far and the mossville residents. many yearsarm, ago before conoco expanded, they actually had homes here. families lived here. this is one of the first buyouts the refineries did. families on both sides of this road, and it was bought to expand for conoco. the development you see recently has happened in the last five years. in 2013, tome in start their buyout. don't wantout, i anyone to misinterpret. it was on a volunteer basis that to leave -- had a choice to either stay or except the buyout they offered. adrienne: how many companies operate in this area? butch: i would say in a 10 mile radius, there is conoco ppg, i would say at least 15. adrienne: what are those companies making? ppg is paint, city services gas, oil, vinyl, chlorine. >> sasson is a chemical manufacturing company. they were making an $11 billion expansion of the plant -- and $11 million expansion of the plant. products went into stuff that is ultimately final products of dr. and gamble and people like that. ,hings like liquid tide dishwashing liqu

we went to the mossville community leadership, which was the mossville environmental action now group. we did a community needs assessment. one of the things that was said was, give us the opportunity to move. was one of the first to move. i never wanted to stand in the way of progress. i wanted to be a help to generations to come. i was living in a 40-year-old home, no kids. what i was getting offered was much more than what it was worth. i did not want to fight progress. programroperty purchase -- they paid a premium for properties in the mossville area . residences would be looked at by trained appraisers. average teh two -- the two highest appraisals out of three. give an offer that was plus a 60%ed value, premium. if it was less than $100,000, we would assign a value of $100,000 plus 60% of the appraised value. worthr property was only $50,000, you would be assigned a ,alue of $100,000, plus 60% be $30,000. we would try and position the residents in mossville to have a good experience in the move if they decided. bruce: this was trying to be neighborly. were going to offer you an

startedt of the history in this area, as far as the mossville and mossville residents. this tank farm here, many years ago before conoco expanded, it was small. it's actually had homes here. families lived in this area. it was one of the first buyout that the refineries did. families were on both sides of this road, and it was bought to expand for conoco. development you see recently has happened in the last five years. in 2013 to start their buyout -- not a force out. i don't want them to misinterpret. it was on a volunteer basis that you had a choice to leave the or to accept the buyouts that they were offering. about how many other companies are operating around this area? >> i would say in a 10 mile radius, there is conoco phillips, samsung, pbg, i would about 18.st 15 or 20, >> what are most of those companies making? >> i think most of the companies here -- ppg is paying city service, the same as gas, oil, vcm is vinyl, chlorine. >> we are a chemical manufacturing company. they are in the process of building an $11 billion expansion chemical plant. the end product

that wasn't me. >> it was a program that basically paid a premium for reports in the mossville area. so if you had a rez tense would be looked at by train they weren't, we'd have a third appraisal and average two highest after those two appraisals were averaged we'd five an offer either appraised value, plus 60% premium. and if less than $100,000 we'd assign six #% of appraised value. so yu get a sign of a value of $100,000 and 6 #% of $50 howes, so we tried do all of the things we can think of to position the residents to have a good experience in the move. >> i guess a is sense was trying to be labeling. and sh may just stay saudi arabiaing yabt and come back. my feeling is that they wanted to be neighbors. you can see where expansion is. and to me, they didn't want to just come in and be hot being neighborly. here was my mother's and pather's property. that is what is left. in fact that is the, that was our front porch. i walked from here many, many days to school. i told them i had footprints under asphalt. this is where i lived. had church has opinion here, coroner tells us, ove

eastern, on american history tv, a visit to the small and predominantly african-american community of mossville. >> at one time, this was a beautiful wonderful wonderful community. we had everything that there was. and there was family, church, school, grocery stores, and people begin to get better jobs so it showed them that it could be better in the future for the next generation. >> watch c-span's cities tour of lake charles, louisiana, saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. >> what does it mean to be american? that's this year's student competition question and we're asking middle and high school students to answer it by producing a short documentary about a constitutional right, national characteristic or historic event and explain how it defines the american experience. we're awarding $100,000 in total cash prizes, including a grand prize of $5,000. this year's deadline is january 20th,

