and the battle of rhode island. when we talk about the battle of rhode island we talk about the action that took place august 29, 1778. and that's the major combat phase of the interaction between the americans and the french that are more than part of the island and the british that are occupying newport and a part of a broader forward island that starts a long time before in term of the context of the american revolution that the british move into newport in december of 1776. it's one of the first of the major cities to fall. new york has fallen to the british in september of 1776. and a couple months later almost undefended capacity, the british are able to move into newport which at the time is one of the sixth largest cities in british north america and certainly one of the largest commercial posts. the first real attempt of the americans to try to dislodge the british and perhaps the only real attempt isn't until 1778 and that still ties into these broader, strategic issues. it's because of the french american

we are talking about the battle for rhode island and the battle of rhode island. we are talking about the military action on august 29, 1778. what is the major combat phase of the interaction between the americans and french on the northern part of the island and the british and hessians occupy newport. that is part of a broader battle ar rhode island that started long time before in terms of the context of the american revolution. the british moved into newport in december of 1776. it is one of the first major cities to fall. new york has fallen to the british in september of 1776. a couple of months later, the british were able to move into newport which at the time was one of the six largest cities in north america and one of the most important commercial posts. the first real attempt of the americans to try to this life the british is not until 1778. that still ties into the broader strategic issues. it has become the french/american alliance. the french and americans signed a treaty in 1778. it gives washington what he covets, which is french naval support alo

that ends the battle of rhode island. there is the battle for rhode island. n 1776,tish docked here i but they don't leave until october 1779. for most of the revolutionary war, newport remains a british port. they have already captured savannah, georgia. there has been all this fighting between the british and french fleet in the caribbean. newport has lost its importance for the british because they cannot spread themselves too thin given they now have a caribbean theater. they pull their troops very quietly in october of 1779. they leave here, and half the town goes with them. it is not long before the patriots move back in. lafayette, who has gone back on a trip home to france to generate more support and supplies for the americans, he returns in june 1780. lead he returns, the french an army here, and that is the last phase of newport's revolutionary history. the battle for rhode island is over when the british sleep. then the french and americans come back. this becomes a town every bit as dominated by the french and american army as it had been by the b

the hurricane that hit that island 106 days ago. i visited puerto rico with my friend and colleague senator murphy yesterday and the day before to bring back to my colleagues here a fact-based report on how the recovery effort is going and how ample federal support has been. and i come to the floor today furious and frustrated. and the people of puerto rico have a right to be furious as well. because they have been denied the basic help and relief that this great nation, the greatest in the history of the world, owes to all americans. let there be no doubt the people of puerto rico are our fellow americans. they have fought in our wars, they have come to the mainland and gone back, contributing to our communities as well as theirs, they are in our communities in connecticut which has the highest concentration of people from puerto rico and their i did send enters -- dissendents, and we are proud of the puerto ricans in connecticut and of the puerto rican families coming to america in an exodus unmatched. the reason for that out migra

maria was so vast it swallowed the island whole. vey the damage, i left san juan and headed west, into the mountains towards a town called utuado. along the way i noticed something: people collecting water along the road using improvised spigots. where is that water coming from? [ inaudible ]. it's spring water? yeah. clean? yeah. how many gallons is this, 295? 295, yeah. and how many times a day do you do this? two, three times a day. lemonis: it's six weeks after the hurricane, and hundreds of thousands of puerto ricans still don't have running water. yeah. where is it from? [ speaking spanish ] the spring. sí. lemonis: what amazes me is the resourcefulness that people have to try to find things. i mean, this water looks like it could keep flowing. is it clean water? do we know? just because it comes out of the mountain we're assuming that it's clean. like, has anybody tested it? and these people are the lucky ones. what if you couldn't even leave your house? i heard about a stranded community that's just down the road. i'm going t

