at that time hitler still had a very strong army west of the rhine.st on the certainty that he would not allow them to withdraw, that once they saw the situation to be hopeless they would then take the bulk of their forces back across and therefore defend that very great obstacle in such a way that we would have a terrible time getting across. so, we began to plan the basic -- what you might say the power crossing of the rhine for a crossing just to the north. this would be in the zone of the 21st army group under general montgomery. to that force i had attached the ninth army in order to reinforce the blow. of course, we give them considerable time to prepare for what you might call that power crossing. in the meantime, however, we went about the business of destroying the german forces to the west of the rhine. that -- this was a series of blows that have been taken up first by the bradley army group and finally down into the army group from the french and american army in his command. >> there was considerable argument as to how we should cross it

leading to the first allied bridgehead across the rhine river in germany. the bridge at remagen and is a two-part 1965 u.s. army film telling the story of the battle. the big picture episodes include interviews with president eisenhower, general omar bradley, a german commander, and representative ken heckler, who witnessed the event as an army historian. [gunshots] >> i received the news that we had captured the bridge and waste discussed the advantage. i told him to put troops across and secure the bridgehead taking whatever steps were necessary. so we can hold the bridge for future operations. this bridge enabled us to get across the rhine without having to make an assault later on. really, made a decision to cross on a white front, easier for eisenhower to make. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [gunshots] >> when we receive the orders that we would have to cross the bridge, the thing that struck me was the length of the bridge and the erpolay started across, the i believe i had the best flooding -- fighting platoon in that army of that time. we would go to heaven for each oth

this was the first command post on the east bank of the rhine.he next command post was in the cellar of the burger meister's house. beginning that morning and continuing for a number of days later, there was a constant stream of american troops from the west bank to the east bank of the river. >> we had four divisions across to form a bridge head. the germans countered by throwing 11 german divisions against us to try to push us back or at least contain us. fortunately for us, those were divisions that were reduced in strength and effectiveness. one of the divisions they threw against us was the second badger division which had been badly chewed up and suffered terrific casualties. even with 11 divisions, they were not able to drive us back across the river. in fact, we could expand that will against them and gave orders to the first army to have those divisions and advance about a thousand yards a day. therefore, it would be able to break out when the time came. >> the capture was of the utmost significance to future operations. from the beginni

gigantic tractors as the russians cross and the first of army smashes beyond the rhine.e the raw river, the last major barrier before the rhine crossed by the elements of the united states ninth army. a vital phase of "the greatest of west front offenses." the battle start -- the battle scarred germantown is up. and here, still more german soldiers, dead and alive, helped swell the enemy casualty lists. now far past one million on the western front. amid a shambles of silence and emptiness, the german people are learning what warfare means. supreme commander eisenhower with general simpson inspects positions and the forces lineup for the smash across the rhine to dusseldorf and beyond. as a security measure civilians are assembled for questioning but they are few compared to the mounting total of capture german soldiers. as the american troops approached the rhine, a free thousands of russian prisoners forced into labor battalions by the nazis. now allied friends. this concentration camp, guarded by electrified barbed wire deep trenches, and many gun post gives new -- ma

on the broad rhine river, and there he saw the electrifying site of a bridge still standing -- the ludendorff bridge, a bridge which the americans never expected to find and announcer: american tv was live from longwood university on a seminar of the closing of the civil war. it was cohosted by the university and the a pot of mocks courthouse national historian -- appomattox courthouse. the union's closing campaign. tomorrow, we'll be live again for more about the end of the civil war started at 9:00 a.m. on c-span 3. [applause] >> for the benefit of those not here last night when i was talking about the campaign from petersburg i mentioned when i worked at the park in the early 1970's through the mid-1970's my days off i would close to longwood. only one book published in 1959. it was called "to appottamox," it is a popular book. i had a lot of questions as to where these events took place and how did the army's get from here to there. this book here set up my quest to learn more about these sites. at that time when i worked at a paramedics --, you probably know how order, hebron trading exc

german soil was not occupied except for a small bit on the west bank of the rhine. this perhaps lead to trouble in the future. i would argue that it did treat most germans never really felt they had been defeated. they never saw the consequences of defeat. the high command, who had so rapidly and in such a panic stricken fashion demanded the government -- they panicked, we didn't. they began with the support of of the right in germany to promote this pernicious myth that germany had been stabbed in the back, it had never been defeated on the battlefield, it had been stabbed in the back by traders -- traitors at home. they included liberals communists, and unfortunately, jews. it grew in power rather than lessening in the 1920's and 1930's. the question now is what sort of peace will be made. as the professor mentioned wilson broke the president by coming himself to the peace conference that was going to take place in paris. he was heavily criticized for it at the time. he was right to go, because this was an important conference. the world had quite literally been t

