into atlanta. at the same time, sherman does calvary raids. hood's response to these movements by sending a core out west of atlanta to block the federal movements out there, this is under the troops that hood sends out there under very inexperienced core commander who is a close friend of hoods. lee gets out to the area where he's supposed to be he thinks the federals out there aren't -- have just arrived, he takes it upon himself to start a battle. he doesn't have any orders to do this, but lee starts launching frontal attacks, throwing one division after another at these federals. the men who have never known defeat, and what happens in the battle is kennesaw mountain in reverse. it's the confederates losing fortified federals. and the casualties are dramatically lopsided. hood's army loses about 3,000 men in these attacks, the federals lose only 600 casualties at ezra church. ezra church is a great victory for sherman. but the calvary raids were disastrous. they rode into the city, ended up being smas

into atlanta. at the same time, sherman does calvary raids. hood's response to these movements by sending a core out west of atlanta to block the federal movements out there, this is under the troops that hood sends out there under very inexperienced core commander who is a close friend of hoods. lee gets out to the area where he's supposed to be he thinks the federals out there aren't -- have just arrived, he takes it upon himself to start a battle. he doesn't have any orders to do this, but lee starts launching frontal attacks, throwing one division after another at these federals. the men who have never known defeat, and what happens in the battle is kennesaw mountain in reverse. it's the confederates losing fortified federals. and the casualties are dramatically lopsided. hood's army loses about 3,000 men in these attacks, the federals lose only 600 casualties at ezra church. ezra church is a great victory for sherman. but the calvary raids were disastrous. they rode into the city, ended up being smas

georgia with the goal of capturing atlanta. after a series of battles and the siege of the city, atlanta fell to the union on september 2, this was part of the gettysburg college institute annual summer conference. it is about one hour. >> before we get started, the map you see up here is a campaign map. the smaller map indicates the main battle. i know it is probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print, so what we did -- or actually, what pete's staff did, was actually include this in your maps and handbooks book. if you turn to page nine, you will see this map in there. you might want to refer to this. it is probably a little easier to read. i will be making frequent reference to this map as it will help us understand the course of the campaign. as general in chief of all military forces in 1864, u.s. grant devised accord mated offensive by a number of union army stretching from louisiana all the way to virginia. as you know already, the two most important of the

to the west of atlanta. th hopes of cutting the last railroad into the city that led -- that led south of atlanta. at the same time, sherman tries to launch cavalry raids that will ride around the eastern and western approaches of the city and wreck the rail lines south of the city. hood responds to these movements by sending a corps out west of atlanta to block the federal movements out there. this is under a -- the troops that hood sends out there are under very, very inexperienced corps commander named s.d. lee, a close friend of hood's. lee gets out to the area he's supposed to. he think it is federals out there aren't -- have just arrived. they aren't entrenched and takes it upon himself to start a battle. he doesn't have orders to do from hood but lee starts throwing one division after another at the federals and the federals of the army of the tennessee, the men, remember, i mentioned who have never known defeat, and what happens in the battle of ezra church is kennesaw mountain in reverse. it's confed

that is sherman's objective in the atlanta campaign. if you look at sherman's record during the civil war up until in manyng of 1864, ways, it is not that impressive, particularly if you look at his performance on the battlefield. during the vicksburg campaign of , chattanooga, missionary ridge, sherman -- the attack sherman launched in those battles were piecemeal and repulsed. he does not have a particularly impressive record on the battlefield. his reputation rest primarily on 1865,e did in 1864 and the infamous grand grand strategy. sherman targeted not only the armies of tennessee, but also of the confederacy to wage war. campaign in the spring and summer of 1864, the symbolize thea way the confederacy waged war. it was a vital rail center in the deep south and was filled with important war industries, factories and mills turning out uniforms and accoutrements for the confederate army. torman also sought demoralize the confederate soldiers and civilians to prove to these people that their government could no longer defend them. war

on september second, the mayor of atlanta surrendered the city. sherman announced to abraham lincoln, atlanta is ours, and fairly won. sherman also told hallic, i shall not push much further on this raid. it's an interesting word to characterize the campaign. the constant battles since the first week of may exhausted the army and needed rest. atlanta turned into a garrison city. news of the fall of the city, of course, caused great celebration in the north, it gave a desperately needed boost to the fortunes of the republican party. and here is where we get to the significance of the atlanta campaign, what makes it so important. along with the fall of atlanta. along with the victories won by phil sheridan in the shenandoah valley later in september, helped to boost the confidence of northern voters that the lincoln administration was going to win an ultimate victory, and that the president needed a second term in office. so the fall of atlanta helped to reassure the re-election of lincoln and also offer public affirmation of his war policies, that l