on a clear day there's a view of mounting on the neighboring island of ten a reef and like all the canary islands gran canaria is volcanic in origin. this is our first time a granddaughter the weather sometimes there can do is very impressive you can even see over to turn around it's fantastic. too and. we have that we have the ocean the mountains there ok new blue here it's just wonderful. really it's a privileged place with an absolutely fabulous view. of the press's me most is the different landscape for us your encounter on the way up to the base of the. i was there. at the foot of the mountain is the village of to here that said to be one of the loveliest on the island. the municipality to hear the boasts three museums the museum of history and traditions devotes part of its collection to the most important product of the region the. olivia sosa denise's family has lived in the region for generations. know that they had a moment farming plays a very important role in the history of this manus a pallet. it begins in august and september with two different processes the men beat the ha

senator richard blumenthal recently returned from a trip to the island. sen. blumenthal: i am here to talk about our fellow citizens in puerto rico. even as the northeast is gripped why a storm of impressive abortions, rico is still -- a storm of puerto ricoortions, is still recovering from a storm. rico with myrto friend and colleague, senator murphy. to bring back my colleagues here how theased report on recovery effort is going, and how ample federal support has been. i come to the floor today furious. the people of puerto rico have a right to be furious as well. because they had been denied the basic help and relief that this great nation, the greatest in the history of the world, gives to all americans. , thehere be no doubt people of puerto rico are our fellow americans. they have fought in our wars. they have come to the mainland , contributing to our communities as well as theirs. they are in our communities in connecticut, which has the highest concentration of people from puerto rico and their descendents of any state in the country. and we are proud

, which are the islands between hainan island, the southern island of china, and vietnam, had to be controlled by china. so back in the 1970s, they used force to expel the south vietnamese from the islands. and later, they had naval clashes with the socialist republic of vietnam to prevent them from trying to re-establish their position on those islands. (exploding) - [narrator] to the south, the tiny islands of the spratly archipelago are located in the south china sea, where china has manufactured seven islands to support its expanded naval presence and lay claim to disputed territory. - when you look at the south china sea, it's an entirely different lens. there is no historical japanese presence. instead, it's actually a dispute involving six political entities, if you include taiwan as well as vietnam, the philippines, malaysia, indonesia, and depending on the way it's cut, brunei as well. - china began to build artificial islands in the south china sea in december 2013. this was a plan that was put forward by the chinese navy, and it was approved by chinese president and

american samoa, guam, the northern mariana islands and the u.s. virgin islands. know even less about them than i do about puerto rico. i know there's occasionally a push for puerto rico to regain its independence fully from the united states of america. and then there's people that say leave it as it is. >> what people don't understand is that there's a fear that's been instilled on the people in puerto rico that if we were independent, we couldn't run our own country. and that's what happens when you're a colony. and also, the repression against the nationalist party in puerto rico was deadly. the ponce massacre where the united states military opened fire on easter sunday on nationalists marching after they came from church, all of that is real. >> yeah. it happens to inmates, you get institutionalized. >> you get institutionalized on colonialism. >> puerto rico has always had a strong independence movement, the ponce massacre is one example of how the u.s. tried to crush it. in the 1930s, pedro albizu campos was the leader of such a movement. he was educated at

so that's the new container restaurant on the island. also the market in front of building one has closed. we're in the process of relocating it to its new space in the building of building one. as the geo technical work starts up they'll be demolishing the market location in front of building one. that's happening. as soon as they've stocked their location they'll be opening hopefully next week in the new location. last thursday's earthquake was felt on the island being in close proximity to berkeley than most of san francisco and we were able to conduct the damage assessment windshield survey to verify there were no damages result from the earthquake. we did have a power outage christmas eve on the island due to a goose flying into the power lines. despite that outage, last year was we had our fewest number of outages since the puc made the investment in the infrastructure six years ago. we'll have new electric vehicle charging stations are going to be installed at 9th and avenue b between now and april 1. these will be replacing the ch

by the time treasure island is built it will be old hat. i'm hopeful people have questions. >> thank you for the report. much of which we already know but is good to get an overview of the program i was president of a project and what a great way to take leftover freeway ramps to incorporate into affordable house. though it took two decades to do. we are so blessed in san francisco to have great architects who understand affordable house and made the type of housing we build in san francisco to be wonderfully designed and fit in the neighborhoods. we're also blessed with providers to help do it well. with treasure island the challenges are so great. the tax credits have decreased and they're not what they were before. we have to put in additional subsidies to make up for the gap. there's almost no federal funds left it's from what we get from hud and other federal programs. the state is a brighter spot and many have been on the bandwagon for housing initiatives and were successful last year legislatively to get more dollars to local cities.