army forces captured a bridge leading to the first allied bridgehead across the rhine river in germany"the bridge at remagen" is a 1965 u.s. army film telling the story of the battle. the documentary is narrated by several participants from world war ii including president dwight eisenhower, general omar bradley, and a congressman who witnessed the events as an army historian. born in 1914 and now 100 years old, west virginia representative heckler is currently the oldest living former congressman. >> the town of remagen had advantages for both the attacker and defender. from the standpoint of the attacker, there was high ground going into the town where you could direct operations from but it was very easy to defend remagen because of the crooked and narrow streets and particularly, the 600-foot-high cliff on the opposite side of the rhine, which provided wonderful observations for 10 miles around of which the defendant could see anybody approaching the town. >> on the morning of march 7, we received orders and were given maps covering the area leading to remagen. we noticed on the ma

leading to the first allied bridgehead across the rhine river in germany. the bridge at remagen and is a two-part 1965 u.s. army film telling the story of the battle. the big picture episodes include interviews with president eisenhower, general omar bradley, a german commander, and representative ken heckler, who witnessed the event as an army historian. >> as we started across, the only thing in my mind was to get off that bridge. the germans had attended once to board it, and failed. i felt sure next time the bridge would go. we tried to move as fast as we possibly could. however, the leading elements were being shot at by snipers and other people on the other side and they were moving more cautiously. >> hitler through in everything he had in an effort to destroy the bridge. he fired the deadly v2's against the bridge. he mobilized a couple of big 17 centimeter railroad guns to fire in their big charges. most of all, he thought he could destroy the bridge through underwater swimmers. there was a special group of swimmers that had been trained in vienna,

i'm josh rhine at the scene work inform the hospitality house and member a local i appreciate the comments by supervisor mar and supervisor avalos i wanted to quickly speak on the rate of burn out with the employees with the agencies we go in willing to see the least with the add stress of the employees having to deal with the strugglers how will i pay rent and provide for my family and the commuter costs with the prices rising and with burn out comes employees dropping out of the agency you lose the relationships of people coming through the doors when this happens there less potential for many, many people in the city who are on the streets to get a positive front and back effect in their lives for the potential you know to take a step forward in the russ johnson with arbitrate more going to employee wages that will help reduce the stressed that comes with the work neal and enables people to work as a stronger person to help and i hope that the increase happens so thank you, again. >> thank you for osgood points. >> next speaker. >> hello supervisors thank you to the supervisors for putt

another system is expected to move plu northern california tem night over the same area where it is rhiningfor us though. we will only get that sholt of rain tonight. only producing about a tenth of an inch where it rains. where it doesn't rain you could see goose eggs across the bay area from san francisco down across san jose. the thing to note this map doesn't tell the true story of where it will rain but it gives you a good idea of how much it will rain. over the next 12 hours we could see a pew few showers out there. even the sierra will pick up snow tonight into tomorrow morning. half a foot above 6,000 feet. the trend after tomorrow will be a warming trends. the fog is oust here wednesday, thursday, and friday. and in fact the 60s are out of here. springtime temperatures, thursday and friday it will feel like mid summer with mid 80s for daytime highs. get ready. get the flip-flops and shorts and plan to take off on thursday if you want to hit the beach. >> one of those sick days you have been talking about. anthony we are on to you. >>> coming up next a bay area 10-year-old -- 10-yea

. >> reporter: today the rhine filled up the potholes. this is labelled as failed pavement meaning it doesn't get much worse than this. there is no adequate maintenance here since 1997. in her report the auditor said san jose spends the least amount of money on street repair among all local municipalities roughly 20 to $30 million a year, and it is going to take half a billion dollars to bring things up to par in the city. the auditor leaves a report to the transportation city which says it has been aware of the problem for years and the keys to finding cash may be asking residents to dig deeper. >> taxes? >> potentially. state, federal revenue as well. we will talk to legislators in sacramento and d.c. to see what might be coming around the corner. but yeah certainly bond measures and what have you are going to be part of the overall equation. >>. >> reporter: the city auditor says if the city doesn't aggressively begin making repairs, most recent san jose will look like rosham drive and nobody in san jose would want that. deferred maint