into atlanta. at the same time, sherman does calvary raids. hood's response to these movements by sending a core out west of atlanta to block the federal movements out there, this is under the troops that hood sends out there under very inexperienced core commander who is a close friend of hoods. lee gets out to the area where he's supposed to be he thinks the federals out there aren't -- have just arrived, he takes it upon himself to start a battle. he doesn't have any orders to do this, but lee starts launching frontal attacks, throwing one division after another at these federals. the men who have never known defeat, and what happens in the battle is kennesaw mountain in reverse. it's the confederates losing fortified federals. and the casualties are dramatically lopsided. hood's army loses about 3,000 men in these attacks, the federals lose only 600 casualties at ezra church. ezra church is a great victory for sherman. but the calvary raids were disastrous. they rode into the city, ended up being smas

, came in 15 or 20 miles south of atlanta. cut the railroad to macon and hood was forced to evacuate atlanta. that was when scarlett and rhett had to get in that wagon and atlanta was aburning and they had to flee the city. hood had failed, lincoln had the great victory he needed. lincoln's re-election was assured there would be no compromise with slavery, there would be no compromise with is a significance. that was the atlanta campaign. what did it mean? why did it turn out like it did? almost immediately, confederates who had been involved in the atlanta campaign began casting blame on each other. johnston was the first to strike. when he was removed from command, he had gone south to macon, and he was in macon for several months working on his official report of his campaign. which he finished and sent off to richmond, and in that report he set forth and interpretation of his campaign that he had never waivered from for the rest of his life. he could do only what he did. his strategy had been to fight on the defensive inflict casu

but one of the most important facilities in all of the atlanta complex was the quartermaster clothing depot, run by that tennessee now confederate quartermaster george washington cunningham. whose house had been grant and sherman's headquarters in nashville in late n 1863 and eay 1864. cunningham operated a facility in atlanta that was capable of producing 130,000 complete suit of uniforms in a 12-month time period. and the -- he did this mostly by piecework. he had male tailors and other w. staff cutting out fabric in warehouses in atlanta, and then all of the pieces of a given garment, like a jacket or a pair of trousers would be bundled w together, along with the necessary thread to sew them ong together, and the buttons and other bits of trim, and then t women would come in and check out these bundles of unfinished garments, take them home, sew them together, and then bring them back in and receive pay foe them once they were inspected p and found to meet standards. by the spring of 1863, this operation in atlanta employed 3,000 women a month. sewing uniform items together. s and

on september 2nd, the mayor of atlanta surrendered the city. erman announced to abraham lincoln, atlanta is ours. the constant battles and skirmishing since the first week of may exhausted the army and it needed rest. atlanta turned into a garcon city. news of the fall caused great celebration. here is where we get to the significance of the campaign. what makes it so important? so the fall of atlanta helped to boost the confidence 06 northern voters that the lincoln administration was going to win an ultimate victory. and that the president needed a second term in office. so the fall of the president helped to reassure lincoln and offered public aftfirmation of his war policies. it would end on the basis of both reunion around emancipatio. at the same time the fall of atlanta, and lincoln's reelection, helped ensure that u.s. grant would remain as general in chief and sherman as his chief lieutenant and that these two men would be the article tects of ultimate union victory in the civil war. thank you. >> do we have time for a few questions? ok

and his main source for writing about the atlanta campaign was edward a. pollard. and greeley said he got his information from johnston, so he knows it must be correct. this would not be the critical thinking one would like among historical writers. johnston also benefited by his early biographers. johnston died in 1891. he had two quick biographies. one of them by badly t., who a dear good friend of his and military subordinate, who confessed in his induction that i love joe johnston and the other ones by his kinsman robert hughes and for 50 or 60 years those were the only two biographies of joe johnston that were available. hood didn't have a biography at all until the middle of the 20th century. johnston benefits from all of these things. he also benefited from trends in civil war writing. the overemphasis on virginia meant that people writing about the war in georgia and atlanta didn't have much to work with and didn't spend a lot of time trying to describe it. they grabbed quickly available sources. people like pollard and greeley and foot and others. these sou

