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there are 1000 other graves at jamestown, each with a story to tell.y emerges a more com plete every discovery emerges a more complete history of the origins of modern america. and just a reminder of the main news, the collapsed dam in laos that has killed at least 20 people. our south east asia analyst told us of the impact on local populations. governments in the region including in laos, cambodia and vietnam need to spend more time and effort to study the damage, the possible impact, that these projects can cause, and all of the government actually have a process to evaluate, to do the visibility study and, finally, to construct projects, how thorough it is is still in question, because in developing countries, there are many loopholes that can actually happen when the governments plan and develop something that big. you have been watching newsday. stay with us. great to have you with us. we'll be looking at the prospects and economic challenges facing pakistan as people get set to cast their votes in a crucial election. we've been reporting on the

there are 1000 other graves at jamestown, each with a story to tell.history of the origins of modern america. possibly beyond the call of journalistic duty there. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. hello there. well, tuesday brought some significant contrast in weather conditions across the uk with the south—east of england and east anglia having other dry sunny and hot day, with a top temperature of 31 degrees in suffolk but further north and west, a lot more cloud around thanks to a week whether font with low temperatures and even patchy light rain. if you look at the satellite picture, casty your eyes out to this swirl of cloud out in the atlantic, this is a significant area of low pressure which is going to reach our shores by the end of the week and bring some of us some significant rainfall. back here and now and to the early hours of wednesday, it is looking largely dry across the board. one of two showers, western scotland, more of a breeze too but elsewhere, dry and a warm, muggy start across south and south—east

two decades before jamestown. and the question is what is the story and why do we care? so the fate of the 115 men women and children who landed on roanoke island was for centuries worth of investigation to have loads of drama at the desk one --dash desperately seeking his daughter and granddaughter the shipwrecks and hurricane and that is set against a clash of two european powers to create much of the world as we know it today. but the story of roanoke is something more, this country's creation story of founding medicine as we peel back the layers i found it had more to say but i did not start there. when i heard those two teams of archaeologists were competing to solve the mystery i figured it would be quick how long -- to help pay for my vacation but when i discovered was a group of people who were every bit as fascinating as the english native americans who are key figures and to a person with this quest so what gave this historical event such power? so the arc.long -- archaeologists were excavating and i began to dig for other clues. for example the very term lost

i'm president of the jamestown foundation here in washington, d.c. we are delighted you are here today, able to join us for the wonderful discussions we're having. of the conference we are having is russia and the middle east. organizing a series of workshops and papers that have been coordinated and organized by dr. stephen blank who have helped us put together this conference today. in the past year, we have seen tremendous tension from every over building around syria u.s. support for kurdish forces and the deepening tension between the syrian government and military forces every taken territory in the south. how russia balances the 'svelopment will test putin strategy. discuss hownel will russia balances its relationship is the u.s. increasingly removes itself from the same, eager to avoid becoming bogged down in the conflict -- from the scene. a new, we had the great honor of a retired general sharing his thoughts and assessments and u.s. efforts to de-conflict and avoid confrontation over syrian airspace. i think this will be an enlightening pr

speaker, the national comedy center indowntown jamestown, new york, -- in downtown jamestown, new york, tells the store eave comedy in america. opening up next month, it is a performance base and interactive museum. it's the first cultural institution with a visitor experience dedicated to comedy outside of the u.s. senate. the museum is acquiring the personal archives of prominent american comedians and will showcase more than 50 exhibits from early blogville to today. the center operates the lieu seem ball, desi arnez -- ucille ball, desi arnez museum. and the center will not be a part or affiliated with the national park system. just to be crystal clear, this designation will not require federal funds to be expended for any purpose related to the center, no joke. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from guam. ms. bordallo: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. bordallo: this bill is sponsored by mr. reed of new york and it of

