they report to me that the river is swift and the river is strewn with ice. they are confident, sir, and they're determined to convey our army across the delaware. >> excellent. and remember, its victory or death. we will not bail. please turn to your troops and prepare them for inspection. thank you. dismissed. >> we need coverage for many things that were short. of food, tents, provisions, blankets. we have had citizens of philadelphia coming up to provide us with at least some blankets to keep them warm. it reminds me of the crisis by thomas payne. your sergeants have read to you. he wrote, these at the times for, the summer soldier in the sunshine patriots will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of men and women. and my troops you deserve that thanks. you are here with me now and continue our fight. i look forward to seeing you and remember, victory or death. colonel sergeant? >> yes, your excellency. >> prepare the troops to board. >> that i will. >> washington knew they could b

so they were really meant to float down the river and be pulled down the river and steered.t take as bit of skill for these guys to do it to be able to do it. >> my name is leon vaughn, and i'm portraying a member of colonel glover's marble headers. 14th regiment out of marble head, massachusetts. cod fisherman that helped george washington get across. >> how was crossing today? >> crossing today was very easy. some years it has snowed, some years it has rained, and it's been cold. but today perfect weather conditions. >> tell me about your portrayal. why do you do this? >> i do this because it's not in the average american history textbook. about the 40% of colonel glover's unit because during that time in massachusetts black men were a large part of the waling and the fishing industry. being that john glover's men they caught cod ever day, and this is a typical dress of a cod fisherman. the trousers, they're open so just in case you fell in the water you wouldn't have any water in your pants that could drain and you could come up and you would not drown that evening. and t

>> my marble headers have just returned from traversing the river. the river is swift. river is strewn with ice. but they're confident, sir, and their determined to convey our army across the delaware this very night. >> excellent. and remember, it's victory or death. we will not fail. please turn to your troops and prepare them for inspection. ♪ >>> we've had had citizens of philadelphia come willing up to provide us with at least some blankets to keep you warm. it reminds me of the crisis by thomas payne, your sergeants have read to you. he wrote these are the times that try men's souls. the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country. they deserve the love and thanks of man and woman. and my troops, you deserve that loving thanks. you're here with me now to continue our fight. i tip to remember that victory or death. colonel sergeant? >> yes? >> prepare the troops to board. >> that i will. >> ready? row away. >> the boats were meant to float down the river. they were not meant to go across the river. washington

river. but new don pedro holds 2 million acre feet, so we're getting much worse flows, and the salmon population has crashed. this last year, we just had 2500 salmon spanning. so we've seen sfpuc do some very good things in the past. a little over ten years ago, there was a problem with steel head dying in the summer, and it convinced the water district in modesto to join it in releasing water in the summer. so we know that cooperation can happen, and we know that the sfpuc can be a leader. i sent you that peter moyle has been a consultant for p.u.c. in the past, and the idea that we can improve fisheries without adding nonflow measures doesn't work. it's really time to face the fact that fish need water. so we have put forward or interim proposal. we very much appreciate commissioner's viator's request at the end of the meeting. we did hope that it would have come back by now. we understand we live in different times, so we need to be flexible, but we would like to see that come forward. i

river. it was the border between luxembourg and germany. the river on one side, in luxembourg, is called suyi river, on the german side, it's called the sauer river. trucks took us to the drop off point and for you get on the truck, you are handed two grenades -- a fragmentary grenade and you get a phosphorous grenade. as soon a trucks start to move, the experienced guys take their grenade and bend the pins back and throw them off the side of the truck. the minute you get off the truck at the drop off point, the supply sergeant is there and he hands you two more grenades, so it was like routine. they know you are going to throw the grenades away, so they are going to give you two more grenades. picture that on 145 pounds. i've got a blanket, a shelter half over my pack, i'm wearing a winter overcoat, i'm carrying a carbine over one shoulder, and they hand me two boxes of machine gun ammunition. but nobody told me i was going to have to carry these two boxes of ammunition and nobody told me l

