as the university has grown around the corps. some of those include the 12th man. in 1922, a former football athlete, but during the season he transitioned into basketball. during the first half of a game, they realized they had so many injuries that they did not know if they would be able to field a full team. so they brought him out of the stands in order to satisfy the requirement in case he had to go into play. he did not actually play, but it was the idea that i will be ready to serve my community, serve my team and my school in whatever capacity they need. that is where you get the 12th man. what we found is that the 12th man spreads out not just in athletics, being ready to participate in a sport, but across the community it is about selfless service. how can you be of service to someone else? my first week here, i had no idea where my classes were. a girl took the time to take me all the way across campus. she did not just tell me to look at a map or pointed me in the right direction, but she actually escorted me there. t

a lot of the big traditions started with the corps of cadets. welcome to texas a&m university and the corps of cadets. my name is col. byron stebbins, i'm a member of the class of 1970 and i would like to welcome to the core center designed to provide visitors to texas a&m an understanding of what we are all about. it explains its history and some of the traditions that we have. octoberm was opened on the fourth, 1876. unfortunately, they did not have the student population to start classes. on october 6, 1876, 2 days later, it opened its door to 40 students. from that point to today where we are not only the largest university in the state of texas, but we started as the largest university in the united states. we have approximately 60,000 students on campus of which one he 300 of those were members of the corps of cadets. from 1876 for the next 24 years, &md am had to struggle -- a had to struggle in order to maintain. the formeruntil governor of the state of texas came here in 1890 that the university took off. at that point, his reputation a

backed i heavy armor, assault troops of the 25th army corps and the first marine amphibious corps had the beach. -- head for the beach. embarking in the assault waves make headway under their own power. in addition to overall waterproofing, specialty auxiliary flotation gear gives the tanks flotation. this increases facility with which armored units can be brought to shore. ♪ pontoons are secured so they may be jettisoned immediately after the vehicles have attained the beach. ♪ landings made on adjacent beaches hit the east central sure of okinawa -- shore of okinawa. the army corps has pushed south and east towards the main city and airfield. here the first and sixth marine divisions drive inland to the east and north. they are committed to serving -- severing the island and taking the northern section. the --guard opposition, rearguard opposition. a 300 on l day, the l plua objective line has already been reached. ♪ ♪ featured by broken contours, the island of volcanic origin is rolling to mountainous and a great portion of its or hundred 85 square miles is under -- its 485 square

marine corps combat photographers. reports,econd of two the story of the savage battle is told from about mid-may until the conclusion of fighting on june 22, 1945. about 45,000 americans were killed or wounded during the invasion. ♪ narrator: the upper 4/5 of okinawa are already in our hands. the principal remaining japanese strength of more than 50,000 troops has managed to stalemate both the 24th army corps and the marine third amphibious corps, which has arrived from the north to support them. from the capital city of naha, the enemy defense line runs unbroken for four miles like a stone wall to the east coast. along this line, marine troops faced the concentrated fire of japanese artillery, which has been the most effective yet encountered in any pacific operation. [gunfire] [gunfire] here are armored units that operate over terrain that is tactically advantageous to the japanese. volcanic outcroppings and coral knobs enable the enemy to go from one fortified ridge to another. the cliffside emplacements and observ

>> transfer credits during the marine corps in ohio state. it was a couple years often. >> where would the money come from from ohio state? was it enough to supplement you? >> no longer the marine corps - the little bit of savings, a little bit of debt that i incurred, borrowed from subsidized loans and you had the g.i. bill i was trying to save for law school but used it during college. those multiple different sources to get me through. >> you decide you want to go to law school. in yale or harvard, how did you decide to go to yale law school as opposed to ohio state law school or another school in the midwest? >> i wasn't thinking strategically about it. i applied to law schools and was thinking about going to one of those schools. the best man at my wedding, my best friend was himself a lawyer, in 2009 after the great recession, friends from law school are struggling to find work, you get to the best school you can because that is the best insurance policy against unemployment and i take off a little bit of time and realign to yale. >> in

