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his co-speakerer is michael birkner, the benjamin franklin professor of liberal arts and history at gettysburg college. many of you might remember that michael was the interim director of the civil war institute. he played a pivotal role in the transition. there is not a person on this faculty that i rely more on than michael birkner. he has been indispensable to what i have done here, what my staff has done, the way we've been able to connect with gettysburg college students. and there are students who adore him, and this is the highest praise you can give a teacher. i hear time and time again that michael birkner's class on historical message is called a boot camp. and the kids who come out of that boot camp -- i, of course, have them in other courses, are exceedingly well trained and come back to me time and again and say michael is their favorite professor and he is a man with exceedingly high standards. i am very pleased to have two very dear friends to speak about a book they edited with the university press of florida. did i get that right? no, i didn't. i did get it right. okay. good.

michael birkner. he is the benjamin franklin professor of liberal arts and professor of history at gettysburg college. many of you might remember that he was the interim director of the civil war institute. he played a pivotal role in the transition. anything that is not a person on this faculty that i rely more on than michael birkner. he has been indispensable to what i have done here, with my staff has done, and the way we withbeen able to connect gettysburg college students. students adore him. i hear time and time again that michael birkner's class on historical message, it is called a boot camp, in the case -- and the kids come back to me time and time again saying that michael is their favorite professor. he has exceedingly high standards. i am pleased to have two very dear friends here to speak about above that they edited with the university of florida press. the title of the book is james buchanan and the coming of the civil war. here is john quist and michael birkner. [applause] >> thank you and good morning fellow history addicts. we are glad that you are here. thank you for the kind intro

michael. >> all right, thank you, george. >>> also this morning, hurricane franklin making landfall slammingexico's gulf coast. it is the atlantic's first hurricane of the season and abc's rob marciano has more. gorngs good morning, rob. >> good morning, michael. it's the second landfall for franklin for the state of mexico and the state of veracruz. it came on shore as an 85-mile-an-hour storm late last night now weakening rapidly. still some back building on the east side. mexico city is in the path but they are protected by some of these mountains. not going to be a wind event but rain on the eastern slopes. heavy rain, maybe mudslides there. greater concern closer to home. two tropical waves we're watching. this one has models bending out to sea but the other one off the coast of florida and watch it and noaa updated its seasonal list. >> thanks. >>> now to new trouble for google. the engineer fired over his memo questioning the role women play in the world of tech, is now filing a labor complaint as a lawyer says dozens of women are gearing up to sue the company alleging wage discrimina

michael quander, wusa9. >> the game is being released to the general public on august 25th. >>> franklin is now nothing butemnants after making landfall in mexico. start with a nighttime video. you can see the strong winds blowing through this marina here. by daybreak things had calmed down a bit as people gathered at the beach and lifeguards trying to help people out of that rough water. >>> the 2017 season, and noaa come out with their updated forecast thinking this is going to be a busy season. so we hope that most of the storms stay out to sea. >> absolutely. >> or just dissipate in the northern atlantic, no big deal. they make landfall, you got problems. >> big problems. >> big problems. >> not so many here, though. >> yeah. we were talking about a little bit of rain, some storms, could we be feeling some of those effects from -- no. that is so far south. that may emerge into the pacific and become a new system. >> you know who is in mexico right now? adam longo. >> poor guy. >> the perseid meteor showers are peaking friday night. it's going to be cloudy with showers around so i don't think we are goi

michael last night. he was killed he week. and after being on the run for two days, the suspect was captured yesterday. >>> hurricane franklin madendfall along the coast of mexico overnight. these are pictures before the hurricane made landfall. people were preparing for the worst which is always a good move. the hurricane had maximum winds of 85 miles per hour. this is the second landfall on mexican territory in three days. and as we head further through the months of august and september, i'm sure, chuck, we'll see a lot more stories like that. >> unfortunately the peak of hurricane season is usually the first week of september. so we still have a little ways to go before we get to what is normally the peak of tropical activity. but based on sandy, we can get tropical storms way down into the month of october. stars franklin goes, there is the satellite picture and way down there to the bottom center of your screen, that is fnk peninsula of mexico there, so it is indeed a diminishing threat to life and property. that is excellent news. for us, we have this cluster of showers in eastern kentucky, they are drifting northbound up

michael was shot and killed during a traffic stop sunday night. is accused killer is behind bars. todd: hurricane franklin downgraded to a tropical storm after turning into mexico's east coast overnight, heavy wind, pounding rain and the possibility of letting and mudslides. heather: franklin the first atlantic hurricane of the season. we could see nine of the damaging storms this year. meteorologist janice dean joins us with the latest. >> that is the big headline, noah upgrading their hurricane count and saying we can have two to three major hurricanes this year as we get into the season, tropical storm franklin downgraded 70 mile-per-hour sustained winds. it was a hurricane overnight and starting to weaken as it moves across losing its warm water source, it's energy. rainfall is expected a trusted 12 inches, higher amounts in the mountains and could be devastating for this area of mexico. a couple areas of concern, this one, 50% chance of forming over the next couple days and an area right here in the bahamas we are looking at. we are getting into peak season and that means the tropics are heating up a