river and the main rivers. it was a daylight crossing and we were in large boats that are similar to the old-fashioned lifeboats with a motor on the boat. of course, the germans were shooting shells, artillery at us. at any rate, we make it across the river. and at this point, we're also moving very rapidly. we are moving very rapidly. and we're approaching the city of kassel. k-a-s-s-e-l. and as we approach kassel, we're moving in two columns. and suddenly, a german fighter plane swoops in on top of us. but this was a very unusual fighter plane. it didn't have any propellers. didn't have any propeller. and this was the first german jet that we see. they were way ahead of us, you know? this was a german jet, and fortunately for us, the pilot must have been out of ammunition because he didn't fire. he didn't fire. so then, you know, somebody will say, well, you know, we saw john wayne movies. john wayne picked down the machine gun and he shot down a plane. i can tell you, john wayne couldn't pick up a machine gu

the river on one side in luxembourg is the sure river. on the german side, it's called the sauer river. trucks took us up to the dropoff point and before you get on the truck, you are handed two grenades. you get two. as soon as the trucks start to move, the experienced guys take the grenade and they bend the pins back and they throw them off the side of the truck. the minute you get off the truck at the dropoff point, the supply sergeant is there and he hands you two more grenades. it's like routine. they know you are going to throw the grenades away. they give you two more grenades. picture that, i'm 145 pounds. i got a blanket, over my pack, i'm wearing a winter overcoat. i'm carrying a carbine over one shoulder. they hand me two boxes of machine gun ammunition. nobody told me that i was going to have to carry these two boxes of ammunition. nobody told me, look for some cord, look for some straps, tie the two cans together, sling them over your shoulder like a dutch girl carrying two buckets of milk. i'm carrying these cans of ammuniti

hill brand attachment stopped by the same means at the ohio river.ecember 27th, we proceeded with the detachment, about six miles where we camp for a week. here the snow increased to three or four inches and the weather was excessively cold. lucy butler, that i mentioned earlier, a letter written december 20th states, my husband is preached among the cherokees and tended on them as physician since they were first taken. last summer by their request he was appointed a position by general scott in a camp about eight mile from our station. and after arrangements were made for the cherokee to remove themselves he was appointed by mr. ross to serve as physician and accompany them on the way west. last letter i have was jonesburg, illinois, on the 19th of november, about 20 miles this side of the mississippi. did not accomplish quite half their journey at that time. did have considerable sickness. about 27 of their number laid buried between that place and the one where they commence their journey. durnding this time and during this time george hicks one o

river it took them all summer. they had to wait in the spring and tell the grasp green up on the prairies but if they waited too long they would get caught in the snows going over the ground to now i don't know when nobody knows exactly what year this woman died. if she died after the donner party met the disasters and in california than they would have had that in front of them and this is why we have to hurry on and even if they didn't they knew that time was of the essence. so there she was in there she remained. i always wondered what her story was. when i started writing this book i kind of come i wonder if i could figure what her story wasn't it turned out to be -- except i don't know her story but i can sort of reconstruct her general story, which is probably like the story of just about everybody else coming up. most of the immigrants didn't die but those who did die, they typically didn't die violent deaths. the idea that immigrants traveling to oregon or california were much threatened by native american

hildebrandt's detachment stopped by the same means at the ohio river. december 27, we proceeded with the detachment about six miles, where we camped for the week. there was a slow increase of three or four inches, and the weather was excessively cold. the same letter that i mentioned earlier, written on december 20th, states, "my husband has preached among the cherokees and attended on them as physician since they were first taken. last summer, by their request, he was appointed to physician by general scott in a camp about eight miles from our station, and after arrangements were made for the cherokees to remove themselves, he was reported by mr. ross to serve as physician and accompany them on the way to the west. the last letter i had from him was mailed at johnsburg, illinois, on the 19th of november come about 20 miles this side of the mississippi. they did not accomplish quite half of their journey at this time. they had considerable sickness. about 27 of their number lay buried between that place and the one where they commenced their journey. du

way theerature and the land is along the brazos river was really very good for that sort of thing. we hadhave -- because cotton farming, so there was also slavery in texas in the , this particular bale is a really early bale. it shows how they put them together. this is actually a hook scale and a hoisting beam so that they could weigh the cotton. this is just a simple cotton gin and separator. this was used in the 19th century as well. of course, this is a different kind of bale. they tried this, doing a round bale, but it did not catch on, probably because it did not hold together quite as well as some of the other ways of bailing the .otton although we only have a couple of pieces, we are proud to be able to display a couple of pieces of santa ana silver that was apparently acquired during .he battle of san jacinto texas history is important to us in this museum and i feel like that is an important part of what we as museums do, preserve and protect our local heritage for generations to come. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to bryan and college station, texas, to lear

