the island. karl watson, who serves on the board of directors george washington house in barbados ofke about this chapter washington's life at a symposium on the places where the first president lived and visited. it was recorded at washington's mount vernon, virginia home. this is just under an hour. in september 1751, george washington ordered a ship for his brother lawrence traveling to barbados. as he traveled to barbados, he kept a detailed diary, which survives in the library of congress. and partnership with the university of virginia press, a new addition will be released of this journal. find it anl excellent example of insight into a lost world. the mount vernon ladies association has been a leading supporter of efforts to transcribe and annotate all the papers of george washington. the opening of the library in 2013, support for more scholarship was increased around the life and legacy of george washington. this included support for the washington family papers, an effort to transcribe

the island. skilled doctors on the island held out hope for lawrence's recovery. dr. hillary, who had achieved some eminence in england, had him transferred his practice to barbados. and lawrence was one of his him patients. they washingtons furthermore had friends and relatives on the island, which granted them some degree of support. it is incredible when one thinks of the actual relationships, when people move to and fro. some families may have a cousin well placed in a british north american colonies or vice versa. so distant relatives of the washingtons were in barbados. interestingly enough, i found in there was a george washington who lived in cheapside. lawrence's wife was a fairfax. of williamwife fairfax, who himself had serve for some time in barbados, was deborah clarke, who was sister to ginny clarke of barbados. the washingtons were well set up -- i went forward too much -- to be accommodated on the island. the mantra of real estate is location, location, location. and barbados is v

virgin islands no response let's get the u.s. virgin islands recovery trending to julian do you feel like you're being ignored. well i wouldn't want to put porter puerto rico on the spot because i know i'm puerto rico did get a very large amount of damage while coming out to maria we did notice that they were mainly covering a lot of news sources were mainly covering on puerto rico because it was like the first major hurricane to hit even though what i thought was significant was we were hit by a major hurricane like two weeks before i think the situation was still worse with both puerto rico and the virgin islands with both maria and we still heard more coverage of not only the states like the u.s. states that were barely affected by the storms but we heard more coverage of like other islands or other areas that might be hit we heard more coverage of like the harvey. might might have hit ireland are about to hit ireland and you know it's something that something that's ridiculous to me because including i think including puerto

few know that better than the island's dissidents.tem in cuba are the ladies in white. originally formed by the wives of political prisoners, their weekly protests to call for free elections are often broken up by the police and state security, the organisers arbitrarily detained. libertad, libertad! they say they're calling for greater human rights on the island. the cuban government accused them of being mercenaries funded by right—wing anti—castro groups out of miami and washington. certainly the cuban government allows them no room to operate. this was their protest on the eve of a visit by president obama in front of the world's watching media. when our cameraman tried to film a weekly protest outside the lady's house, the police intervened. he was told he couldn't film there. and the police removed the camera from the scene as the mood began to heat up. what happened next was predictable and swift. a number of women were detained that day. it's a side of cuba thatjars with a new hip image of the island in the eyes of the rest of

the island can literally disappear. one of the most stunning and pax of the trade was the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we use that sand that we lose our life. once an island disappears the international maritime boundary changes or is required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. twenty five indonesian islands have already disappeared. like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the world's hunger for raw materials. scarcity in dangerous local communities and so it's governments against each other. as demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. morocco's gentle climate has.

you need the boarding island and it will work well. i hope you are allowing the extra time for people parking will help, but if it doesn't help you always have meters. and we know those are easy to enforce and they make it work. thanks a lot. >> thank you, mr. strassner, next speaker, please. >> reed martin, nancy reuben, tariq mahmoud. is there martin here? let's move onto the next one. nancy reuben. tariq mahmoud, rachael hiden. i think at this point if anyone is in the overflow room who wishes to address the board if they could come upstairs. my understanding is there were two people down there only who wish to address the board. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm nancy reuben and i've lived and worked at 16th and taraval for almost 16 years now, i know the neighborhood very well, and even though i don't use the 17th avenue stop very often i could tell you without a doubt continuing to plan to eliminate that stop on the corner of 17th and taraval in front of safeway would be a very bad thing to do. right now people with children and

