he was elected president of corpus christi college in 2010 and served in that post until 2016. he is the author of one of the finest modern biographies of the "lincoln, a life ," and "se and power "incoln's sense of humor. ladies and gentlemen, professor richard carwardine. morning. i'm going to begin with a , familiar toory some of you. the occasion was an evening banquet in illinois. the month was february. the year was 1856. the setting was a convention of republican newspaper editors of decatur. abraham lincoln was there, and he spoke. he apologized for being an interloper, as he put it, and cast himself as the subject of a story about a man, and i quote, with features the leaders could not call handsome. writing through the woods he met a lady on horseback. he waited for her to pass but instead she stopped and scrutinized him before saying, well, you are the homeless man i ever saw. yes, madam, but i can't help it. no, i suppose not, said the lady, but you might stay at. [laughter] and the editor stopped life -- stopped life in, he said with propriety, he might have stayed

sort of the middle between corpus christi and laredo. i grew up in a farm and all of us had chores to do. i've done just about everything. i know how to drive a tractor. assignment was always fetching eggs from the barnes. even though we worked on the farm we've -- we do everything we've had to do. to make sure that we have a better life. they will end up working on the farms for the rest of their life. demo what the day due for a living? >> obviously my mother took care of us. my daddy was a farmer so it was sort of my grandfather's farm. he didn't speak any english. he couldn't read or write in english, just spanish. as soon as someone was tall enough and strong enough to do work around the farm you got pulled out of school. my mother finished the fifth grade and she married my dad and they had a lot of children. home and worked with all of us. after my daddy died she was forced to work. she did what she could to hold the family together. >> where is your family from? it was my grandfathers and grandmothers there were not from the unit

not the rio grande valley but between corpus christi and laredo. you put your finger in the middle before you go to the valley, that's where i'm at. i grew up on a farm. as i said earlier, all of us had chores to do. i've done just about everything, i know how to bail hay, pick cotton, i know how to drive a tractor. my first assignment was always fetching the eggs from the barn. we all had a chore. but what really is important is that even though we worked on the farm and had to do everything we had to do, my parents always would wake us up early enough to do that, to then get cleaned up to go down the road to catch the bus to go to school. that's what they emphasized most, going to school to make sure that we could have a better life than they did. because they knew that if we didn't do that, we'd end up working on the farms the rest of our lives. host: what was their life like and what did they do for a living? ms. garcia: they just worked the farm. my mother took care of us. my daddy was a farmer. it was my grandfather's farm so he was sort of l

. >> corpus christi police are adding patrols on beaches and roads to prevent drunk driving and they'reosing heavy fines for overserving alcohol. miami beach is spending an extra $7,000 on police. >>> a tragedy on the highway where a young mother in texas has been killed by a rock that crashed through her windshield. >> police say the rock was thrown from an overpass and now we're hearing from her boyfriend who was driving at the time. this morning a manhunt is under way after a homicide on a texas highway. >> out of nowhere just something just strikes through the window. >> reporter: police near waco say a rock smashed through a car's windshield after someone threw it off an overpass. the rock hit and killed keila flores sitting in the passenger seat. her boyfriend chris rodriguez was driving. >> it was a loud impact, almost like an explosion that went off in the car. i didn't know what it was. when i look over to my right and i see keila just laying there with no response. >> reporter: flores' three children were in the backseat and watched in horror as rodriguez called 911. >> for th

fellow corpus christi and ox farmed university. but currently here in the history department in missouri. but i want to turn it over to jay. >> thanks, everyone. really excited about this conversation in part because of the guy i'll be conversing with is one of the coolest guys in the profession. kaeten mistry from the university of east ainge galea. but he got his ph.d. in the university of birmling ham in central england. 's been a visiting fellow at several places. kaeten is a scholar of the 209 century and in particular of u.s. foreign relations. u.s. intelligence, international relations and the cold war. i highly recommend his book, pub accomplish -- published by cambridge university press a couple of years ago entitled waging political warfare, united states, italy and the origins of the cold war. here in missouri when we think of election in 1948 we think, of course, of trulyen and duwey and we think of famous newspaper of dewey defeats truman from the chicago naup but kaeten tells of another important election in 1948 whic

he is the former director of the american institute and fellow corpus christi college and currently in the history department in misery. i will turn it over to jay for the proper introduction. jay: thank you, jeff and thank you for being here are eight i'm excited about this conversation, in part because the guy i will be conversing with is one of the coolest guys from the maneuvers university ofhe birmingham in central england. got his phd in central england, he has been a visiting , a place nyu, in italy ready has many connections, and indeed at oxford, when is when we first crossed paths. eten is a scholar of the 20th century, and in particular of u.s. foreign relations, intelligence, international relations, and the cold war. i highly recommend his book, published by cambridge university press a couple of years ago, entitled waging political warfare, united states, italy, and the origins of the cold war. here in missouri, when we think of elections in 1948, we think of truman. as ae think of it newspaper from chicago tells us, but kaeten of another important election, the italian e