you know what saved jamestown? tell me. it was tobacco. a p pa re ntly jamestown? tell me.ans smoked to ba cco for apparently the native indians smoked tobacco for thousands of years but the english when they arrived brought a new type of tobacco which they smuggled onto the ship as tobacco seeds. and they grew this new to ba cco tobacco seeds. and they grew this new tobacco and the native american indians preferred it. that is what saved them, they were able to start trading. you are a mine of useful information! we will be back the same time tomorrow with more useful fa cts . same time tomorrow with more useful facts. we will see you then. for many it has been yet another hot day, some parts of east anglia got up above 30 degrees once again. but the heat has not been universal. further north and west, western scotland for example, there was more cloud. temperatures topped out at around 18 degrees. further west again in the atlantic we have this curl of cloud. an area of low pressure which will increasingly come into play as we head towards the end of this week. ahead of t

and a quick map of the candlestick point side just to show where the jamestown parcel is. again, it wasn't fully entitled through the project and just needs to be moved to the rest of the bayview-hunters point redevelopment plan in order for it to be use -- to use standard planning code entitlement. for the land use entitlement plan adjustments, there are two main types of adjustments. first, there's the reduction of r & d office space from 5.1 million down to 4.4 million square feet. next, the reduction of 35,000 square feet has been reallocated among the other uses, such as retail, neighborhood and institutional and retail. there's no change to a number of existing uses in the plan such as the performance venues, artist complex and community use entitlements. together, the redevelopment plan allow for a total of 12,100 housing units. that remains unchanged. this is a different way to look at the same information but in a more detailed view that also includes the shipyard phase one project. again, there's no net change of the overall redevelopment plan levels. rather it i

border fence they soak the sackcloth in petrol and oil because they say it helps it slowly through jamestown are their land we are here to prove to the whole world that we will never leave the island we're going to do with burning kites was that occupied land and i'm not afraid of the israelis i'm only afraid of. sits close by but he has come to support the protesters. i must say the kites and balloons to carry the burning rags into israel are a peaceful form of protest israeli snipers have been targeting balloons that the protesters have been launching well behind the main demonstration these protesters say they will continue launching that kites holding those incendiary devices until israel lifts the siege. the men like the rock and the kite drifts all too and now it's the build a fence israel says five started by protesters have destroyed large areas of crops and private planned. protest to set fire to tires which they uses color from his radio on the snipers positioned along the fence. is ready tanks talk to hamas positions along the border often news that an israeli soldier had been inj

. >>> it's been 40 years since the jamestown massacre. >> over 900 people and followers of the reverendones died. new this morning an exclusive first look at tomorrow's date line special and the role san francisco played in the story. >> our story begins in san francisco in the mid '70s where a charismatic preacher named jim jones was making a name for himself and attracting a particular flock. >> he considered himself a socialist and san francisco is a very liberal community. >> reporter: a young wire service reporter at the time. >> he was perceived as an activist preacher, somebody who practiced what he preached, somebody who brought in poor people and helped poor people. >> reporter: jones had migrated to california from the midwest in the '60s, preaching a gospel of racial harmony. in san francisco his peoples temple ran elderly homes, offered drug counseling and fed the poor. jones was a darling of democrats. politicians like governor jerry brown courted him. the reverend jim jones was also controversial. he claimed to be christ reincarnated, a socialist god that could heal the si

tobacco and at this point it is only in the 1750s or the 1650s it is about 40 or 50 years after jamestown. tobacco is coming down as a big crop. it's like the cocaine of its e era. extremely valuable, this drug to do the aristocrats of europe. so they had a load of tobacco up towards the seaports of london and they sailed out of the potomac river in january of 1657. so this ends up in a lawsuit in virginia and this is very primitive times in virginia. the magistrate as a wealthy plantation owner named pope and in the case attained the captan and john the sailor he takes a shine to the young john the sailor and magistrate pope pays off the debt with a big package of beaver pelts and that is how primitive the economy was still. they were meeting at the exchange and they not only pay off the debt but also introduced john the sailor to his daughter, and of course what happens john the sailor marries and pope and they are so pleased with this arrangement but they get 7 acres of land. this kind of serendipitous turn of events. it was kind of a midland global tobacco planter. i say that they are