the corps of cadets became an option.ou are no longer required to become a member of the corps of cadets. we have flourished ever sense. female2% of our core are -- corps of cadets are female. we have a long tradition of attracting young men and women who want to serve their country. >> when i was thinking about college, i was originally thinking about north carolina state. but my original -- my older sister said i would have to come out and check out the culture of texas a&m. she took me to a football game, and i understood what she meant about texas a&m being a family. i went to a high school where everyone was focused on making good grades and personal development. it was strange for me to understand how a university could be a family. coming here, seeing the traditions that texas a&m provides, those traditions reflect the core values here at a.m. -- texas a&m. a&m, servingtexas in a global aspect. i am always looking for a challenge. i saw that the corps of cadets offered a different sort of challenge. it was much mor

and the marine third amphibious corps, which has arrived from the north to support them.n the capital city of naha, the enemy defense line runs unbroken for four miles like a stone wall to the east coast. along this line, marine troops faced the concentrated fire of japanese artillery, the most effective yet encountered in any pacific operation. [gunfire] here are armored units that operate over terrain that is tactically advantageous to the japanese. volcanic outcroppings and choral knobs enabled the enemy to go from one fortified ridge to another. points go over most of the terrain, comprising a stubborn rathole defense system which must be overcome point by point. ♪ our artillery delivers heavy fire on the central strong point of the enemy defense line, the garrison village of shuri, which is two heavily fortified for frontal assault -- which is too heavily fortified for frontal assault. [gunfire] [explosions] seasonal rains, persisting for weeks, force curtailment of our artillery operation due to the difficulty maintaining ammunition supply. all vehicular bynsport is

fema says, ok army corps of out.eers, go check it the army corps since of people to check it out and then fema some ok, go hire contractors to do the work. that is how it works. the army corps is really a key player, the key player in building or getting built all of these shift hospitals and tickle centers that are being established all over the country. the head of the army corps was on tv saying that they had 620ived, i think it was requests from mayors and city officials around the country to check out convention centers, empty stadiums, abandoned warehouses or whatnot to see if they could be suitable for conversion into some sort of temporary medical facility. some of those medical facilities are going to be used for treating patients with covid-19 and some will be used specifically not for patients with covid-19, but to handle what would be called the overflow so that the hospitals can handle the patient's with covid-19. host: again, tom frank joining us. in new york. start to soft. cass, good morning. caller: good morning. i have been listening to your comments this morning an

he created an ambulance corps so we could get men off the battle quicker. he had the surgeons do tests to be army qualified. that's where it got better. 3 million fought, 600,000 died. 700,000 wounds on that battlefield. what i was dealing with at that time was the musket. it went in like a finger and came out like a fist. it shattered the bone so bad, there was no way i could repair it. even today, they would have to amputate because you blew that

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and many other places they're credible the army corps of engineers we owe them a lot what they were able to do in such a short period of time they'll build these massive facilities 2000 beds in 4 days. so it's really something very special i know i was in the construction industry and you don't see that happen very often. i want to remind governors and emergency managers that sharing real time data with us about equipment and their needs is very important when all of this applies hospital occupancy is critical a lot of the occupancy is. really getting a little bit lower than it is

marine corps combat photographers.e is told from about mid-may until the conclusion of fighting on june 1945. about 45,000 americans were killed or wounded during the invasion. ♪ narrator: the upper 4/5 of okinawa are already in our hands. the principal remaining japanese strength of more than 50,000

army corps of engineers. it's a really honor to have you back with us tonight. thank you so much for making time. >> hey, rachel, you and i talked about 11 days ago. in those days i've flown to several places in the united states. you just think about the devastation that's out there. you talk about the heroics of the medical community. i just can't say enough. the thoughts and prayers of all of us. we're so proud to be on part of a world class team to try to make a little bit of a difference here. >> 11 days feels like about 11 years, and that's just for me who has this cushy desk job. i can't imagine how long it feels to you. over that time since we last spoke, what have you learned? what have been the new challenges, new difficulties, anything surprising that has arisen as you and the army corps have been pursuing this mission all over the country? >> so i think that's the main thing is that this virus gets a vote. this virus has been changing, and you can't just figure out what is the plan and build out the plan. so when we went into this concept, we really