so now we have to ask ourselves, can the island ever rebuild? and what is our responsibility, as americans, in making that a reality? ♪ ♪ >> anthony: it's the american dream right? what so many of us work for, sell our labor, or pieces of our souls for. an island in the sun. preferably one where they speak english and the dollar is accepted everywhere. puerto rico, it's america, right? it's ours and we've held on to it fiercely at times since 1898, after taking it by force during the spanish american war. >> archive: i want to take you to one of the worst performing economies in the developed world. 73 billion dollars in debt. the employment rate is only 35 percent. the highest sales tax of any united states jurisdiction, 11.5 percent. 45 percent live in poverty. biggest municipal bankruptcy in u.s history. over the last 10 years, more than 5 percent of the population has fled. >> anthony: but what's it like for puerto ricans? for the people who live here, whose family have lived here for generations? many have left for an easier life in the stat

rhode islanders deserve the same thing. i know that every member of this chamber cares deeply about rhode island and works hard for the people of our state. i would like to spend time at sharing stories of some rhode islanders. that inspire folks us to keep going and doing our work. they also give us confidence that we are on the right. rhode islanders like alisa richardson. her story gets right to our core make sure every rhode islanders can keep up and get ahead, whether or not they have a college degree. daughter'st her graduation from one of our new job training programs. elisabeth had started college, but she didn't finish. she still has a mountain of loans, they are due every month. because of the job training program she now has a good job , at guill tool in west warwick. [applause] alisa's son, james, studied electronics at the warwick career and tech center. he's now one of the thousands of rhode islanders electric boat has hired in recent years. [applause] and her youngest child, katie, is a senior at pilgrim high

raised on the big island, he's a journalist. der of the local contrast magazine. >> daniel: local culture is, very much so, trying to point a finger at anybody coming in going, "hey you're a haole, you don't belong." and, therein kinda lies a little conflict you have being a modern day hawaiian. and i still think that's something that we forget about these days is how educated and how accepting our kupuna, our ancestors, were. it was always built on inclusivity, aloha. >> anthony: mhmm. >> daniel: aloha is giving without expecting anything in return. you got this hawaiian culture that was a product of the polynesians that populated the islands. then you got this local culture that's a product of the plantation lifestyle. so, the japanese, the chinese, the koreans, the filipinos, the portuguese. >> anthony: if indeed all history can be explained by what's on your plate this is a prime example. behold, the plate lunch. the most identifiable, and essential, feature of the plate lunch is this. a big scoop, or two, of white rice and p

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a bit of metal over the plastic so we have four tons of plastic stored on the main island of southallme a maritime transport company is helping us by taking it to lisbon free of charge to the recycling companies there will receive it and it was a couple mess tourism hasn't yet come to the island and that's the way they want to keep it but the locals also need jobs so the idea is to help cycle the ardennes waste seventy percent of which is organic or about her that day that. these women are making commercial compost it's a new venture on the island and it's hard work the compost beds need to be turned to three times a week. that. isn't on board plastic that's batty. the women i mean to sell their first compost in three months they've already approached potential clients and i hope all their hard work will eventually pay off. your learned certainly not taking the easy way and. finally we turn our gaze to russia where violence against homosexuals both in public and in private has long been an issue one courageous young woman has stood up to it. they were running around school screaming t