and some of you all may know walker, after his death in the atlanta campaign, in the battle of atlantall wind up being interred on the family cemetery that is still on this piece of ground. but augusta was already the location of a principal united states arsenal in the south in the antebellum period. and with georgia's secession, the state of georgia sees that arsenal in january of 1861. and in so doing, brought 22,000 arms to the state of georgia, and then the new confederate government. it is worth noting that 12 months before, in early 1860, there were only 2,000 arms in the augusta arsenal. why the jump between january of 1860 and january of 1861 from 2,000 to 22,000? it was in response to pleas by governor joseph e. brown to the united states war department, in particular, to the virginia secretary of war john floyd to ship more arms south in the aftermath of john brown's insurrection at harper's ferry. there was the fear that there would be more john brown's and more harper's ferries. so the state of georgia, and then the confederate government will get this already existing fac

but one of the most important facilities in all of the atlanta complex was the quartermaster clothing depot, run by that tennessee now confederate quartermaster george washington cunningham. which had been sherman headquarters in nashville in late 1863, and early 1864. cunningham operated a facility in atlanta that was capable of producing 130,000 complete suits of uniforms in a 12-month time period. and the -- he did this mostly by piecework. he had male tailors and other staff cutting out fabric in warehouses in atlanta, and then all of the pieces of a given garment, like a jacket or a pair of trousers would be bundled together, along with the necessary thread to sew them together, and the buttons and other bits of trim, and then women would come in and check out these bundles of unfinished garments, take them home, sew them together, and then bring them back in and receive pay for them once they were inspected and found to meet standards. by the spring of 1863, this operation in atlanta employed 3,000 women a month. sewing uniform items together. and if we do not discount the sunda

so sherman's army took control of the city of atlanta on september 2, 1864. they weren't planning to stay for very long. but he did want his men to use their time in the city for sort of recharging, to rest a little bit after the riggeors of the campaign to take atlanta. and he didn't want his men distracted by confederate operatives or women and children. he didn't want to have to feed women and children. and he didn't want to have to leave any men behind to hold onto the city of atlanta when he pulled out of the city. so he famously ordered civilians, unionists and c confederates out of the city and gave them ten days which to comply. and it was about 1,200 people effected by this. many have used his september 12, 1864 letter to the mayor of atlanta in which he famously wrote, quote, war is cruelty and you cannot refine it. to make the argument that he was willing to do whatever worked. to wreak all kinds of havoc on civilians nord civilians in order to end the war. but in other letters written at the same time, sherman's quite explicit about following the r

our helicopter as it moves over the metro atlanta area will have some breakup. that's normal. the first patient is dr. kent and then we have writebol next. there was a lot of issues in other african countries because they didn't want the fly to actually fly over them. there's a lot of worry about ebola, and rightfully so. they didn't want the plane to land and refuel. the plane has landed. it stopped off in bangor, maine, to get gas. we'll have the final route when it's all said and done because they try to keep that as low key as possible, not to worry people and give them any kind of unnecessary fear. but you can see there the ambulance moving along with -- escorted through the atlanta metro area or around the atlanta metro area i should say to emory hospital. i would have expected to see honestly, uma, more police presence but maybe they're further out from the picture since this has been zoomed in a bit. you can see some unmarked cars there as well. as the helicopter follows this procession that's moving, again, from the airport at dobbins air force base over to atlanta to

she is the executive director at the atlanta press club. lauri strauss. pplause] the elbow of the master on how to get things to happen. her grandfather was, is the legendary bob strauss who probably was one of the legends of politics in america. the book is dedicated to bill moyers. there is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. you are experiencing it now. >> thank you. great to be here. i have met so many wonderful people already in this room. thank you to tom for encouraging me to come, and to you for being here. i might have been oversold a little bit in the sense that i cannot tell you what the future of news is. i guess i would challenge anyone in this world to say what the future of news is. it is in flux. there is a thinker about kie, whosm, clay sher wrote a blog post several years ago in which he says memorably, given thewe're in now great digital -- digital changes in the world, in terms of the scope, to the changes that occurred when the printing press was coming into i