statement which is raising a few eyebrows given the fact that he says the nations have been showing to mossville actions to reduce harm to civilians as a result of their military operations but again not everyone agreeing with that assessment and. i was going to ask you with there is much discontent if you like in congress given that it was just a couple of weeks ago that we saw the school bus that was hit from the. more than forty children were killed in that incident i mean there are ten thousand or so at least that's a conservative estimate ten thousand civilian lives lost in this war is thought both ring many people in washington. a growing number of people are concerned by this because of course that attack school bus attack that killed a dozens of children certainly there has been a notable silence a reluctance to say anything by the trumpet ministration but that's just one of multiple attacks that have occurred so there are a growing number of democrats and republicans in a republican controlled congress that are saying wait a second how is this ok because not only if we had those attacks

eastern on american history tv, visit to the small and predominantly african-american community of mossville. >> this was a beautiful community. we had everything. and it was family, church, schools, grocery stores and people begin to get better jobs for their children and it could be better in the future for the next generation. > watch c-span cities' tour of lake charles, louisiana. and sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. working for our cable affiliates as we explore america. >> what does it mean to be american? that's this year's student cam competition question. asking middle and high school students to produce a short documentary about a constitutional right, national characteristic or historic event and explain how it defines the american experience. we are awarding $100,000 in total cash prizes and grand prize of $5,000. this year's deadline is january 20, 2019. for more information go to our website at studentcam.org. >> with hurricane florence expected to make landfall in 24 hours, military officials gave an update on preparations and contingency plans for potential rescue ope

to the small and predominantly african-american community of moscow -- mossville . >> this was a beautiful community. we had everything there was. family, church, schools, grocery stores. and people began to get better jobs and show them they could be better in the future for the next generation. >> watch c-span's city tour of lake charles, louisiana. and sunday at 2 p.m. eastern, on american history tv, on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. this afternoon, the pentagon briefed reporters on preparations with hurricane florence and have a military plans to assist with release -- relief efforts. the 40 minute event was assisted by the secretary for homeland defense and the commander for northern command. >> good afternoon. we in the department and defense have appreciated the media attention for the status of preparation for hurricane florence. secretary mattis and others are monitoring storms in the pacific ocean, receiving daily updates. efforts, and currently, 100% has been approved secretary is also throughout the day on actions the military services are pr

. >> on sunday on american history tv, visit to the small and african-american community of mossville. >> one time this was a beautiful, wonderful, wonderful community. we had everything that there was was family, church, stores.grocery and people began to get better them that itowed could be better in the future next generation. >> watch c-span city tours of lake charles, louisiana, eastern, onnoon c-span 2's book tv and sunday at american eastern on history tv on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. >> washingto >> washington post reporter bob woodward's our washington journal guest monday at 7:00 a.m. eastern, talking about his new book "fear: trump in the white house." on then tuesday at 8:30 eastern former independent counsel ken starr joins us to discuss his book contempt, a memoir of the clinton investigation. watch next week on c-span's "washington journal." >> coming up tonight on c-span, the senate judiciary committee holding a meeting on the brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination. >> the chair announced that a on confirmation will be held nex

a visit to the small and predominantly african-american community of mossville. >> at one time this was a beautiful, wonderful, wonderful community. we had everything that there was, and there was family, chump, school, grocery stores. and people began to get better jobs so it showed them that it could be better in the future for the next generation. >> watch c-span cities tour of lake charles, louisiana saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's