itis longer on the island. it was a variety of organizations and entities that sponsor buildings at the fair, so the murals themselves were at pacific house, which was one of those buildings, with the emphasis -- basically, the whole fair was the pacific region, but the pacific house was focused on that as well. >> well, they're wonderful. it's part of the history of treasure island. i'm glad to see that we're taking care of the murals and making sure that they're being preserved in a way that they can be viewed in the future as well. >> thank you, peter. just some few questions i have. so someone, somewhere in the world is holding on to the art form of the pacific. so i presume that tida or the city has conveyed to all the museums in the world that this piece is missing. it might show up. who knows? because that's the nature of these things. do we have such a plan, if it shows up, for people to be on the lookout for it? it would be great to know this piece is out there, we presume, right? >> through our partner

this north korea would just be another threat to the hawaiian islands. and, yes, the possibility, watching the news and seeing allstaall the rhetoric and craziness, yes, there is all of that possibility and that's what makes it scary because it is a possibility. >> i appreciate all the time. thank you for joining us here on msnbc. >> you're welcome. >> i want to recap for those just joining us. following frightening moments for the people of hawaii after an alert warned of an incoming ballistic missile. that alert said this, quote, this is not a drill. what stands out there for the message, ballistic missile inbound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. joining us now vacationing in hawaii. separated from her family on the north shore. just curious what this reaction to this was? you were on vacation. i'm sure this is not something you were entertaining something as a real threat. how did you respond when you looked at your phone and saw other people looked at their phones when you saw this emergency alert go out 90 minutes ago? >> i thi

these women are making commercial compost it's a new venture on the island and it's hard work the compostbeds need to be turned three times a week. is an important lastic that's bad it lasted. the women i mean to sell their first compost in three months they've already approached potential clients and i hope all their hard work will eventually pay off. in secret or learned certainly not taking the easy way. finally we turn our gaze to russia where violence against homosexuals both in public and in private has long been an issue one courageous young woman has stood up to it. and much of what they were running around school screaming that i'm a damn lesbian and that i should die but their homophobia was reason enough to attack me for the. when i started dancing i met people i knew i'd feel comfortable with better and able to accomplish. work and swore he would get most of them are either bisexual or lesbian it gives me a feeling of freedom while for the. moment my mother was really upset when she found out she cried a lot. it was a shock for us she i'll admit i even felt a physical which wa

how were the islanders going to receive it? sequence that happens in that book that involves ten men on ness in the northern part of the island, that go every year to a rock out in the atlantic and slaughter 2000 gannets, sulairean as they call them in the gaelic. and i'd done a lot of research with them and i'd written about that experience and all of the rest of it. just literally two weeks after the book came out, i got an e—mailfrom the guy who is the head of that group. year. i saw it was from him, dods mcfarlane, and i thought... you held your breath? i opened it up, and he said, "peter, me and the boys have read the book. we love it!" and... big sigh of relief, you know? that's all you need. just to remind people, when they begin this book, they should make an effort with the gaelic glossary at the beginning because it will make all the difference. indeed. peter may, author of i'll keep you safe, thank you very much. thank you,jim. it has opinion a day of big changes in the atmosphere and change is not a lwa ys in the atm

it is like going back to the way i knew the islands when i first went and the way that they were.ed in almost centuries. it's sad to say that in a way it has changed a bit over the last 30 years. when i first went there were no flights on a sunday, no ferries on a sunday. nothing was open. you could not eat or get petrol. everything was shut. now that's all changed. in a way it's a shame, the loss of the lewis sabbath. it was a special day. they held on to that in a way that nowhere else had. the contrast in the book is very much a part of it. what we have is the picture of two women, one, niamh, who has lost her man in this explosion, who has gone back and of course is grieve—stricken. and the detective, also a woman, who follows her. and of course has her in her sights. so they are opposing women but they find themselves at the end of the day drawn on to the same path. it's a sort of classic plot device. i don't mean it is fake but it's one of the fundamental plot devices, isn't it? yes, two women from very, very different back grounds and experiences, arriving, ultimately, in t