. -- nationally. ( laughter ) it's in, of all places, jamestown, new york. >> stephen: okay, sure, known. >> stephen: ancestral meaning she was born there? >> she was born there. ( applause ) they, for a long time, had a festival for her, about her. you know, it was the lucille ball comedy festival, i participated in that, numbers of comics did, and out of that arose the idea of creating a national comedy center, and that opens august 1. i have been involved with it. my friend kelly carlin, george carlin's daughter, she really kind of kicked off the -- really got it moving in the right direction. she gave all of george carlin's stuff to the comedy center, so it's all there now. >> stephen: i love comedy, i'm a student of comedy, what can i see there and get there that i don't get. >> let me give you this so you can go. >> stephen: okay, national comedy center. >> you wear that wrist band and because you're my friend, i'm only going to charge you five bucks. >> stephen: what is that? there's like a chip inside there. >> there's, like, a computer chip. >> stephen: this is how you're tracki

the commission's actions including approving the zoning code to remove the jamestown parcel from candlestick point and the removal of the stadium from the hunter's point area plan. planning commission voted to approve this package amendments. public comment was generally favorable they highlighted the robust community benefits program. there were some concerns with the shipyard cleanup. supervisor kim, while supportive, encouraged ocii and the project sponsor to consider adding add usual housing to the program in future years. the land use committee voted to forward the items to the full board with positive recommendation. at the full board this week, the landmark designation 234-246, phillips building, passed second read. and then the mayor's process improvement ordinance was considered, continued from last week. supervisor peskin introduced amendments to maintain the 30-day notification and to require that 11x17 plan sets continue to be provided and to maintain the requirement for 311 notices for the rear-yard pop-outs. supervisor ronen introduced amendments to clarify the language of ordi

washes out and the other thing to keep in mind is we've had trade deficits for most of the time since jamestown, 400 years ago, you to look at the whole picture, strong economy, don't hurt it with sales taxes. dagen: steve, you said that there are other ways to fight this and clearly president trump ran on this going -- >> absolutely. dagen: going after the trade deficits, what are the other ways that you would fight it? >> well, for example on trade abuses specifically from beijing, we should unit with european allies that are hurt from transfer of technology, unit, go to beijing and say, here are the abuses, here is what we want you to do about them, here are the specific companies we will target, specific industries, specific companies that aren't dealt with. when you is united front and laser front, you will get positive reaction and if you want to put the pressure up militarily, increase naval patrols, we will not see either. put it together. dagen: one issue is the messaging coming out of white house adviser. this is what peter navarro told maria back in march when he asked about retaliat

theodore is in jamestown, kentucky. good morning. caller: good morning. retired baptist minister.asmission work for 2.5and, new york years. in binghamton i was there seven years. i tell you one thing, i am a new york yankee fan. i love baseball and i love the yankees and they are my favorite team and i pray for them and i root for them. host: you remember the night president george w. bush throughout that pitch on october 30, 2001? caller: i don't remember it. was in maryland and we did not have good tv reception. guest: you can be a nike's family television. i'm a boston red sox fan. i have great respect for the yankees. they won 27 world series. far and away the most count in age of the -- major-league baseball. to say yankees is to mean baseball around the world. the good minister is preaching his word and the yankees were mean . books,ne of your other websites centennial told the radio and tv. john is up next in latham, good desolate, new york. taft started the seventh inning stretch. when howard taft was attending the first gain in washington he got up to the code to the bath

caller: i think it is going to far. , who ist's go to herb calling from jamestown, maryland.hat do you think about this? caller: i think the republican senators, they need to keep their fingers off of social security, because we have people aving here in north dakota on fixed income, and they cannot afford a meal. i am on social security and ssi. i go off of it, i will be on the street begging. nor should they use it for family medical leave. the company should pay for it. host: are you in favor of the increase payroll tax that the democrats are pushing for? [no audio] not in favor of it. if they take money out of their pockets, like mitch mcconnell, multimillionaire, if you take money out of his pocket and put in social security, we would probably have enough in social security. who: let's go to pete, is calling from south carolina. good morning, pete. caller: good morning. i am ok with the medical leave program, but my suggestion is it should be paid by a separate payroll tax, no contribution by the business, and every year that the program is reevaluated percentageset the