this is not a pleasant experience for the rhine york but it is a brief period of discomfort that couldimately save his life. >> i was lucky today. >> [inaudible]. >> moving a groggy, 3,000-pound rhino often takes more than two dozen men. mychal cooper -- coope re and his team darted this huge female, but naylor says the poaching crisis demands desperate action. >> my day is spent protecting these rhinos. i've had to double our guard force. we've really had to become a fortress just to protect the rhinos that we have. >> reporter: in two days the team captured ten rhino, but poachers killed 1200 rhino last year alone. >> right now it looks like an insurmountable task, but you have to keep at it. if you throw up your hands, you've lost. >> reporter: for these rhino new hope as they begin their 900-mile journey far away from the deadly reach of poachers. debra patta, cbs news johannesburg, south africa. >> pelley: saving the natural world. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media a

german soil was not occupied except for a small bit on the west bank of the rhine.erhaps lead to trouble in the future. i would argue that it did treat most germans never really felt they had been defeated. they never saw the consequences of defeat. the high command, who had so rapidly and in such a panic stricken fashion demanded the government -- they panicked, we didn't. they began very city leslie with the support of the writing in germany to promote this pernicious myth that germany had been stabbed in the back, it had never been defeated on the battlefield, it had been stabbed in the back by traders -- traitors at home. they included liberals, communists, and unfortunately jews. it grew in power rather than lessening in the 1920's and 1930's. . the question now is what sort of peace will be made. as a professor mentioned wilson broke the president by coming himself to the peace conference that was going to take place in paris. he was heavily criticized for it at the time. he was right to go, because this was an important conference. the world had quite literal

he did apparently. 28-year-old man with 600 flying hours under his belt on the job since 2013 from rhine land, west germany. he was on faa database for those who excelled in education and medical tests. according to people that knew him he was quiet. he loved flying. happy with the job, with landing a job with lufthansa is landing a real plum job. according those that knew him enthuse as sick as a young boy. according to members about his fly gliding club he was trained in phoenix arizona. they picked up crucial final minutes, everything apparently all the conversation leading up to the last ten minutes was jovial and cordial until cruising altitude when copilot andreas lubitz, became, quote curt on the controls. the pilot referred to only as patrick s, at this point, the captain with much more experience who was locked out to leave the cockpit and lubitz wouldn't let him back in. in the ensuing ten minutes lubitz was completely silent and ignoring frantic pounding on the door and calls from various control towers. family members are gathered. psychologists are on hand. apparently a grou

>> the swiss city of basel, on the river rhine. plenty of up market watch shops here, but right now they're firmly focused on the global market. here at basel world, there's no escaping that some luxury brands are seeing their sales slip. and that's because the fastest growing economies have been slowing. so the brands have having to change their strategies. >> there has been a slowdown particularly in the asian markets. as a matter of fact, we are still operating at a pretty high level of business. in order to make our watches still affordable in europe we are looking at offering models at affordable prices. and this is one of the measures we have taken. >> for me passion is the kind of watches. this is an automatic movement. it's self-winding. >> the market's high-end mechanical watches is being revitalized by new lower priced designs. designs. >> normally more expensive watches, and that's quite interesting, because, a brand that has its sort of positioning and brand personality and you have to be careful you don't lose that cac

they were performing on the rhine. maria radner and oleg bryjak.on the phone is a friend of oleg. we are so sorry for the news. how are you doing? >> i am in a complete shock. nobody knows how to deal with it. >> yes, understandable. so many lives were lost. and can you tell us about oleg as an artist as a man? >> well he was an incredibly warm heart and generous artist and friend. he was at home and i mean he has been with the ep semable since 1996 -- ensemble since 1996 and sung the repertoire and had serious roles, a hand an incredible sense of humor. he was warm heart and generous man and make sure that every christmas we got some present from him. am amazingly enough, there was one christmas where he was not feeling well and could not get a present to me in the office, and made a point of comeing on christmas eve and driving over to my home just to bring me a present of caviar which he had brought back from a trip to russia and that just shows you how e generous he was. >> i understand that you had to break the news to the rest of the company,