the army corps of engineers. in fema has been fantastic. our sweeping airlift operation to get doctors and nurses supplied with protective equipment, it continues to expand with more than 24 flights already completed and 49 additional flights now scheduled in the near future, so that's been very successful in that gear and those outfits are being handed out. as they arrive they are going directly to point. the american medical system continues to perform beyond our highest expectations, reminding us that the united states is blessed with the most advanced health care and the most skilled health care workers anywhere in the planet. other countries are looking into what we are doing in our testing operation has now become far and away the most sophisticated in the best anywhere. we want to thank all of the curios on the front lines as a fight to save american lives. we are at the top of the hill, and now we are going downward. in some cases we have already started that process. earlier today i spoke with hundreds of mental health leaders and

., is it time for civilian conservation corp. where we plant millions of trees, something that puts younger people to work, because i think it's going to be a staggering number of younger people who are unemployed soon? >> well, we do need that, and it's a beautiful idea, thank you for giving it more currency. we need to have that actually do the testing, the next step, the contact tracing. so we need an army of people to do that. and it's job creating. we also need, on the ongoing, as a public health corp., as we go into the future. we also need to ramp up, because suppose, jim, that tomorrow someone will have a vaccine or a cure, we're not prepared to manufacture it in our country. so we have to focus on in saying, we need the supply chain and we need the decision that we will make as much of it as possible in america. this is a worldwide pandemic, if someone has a cure elsewhere, they're going to treat their own people first but we could start right now if somebody has a vaccine very soon, we don't have the ability, the viles,

my corps of engineers employees and if it is going well we see no significant problems. to point out we want to do this the right way, balances with environmental considerations out there and due diligence which comes with citizens affected and we will protect all the things we need to protect all the things we need to protect and find that balance where we can both meet the administrations directive while at the same time make sure we are doing this so that everyone gets a vote and everyone has theirfairshare. everyone gets a vote and everyone has their fair share. may i ask what you're doing the availability of the recreation sites that the army engineer is operate and the restrictions. i take my guidance from expert sitting on the bench and when the president says turn on america, but we initially did like many other governors who shutdown beaches and cities, i had a meeting with my commanders this morning and as we think it is safe to turn him back on. breaking out we are 500 feet away from everyone is probably low threat. when we get reminds back in sneeze plate rac

the army corp. that up and running in just five days. they did that while simultaneously converting three closed hospitals into additional facilities for hundreds more coronavirus patients n. new york, the army corp. is in the proso he was transforming two long island colleges into thousand-bed field hospitals. they're putting up tent hospitals. that site will house 120-bed facility for overflow patients from area hospitals. and all of that is on top of the 2,000 plus-bed field hospital at the javits center which as of now is accepting coronavirus patients even though that wasn't the initial plan. the army corp. says they've secured additional sites and they're slated to continue construction in tennessee, california, new mexico, florida, at work all over the country operating at breakneck speed to assess sites and convert them into hospital use. at the same time they're also giving states the blueprints they need like literally the blueprints so states can erect these kinds of facilities on their o

are the army corps of engineers building any temporary facilities for those communities?we basically key off what the city asks for, the city and the governor. there are a couple of -- lou: the coronavirus task force led by the president and vice president pompeo, the general, army corps of engineers have to be mighty proud of him. what a job the army corps of engineers has done for all of us. thank you so much to them. join us tomorrow. join us tomorrow. dr. ian lipkin, jason harvey levin: the objects people choose to keep in their home define who they are. this is... okay, are we starting? i'm harvey levin. this is the story of one of the most successful tv personalities and music producers in history, simon cowell. but before he became a household name, simon had his fair share of failures that left him flat broke. it's gotta be a little humiliating at 30 years old to fail so hard. but he would bounce back in a big way, producing a slew of shows and then conquering television with "american idol." what do you think of katy perry doing "idol?" good luck. ( laughs ) harv