-based oil company, citgo, that has refineries in corpus christie and lake charles, by rosnef. the bill requires that the state department provide congress with an assessment of the threat that the russian-venezuela relationship poses to u.s. national security, and a strategy to combat that threat. the bill also requires a specific assessment of the threat posed by the potential acquisition of the oil infrastructure i referred to, citgo, by their debtor, russian state company rozneft. i support this bill and urge all our colleagues to join us in standing against russia's continued support for the maduro regime and the threat it poses to u.s. national security. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman reserves. the gentleman is recognized. . malinowski: i yield five minutes to the author of the bill, ms. wasserman schultz. ms. wasserman schultz: i thank the gentleman for yielding. and for his leadership on the foreign affairs committee and his expertise, having been elected to congress in november is welcomed and it is wonderful to join him on the

city minus 8. 61 million people under windchill advisories and wind and freeze warnings from corpus christire going t look at those frigid highs in the eastern two-thirds. of the high today of 16 in pierre, 23 degrees below average. atlanta, 16 degrees colderhan normal. tomorrow, tallahassee at ap66. indiis 32, midland, texas, starting to warm up. you'll see it's a fast-moving systemhat bringsn much warmer air. greenville by sunday, 69. phil 53. mobile 77. we've got another storm system that's going to bring snow and severe weather this weekend. heavy snow from theas dak into minnesota and parts of michigan and wisconsin. strong stornls tohe south on saturday. sunday this pushes into new d. englan heavy rain in the mid atlantic states through noon. that moves through rather quickly. we'll continue to fine-tune this as we get later in the week. >>>, thank you so much. evidence first obtained by nbc news shows north korea is rebuilding a key site for missiles capable of reaching th. u.s. mainla satellite images were taken days after president trump's failed hanoi summit with north korean lead

in corpus christi police boosting security across beaches and roads to avoid drunk driving.ing heavy fines for overserving alcohol and in florida's miami beach where last year they had at least 10,000 spring breakers in town in just one night, police taking a harder line when it comes to partying. the city giving them an additional $700,000 this year so more officers can be on patrol mostly for spring break. the authorities even reaching out to colleges ahead of time to tell them they mean business. >> i sent letters to somewhere around 300 or 400 college presidents across the united states and in addition to the presidents of every greek fraternity and sorority. we're cracking down on quality of life offenses like drinking in public, smoking weed. >> reporter: and the state department has issued travel advisories for parts of jamaica, the bahamas and all of mexico's 31 states, make sure you register with the travel department, the state department's travel website, the smart traveler program. make sure you let the embassy and consulate know you are going to be there. >> the

roommate ashley olvera was also 20 years old and from a tiny town -- taft, texas -- not far from corpus christie other side of the state. her interest at the art institute was animation. she was shy like shelley but more willing to be social. they took her in for questioning. >> reporter: what sort of state was she in? >> you know, she was upset. she was crying. but it was -- it -- it wasn't anything -- i don't know. i don't think that i would have had the same reaction had my roommate met that kind of death. >> reporter: it was a little less of a reaction than you might expect -- >> i -- more -- more of like -- maybe her puppy got run over than her roommate got killed. >> reporter: detective ellzey, highly tuned to the subtle reactions of his interviewees, was still seeing in his head the image of that intensely personal murder scene. could ashley have been so full of rage? >> reporter: one of the things that can make a roommate situation between two girls deadly is if there's a romantic attachment. >> absolutely -- >> reporter: did you -- did you go down that path with her? >> you know, i wen

, minus eight. 61 million people under windchill advisories and wind and freeze warnings from corpus christigoing to look at those frigid highs in the eastern two-thirds of the u.s. our high today of 16 in pierre. atlanta 16 degrees colder than normal. tomorrow tallahassee, you're at 66. that's six degrees colder than usual. indianapolis 32, midland, texas, starting to warm up, but you'll see it's a fast-moving system that brings in much warmer air, so greenville by sunday, 69, philly 53, mobile 77. however, we've got another storm system that's going to bring snow and severe weather this weekend. heavy snow from the dakotas into minnesota and parts of michigan and wisconsin. strong storms down through the south on saturday. sunday this pushes up into new england, bringing snow. heavy rain down into the mid-atlantic states through noon, and then that moves through rather quickly. we'll continue to fine tune this as we get on later in the week. guys. >>> thank you so much. evidence first obtained by nbc news shows that north korea is rebuilding a key site for missiles capable of reaching the