its commander during the atlanta campaign was james b. mcpherson, a west point graduate. he had served on grant's staff earlier in the civil war. and he was a great, great favorite of both grant and sherman. in fact, both men wrote that they could see mcpherson commanding all the union armies. sherman writes a letter during the campaign, i believe, that he predicts that something happens to him, something happens to grant, he feels confident that mcpherson can take command of the union armies, and win ultimate victory. the smallest of sherman's armies, which, in fact, is just a single core, is the army of the ohio. it numbers close to 13,000 men under general john m. skofield, a west-pointer and someone who sherman trusts and who performs very well during the campaign. sherman also had three divisions

the fourth corps that tomas had commanded throughout the atlanta campaign earlier that year, there was the 23rd quarter under -- 23rd core under schofield, which had also served under sherman alongside, sproul army of the cumberland in the atlantic campaign. there was a large cavalry contingent under james h wilson, as brian just mentioned. and there is a division of united states colored troops under major general james steve mann. there were three divisions of the army of the tennessee under general andrew jackson smith. these are the people i will talk about briefly now for the next 30-40 minutes. this contingent of troops went by several names officially. as far as what they're officially designated, sometimes it was the right wing of the 16th corps and sometimes it was just the 16th corps. the -- for the time they were at theirille, there -- official designation was sometimes detachment army of tennessee, a very imaginative name. they were often called smith's guerrillas. shelby foote said that they called themselves aj smith's guerrillas spelled gorillas. i have on more than one

he makes a tour of the south in 1879, he goes back to atlanta, actually. he's welcomed with open arms. there's balls in his honor. the papers are funny because there's people like ha, ha, ha, sherman's coming. but he's really -- he's welcomed by white southerners because of the fact that he did not support equality for african-americans. and he wanted in fact a very soft piece for the south. going back to his time at lsu and his time earlier when he had been in the army in the south, he loved the south. he loved southerners. southern whites, let me be more clear. thank you all very much. [ applause ] >>> friday night on "american history tv," slavery and the cinema, with a look at the depiction of slavery and films since the 1930s. then the 2012 movie "lincoln" and its portrayal of the debate and passage of the 13th amendment. and a discussion about the 1939 movie "gone with the wind" and its depiction of southern society, friday night, beginning at 8:00 eastern, here on c-span3. >>> this weekend on "american history tv," we take a look back 200 years ago t

the u.s. is now in a hospital in atlanta. we have the story from atlanta. >> repo in a full white containment suit carefully stepped out of the back of an ambulance saturday afternoon. another person also dressed in protective clothing led the patient into emery university hospital in atlanta. the patient is american dr. kent brantly, who was infected with the ebola virus while working with patients in liberia. he'll receive treatment at the hospital. >> we are ready, looking forward to trying to help this patient and assist his family in any way possible. >> reporter: dr. brantley was flown from west africa to the united states in a private medical jet. after landing at daubins air force base, he was loaded into an ambulance, accompanied by several vehicles and a police escort on the 15-mile ride to the hospital. the procedure will be repeated in the next couple days as a second ebola patient, american aid worker nancy writebol is transported from africa to atlanta. this marks the first time anyone with an incurable disease i

i am also on the board of the atlanta press club. ne think that we wrestle with because there is a lower barrier to entry in this new world, what can we do, and this is more traditional news world, to help the consumer be able to differentiate what is credible news, and what is either made-up or not substantiated? you know, i keep thinking, get it first, but get it right. i think there are certain standards not everybody plays by the rules. what can we do to help the public understand there is a difference between solid journalism and all the clutter? >> i would just say having these discussions is good. i don't know if you can have enough of them to reach enough people. ideally telling people that you , go through great lengths to fact check stories will allow them to see the difference andeen fact-checked stories not fact checked. i think talking about it is important. for us, i know i have great faith in our news organizations. i have sat in the newsrooms and i have watched the discussions that go on. if they did not go on that wou

for the scandalous period of the atlanta public school system. we all know that standardized testing has come underway in the past decade in the united states. well it looks like allegedly a couple hundred principals and teachers decided to take this under their own hands over the past decade or so to try boost the scores of the atlanta public school system so they could then get more federal and state funds into the pockets of their own hands and also, their different schools. tony. >> so robert how long is this trial expected to last? >> it looks -- it appears to be about six months. perhaps a little bit less. i mean there are going t to be a lot of witnesses that take stand, a lot of people involved so it should be a long enduring marathon kind of trial ahead of us here in atlanta, tony. >> so almost three dozen people were implicated in connection with this. what happened to the rest of the educators caught up in this scandal? >> well, let me break it down for you. in 2011 state did an audit of some of these teachers. they found that