franklin was the first atlantic hurricane of the season. >>> tonight get ready to laugh. colin jones and michael shay will host a special weekend update summer edition. you know it's going to be good. it will air before a live studio audience starting tonight. it's going to be'sle. >>> right now the opening bell, it appears markets are shrugging off the showdown with north korea, even with global unrest. less than a point in today's market. well, we're opening slightly down on the day. >>> i'm going to bring in the domino, dom chu. >> stephanie, we are seeing some weakness here, but we saw the same thing yesterday, yet markets came back off of the lows of the today, so it speaking to this idea with what's happening since the inauguration, there's been a real sentiment of prop up the market. there was a time when any kind of gop political risk at all anywhere in the world would have caused some adverse reaction in the marketplace, we are not seeing that kind of thing happen. it's very much specific stories with regard to stocks, industries and sectors kind of keeping things in place. >> but dom,

michael who pulled him over. police called it a cowardly attack. >> we turn to the tropical storm franklin on the verge of becoming a hurricane moving toward mainland mexico. rob is in for ginger tracking its path. good morning, rob. >> good morning, robin. now in the gulf of mexico strengthening but this is what it did yesterday across the yucatan peninsula, puerto morelos and a time lapse out of cancun showing the outer bans getting into that resort area. winds approaching hurricane strength, likely to become our first hurricane of the atlantic season. the waters are 90 degrees so it should strengthen easily getting in between veracruise and tampico. also some flooding rains across the south and u.s. we'll talk more about that in a few minutes. >> thank you, rob. >>> also this morning, people are gearing up for the total solar eclipse. now just 12 days away. around 12 million americans are in its path stretching 70 miles wide and 3,000 miles long from oregon to south carolina. t.j. holmes is here with how states are preparing for the power surge. good morning, teej. >> more and more americans are getting their e

michael higgenbotham from the university of baltimore and the author of "ghosts of jim crow, ending racism in post racial america," and cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley, the author of "rightful heritage, franklin. roosevelt and the land of america." so glad to have you on to get perspective about this. douglas, let's start with you. you saw brianna keilar's story. president trump has a troubling past when it comes to race. given that history, were you surprised that his original statements over the weekend that they were so weak? >> i wasn't surprised. i mean, we've talked a lot, don, over the past year how he's one part you know george wallace, donald trump. he's got joe mccarthy in him, gerald k. smith, father coughlin. he beats a fascist drum often and annever wants to criticize anybody on the alt-right. he sees them as his foot soldiers. he does it only reluctantly and he tried to my mouth it over the weekend and it didn't work. the public's outraged. august 12th is going to be marked as a time when the name donald trump is forever kind of associated with indifference towards hate crimes, towards neo-nazis. so it's a real low ebb and a president that's had miserable months but this means t

michael on that. i'm not even going to argue. but he's not a pathological liar. >> thank you. >> let me say this -- >> you didn't know that. >> in 1940 on a ten-day fishing trip franklinked out. in 1981 president reagan fired the air traffic controllers and many times entertained margaret thatcher and other heads of state while on vacation in california. warm springs, georgia, near where i live in savannah, franklin roosevelt made huge decisions down there allegedly on vacation. he actually created what was called the little white house. presidents change venues and do not go on vacations. >> they are working 24/7. we know that job. it really -- it never lets up. >> i'll bet you michael did when he was mayor. >> i bet you it was that way when you were mayor. >> i don't own a golf course. but this is not about -- this is not about whether they're working or not. >> i'm not a rich democrat -- >> you guys continue to work on those comments too. right when we go to break because we've got to take a short break for now. we've got much more in the "newsroom" right after this. here's this week's start small, think big, with a look at a memphis business making old jeans new a

michael. who pulled over mccarthy for a possible violation. police called the shooting an unprovoked and cowardly attack. robin. >>> we'll turn to the tropical storm franklinverge of becoming a hurricane, moving toward mainland mexico. rob is in for ginger. >> a time lapse out of cancun showing the outer bands getting into that resort area. but now it has winds that are approaching hurricane strength likely to become our first hurricane of the atlantic season. the waters 90 degrees. it should strengthen easily sometime later on tonight and early tomorrow morning. flooding rains there and across the south and the u.s. we'll talk more about that in a few minutes. michael? >> rob, thank you. >>> and also this morning, people are gearing up for the total solar eclipse 12 days away. around 12 million americans are in its path stretching 70 miles wide and 3,000 miles long from oregon to south carolina. t.j. holmes is here with how states are preparing for the power surge. >> more americans are getting their power through solar power. so, what are you supposed to do when the sun goes away in the middle of a summer day? regulators are making sure your lights don't