are the army corps of engineers building any temporary facilities for those communities?ally key off what the city asks for, the city and the governor. there are a couple of -- lou: the coronavirus task force led by the president and vice president pompeo, the general, army corps of engineers have to be mighty proud of him. what a job the army corps of engineers has done for all of us. thank you so much to them. join us tomorrow. dr. ian lipkin, jason chaffetz, michael pillsbury join us tomorrow. good night from sussex. >> we were able to finish the building two or three days before it is -- >> you can stay and watch these wonderful people ask us really nice questions or go back to building -- >> sir i have a lot of building to do. thank you, sir. >> very impressive. that is an impressive job, isn't it, seriously? really great. thank you very much. he's a terrific gentleman. we have a lot of great people doing that kind of thing that they really have to get recognition for, the incredible job they're doing because i don't think anybody else could do it. nothing like that

are the army corps of engineers building any temporary facilities for those communities? asks for, the city and the governor. there are a couple of -- lou: the coronavirus task force led by the president and vice president pompeo, the general, army corps of engineers have to be mighty proud of him. what a job the army corps of engineers has done for all of us. thank you so much to them. join us tomorrow. dr. ian lipkin, jason maria: good morning, happy tuesday. good to talk to you. i'm maria bartiromo, thanks for joining us. april 21st, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. oil in focus. crude prices still in negative territory after falling after record low of negative. lower opening for the stock market this morning. take a look at where we stand as oil prices go down, so do stocks, dow industrials down and nasdaq futures lower by 26 after the historic oil decline yesterday fueled sel

interviewer: i see that you joined the marine corps. what made you decide to join the marine corps? james: ok. me and a buddy were at the ymca, sitting there like we always do, and we saw two marines coming towards us. they were going to go into the ymca. and they were dressed in blues. so i said to this buddy, man, they look sharp. i think i'm going to join. and that is how i joined. you know, i never thought of war, nothing, just that uniform. that got me. and that's it. interviewer: it made an impression on you? james: mary much, so, yes. interviewer: and still does today? james: yes, it still does today. interviewer: so you joined up, and where did you go for basic? james: for basic i went to paris island for boot camp. interviewer: how rigorous was basic? james: very rigorous. well, it is hard to explain. every day marching, marching in parades, drilling, everything that you have to do, rifle range, firing your weapons, learn how to clean them, learn what to do in that order. at that time there was no more, so we were thinking about liberty all the time, when we were going to g

we will voluntarily as a press corps reducer numbers. and do it in a way that is responsible allowing people to be there and do the job but doesn't endanger somebody. we've had temperature check checks, doing regular cleanings rather aggressively. it is very tough situation but how do you do those three jobs? also there is always tension between east and west wing first lady and the president. >> tell me about it. [laughter] may be in the clinton white house on occasion. [laughter] so then it's hard to imagine and not being able to speak publicly but after that first performance from sean, he came back on monday and held a press conference and this time he did a little better they lower the podium a little bit that made him look taller. he said the president did not like his suit. when he called on me i asked him a question which by the way i asked was exactly the same question before that with sean there was a real need. so on saturday can you qualify the nature of your job. is it always to tell the truth room that podium as far as you

we have the army corps working with us to be able to do more if needed. have some other facilities we can use. hotels of offered and we have tried to figure out what makes sense. things as may be put up the health-care workers there because the fear is if you are a nurse, you go home, you're most likely to get infected in a closed environment. if you get infected by someone in your household and then you go to work and potentially expose others, that creates problems. we talked about maybe giving them a safe place to stay during the real stress period. we are looking at all that but we look at this every single day. remember the flattening of the curve is the hospital system has to be able to cope with this. likeve done some things stop the elective surgeries that freed up beds and i think some of the behavior changes have helped free up beds because people have taken the hygiene and social distancing seriously. see,nk you will probably when the march numbers are done, a big drop in for hospitalizations from last year. that's obviously a good thing as wel

my asked is cares corps like peace corps or teaching corps, put people to work as public health professionalstrack, trace, count and intervene with the blood tests to get back to work. >> even people just taking temperatures of people. governor of connecticut said they've ordered a lot of thermometers. is that something california or los angeles as done as well? >> absolutely. we've had to go alone with this from the beginning, super governor has helped a lot but been on the phone with mayors up and down the state, around the country. compare masks and equipment and had to stand up testing on our own, even with the city not having medical department, taken our firefighters, now 22 are open. per capita surpassed what south korea has been able to test, the gold standard. had to do that all through our own creativity and on our own. it's now time for national leadership to come in and establish standards. new rules for the workplace like osha rules keep us safe, we need covid rules. and cares corps, staff up like in san francisco with librarians and medical school students to help the health pro

