nowhere is this more evident than with the war in afghanistan. the war in afghanistan will enter its seventeenth year this fall so far the u.s. has suffered twenty four hundred military deaths now and t

that's the santa maria like the pin tay the three ships that christopher columbus sailed to america, it was 60 feet long. 1492 the behemoth next to was the flagship of the chinese admiral jinghe six decks, 500 mariners on it, it dwarf ship that christopher columbus sailed on we need to understand how china views the pacific aside an ancient sea and enormous sea and one they have sailed for centuries. in the american mind when we think about the pacific what do we think about typically? world war ii. we think about the attack on pearl harbor. the campaign to retake the pacific. this is a period of time the early 1940s when the united states navy has hundreds of ships that we do today, we have hundreds of aircraft carriers. today, we have 12 aircraft carriers. hundreds of aircraft carriers, we dominated the pacific. in american view of the pacific tends to have that dna and how we think about it. but another nation is rising at sea. and it is an ancient nation an ancient civilization it is chin. these are chinese ballistic missiles nuclear powered submarines. highly capable i put them

cheryl: christopher columbus is no longer welcome in the city of angels. act of political correctness the los angeles city council voted to change columbus day to indigenous people's day. >> we'll no longer stand for revisionist thinking celebrating someone who is known for the greatest genocide in u.s. history. cheryl: let's start with this. no her columbus day in los angeles. it was nearly unanimous by the city council. they say he was evil. he was abusive. >> with all the problems l.a. has from traffic to crime to the largest homeless population to a pension crisis getting ready to explode, to taxes that are prohibited, particularly to small businesses and minority and other entrepreneurs, the issue the brave city council decides to tackle is the problem of columbus day. that's governing the right way, i suppose. cheryl: there is also the controversy happening overseas. and i find this offensive considering i'm from texas. look at this "charlie hebdo" cover it's just showing basically saying neo-nazis are drowning in texas. how rude is this? i find this

dwarfs the ship christopher columbus sailed. these are contemporaneous vessels elm we need to under holiday china views the packs, an ancient sea, an enormous sea and one they have sailed for centuries. in the american mind, when we think about the pacific, what do we think about typically? world war ii. we think about the attack on pearl harbor, the campaign to retake the pacific. this is a period of time, the early 1940s when the united states navy has not hundreds of ships as we do today. we had hundreds of aircraft carriers. today we have 12 acraft carriers. hundreds 'we dominated the pacific. american saw few self-view of the pacific has to incull tated the into our dna and how we think about it. but another nation is rising at sea, an ancient nation, an ancient sinks it's china. these are chinese ballistic missile nuclear powered submarines, highly capable. put them here as examples of the rise of the chinese fleet that we have seen really over the last decade. chinese now have two aircraft carriers, again, we have 12. but

this is crazy to people at home who are watching, at columbus circle first. >> let's start where thisdonald trump came out and said the media downplayed or dismissed it as hyperbolic and crazy. calling for washington. and someone who means so much, this is the reign of terror on statues, and the left has decided it is en vogue. >> where does it stop? columbus, we can acknowledge -- if you showed me a city, i would show you a city with no statues at all. no one is trying to sanitize the record but the statues whether it is columbus or fdr drive or andrew jackson park, these are named after people we celebrate as part of this. >> did you ask about ulysses s grant too? >> this is one of the most beautiful monuments in new york. at the time of his death grant's contemporaries honored him, saved the union, preserve the united states of america, his contemporaries gave him this monument in hopes posterity would recognize his greatness was we are not dismissing what he did but celebrating the totality of his life as we should celebrate the totality of the lives of so many of our country lead

i don't even know what they would call columbus circle then if they remove columbus statue.oing to be overkill; right? the argue against him when he treated native americans when he got here. but it extends to george washington he had slaves and thomas jefferson that he had slaves and almost anyone can be sort of brushed up into this. what do you make of it? >> it's true. don't forget, fdr interned italian americans during the second world war because we were fighting mussolini. neil: and, by the way, that came up. there were groups that were very concerned about his statue in the washington mall. amazing. >> yeah. teddy roosevelt when those italian americans were hanging god rest their souls in new orleans, teddy roosevelt said, oh, they got what they deserve. we're going to take everybody down. everybody's got to stop. it's a distraction. there's no platform, no point, no purpose. it's just a distraction and you know what, neil? i knew it, and i said it. they're going to start treading on the italian american heritage, and i think on my grandparents coming in who worked so