hasn't of mobile phone users on the u.s. islands were sent the misleading missive wildlife t.v. programming was interrupted to carry the nurse it took around forty minutes before the warning was retracted as the wife has saved the incident was a state's exercise a federal inquiry has been launched. the crossover. on this story now i think it's fair to say that people and maybe already on how can something like this happen that's a good question and thank you very much from paul will why weren't sonny and relax that's compared to two hours ago nearly two hours ago when the initial text alert went out and just to show you have the text alerts here on my phone it says full list stick missile threats inbound the hawaii seek immediate shelter this is not a drill so you can imagine hundreds of thousands of people here on the island of a wall who actually this went out state wide but you're on a wall to the epicenter of our island home a lot of people kind of went into panic mode it was like what do we do are we ready for this and suddenly

for talking about the battle for rhode island and the battle of rhode island. when we talk about the battle of rhode island, it is a battle that takes place in 1770 at and that is the major combat phase of the interaction between the americans and the french that are the northern part of the island and the british in the hessians occupying newport. the british move into newport in december of 1776. it is one of the first of the major cities to fall. new york has fallen to the british in september. it's just a couple months later. the british are able to move here into newport, which, at the time, is one of the six largest cities in north america. the first real attempt of the americans to try to dislodge the british and possibly the only real attempt is in 1778, and that goes into these broader strategic issues. it's because of the french-american alliance. -- really, it gives washington what he covets, which is french naval support and ground troops. trythe first time they can this new alliance out, this overt alliance out is later on that summer when ostensibl

you need the boarding island and it will work well. i hope you are allowing the extra time for people parking will help, but if it doesn't help you always have meters. and we know those are easy to enforce and they make it work. thanks a lot. >> thank you, mr. strassner, next speaker, please. >> reed martin, nancy reuben, tariq mahmoud. is there martin here? let's move onto the next one. nancy reuben. tariq mahmoud, rachael hiden. i think at this point if anyone is in the overflow room who wishes to address the board if they could come upstairs. my understanding is there were two people down there only who wish to address the board. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm nancy reuben and i've lived and worked at 16th and taraval for almost 16 years now, i know the neighborhood very well, and even though i don't use the 17th avenue stop very often i could tell you without a doubt continuing to plan to eliminate that stop on the corner of 17th and taraval in front of safeway would be a very bad thing to do. right now people with children and g

are the closest pa rt cold war. these islandsover the past year, north korea. and over the past year, north korea has carried out a series of tests, proving it does now have nuclear weapons. so no wonder people in hawaii were panicking today. in south africa, the new leader of the ruling anc party has given his first speech since being elected last month. cyril ramapossa gave a damning assessment of the ruling party, saying it‘s been beset by infighting and corruption. he called for a change of culture in the party, a thinly veiled attack on the man he replaced, the country‘s discredited president, jacob zuma. 0ur africa editor, fergal keane, was at the rally. if you want to know how the wind has changed in south africa, then listen to this. jacob zuma... booing booed by his own party, jacob zuma is increasingly isolated. even supporters acknowledge his days as the country‘s president are numbered. the crowds have a different hero now, the new anc leader cyril ramaphosa. businessman, skilled negotiator, who‘s promised to end the

it's one of the biggest river islands in the world.only six ferries a day. it is really crammed, each one. looking at the list prices for each one. 15 rupees per passenger. down past the vehicles and animals had to pay! a buffalo has to pay 45 rupees! a cow, 30, an elephant has two fork out 907 rupees! perhaps fortunately none of these creatures were travelling with us these creatures were travelling with us today... and incredibly, after a few last—minute panics... we are set to go! i climb onto the corrugated aluminium roof to join to go! i climb onto the corrugated aluminium roof tojoin men to go! i climb onto the corrugated aluminium roof to join men who to go! i climb onto the corrugated aluminium roof tojoin men who do this trip every day. starting in tibet, this brahmaputra river is nearly 2000 miles long. it is second only to amazon in the volume of water that rushes through it. we arrive and it is turmoil again trying to get off the boat. to avoid the queue there is a sneaky way out. it involves climbing onto another boat and