army air corp engineers. and they sent me to virginia. and my mission was to go into the jungle, doze out an area, build an airfield. i was part of the engineer battalion. and we used to go out and practice every day. i said, no, this isn't for me. i applied for cadet training. and there were ten of us, nine whites and myself. two of us passed. and from there, i went to biloxi, mississippi for 30 days of basic training, more basic training. finished there and went to tuskegee and the rest is history. >> that's pretty good stuff. >> thank you. >> a lot of times you do things and you start off not realizing how far you're going to go. colonel alexander, i see colonel alexander is another one of those that did some things that a lot of people wouldn't expect. i know when he started he didn't figure he would write his own book. and i see the book sitting here, and the title red tail captured, red tail free. so to go to the red tail free part, i want to ask you first where did you come from, what squadron did you fly in, and then can you tell

172000 people if you take the average age including all the 4 star generals in the marine corps the average age is still just over 20 years old that's how many young people at the bottom of that pyramid and now it at my age 45 looking back at a 19 year old kid that is a child and yet we give them weapons and put them in the most complex situations you can imagine and have a make life and death decisions and i make a side note here that actually no are no survivors the village of me i wasn't even a meal i was name something else that was the meal i was a misnomer on an american map so that original village named in survive no one really survived to the village that day congo's a completely different humor. that he was before that happened in that shape who he end up becoming the soldiers that we tried to get to go none of them really survived either the ones who didn't kill themselves there weren't really complete pictures of human beings that they would have wanted to be but those who do survive war and get old enough to realize it's atrocities and how wrong it is it's already too l

the army corps is equal to an -- the army corps is equal to an american corps, and the burma area army is not as grand as it sounds. they set up this new command structure. and at the same time another change they made was they promoted mutaguchi to commander of 15th army. now, about the time mutaguchi was promoted to commander of 15th army, he did an absolute about face and he began to promote very strongly and forcefully and repeatedly the idea of an invasion into india. and mutaguchi was hoping to invade india and then go through nepal and maybe go all the way to the state of asam. i guess you can't see the laser pointer, i'm not going to try. asam is kind of in the upper left-hand corner of this map just below the himalaya mountains. which are the very left-hand, the upper left-hand corner of the map. it's fairly deep into india. mutaguchi began promoting this idea of a major offensive all the way to assam. one of the big questions, why mutaguchi, a few months when he was division commander opposed this kind of idea, why he suddenly when he became army commander, why did he suddenl

so why hasn't the press corps more aggressively challenge the war he has declared? why haven't you fought back more aggressively? >> there has been fighting back when you first use the phrase i was anchoring the sunday show with george stephanopoulos that sunday and at the end of the program i pointed out the history of the phrase and push back aggressively. that no journalist feels that they want to report the news but that's part of the don't dilemma. but we are not the resistance we are not the opposition party. but trump grabbed onto that he can't be the opposition party. but we do have to push back and especially my role with the press corps when is dangerous and over-the-top it needs to be called out. there was an incident there was an event a pro- trump organization at one of the presidents properties in florida and they had and exhibit where they played the video clip a doctrine scene from the movie that shows someone in a church killing news people. and it was horrific. you have to call this stuff out. it is actually dangerous. the guy with the pipe bombs t

a veteran of the marine corps himself took a former member of charlie company back to me live for the 1st time to meet survivors of that horrific atrocity and now 50 years on from the massacre itself today's rewind is a moving emotional return to the scene of one of the most shocking events of the vietnam war from 2008 here is heart of darkness. killed all of. the banks. they ordered all of the families to sit or stand in the did and then they shot after 5 minutes they shot the 2nd time they heard weeping they shot a 3rd time. after the end of my 6 year old son and i we laid down in news the rights to cover. 3 or 4 bodies were found on the. side of. the this dark backs of that day march 16th 1068 the are not just. an army photographer captured moments of a bloody assault. when the story of what happened leaked out more than a year later there was an investigation $25.00 members of charlie company and their officers were charged. with murder there were few trials only one person. was found guilty he was never punished. charges against most of the soldiers were viciously dismissed. the