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columbus did not perpetrate genocide against anyone. when the mullet man can't -- when the white man came to the continent he brought diseases he didn't know about to which the american indians had no communities. there was a massive transfer of disease. there is a book about this called "plagues and people." requires the intent to wipe out a population. i would contrast columbus's non-genocide, which the left is inconsolable about. the guy that was a genocidal maniac was andrew jackson. he took the indians. there was a series of treaties between the indians that had already been made. the indians were sitting on land granted to them by treaties. he breaks the treaties, drives the indians west, produces the trail of tears, almost wipes out the cherokees as a people. of genocide, in intent to wipe out a people, the actual wiping out of a whole or people, this does not apply to george washington, thomas jefferson, or columbus, but it does apply to the jacksonian democrats. that is why hitler appeal to the jacksonian example. he said let t

this is crazy to people at home who are watching, at columbus circle first. >> let's start where this all began, donald trump came out and said the media downplayed or dismissed it as hyperbolic and crazy. calling for washington. and someone who means so much, this is the reign of terror on statues, and the left has decided it is en vogue. >> where does it stop?

someone smashed a statue of christopher columbus in baltimore this week. in san jose, more than 1400 people have signed a petition demanding this christopher columbus statue be removed from city hall. activists from the san jose brown berets say the statue is obscene and offensive to the community. the city council understands the concern. >> christopher columbus doesn't evoke positive images for me personally, but i understand for the town and community, they probably see it a little different. >> reporter: the statue's plaque says the italian explorer discovered america. it doesn't mention his role in killing and enslaving north americans. >> he also had a dark engagement in history as well. it's important for us to have these public discussions. >> reporter: mayor sam ricardo we will calcomes debates but sa leaders can have a greater impact at uplifting communities. >> how we can protect our communities of color, how we can protect our immigrant communities in the wake of what's happening in the white house, how we can engage in concrete actions that ma

it happened in nice, berlin, quebec, jerusalem, happened in columbus, ohio, london, barcelona. why try to equate it now with charlottesvillesome. >> because they need to draw some kind of line, or at least wolf blitzer certainly does. this is shameful. it's an anchor at a major

from 80, you can take the columbus parkway to lake herman road to get past this. and that may be a good alternate for you at this time. traffic along that route does not look too bad. estimated time of opening for southbound 680 is not until 6:00 this morning. they're waiting for a front loader to get debris out of all lanes. once again, sig alert in effect, and southbound 680 is entirely shut down at marshview. here's drew with a look at your weather. >> good morning. let's get you to monday morning. the forecast for that partial solar eclipse we'll see here in the bay area. the cloud cover right now will get you into the 9:00 hour. that's when the eclipse will begin. first contact as the moon crosses the sun's plane. we have a cloudy coast of clouds, and right now, as the max eclipse happens at 10:15, this model suggesting we'll have cloud cover around the coast. your best bet, get as far away from the coast as you can and you should have some good viewing conditions to see the event. out there right now, 59, the current number in san francisco. 60, good morning

when you talk about christopher columbus, what percentage of people think monuments of christopher columbusuld be ripped down? >> many people have a problem because they say he dealt with slaves and had slaves but the thing is we talked about that yesterday and it is interesting when you look at the amount of confederate soldiers all over the country what do you do about that and who determines what offends someone or not, that is the question here in new york city as well. 20 minutes after the top of the hour, check your cabinets, the baby powder you have could be linked to cancer. the multimillion dollar lawsuit just settled coming up. >> do you text and walk around endlessly? prepared to pay a fine for that. the city trying to make that illegal. stay tuned. ♪ for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, th

columbus day in 1937, it became a federal holiday in 1971, l.a.the largest city in the u.s. to -- native americans who consider him a killer, dropping columbus day to cleansing the south of confederate symbols of oppression. >> we will no longer stand for indigenous -- celebrating someone who is responsible for setting in motion the greatest genocide and world history. >> i think the offense and charlottesville have shown us how much we need racial healing in this country, and racial healing will not happen in this country without native american people. >> columbus sailed for spain, italian-americans it say that columbus represents achievements of a man who brought arts and sciences to the new world, the new holiday simply substitute the one history for another. >> how can we on one hand support and the dignity and human rights of people while on the other hand replace one groups and social inclusiveness for the sake of another? >> eric: is so about a dozen cities in five states have now replaced columbus day with indigenous peoples day, yesterda

columbus circle because all of a sudden while christopher columbus spread smallpox and civil those aredid something and they're going to now incur the wrath listen carefully of it talian americans. your who haven't and you walk alone is day parade that you want to win curb the wrath of it talian american new yorkers oh can't read. the law and i want to just want to bring it back to where it all seems to begin in recent history charlottesville the fall i learned. about the confederate monuments the call for certain ones to be removed and this is really now spread all over the country we're seeing calls for actually monuments being removed now. i think that if we apply modern standards. to history isn't every significant figure in history going to be found to be sexist racist or homophobic we could have to take down more most humans. if they weren't they didn't accomplish anything and i don't say that to be cute or trite but you can't do anything look there's one thing that we don't understand in this country and that context perspective and the way the history was let me say number one