innings on trusting iranians to turn over enriched-uranium, trusting the iranians to turn over that you rhine yum for a nuclear program they say doesn't exist. just that fact contradicts what they say is true. >> they claim the nuclear program is for peaceful use. david: hang on a second. i spoke a lot of stuff that know as well. the enriched-uranium they were planning to turn over to russians is specifically for nuclear bam programs. >> it certainly can be used for that. it was to be turned into fuel rods only used for civilian purposes. that is one of the hang-ups you got here. the good news the russian foreign minister left yesterday, lavrov. he is back now. so i think they will make some progress in that area. david: real issue in interest to the iranians. they want to eliminate sanctions. they want them immediately removed before they prove good or bad fact. that is not what saudi arabiaians or our allies think should be done. why don't we trust our allies to go with their instincts on this issue because frankly they have been pretty good to us over the years? >> we'll not lift the sanct

and there is no rhine why the west should be trusting this west should trust this brutal dictatorship: that brings to us middle east policy colonel wilkinson, i will go to you. on one hand we're sporting saudi arabia against iranian proxies. on the other we're sporting iranian troops as well as iranian proxies in iraq. what do you make of that? >> the enemy of your enemy is your friend at least tactically speaking. i can understand what is going on in tactical sense. what disturbs me i don't see a strategic chapot over it. what will we do eventually with our relationship with saudi arabia, despotic state, authoritarian state, one with lots of oil? this is not a good relationship. the saudi regime has been fairly stable to this point but i can see some signs of instability. so we've got to make some very big strategic decisions who we will like in the long term and who we're not going to like in the long term. david: ambassador richardson, let me be a little more focused on saudi arabia for a second here. they helped pakistanis for decades with their nuclear program. some people say th

the your the taurus rhine as the attackers also took hostages led museum reopening concessions damagedtack but it is known for its from mosaics. top destination for your being a cruise ship passengers and other tourists. >> darya: blue plane but letting computers and out of because of flooding. briefly long run and that airport apologize and your from cause delays airline heavy is manual check of the passengers. enter resume working not know operations but customarily it as a way to credit take care the backlog. >> darya: been up with bay area traffic we see also shine more sun and now truck at the approach of a bridge (vo) at jennie-o, we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride ten miles for tacos. we thought we'd show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco, made with jennie-o ground turkey, cooked thoroughly to 165. (mom) i'd feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. (woman) i think that they're light and they're just fresh tasting. (vo) it's time for a better taco. (kid) the tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. (vo) make the switch. look for

. >> reporter: light vehicle fire here slowing the rhine getting in pittsburgh and coming out of antioch street and its bread. another at bailey road at highway 4 and the westbound direction. >> reporter: right coming out of walnut creek a here is the right up 680 south still jammed up as you can see leading up and the danville. >> reporter: continue monitoring delays at the bay bridge they disappeared and last 15 minutes less and less all this still backed up your right to the san mateo bridge another hot spot this morning still jammed from before the plaza heading westward out to the base of the high-rise. >> reporter: over the weather sensors to show the update. >> reporter: 95 looking up to some great skies looking at the golden gate bridge and we see that read it because it to the start of a cousin of the cloud cover and continue on with that on much of the lunch hour and services and sean sometime later on today. gray look outside and a storm system has brought a slight showers across the north face of to bring across north bay today plan on having an umbrella with you may not need

forces are lined up for the smash across the rhine to dusseldorf and beyond. as a security measure, civilians are assembled for questioning. but they are few compared to the mounting toll of captured german soldiers. as the american troops approached the rhine, a brief thousands of russian and -- they freed thousands of russian and polish prisoners. and and to captivity and new allied friends.

leading to the first allied bridgehead across the rhine river in germany. the bridge at remagen and is a two-part 1965 u.s. army film telling the story of the battle. the big picture episodes include interviews with president eisenhower, general omar bradley, a german commander, and representative ken heckler, who witnessed the event as an army historian. [gunshots] >> as we started across, the only thing those in my mind was to get off that rituals of the germans had attempted wants to blow it and had failed, and we felt sure, or i felt sure, that the next time the bridge would go, therefore we try to move as fast as we possibly could fall stop however, the elements were being shot at by snipers and people on the other side, and they were moving more cautiously. [explosion] >> hitler through in everything he had in an effort to destroy the remagen bridge. he mobilized a couple of big 17-centimeter railroad guns to fire in their big charges. most of all, he thought he could destroy the bridge through underwater swimmers. it was a special group of swimmers t

leading to the first allied bridgehead across the rhine river in germany. the bridge at remagen and is a two-part 1965 u.s. army film telling the story of the battle. the big picture episodes include interviews with president eisenhower, general omar bradley, a german commander, and representative ken heckler, who witnessed the event as an army historian. [gunshots]