the best example is the town of mossville which is an industrial community just west of here. they were established in the 1830s from freed slaves who might have had other lives and careers in other parts of the south but came here or escaped here. because this was a place where they knew their masters would not come for them because there was no protection. but after the civil war just like the rest of state, we faced reconstruction. and what happened in reconstruction for us was that the northern entrepreneurs came here. in fact, we call them michigan men in lake charles, because they came primarily from the state of michigan in order to revive and invest in the lumber that was here because they knew there was still plenty of lumber, long leaf pine and cypress that was available to be exploited. so the heyday of that post-civil war boom was then. and that, that was a time when there were 28 saw mills in lake charles, the railroad came through, and we had an exponential increase in the way the city grew. for a lot of people, the big change in lake charles being a 19th century

american history tv, a visit to the small and predominantly african-american community of moscow -- mossville . >> this was a beautiful community. we had everything there was. family, church, schools, grocery stores. and people began to get better jobs and show them they could be better in the future for the next generation. >> watch c-span's city tour of lake charles, louisiana. and sunday at 2 p.m. eastern, on american history tv, on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. this afternoon, the pentagon briefed reporters on preparations with hurricane florence and have a military plans to assist with release -- relief efforts. the 40 minute event was assisted

eastern on american history tv, a visit to the small and predominantly african-american community of mossville >> they at one time this was a beautiful, wonderful, wonderful community. we had everything that there was. and there was family, church, school, grocery stores. and people begin to get better jobs, so it showed them that it could be better in the future for the next generation. a >> watch c-span cities tour of lake charles, louisiana, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. leading up to the 100 anniversary of the end of world war i on november 11, every weekend on american history tv, we're featuring special programs about the war. >> in late july, 1918, general pershing created the first his states army under command. and immediate steps were taken to concentrate american forces at one point on the line. >> sunday on his command. and immediate steps were taken we're in northeastern facts with a historian visiting villages, monuments, and the american cem

a visit to the small and predominantly african-american community of mossville. >> at one time this was a beautiful, wonderful, wonderful community. we had everything that there was, and there was family, chump, school, grocery stores. and people began to get better jobs so it showed them that it could be better in the future for the next generation. >> watch c-span cities tour of lake charles, louisiana saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv and sunday on american history tv on c-span3 working with our affiliates as we explore america. >>> aviation officials testify on cyber threats and standardizing information sharing between u.s. airports. the hearing was held by a house homeland security subcommittee. it's about 90 minutes. >> good morning. the meeting on homeland security subcommittee's hearing on cyber security and protective security will come to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to discuss the posture of the aviation sector. now i recognize myself for an opening statement. i'm grateful to be holding this hearing this morning with my good friend and chairman of the

eastern on american history tv, a predominantly african-american community of mossville. >> at one timewonderful community. we had everything that there was, and there was family, church, school, grocery stores and people begin to get better jobs and it showed them that it could be better in the future for the next generation. >> watch c-span cities tour of lake charles louisiana, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv and sunday on monday history tv on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. washington post reporter bob woodward is our washington journal guest monday at 7:00 a.m. eastern talking about his new book "fear. trump in the white house" and on thursday at 8:30 a.m. eastern former independent counsel ken starr joins us to discuss his book "contempt. a memoir of the clinton investigation." watch c-span on washington journal. what does it mean to be american? that's this year's studentcam competition question and we're asking middle and high school students to answer it by producing a short documentary about a constitutional right, national chara

. -- of mossville. point, this was a beautiful, wonderful community where we had everything.hurches, grocery stores. people began to get better jobs, which showed them that they could be better in the future, for the next generation. ofwatch c-span's cities tour lake charles, louisiana. -- and sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, c-span3. washington journal continues. host: on this open phones, you can post on our facebook page, and our twitter feed is available to you, and the phone lines themselves start with the 202 area code. (202) 748-8000 for democrats, (202) 748-8001 for republicans, and independents at (202) 748-8002. brett kavanaugh is the subject of the story in the new york times focusing on senators collins and murkowski. the interest groups nominating -- opposing the nomination -- estimates that her offices have received nearly 3000 code theirs -- coat hangers in office, to date. some -- garbed in red robes and white bonnets, an allusion to handmaidens tail, demonstrated outside her home over the weekend. and a crowd funding campaign started by two