new york city mayor bill de blasio says he may order the removal of the columbus statue. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. renee: i'm renee feltz. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. a catastrophic storm has hit houston, texas, and the flooding is expected to only worsen in the coming days. houston is the nation's urth largest city a and home toto the largrgest refining and petrochemical complex in the united states. the crisis began on friday when hurricane e harvey made landfall in rockport,t, texas. it was t m most powerfulul hurricane to hit the state in more than 50 years. but much of the damage has been caused not by the wind or tides but the massive rainfall. , some parts of texas have already received 30 inches of rain and could top 50 inches. entire highways in houston are now underwater. amy: according to the "washington post," the storm has already dumped more than 9 trillion gallons of water -- enough water to fill the gr

prince henry, bottom right everyone would recognize christopher columbus. upper left, the greatest of nagging navigators, magellan. bartolomeo dion, portuguese navigator who opens the route to africa in the indian ocean. these mariners transit the and create a global economy. how do we think of it in the united states? we think of world war i and world war ii, our absolute determination to resupply the europeans in those two wars create transit zones, convoys , much warfare, two small hinges, these convoys are swinging big doors of war. if we had not controlled the atlantic, we would not have succeeded in either of those wars. so that's the american view of the atlantic. >> today we are challenged on the atlantic by vladimir putin. by the resurgence of the russian navy. and our problem is that we keep looking for the strategic terrain in the atlantic on this map. and it's not there, the strategic terrain is right here. >> its the mind of vladimir putin. he is rebuilding the russian navy. this is a brand-new russian frigate. the admiral greg gurevich. highly

ongoing construction along columbus boulevard southbound still just one lane getting by.s during the rush hour but right now it's very quiet here in queens village along columbus boulevard. delaware avenue. of course musikfest continues up in bethlehem. all our local street closures remain in effect tonight 6 o'clock aloe blacc takes the stage. expect plenty of traffic along 22 and 78 but no delays to expect this morning on the trains or buses. everything is on time so far. karen. >> storm tracker6 live 3-d showing that the showers that we've had, we had a lot of rain obviously yesterday and you can see most of that suppressed to the south. just a few showers left that are clipping our southern region and a few sprinkles in our western suburbs but it's all exiting out of here. the rest of the day is a dry one today. let's look at these temperatures. it's 62 in quakertown and pottstown. it's a cool start. low 60's here in the lehigh valley. 61 in kutztown, 68 degrees in center city. but only 66 in media. 67 degrees in hammonton. 66 in vineland and glassboro. 67 degrees rig

vault reportedly as up to eight columbus is in our. police have released a photo of this man driessen who cumbia. said to have rented the van he's in the store to have been known to police. a former prisoner released five years ago. i would never be able to say to people have been arrested tonight. but investigators are still working to get to the bottom of how this happened and who was behind it. right now people are being told to stay well away from the city. but this attack has happened in the middle of some of the locals of tourists with thousands of people here. unsure of where to go. and weather is safe whether more people out there. planning another attack you know you can be sure to go anywhere else and you know that anything will happen. was still there whatever we go is still be exposed to something. tonight as people start to comprehend the brutality of what happened. that being told to stay away and indoors. as police try to work out how many people coordinated this attack. and whether any threat to the city remains. defini

it's those that christopher columbus sailed to america 60 feet long. 1492, right? that behemoth next to it was from the same time. government 1450, was the flagship of the chinese admiral. 420 feet long and 500 mariners. it is as an agency and what they sailed for centuries. in the american mind when we think about the pacific what we think about typically, world wai ii. we think that the campaign to retake the pacific. today we have 12 aircraft carriers. we dominated the pacific. it is an ancient civilization in china these are chinese ballistic missile nuclear powered submarines highly capable i put them here as an example of the rise of the chinese fleet that we have seen over the past decade with two aircraft carriers and again we have 12 and they are on a constant increase in the maritime capability and it's not just ships. on the left, tokyo, this is the pacific century building among the largest in tokyo, the largest commercial centers built and owned by china. on the right you see a chinese warship pulling in to pearl harbor. that's what we regard as theth

ticked off about a statue there and it goes beyond just gone to think about you know christopher columbus discovered america did he really discover america we have statues of him all over the place the band was a genocidal maniac he killed hundreds of thousands thousands i don't know how many people he killed in north america but it was a lot of people when it comes to columbus he didn't discover america we know the vikings discovered america this is history written by the catholic church there's even evidence the vikings went all the way up the length of period before columbus ever set foot in north america so the revisionism that we're seeing from the past is being corrected by what's happening we know also we can talk about ukraine there was monuments that are pulled down there of lenin in northern ireland we see it every day there's monuments put up for champagne and for for the orange order people that died during the fighting in that part of the world now those monuments are there to inspire kids to feel the same way there's a wall between the catholics and protestants still up in n

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