. >> reporter: now as stewart gets in his car, number 14 to race at the atlanta motor speedway, some question whether now is the right time to return to the sport he loves. >> it seems to me the best thing would be for him to wait until the investigation is complete. and then come back to the sport. >> reporter: that investigation expected to last another two weeks. so far stewart has not been charged with a crime. and investigators tell abc news they have not found evidence to suggest he intended to strike and kill ward, rebecca. >> thank you so much, gio. and a reminder, you can catch tonight's nascar race at the atlanta motor speedway on our partner network, espn. still ahead, the mystery flight, a small plane that caused a big scare over washington. fighter jets in close pursuit. what happened to the pilot midflight? the investigation tonight. >>> and take a look at these swimmers. about to become shark bait. they didn't see it coming. someone else did. we're going to show you what happened next. this is kathleen. setting up the perfect wedding day begins with arthritis pain and t

the guy that beat you in atlanta was kind of odd. t now we know because hood and sherman had become friends. >> follow the orders, is that correct? >> it makes sense now that we know that i just thought hood never met sherman. the only thing they did is sherman waved bye to hood when he entered atlanta as far as i knew but it turned out as i said they developed a friendship. >> it is interesting that johnson had a relationship both with sherman and grant. he participated in both of their funerals. >> yeah. when the war was over most of the confederate and the union officers, they buried the hatchet. you know it is funny. there was more feuding that went on among the confederate generals and among the union generals than there was contention between each other. on the confederate side they were blaming each other for the loss. on the union side a lot tried to claim credit for the victory. a lot of egos there. >> to what extent was the publication of hood's book? >> when hood died, an organization -- the hood relief committee or hood's

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welcome to the "closing bell," live from atlanta today. i'm kelly evans. first of all at how we're finishing up the day on wall street, a day that saw the dow up and down as much as 60 points. but as we go out here, looks like it's somewhere in the middle, up about 12. the nasdaq holding on to a slight gain at 4,355. the s&p 500 fractionally lower. we'll see if that holds as all of the trades settle out. 1,920 is the level there. we've got a lot coming up on the program, so let's get right to it and begin here with our "closing bell" panel today. cnbc contributor stephanie link is here. the host of television's "bar rescue," john tapper, a warm welcome, and our own sharon epperson. also with us to wrap up today's action on the markets, dennis gartman of the gartman letter and "fast money" trader tim seymour. welcome to everybody. we're waiting on results from 21st century fox out momentarily. dennis gartman, before we get there, first your quick thoughts on this market. >> well, first of all, welcome back to the south, kelly. it's good to have you back and

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they have the atlanta braves. the bottom of the first, they started. dang, gone. a two run homer. tattoos stephen strasburg. bang, that is gone. atlanta lost four homers. thenets are mounting a -- nats are mounting a comeback. they came to work against the cardinals. hity machado, j.j. hardy two home runs. six home runs. they win, 12-2. against the cardinals, outage. -- ouch. redskins beat up on the patriots last night. tonight, they had back to richmond. back to work at training camp to read the coaches have a lot to prepare players as they for the regular season. the offense was solid. the defense was solid for the starters. they accomplished what they wanted. inducted its 2014 class into the hall of fame. a couple of big names made it in. former maryland coach gary williams is now a hall of famer. nba georgetown star won the title with the miami heat. he made it in. >> it is good to be remembered for more than just dragging him around on my leg. [laughter] this is as big a thrill as you can get as a coach. i am honored to be part of the hall of fame. >> listen to both of these