from 0.123 local rubbish no pollution is destroying the river flow through want to park a stone loose. how low we've got some right in the forecast for japan over the next couple of days but at the moment it's not too bad it's lotty fine and dry here is a band of clouds and rain that's going to slide through the l.s.a. it'll bring some very heavy rain into the korean peninsula as we go through friday back in japan at this stage 15 celsius but that western weather will slide through the city to paddle bring some very heavy rain into honshu possibility of some localized flooding here they say fairly quickly but there are going to be some very heavy bursts of right on that system brought the skies come back in behind but you can link that wet weather back into central parts of china down into the south it is largely driving plenty of sunshine sunshine and showers as per usual across the southeast asia some lobby ones there into northern parts of the philippines scattering as shastri malaysia scattered showers to into indonesia thailand also say some wet weather you can see that cloud and

missouri river. they were built for small population and have the rudimentary sanitary facilities in small populations and they were inundated by tens of thousands of people and came down with colorado which landed in america ten years before and it was the scourge of the travelers, they knew if they could get past they were probably okay. that was part of the story. somewhat later, i grew up in portland and went to college in california and i worked for a year for a family business and i was a traveling salesman and i had a territory that spans from portland to denver. and tried the geography, for those of you who are fans, or readers of james mitch and her you might remember in 1976 james michener published a historical novel, and the centennial state is california and it is the history of colorado. it so happens, my grandmother who was a great reader, the one who found the house. she was at this time not in particularly good health, but she still red and so and james mitch and her's centennial, i

but now a growing population for neglect and lack of planning is turning the river poisonous . for thousands of tonnes of untreated waste and they got here every day is quickly becoming a landfill for the 2000000 people of the district the impact is already being felt by people living downstream and all this is being done legally by the local administration miles away from the site water from underground rail has changed color and smell that came in and. the dumping of garbage in the river by the government has wrecked our lives diseases such as hepatitis t.v. and even cancer on the rise sewage water is polluting our groundwater table our children and families are suffering who should we complain to when the government itself is dumping and polluting the river water it's not just a river bank landfill untreated sewage also flows in from homes and businesses fraud has many solid waste management issues there is a lack of funding there is no landfill site and authorities say it takes too much money to transfer the waste outside of the city provinces chief minister has admitted wh

dumping of garbage in the river but the government has wrecked . diseases such as hepatitis tb and even cancer is on the rise sewage water is polluted groundwater table our children and families are suffering who should we complain to when the government itself is dumping and polluting the river water. it's not just a river bank landfill untreated sewage also flows in from homes and businesses fraud has many solid waste management issues there is a lack of funding and there is the landfill site and authorities say it takes too much money to transfer the waste outside of the city provinces chief minister has admitted what he calls an alarming rapid deterioration of the environment and that there is no space for the delays but he's been in office for nearly 2 years and not a lot has changed local officials seem to have given up on government funds and are now appealing to international donors dumping say that for you there's no doubt that we're dumping garbage at the river site and we can't deny that this is hazardous to both human and aquatic life a

river. but new don pedro holds 2 million acre feet, so we're getting much worse flows, and the salmon population has crashed. this last year, we just had 2500 salmon spanning. so we've seen sfpuc do some very good things in the past. a little over ten years ago, there was a problem with steel head dying in the summer, and it convinced the water district in modesto to join it in releasing water in the summer. so we know that cooperation can happen, and we know that the sfpuc can be a leader. i sent you that peter moyle has been a consultant for p.u.c. in the past, and the idea that we can improve fisheries without adding nonflow measures doesn't work. it's really time to face the fact that fish need water. so we have put forward or interim proposal. we very much appreciate commissioner's viator's request at the end of the meeting. we did hope that it would have come back by now. we understand we live in different times, so we need to be flexible, but we would like to see that come forward. i