british forces defeated the german afrika corps in egypt.erican invasion force landed in north africa to clear the continent of axis forces. and the german advance in the soviet union was stopped in a series of hard-fought battles. in 1943, the tide of the battle continued to turn in favor of the allies as they gained greater and greater control fighting in both europe and the pacific. the soviet union turned back the german invasion and began driving hitler's armies westward. in july, the allies invaded sicily. the invasion led to the overthrow of mussolini's government and italy surrendered soon after. the battle of the atlantic, the campaign to end the german submarine menace in the north atlantic ocean began to turn in , the allies' favor as well they needed. the allies needed to eliminate this threat so they could begin the giant buildup of supplies that would be needed for the invasion on northwest europe. from 1942 to 1944 the allies pondered when, where and how a beond front in europe code -- could be opened. this thorny issue caused

. ♪ >> united states marine corps dem and traits for president kennedy and the shah a new short airfieldngth. --is a supportable airstrip transportable airstrip that can be taken anywhere. planes can be launched into the air from a catapult or with the aid of booster jet rockets. ♪ ♪ the marine corps amphibious training base in north carolina on the atlantic coast prepares a beach assault exercise for president kennedy and the shah. ♪ >> from the sea, from the air, and on the ground, america's fighting men display the power to help sustain the security and independence of free nations. [explosions and gunfire] [bombs whistling] ♪ >> new york city, home of 8 million americans, descendents of almost every race in the world. [applause] >> the city extends a traditional welcome to the shah and the and breasts with a and thef confetti -- empress with a shower of confetti. ♪ >> skyscrapers, museums, libraries, parks, facets of america's greatest metropolis. ♪ more than 1200 friends and benefactors of the near east foundation med the royal visitors at a reception and dinner. the royal visitors

they are going on the toughest assignment of marine corps history.ve gotten to the shore. >> the guys are coming down and dropping and we head in there and full throttle and we started getting closer. >> this is historic film record of the first boats pushing on shore in iwo jima. >> 500 landing crafts and 3,000 yards of beach. >> the troops are united states marines and they're on their way to pages of leather neck heroism. martha: leading them to believe the bombing campaign had been a success, but then a 36-day hell that would become iwo jima began. general corobashi held the fire waiting for beaches to become congested with marines and he began unleashing on the fourth and fifth divisions on enemy territories. once out of them the men straggled in the struggle of ashy volcanic sand and sucked in their boots and backs heavy with gear. >> there was no protection, dropped bombs, artillery or whatever. 24 hours after the battle began, more than 500 americans were dead and nearly 2,000 wounded. thousands more bounced around on the choppy sea waiting t

that -- lab corp..irst responders, but we will be rolling that out much more broadly over the coming weeks. and we're going to roll it out with absolutely no up-front cost for the individual consumers. at the same time, we are building our capacity for serology testing, and we can currently do about 50,000 today, and we'll be able to do several hundred thousand per day by the middle of may. and we're going to be working with the retailers, our colleagues that are here today, to help them as they expand their testing capabilities across the entire country. and lastly, mr. president, we have a rather large drug development business, and we will continue to work with our colleagues in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry to insure we do everything we possibly can to enroll clinical trials fast so that we can get new treatments and potential vaccines. thank you. >> thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] >> mr. president, thank you, and thank the administration for all of the collaboration t

they are going on the toughest assignment of marine corps history.s have gotten to the shore. >> the guys are coming down and dropping and we head in there and full throttle and we started getting closer. >> this is historic film record of the first boats pushing on shore in iwo jima. >> 500 landing crafts and 3,000 yards of beach. >> the troops are united states marines and they're on their way to pages of leather neck heroism. martha: leading them to believe the bombing campaign had been a success, but then a 36-day hell that would become iwo jima began. general corobashi held the fire waiting for beaches to become congested with marines and he began unleashing on the fourth and fifth divisions on enemy territories. once out of them the men straggled in the struggle of ashy volcanic sand and sucked in their boots and backs heavy with gear. >> there was no protection, dropped bombs, artillery or whatever. 24 hours after the battle began, more than 500 americans were dead and nearly 2,000 wounded. thousands more bounced around on the choppy sea waiti