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. >>> nascar driver tony stewart will return sunday night at the atlanta motor speedway t. three-time nascar champ has not raced since the dirt track race in up state new york earlier this month. police found no evidence of criminal wrong doing. their investigation is still ongoing. >>> nfl commissioner roger goodell says he mishandled the case involving ray rice who was accused of abusing his fiance. a lot of people believe the penalty was too light. he announced a new, strict policy for an employee accused of domestic violence. six games, for the first offense. >> after one year, you have to apply for reinstatement and there's no guarantee. a 2,000 page letter he wrote to owners. >> domestic abuse experts are saying, look, the suspensions were longer for smoking pot than knocking a woman out. >> that is now changing. 19 minutes after the hour. >>> happening now, an emergency meeting. russia accused of arming and fighting alongside rebels inside ukraine. world leaders furious this morning. we are live with the latest after this break. the busiest place in your house is the

this is ebola now traveling through the city of atlanta. of atlanta is small. >> what about from the medical team, those who are driving the ambulance, those flying the plane. what kind of precautions would have to be taken to protect them? >> well, the big precaution is trying to isolate the patient within that you know, again, we call it a tent, a bubble, whatever it is. that you want to call it. i don't know if the pilots for example of the plane were in bio contamination suits or just the health care workers. >> that's something you wore when you were in west africa. >> when i was there, i wore that same sort of bio suit and basically, the goal is to cover every square inch of your body. no skin showing. no way that any droplets of fluid could get on your skin because the thing is, we all have breaks in our skin. that's one of the things about ebola. if it lands even on your hand, it could potentially cause an infection. a small amount of fluid. which is why the extraordinary amounts of precaution are taken. >> and what's extraordinary a

the american doctor battling ebola walks into the atlanta hospital where he's now being treated to the surprise of many. this morning, new details about his prognosis and when the second american who contracted the disease could be back in the u.s. > tearful good-bye. a mother breaks down at the memorial service for her three young children killed in the malay shah airlines jet that was shot down in ukraine. >>> tapped out. the national guard in toledo, ohio this morning to deliver bottled water to hundreds of thousands of residents under a severe water advisory. just what made their drinking water toxic. >>> and robert f. kennedy junior marries uniting camelot and hollywood. today, sunday august 3rd, 2014. >>> and welcome to "today" on this sunday morning. i'm erika hill. >> and i'm lester holt. we are all here in our place. you were away last weekend, you were away and tan. look at you. i don't take time off. it's against the rules. anyway, it's great to have you here. something else special in your life we'll talk about coming up. >> every single person is going to say that dylan is

. >>> the american doctor battling ebola walks to the atlanta hospital where he is being treated. new details about his prognosis and when the second american who contracted the disease could be back in the u.s. >>> tearful good-byes. a mother breaks down at a memorial service for his three young children that were killed when the malaysian airlines jet was shot down in ukraine. this as investigators continue to scour the wreckage. >>> passed out. the national guard in toledo, ohio, this morning, to deliver bottled water to hundreds of thousands of residents now under a severe water advisory. just what made their drinking water toxic. >>> robert f. kennedy jr. marries cheryl hines connecting cam camellot to hollywood today on august 3rd, 2014. >>> this is "today" with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today." i'm erica hill >>> i'm lester holt alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. you were away last weekend. you were away and tan. >> jenna was here for me. >> we are all back together. >> what about you? >> you know ist the rules.

one of the americans is being treated at emory university hospital in atlanta. the other is planning to join him there, perhaps as early as tomorrow. here is nbc's kate snow. >> reporter: kent brantly shocked a lot of people when he walked into the hospital with a little of support from a paramedic. on "meet the press". the head of the cdc defended their decision to bring him stateside for treatment. >> our rule in public health is to make sure that if an american is coming home with an infectious disease, we protect others so they don't spread it. >> they are very professional and know what they are doing but one mistake and it's all over. >> reporter: that's the sentiment that popped up all over social media this weekend. "am i the only person who thinks this is a bad idea?" i've seen this movie. this doctor was in charge of transporting brantly through the atlanta streets. he says there is no risk to the public. >> if i had ebola and i was touching your hand, maybe you would be at risk for contracting it. if i cough and sneezed in your face, you would be at ri

the american doctor infected with the ebola virus is now in atlanta and was seen walking into the hospital where he'd been flown from africa for treatment. vicente arenas is there. benjamin netanyahu says israel will not stop fighting even after it finishes destroying the gaza tunnels. >> reporter: what will it take for israel to get to the negotiating table with hamas? >> axelrod: charlie d'agata and barry peterson report from both sides of the conflict. the long road to recovery for n.b.a. all-star paul george. what does he face after sustaining a gruesome injury? and brian banks finally makes the n.f.l. he won't be playing in the league, but carter evans tells us how the wrongly imprisoned linebacker will finally make his living from professional football. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. this is our western edition of the broadcast. for the first time ever, someone infected with the deadly ebola virus has been brought into the country for treatment. dr. kent brantly, who was working with ebola patients in west africa

nancy wrightbol, second american infected with the ebola virus brought toes atlanta. special containment unit where a highly contagious disease and where they will continue to try to treat her for the ebola virus. it killed nearly 800 people in africa she treated people who were infected and she's back