for this island. for this island.is, economic meltdown, fiscal oversight board, we can't borrow. a real financial disaster that came before the natural one. he gave me the full picture, the damage from maria. i just want to give you a perspective, right, when we say that the hurricane comes over this way, the width of the hurricane was 35 miles. puerto rico is 30 miles. so once it's touching over here, it's touching over here. 100% of the island got hit by sustained category 4 hurricane winds. the mountainous region of puerto rico had vulnerable housing. vulnerable housing is a nice way of saying housing that was built a long time ago that wasn't built with concrete... that's right. ...and any code. that's right. sticks and stones. but vulnerable doesn't even begin to cover the next place i visited. the coastal town of toa baja is just six miles from san juan. but after the hurricane, it might as well be on another planet. when is this garbage going to get picked up, if ever? no bien. no bien. a month and a half after

the train into a lane of traffic with no boarding island. that is the current condition at many of the stops. as a result, 22 people have been hit in five years while getting on or off our trains. this has happened, as you can see on the map here, every orange is for every stop in the five-year period someone's been he. this type of collision we know is entirely preventable since it does not happen at stops with safe boarding islands. we've been working on solutions to improve safety and transit reliability for the past two years in this corridor. during that time, we've been working exenstively with community members to share these proposals and help refine and improve them and we've engaged thousands of residents and merchans through open house meetings, small group meetings, thousands of surveys, hundreds of e-mails, door-to-door outreach, pop-up open houses at stops and a range of other outreach strategies to stay connected. after over a year of thorough community outreach, we brought a proposal to the board last year that delivers big s

now it's home to elephants rhinos and tigers they have returned to the island. many plants and animals have found a new home here. for you yet or go to go with it that's what the forest is there for a home for all living things. the forest is almost twice the size of new york's central park the trees stand strong defending the soil against advancing erosion. the whole. summer this isn't doable but they should come here and take a look for themselves. and then they should go home and crown trialist it's not that hard you know by the way that. despite his achievements forest man is far from being adopted into the hindu pantheon in spite of the advancing desire to vacation on the island nobody else is dealing with the problem on the contrary the vulnerable villages continue to cut down trees and bamboo so that they can sell them before the brahmaputra gobbles up everything they're convinced they'll be the last generation to live here their children will just have to see what remains of modular. today is a special day. just after yang is visiting our school. we'll t

usual island the marshall islands china the united states by speaking out they don't live or a warning to all of us can we really afford to be silent. hello summer in melbourne is a bit of a tricky affairs and it's better get colder again and you might see why that is very typically cold around you see a line like that going through adelaide to get hit first by adelaide back in the sunshine and ninety degrees and about eighteen in melbourne has considerably warmer the further north you are thirty three in brisbane near forty in some parts of south australia twenty eight settled in purpose quite weather here but the cloud starts to build come saturday at the same time we find a slight increase in temperatures natalie melbourne masses a cloud over tasmania and interestingly it's trying to get towards new zealand but for the time being as you can get not a from the satellite pictures nothing really happening event a good few days of settled some twenty four to twenty nine degrees north to south how surprising is that there will be an increasing cloud i think inside us all and about how to

the government of south korea declared it an island of world peace. but on this island of peace has been built one of the most provocative military bases in the world less than four hundred miles from shanghai. like and the marshall islands this is america's frontline in its so cold pivot to asia. hair in one sun spoiled again john village the south korean navy has built a base for american aircraft carriers nuclear submarines and destroyers equipped with the aegis ballistic missile. and aimed at china's defenses. china's lifelines to the world in oil trade resources depend on shipping that comes through checkpoints like this. the u.s. pivot and the asia pacific is really intended to create the ability to put a loaded gun to the head of china and say you know you will do as we say otherwise we will be able to restrict or we'll be able to shut down choke off your importation of oil and other resources. are. for nine use every day often twice a day these catholic priests have staged a mass the blocks the gates of the new military base on stranger while.

