and really keep the british pinned in new york when, and throwing them off at yorktown, at certainlysaratoga and then again at yorktown, these great turning points where they didn't move their troops and ships out of new york to help their commanders in the field. here just another shot that gives you a sense of the wonderful detail that you could find on these maps. now, another important theater of the revolution, of course, was the war in the south where washington was not able to go during the war, but traveled to after as president to go and visit some of those battlefields where he had been conducting operations by remote, by letter and by studying maps. just to give you an example, i mean, general green's famous campaign in the carolinas, washington followed it as closely as he could with letters taking weeks and months to be exchanged. but we see him talking about the specifics of the campaign with green in his letters and, clearly, following it on this map of the carolinas which dated from the 1750s. but, again, by the 1770s, it still remained the authoritative and most deta

was born and grew up and of course, this is the country he returned to after his great victory at yorktown and comes full circle from the manuscript of 17,511th edition 1753. right at the beginning of washington's military career. at this moment where joshua fry who drew the map is a riding out to meet washington on the frontier. so there is a collision of maps and life in. but here is a detailed view that gives a view of one of the most important forces in the life of the washington that is called the northern neck proprietary. a piece of land granted by the king to a single man lowered fairfax more than 5 million acres about the size of massachusetts taking up most of northern virginia. what that meant for someone like george washington, this piece of land between the potomac and rappahannock river starts off but then expands as we follow the course of the river to its source in the mountains and comes down along the lines with the lowered fairfax boundary and wrapping around back to the rappahannock it became an obstacle and an opportunity for young washington because his father died wh

, certainly at saratoga and again at yorktown is a great turning point where they didn't move their troopsd ships out of new york to help their commanders in the field. here's just another shot that gives you a sense of the wonderful detail the you can find on these maps. now another important theater of the revolution was the war in the south, where washington was not able to go during the war, but traveled after as president to go and visit some of those title fields, where he had been conducting operations by remote, by letter and by studying maps. just to give you an example, general greene's famous campaign and the carolinas, washington followed as closely as he could with letters taken weeks and months to be exchanged. but we see him talking about specifics of the campaign with green and his letters and clearly following it on this map. the old map of the carolinas, which dated from the 17th of use, but again by the 1770s, still remains the authoritative in this detailed map of the region. and just a couple of things about this map, it shows the various layers of settlement in the to

when i was a kid, living next to yorktown, yorkville as it was called in those days,86 and german avenue, there was still milwaukee and other towns. but those were the old germans that lived here. they pronazi, they were not going to be stuck. there was enough refugees that could read it. >> also french? german and french? >> my father's book were done in german and french and english. there was a population which was sizable of the immigrants here. they wanted to know when was being written back home. the difference was, of course, as you all may or may not know, there was -- at the new school there was a major french university which had strauss and paris, and alvin johnson set up the french university in exile. it was major, while many of the american universities were not ready to take on the exile professors, because most of them were jewish. you know, when i started out in the college at the '50s, there was one jewish professor at yale, one at harvard, one at princeton, two at columbia, because they were in new york, they made a concession. [laughter] >> but, you know, the anti-sem

and when i was a kid living next to yorktown, yorkville as it was called in those days, 86th street, third avenue, there were p german-language movie houses. and they were still in milwaukee, you know, other towns there was a whole series of german language. but those were the old germans who had lived here who was mostly -- who were mostly pro-nazi. there were enough germans who could read it. >> also french? is it was published in german and french? >> my father's books were done in german and french, and german and english so there was a population which was, you know, sizable of immigrants here. and, obviously, they wanted to know what was being written back home. the difference was, of course, as you all may or may not know, there was a new school. there was a major french university which had strauss and various other people, and they set up, alvin johnson set up a french university in exile here which was major intellectual center while most of the american universities were not willing to take on any of the exiled publishers, exiled professors because most of them were jewish

31 years old on nine counts including aggravated mayhem, torture, false imprisonment of than 16 yorktown ramirez. he's now 18 he testified that he was cut, live is pants on fire, beat him unconscious. he faces life in prison. people in palo alto or concerned about their safety after robbers, as he muldoon has more. >> officials are hosting an awareness meeting later this week at a local community center to talk about street robberies. there have been 20 cases since number of 2010 including recent ones involving said delivery person. police say they have made arrests, they say they're offering up to $10,000 in your money for information leading to further arrests. meanwhile concord police are looking for the driver responsible a fatally heading and 52 year- old woman the victim was walking her dog on solano way at avon avenue when the dog was hit by a car. she stepped out to tender her dog when the second car struck her. no description of the then it was a dark in color and possibly a hatchback. downtown bars and restaurants that keep police busy might soon face stricter rules and harsher

watching all the action in new yorktown heights, new york, michelle charlesworth. >> that's very cooltch on tv february 16th. if you want to check it out. >> i've always wanted to be on "jeopardy." me, you, einstein. i know how to -- >> oh, we're tied up. that's good. >> they were smart enough to know we'd fight during commercial. h@h@h@h@h@h@h@h@h@h@ñ

host: next phone call from yorktown, virginia. caller: it is hypocritical for you to talk about jobs, medicare, medicaid, when the health care bill is going to cut things. if we were not aiding and abetting the legal people in the country, things would be better. illegals are bankrupting -- something like 80 hospitals in california shutdown. a lot of that was largely due to the illegal immigration population. it is frustrating. i know when i get off the phone you are going to make a ton of excuses. but is it not true that the health care bill is responsible for cutting half a billion dollars of aid to medicare? guest: that is absolutely not true. you can contact your member of congress or you can contact me, and we will give you the details on why that is not true. we have been fighting for comprehensive immigration reform for many years. we have to continue to fight for that. we have undocumented workers. they are not the problem in terms of the economy. we have a huge deficit which is the result of huge tax cuts for the wealthy

this is where you can look at your neighborhood, you can look at your village, yorktown, your your city, your county and get, understand how it's changed over the years. we are going to provide data releases for redistricting purposes, block level data, on a state-by-state basis. between february and the end of march. all of the states will receive their data by april 1, 2011. which is a legal deadline, by the way. the first step in this process is to give states that are involved in redistricting process, mapped files so that they can put our towns into small area geography. at about 80% of those maps have been completed and they're on their way out. they are rolling out on a state-by-state basis. and by the end of this month everybody should have what we call shape files. these are geographical files. for each state the census bureau will provide summaries of population totals, as well as data on race, hispanic or latino origin, and voting age population, for multiple levels of geography within the states such as blocks, tracks, voting districts, cities, counties, school districts and