♪ >>> i'm here at the emory university hospital here in atlanta. we briefly saw an american doctor infected with ebola actually walk into the hospital here. after being medevaced from africa. now, we know right now that he and a second american patient nancy writebol did receive experimental treatments. although we don't have a good idea whether that has helped. we'll learn that over the next few days but one vaccine has been tested for safety in healthy human volunteers. i've been talking with a doctor who has been working with ebola in a lab for a quarter century. right now as you know better than anybody there's only certain things you can do in the field, in the hospital. there's no particular medicine for ebola. it's supportive treatment which means replacing fluids, sometimes replacing blood clotting factors if someone is bleeding. but your group at the university of texas got a $26 million grant to develop a vaccine and two medicines. a lot of people asking about this. now, how far along is it? >> they're at different stages. but basically wh

the atlanta. area. because. so heartbeat is not just the name of the group this is actually the name of an organization an advocacy organization that you guys are all integrated in talk about what heartbeat is so that's true the heart beat is the whole community of. musicians of youth musicians the group that we have here are just we're just representatives of also of our own group which is larger than a few of us who weren't able to come this time and have a large organization that includes other ensembles usually teenage ensembles that's really the core of our work we bring together ensembles right now we have three operating ensembles in three cities. in jerusalem and yes up and they each meet and create their own music write their own music that's beautiful tamar it's a strange mix for people who know how divisive this issue is obviously palestinians israelis working together providing something as beautiful as a musical message how did this unique partnership come to be. started with our founder two thousand

scores, altering the scores of standardized tests in the atlanta school system in order to put money in their pockets via supplemental bonuses and more money for their schools via federal and state aid. the jury selection starts in a trial expected to last six months here. beverly hall, superintendent will not be involved in this trial, she has breast cancer and a judge has decided she can have her trial after she gets through this battle of cancer. what's in store here is decades of prison for teachers and principals. there are about a dozen that are on trial. dozens more pled guilty, did plea deals, they'll be on the stand against many of their co-workers. this should be a trial that will put the education system and standardized testing nationally on a big time stage over the course of the next six months. >> turkey's controversial prime minister has a big job. recep tayyip erdogan, the presidency is usually a ceremonial role but erdogan has big ambitions. for a discussion on that let's go to ali velshi. ali. >> the presidency was largely symbol

i want to show you out of the atlanta area, trees blowing sideways. a lot were toppled even on to the interstate, i-20, there were reports of trees down, poor outages as power lines came down. there was even a tree on top of a house and lightning. looks like it could possibly cause this fire outside of that home. so definitely watch. today, for the threat of more storms but it doesn't look like that severe threat will be with us. we would deal with storms here and another round of heavy rainfall. this morning, a lot of that out there, you can see all of the moisture that's in place indicated by the cloud cover. we do have a few spotty showers along the gulf coast. we have a few showers and storms moving across the mississippi border into alabama and even around the little rock area. we got off to a stormy start for you as well. as we take a look into the middle of the country, we will watch this area, very close closely for that threat mainly into nebraska and kansas. let's take you into hawaii and show you some of the damage there. heavy rainfall, som

eastern the civil war and the atlanta campaign when the city fell to the union in september of 1864.ing up sunday at 6:30, supreme court chief justice john roberts on the history and significance of the magna carta. at 9:00 p.m. a look at sam ervin's time as chairman of the wear gate committee. and at 8:00 on monday love letters written by president harding. all of that coming up this weekend on american history tv here on c-span 3. >>> each week american history tv's reel america brings you archival films that helps tell the story of the 20th century. in an attempt to control the colorado river flooding and provide water to california and arizona the u.s. government began construction on hoover dam in 1931, one of the largest manmade structures in the world when it opened in 1936. the project employed over 21,000 workers and was completed two years ahead of schedule. next, a 1955 department of the interior film about the planning and building of hoover dam. the story of hoover dam explains the engineering feats necessary for construction and promotes economic and recreational benefi