river. people are there because they can grow crops there. their culture is different there because their idea of the world is tuned into the environment in which they're living. in this river, you know, read the book, it's a different kind of river, in china, a different kind of river. so, in these various environments there are world views building up and when i speak of world views, to a large extent, what i'm talking about is when people are talking more to one another than they are to others out there, whoever they may be, their stories recirculate and reinforce and weave together until they not only have a narrative. they have a sort of meta narrative. a story of the world that they all kind of feel themselves to be living in and situate themselves within. and the history of the world to me, one of the things that you can see happening, and therefore, one way in which you can construct a single whole story out of it, is by looking at the way these imagery worlds, i'm just going to call

was in full i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers i thought but also from the landscape around them. my eyes kept us i think it's important to realize that this is not just happening in the caribbean or wherever be aware that it starts here with us i'm saying this. after just 2 hours they've gathered around 2000 liters of garbage. stephano wash needs as many fellow campaigners as he can get because that's plenty of work to do. but he's happy to have come this much closer to his goal of clean water waste. them while they were equal to the so much trash amazing what people park in the cheap but now backed off because whether the best of contemporary attempts to combine innovation and age old knowledge to construct buildings that remain cool even when the sun is beating down outside indeed sandra in santa go a group of young engineers and architects have joined forces instead of congress they use oil to make compressed earth breakers it's an economical and sustainable building well let's have a look see how far their work has gone. in senegal the summers

he started out doing the collecting on his own he'd make an arrangement of the garbage from the rivers photograph it and put it on display it's the photo designer's way of making the invisible waste plain for all to see. up on for 2 of them are i took a photograph that shows a kayaker from above paddling on go. ridge this is the average amount of garbage from one kilometer of river and it will be different in germany but not in asia and we have to work to reduce the odds that germany has a lot of kilometers of rivers trying to reach the feet of who's going to make it. in total around 7300 kilometers and stefan horse has only travelled a fraction of them so far. alongside exhibitions he also organizes regular cleanup events 7 cities are taking part in this one like oberhausen on a tributary of the rhine. and what you have to look closely i pull out pieces of plastic all over the place to look just like the stones my boats already full up. he's joined by new volunteers at every new stretch with nothing it's sawing resin here around 60 cleena opposite on the water and the river bank. i th

not in asia and we have to work to reduce the odds that germany has a lot of kilometers of rivers or drowned at least the feet of who's going to meet up. in total around 7300 kilometers and staff and horses only travelled a fraction of them so far. alongside exhibitions he also organizes regular cleanup events 7 cities are taking part in this one like oberhausen on a tributary of the rhine. and what you have to look closely i pull out pieces of plastic all over the place to look just like the stones my boats already full up. he's joined by new volunteers at every new stretch of motherhood siding resin here around 60 clean opposite on the water and the river bank. their life just because i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers thought but also from the landscape around them. and their eyes. i think it's important to realise that this is not just happening in the caribbean or wherever be aware that it starts here with us i'm saying that. after just 2 hours they've gathered around 2000 liters of garbage. stephanie halasz needs as many fellow campaigners as

on the left is the river running into downtown harrisburg. the state militia is going to take over many of the railroad buildings, including house near bridgeport, and they will convert it into block houses and try to protect the railroad as best they can. the new york state militia barely in the background. my co-author did this, you can barely see the train. the cumberland valley railroad still operational, at least in taking troops and refugees who can still make it into union held territory, they are still running trains for a little while. all of that is finished up in the battle of gettysburg is over. hermann hot appears on the scene. there are 31 railroad ridges that have been destroyed in york county alone. from gettysburg to hanover and hanover junction, many of those have been destroyed as well as the railroad bridges on the spur from york to wrightsville, and the longest railroad bridge in wrightsville has been burned by the pennsylvania state militia -- silva noons -- actually civilians under orders from the militia. the job is to

of river. in these various empire meant there are worldviews building up and when i speak of worldviews to a large extent what i'm talking about is when people are talking more to one another than they are two to others out there whoever they may be. they are stories recirculating reinforce and weave together o until they not only have the narrative they have sort of the metanarrative. they have the story of the world that they all kind of feel themselves to be living in and situate themselves within. the history of the world to me one of the things that you can see happening and therefore one way in which you can construct a single whole story out of it is by looking at the way these imaginary worlds, these worlds that are collectively constructed communally inhabited but experienced as individuals. this whole thing starts in place in his groups expanded the world expands at some point they run intoto an expanding worldview fm some other places. thenen those overlap and then things happen. not