virgin islands. without help from congress, these programs will exhaust available funding within months. this bill also fails to waive unworkable and unjustifiable cost-share requirements for fema and the army corps of engineers' projects which could put federal funding out of reach. these and other serious shortcomings must be fixed before an emergency supplemental is enacted into law. even if this supplemental passes today, the house majority decision to exclude both democrats and senate republicans from this process means that it will not be enacted this year because it cannot pass the senate. instead of a partisan product with no chance of advancement, we should be considering a responsible, bipartisan emergency supplemental that both the house and the senate could pass and enact into law. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: i yield to the chairman of the commerce, justic

the marshall islands. pacific ocean between the united states and asia captured from the japanese in world war two they have long been america's strategic secret its stepping stone to asia and china. warships. in order to blow them to bits. but they. are steamed up the bridge activity and this. is signed up furnish data blast the banks of the mighty. animals of many animals. like. the experiment to see how they die calculate. their protect. today bikini is unfit for human life radiation poisons the food and water. shoes registered unsafe on a geiger counter. the abandoned cemetery looks out to where the sun rose one morning then rose again as apocalypse. the equivalent to one here is she my bomb was exploded in these islands every day for twelve years. a scarred beauty has returned to the island but the people have an. exit the barrier islands many of them spoke of in one nine hundred sixty eight president lyndon johnson told them he put safe to go. but it wasn't safe and the u.s. authorities knew it was i

an island in the sun.rably one where they speak english and the dollar is accepted everywhere. puerto rico, it's america, right? it's ours and we've held on to it fiercely at times since 1898, after taking it by force during the spanish american war. >> archive: i want to take you to one of the worst performing economies in the developed world. 73 billion dollars in debt. the employment rate is only 35 percent. the highest sales tax of any united states jurisdiction, 11.5 percent. 45 percent live in poverty. biggest municipal bankruptcy in u.s history. over the last 10 years, more than 5 percent of the population has fled. >> anthony: but what's it like for puerto ricans? for the people who live here, whose family have lived here for generations? many have left for an easier life in the states and more keep leaving, but not all. >> anthony: what do you write about most of the time? what do you cover? >> hermes: right now i'm covering a lot of politics. >> anthony: journalist hermes ayela is one of those di

massive outages on these different islands so the biggest thing is going to be claiming resilient island in the future so that way they can avoid having that chance again just so someone can get an idea of what your day is like you know how what are your days and are you you know as a sign up to some of the blood war you know what is your average day consists of in this in this cleanup and recovery and you know rehab out for a walk or better for. the certainly roller our team we're working about eighteen hour days right now for the just passed over and for whose only when it went out and when to start to look back we are all on twenty four hours so that least now that this storm has passed we'll be able to go back to our schedule and get out there to continue doing. that making sure everybody's safe after this start. well let me ask you what's the best thing that those of us that aren't there what's the best way for us to help because we you get a lot of mixed messages you shouldn't donate to certain places or donating money to certain kinds of charities doesn't always help sending certa

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the most popular tourist destination, the island.estaurants are closed and stores are closed and bars are closed this is not what old saint juan is supposed to look like a beautiful caribbean with nobody here and a handful of puerto ricans. >> where are you from? >> ohio. >> where are you from? >> georgia >> they're among the few to be here, wandering around in the dark and looking for lights. >> how did you guys get power? >> we have the generator >> how much was that >> 20 something thousand dollars. >> it is our first day since maria. >> what is it normally like? >> super crowded >> but not tonight old san juan is on life support, hemorrhaged money and look at the impact on a single block a typical shop had been doing $2,000 a day and multiple that by 40 closed businesses, that's $80,000 a day. almost $2.5 million a month lost all in one this thing goes this way and that way and all these other crossed streets tlchlt could be a thousand >> i came by a place called casablanca hotel >> people like peter schiff. >> nice to meet you.