he will join the corps. peter, his father, is discharged in the winter of 1862, joins the eighth michigan calvary, is captured and confined at andersonville, and when andersonville is liberated, he weighs 68 pounds. alex will pick him up at the train station and carry him home. so, carney drives in the confederate right, hancock is assigned to explore the confederate left. with him will go the permed man in the bottom right-hand corner we know and love as custer, and they show up on the confederate left, which sends long street into a downward spiral because he did not know that earthworks were there. he dispatches a brigade under the command of early to see that he botches up vast bottles up this new union up for it on the left. the hancock brigade sets himself up on an earthwork, seen in this painting. hancock has five regiments of infantry, four guns, and is in a opposite a wheat field with three buildings. early's four regiments get lost in the ravine and to pop out at this wheat field, the 24th virginia

how you are going to pay for school and if you are ready for college you should go join the marine corps will gain some financial independence and you should go and think about doing without. >> so you sign up for the marine corps. was that a good idea to as? >> it is a patriotic community and they were proud of me that they were not especially happy that i have chosen -- i signed up in 2003. we had assembled in afghanistan for a while and that there was apprehension justifiably so. i think in some ways she framed the decision to go to college almost as a betrayal. you are going off and leaving me to take care of myself, you could get hurt and i think obviously that was hard she understood why i had to give it. >> i was never afraid i couldn't get through. maybe when i was in high school i was afraid of the physical demands. but the drill instructor told me if you think that they are going to be mean they will be nothing like that grandmother. [laughter] i thought so long as i could cut the psychological part would be fun and i would be able to make it and that was true it was definitely

fema and army corps of engineers are prepared to go there quickly, get it done. in louisiana we're delivering 2 field hospitals to provide 500 new hospital beds. i have been talking with the governor, john edwards, and army corps of engineers has been really doing incredible work. establishing 3,000 bed alternate care site at new orleans convention center. which will be operational this week. 3,000 bed alternate care site and a 500 bi bed, new hospital n louisiana, they really got hit, it started late, it was looking good, confident all of a sudden -- then all of a sudden it reared up from nowhere. in addition to the supply we are delivering we give hospitals the flexibility to use new facilities that include surgical care centers this care for patients who are not infected. for example, i know that many expecting mothers are concerned about exposing their newborn babies to the virus. they should be. with our action yesterday, hospitals now have the authority to create special areas for mothers to deliver their babies in a safe and healthy environment. separate.

is the army corps of engineers building any temporary facilities?h the city asked for. the city and the governor. there are some specific areas that city mayors have asked us for. i'm not going to go into details. but if they say they are worried about a hot spot on this side of town or a specific community, we will, and what the administration has charged us to do, whatever we can do to be most responsive. we don't ever want to have an ambulance pull up to the back of the hospital and someone says we are out of room, go to the next hospital. we are trying to make sure that bed space is available in so far everything we have build has been ahead of need. we are able to finish the building two or three days before it's needed. >> president trump: you can stand watch, watch these wonderful people ask it's really nice questions. >> sir, i've got a lot of building to do. thank you, sir. >> president trump: very impressive. impressive job. it's really great. thank you very much. he's a terrific gentleman. we have a lot of great people doing that kind of

we have been working with the united states army corps of engineers on a potential sites for alternative hospital beds. they have now evaluated 41 sites across our commonwealth. we have narrowed that down to the exxon mobil facility in fairfax which is literally next door to innova fairfax hospital, the hampton convention center which is in close proximity to send tara and riverside and a site in the richmond area. we will have a decision and more information on the friday briefing. aso today we have received third shipment of ppe from the national stockpile. that includes face shields, gowns, and masks. we need more. we continue to work all available options for getting more personal protective equipment for our frontline medical personnel. also heard questions about upcoming elections. during the duration of this stay-at-home order, virginia is scheduled to hold two elections, local elections in may and congressional primaries in june. i consider elections to be a fundamental democratic event and voting to be an essential right. we are continuing to work through the best options with h