to germany to meet among who's hoping to turn the tight when it comes to plastic pollution in the rivers here are some other topics we'll be looking at today. we look at why being a ranger is such a dangerous profession. we also see how briefing that no wage and all related promise 1st stop them from inc. and find out how the plant waste is being put to use in modern guns. being a range it can be a dangerous job some $100.00 wildlife guardians lose their lives each year in their line of duty many of them in east and central africa well accidents account for about 50 percent of those fatalities porches were responsible for the other half we went to months and forced national park here in uganda to meet julius over one now the wadded in charge of law enforcement there he has been confronting these day in day out for more than 20 years. to get. in the morning roll call julius one and tells his men that poachers have set traps during the night to capture animals. they have to move fast to save their lives. after covering a few kilometers and foot with his men one of find. but as the rangers

before they were just trees and the river. my father and i went fishing in the river. now it looks like these buildings will slowly take over. the forest is now threatened by the construction of the metra train and parking site. itit's a projoject that h has dd the population. for the first time they are supported by many of mumbai's residence, and even volley with stars. -- bollywood stars. >> they want to create one more issue. october, hundreds of trees were cut in the middle of the night and the situation got tense. thousands of people e were parmela. including we meet her at a rally with her husband. >> letet your candleles here and ststand in line. >>>> these candles are being lit to ask the trees for forgiveness. according to tribal tradition, they are the other protectors. >> these are unprecedented protests in the history of mumbai. peoplele of all ages, sex, socil class and caste took to the streets. it's up to the government to in the textbooks of future generations if they want to appear to be the one to save the planet or vice versa. >> defined at the gove

29th cim floodwaters from the entire region flowed into the river. the poem wavecrest its finest flooding the surrounding countryside houses were washed away including that of farmer philippe whose entire harvest was wiped out. for the cycle and came i've been making good progress but when it hit it literally threw me back to square one i'm now starting from the bottom again point 0. 0.20. things would have been even worse if it weren't for the goring goes a national park this unique wetland landscape lies 140 kilometers up river like a sponge the vegetation in the network of streams and rivers there absorbed huge amounts of water dumped by the cycling. mark salmond's the chief ecologist at the park checks the water levels regularly he says even several months after the cycle over the flood waters were still draining out of the landscape and into the pond way river. in fact landscapes can play a tremendously positive buffering effect very generally kind of attenuate the extremes of weather extremes of wind streams of water and that's why we need thos

next what towns along the russian river are doing to handle the rush of nonresidents. and taking advantage of the state home orders, major projects underway right now while there is less traffic on the roads in the bay area bit now this is a live look at the traffic now at the bay bridge toll plaza, a few cars moving through but just breezing through, sal castaneda will watch this and every thing else in traffic and bring this morning's edition of traffic jams coming up on mornings on 2. ♪ this virus is testing all of us. and it's testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. so abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. and until this fight is over, we...will...never...quit. because they never quit. >> welcome back, it is 4:14 am, the trump administration battle with the world health organization is expanding in the washington post says the white house will permanently reroute money that would normally go to the world health organization to nongovernmental organizations involved in public health presiden

like a sponge the vegetation in the network of streams and rivers there absorbed huge amounts of water dumped by the cycling. mark salmond's the chief ecologist at the park checks the water levels regularly he says even several months after the cycle own the flood waters were still draining out of the landscape and into the poem way river. in fact landscapes can play a tremendously positive buffeting effect very generally kind of attenuate the extremes of weather the extremes of winter grade streams of water and that's why we need those those big landscapes they also serve as a bit of war. or horse thing by their 1st horse thing systems that are effective for their functioning but this natural paradise is under threat on nearby mt goran goes the residents have cleared huge swathes of forest for farmland forest subacute regulate tree function absorbing and releasing water it was clear that if the deforestation continued many of the springs that sustain the wetlands would disappear. so 6 years ago the park administration came up with an idea instead of subsistence farming residents could