news live from berlin a catastrophe in the making on the greek island of less goes on this international migrants day w looks at the deteriorating conditions for asylum seekers there they're desperate search for shelter and heat has sparked local langar we bring you an exclusive report also coming up prosecutors in turkey have called for the release of a turkish german journalist jailed on terror charges observers say the accusations against her are politically motivated. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us on this international migrants day we are looking at an astounding number there are an estimated sixty six million people around the world who have been forced to leave their homes seventeen percent of them are in europe the greek island of lesbos for example is now home to thousands of migrants while the main camp there is the morea refugee camp but it's those outside the camp in makeshift homes who live in particularly squalid conditions and tensions with the local community are rising all over salad has this exclusive report from less. can barely move his fingers it'

surveillance flights over the islands and. the threat to china is becoming big news the media is beating the drums of war as the world is being primed to regard china as a new enemy china's alarming creation of entirely new territory in the south china sea is one part of a broader military push that some fear is to challenge us dominance in the region. china is building in strips in the south china sea on disputed islands condemned by an international tribunals this is now a flashpoint for war between china and america. what is not news is that china itself is under threat. these american bases form a giant news in circling china with missiles bombers warships all the way from a stranger through the pacific to asia and beyond. i mean if you were in beijing looking out stood on the tallest building in beijing and looked out of the pacific ocean you'd see american warships you'd see guam is about to sink because there's so many missiles pointed at china you look up the korean see american armaments pointing at china you'd see ja

placed in islands. this sounds like a preparation for war. our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war and essentially what the united states is doing it and is responding to provoke kind of behavior on the part of china and just as we did in the cold war the idea was to have a position of military strength such that your adversaries were not tempted to act in an aggressive ways or try to employ coercion to get their way and he just last week the u.s. navy sent a guided missile destroyer. in to the spratly islands in the south china sea and what was different about this i think was that chinese fighter scrambled that sounds like an escalator. well the again from an american perspective the escalation was the chinese speed to militarized these islands in the first place moving its military capabilities doubt into that region engaging in provocative behavior against the commercial activities said military forces of other minor countries in the region that have claim to those islands so it's a response to chinese

virgin islands after the devastating hurricanes of rock to stay to lunch. but under the rhythm i mean but that's not a time you know me money to. find him and if we knew him at the pub on this missile like you know me you know much to me it's just not. saying a single thing. to. the. right of that and then give me a dozen of the united guys in the room assuming i'm not old enough sonny to be let go by that enough to hold the idea that something is in of the. hands. and the most will go down if they are out of principle it as become a hot item but. not come to an end now and would come to most of them the police are there among them some listener count somehow the most part of the most solar system made out. to. come in the night club to learn how to live on the phone let him know i got him. join me every thursday on the all excitement sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school this list i'm show business i'll see that. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy the suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush

of marginally is located in the middle of the wide river with its heavily populated banks the island has been gradually disappearing for decades the erosion seems unstoppable. soon we won't be able to live here anymore. erosions too much don't want to go and whatever. we were about to harvest our rice on their way out o. the didn't in what i wanted by the hour we were going to. want to hear a noise the brahmaputra and the soup and sciri come together here according to an old legend the day these two rivers unite was a happy day but for us this confluence is a curse we've got hardly any land left and have become refugee and yes it's a huge catastrophe. get jetty all the boats that supply module e. with goods depart from here at the main marty got jetty. it's a vital connection to all the islands in the brahmaputra the banks are in danger of breaking away and have to be constantly fortified with sandbags water resources experts from the brahma putra board a government body are tasked with fighting the floods and erosion. now you are fitting the state of our sanity is in a particularly

usual island the marshall islands china the united states by speaking out they don't live or a warning to all of us can we really afford to be silent. hello there things are turning hot for some of us in australia now already we're seeing some very hot air across the central belt but it's slipping its way towards the south and some of us are going to see the temperatures rocket as we head through the next few days so inches day then adelaide thirty three degrees already hope for is in melbourne but those temperatures will rise as we head into wednesday this time will be all the way up at thirty six degrees this is the cool relief it's not quite with us yet but that will drag down our temperatures towards the west is not the whole force in perth twenty two degrees would just be the maximum here every towards new zealand and here we just got a few bits and pieces of cloud drifting their way across us and generally the temperatures a fairly well behaved so around eighteen there in christchurch on choose day we're looking at around twenty two or twenty three over the next few days further