first it's the island of oahu, not the island of hawaii. >> thank you. excuse me. >> we're on oahu. second, you know, should we continue these tests? you know, my view is not -- excuse me, the alerts monthly, not until we've got a process that everybody can rely upon, and you know, we're coming up on the beginning of another month. i think we should wait and get our house in order before we start running those alarms again. >> senator brian schatz from hawaii. sir, thank you so much for giving us the very latest information there as you are in hawaii right now and what you've learned so far and your suggestions moving forward. all americans hope this does not happen again. hawaii, that second state back from the first state rather in terms of proximity to north korea and the concern that we have of course, 20 minutes as jacob soboroff so well put for us is the amount of time it would take a missile to reach hawaii from north korea. senator brian schatz, thank you, sir and have a very peaceful, we hope, morning and afternoon going forward as you try to determine what happened. we're

by 2020 the island expects to welcome three million holidaymakers annually. but the equipment in many hotels is out of date. air cons in particular use up tons of power and contain harmful refrigerants. now hiran cooray - owner of the island's largest hotel chain - wants to change that. over the next three years, he plans to make his hotels carbon-neutral. our reporter wolf gebhardt went to learn more about combining tourism and climate protection. >> it's an ambitious vision. one of sri lanka's biggest hotel chains wants to cover all of its energy needs with renewables by 2020. jetwing runs 30 upscale hotels on the island, and welcomes visitors from around the world. >> no business can be sustained in the long term, if you don't look after your people and the planet. their strategy is to install cutting-edge air conditioning systems... >> we can be a role model or we can be a guinea pig. >> just how green is jet wing really smart ? >> we visit the chairman of jetwing at home. hiran cooray is one of the most powerful men in sri lanka's tourism industry. his fa

a push alert was sent to 1.4 million people on the island of hawaii. l continue to follow the story tonight and tomorrow right here on msnbc. >>> where do you start? where do we start? i will start by telling you right off the bat that senator kamala harris is our guest tonight. she's going to be here live. senator harris does not do a lot of interviews. there of course is fever pitch speculation that she will be a serious contender for the democratic presidential nomination in 2020. she's right in the middle of the immigration fight that led to this -- this week's latest he said what nightmare involving this president. senator harris is here with us live tonight in just a couple of empties. you' -- couple of minutes. >>> today at the white house, they tried to announce something about the iran nuclear deal. they were try

one hundred fifty kilometers to the south is the center of the island cinnamon production. ilver farm cinnamon as people have done here for generations after removing an outer layer of bark they pry off strips of inner bark the quills will later be packaged as cinnamon sticks. we also pack in all the little bits. and then we let the entire thing dry in the sun. room. for. cinnamon is an important sideline that the family relies on to get by donations husband also works as a cabinet maker her brother has an administrative job. until now the wood left over from the cinnamon harvest was waste by product. now the family can sell it to jet wing and earn extra cash hiran cool ray is visiting another supplier who's been selling waste wood for a while small bakeries for instance sometimes use it as fuel but since jet wing is started ordering from him things have grown much simpler. the monarch with a lot of these days i can sell and talk to both buyers in the past it was all small scale stuff jet plane is sri lanka's biggest buyer of the fuel snapping up around half of what's availa

the health care system of the island is still in shambles. primary care is struggling to recover because of the lack of electricity. a doctor's office simply cannot be run without electricity. nor can manufacturing plants be operated without a reliable source of power. and in restoring power, the corps of engineers has provided for generators in the places where formerly there were plants actually producing. generators are a temporary source of power, not a reliable, permanent source. transmission is still down in many parts of the country. and to add insult to injury, puerto rico is stuck with a tax as a result of the action of this congress and the administration, a tax imposed only on manufacturing in foreign countries. puerto rico is treated as a foreign country for purposes of the 12.5% tax on certain manufacturing. that is simply unconscionable. and manufacturing plants will be soon facing a decision whether to stay or go. and many of them will go. adding to the unemployment situation there. it is heartbreaking and gut-wrenching to visit