after the hurricane i went to the different sections of the island north so. we had major landslides we had a lot of trees on the groan when we norwalk i think every five or. six. the many because forest used to be its biggest pride more than sixty percent of the island's territory had protected status but the hurricane turned the sea of greenery into despondency of grey and brown but just a few working vehicles and a handful of specialists the local forestry department is overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge. we are seeking assistance from abroad. is not what. would hundred. if we have equipment we could get assistance from. underground local communities they'd be willing. to become passive. securing for the trees is not easy especially when people with their despair. three months after the hurricane most of the island's households still lack electricity and those are the fortunate ones some lost their homes altogether this is though many because primary school race has been turned into a temporary shelter that houses some of the most vulnerable victims

three months after the hurricane most of the island's households still lack electricity and those are the fortunate ones some lost their homes altogether this is though many because primary school reach has been turned into a temporary shelter that houses some of the most vulnerable victims of the hurricane with children the elderly mentally disabled and every day people who leave here has by these signs extolling bally's like responsibility caring fair in this respect and perhaps wondering when some of that would be afforded to them. evelyn is sixty four years old for much of her life's work just across the street at the botanical gardens in just a matter of hours maria uprooted her family lives for ever living down at the mercy of others. or you are what you know so you see where you will what you can do. for you out in the land anywhere that you view that anything being. a hope to be out of here by christmas and there is a good chance of that happening then it'll shortage of building materials is less accurate now to a large degree international help. marie spock is helping to coor

protected islands such a small way the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together . but in another better irony of the sand wars new. construction require ever more sand. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand in we have written history that goes but. we can't just . far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches. greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one third of urban populations now live in slums will go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. in china sixty five million flats are empty yet the construction industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis thirty percent of the homes constructed si

what percentage of the island is still without power?al denigration is not being restored yet it is a difficult task, but it's also a powerful storm. >> how many trucks do you have working on this effort >> right now, we have over 3 h. trucks in puerto rico. >> that's it >> no, no, no, after the initial flow, we have 40 that arrived today. we have over 200 next week, over 200 the week after. >> this would never happen on the mainland you and i both know it i know you can't say it. i can. it would never happen in the mainlan, you'd see trucks everywhere, military deployment. this is essentially a war. this is an act of war, a bombhead it looks like a warhead, it is, no water, no food, no medical, no power, it's a war zone. >> the department has deployed a number, thousands of people here you saw a military truck there needs to be more, we're working on more. >> the blackout is now the largest in american history. patients ran out long away, many have decided to leave puerto rico for good to really understand the exodus, i went to rosa del

okinawa is the largest of over 100 islands making up the ryukyu island chain.he mainland but worlds apart. okinawa is different. it's tropical. clear waters, some of the best beaches in asia, to the decidedly more laidback, less frenetic, self-serious attitude than the mainland. you can feel it. you can see it. it's just different here. two thousand pounds of heavily muscled beef enters the arena. you could feel the ground shake under its heavy hooves. his opponent awaits. togi, also known as ushi-zumo. sumo, yes, but bull sumo. these are professionals and, like jake lamotta and chuck wepner before them, they shall live to fight, or do other stuff, another day. having shed decidedly less blood than either of those two gentlemen. two animals, two handlers. and they do, like, the burgess meredith job in rocky. and like fighters, or sumo, the bulls are ranked by their ability. their record in the ring, the highest being yokozuna. this is kenny aiman. he lives up the road. is there a time limit or they just go till somebody gives up? >> kenny: i think they pretty m

islands against homosexuals in russia. we start in india where a third of the population can't read or write though every child has a legal right to education literacy is especially low among girls from poorer segments of society. khan has already been in class the entire day but she's still eager for more. hardly anything can stop this thirteen year old from pursuing her love of learning making that. are very important for every everyone so i love to come to school even if i'm tired and if you are if i am just six of that day most accomplished the first time she went to school was seven years ago in a village just outside india's capital new delhi she got there thanks to literacy india an organization that helps underprivileged children who would otherwise not be in school. the organization focuses particularly on young girls. sobbed represents of what can happen when these kinds of challenges are overcome she lives walking distance from the school and shows a room with her parents and sister the family doesn't have a lot