galveston was the best natural harbor on the texas coast and galveston was the largest city. and so a lot of -- everything that involved trade and later blockade running went through galveston, for the most part, and other small ports along the texas coast. but galveston was the primary one. even before the confederates fired on fort sumter, in april of 1861, in charleston, the union was preparing and thinking about what happens if this becomes -- if secession becomes a shooting war. one of the things they considered was establishing a blockade of southern ports. the idea of a blockade is it's an old traditional technique used in warfare to blockade an enemy's port, to keep ships and vessels from coming in and out, to prevent the enemy from getting support from outside. the union forces declared a blockade in 1961, just two days after jefferson davis had declared the confederates would authorize privateers to go after union shipping, which is itself an act of war. the union blockade was declared april 19 of 1861. the idea was that the federals would position warships around t

. >> welcome to galveston on book t.v. located on an island off the gulf coast of texas, it was the main port for the texas navy during the texas revolution and served as the provisional capital of the republic of texas. today it's visited by over six million tourists. with the help of our cable partners, we'll learn about the history of this coastal city from local authors. we begin with casey greene on the 1900 storm that decimated galveston. ♪[music]♪ >> the 1900 storm struck galveston saturday, september 8 1900. the storm began at noon increased in dramatic intensity and then finally tapered off toward midnight that evening. this hurricane was and still is the deadliest recorded natural event in the history of the united states. the destruction totaled about $28 to $30 million. certainly it was a destructive hurricane. there was major damage. but the death toll was why we remember the storm more than anything. it can happen again. saturday september 1900, people thronged to the beach. and the rising tide, the risin

it was also an early founder of galveston. it actually lists the original stockholders of the galveston city company. here you can see mckinney and williams, who actually were in partnership together and had their own business. mckinney and williams were actually businessman, and they were cotton traders. and they really wanted to establish themselves as the primary route for cotton growers in texas to transport their cotton out of the republic of texas. they pretty much wanted to have, be the primary transporters of that. so, they are businessman, merchants, primarily. the next letter we are going to look at is a letter written from andrew jackson to sam houston. andrew jackson at this point is in retirement at the hermitage in tennessee. and sam houston is president of texas. it's written in january 1844. sam houston knew andrew jackson from his time back east. he had served under andrew jackson in the military. he was involved in politics in tennessee. and so, he and andrew jackson's knew each other from before houston' tim

we don't get that hurricanes that hit galveston. about 12 hours before the hurricane hit, isaac cline started to see signs that there was something happening out there. in 1900 would have no satellites, we had no radar, no weather balloons. we have weather stations around the country that reported by a telegraph to the national weather service, u.s. weather bureau in washington and whether the forecast was disseminated to the local u.s. weather bureaus. head of the weather bureau did not want local forecasters have in their own forecast. he felt they were too sensationalistic and we know better in washington that you local guys. i don't know if that sounds familiar but what a shock. some things never changed. so unfortunately, september 9th, early in the morning the hurricane comes onshore and life and galveston has changed forever. when it was all said and done, an estimate of 10,000 people lost their lives. many were washed out to sea. many in their homes. the city itself was decimated. 80% of the city was destroyed. it was the la

we don't get bad hurricanes that hit galveston. well about 12 hours before the hurricane hit isaac kline started to see signs that there was something happening out there. you have got to remember 1900 we had no satellites and we had no radar. we didn't have weather balloons. we had weather stations throughout the country have reported via telegraph to the u.s. weather bureau in washington and then that forecast was disseminated to the local u.s. weather bureau's. in fact the head of the weather bureau wilbur moore didn't want weather forecasters giving their own forecasts. they were too sensationalistic and we were better in washington then you local guys. i don't know if that sounds familiar but what a shock. some things have never changed. unfortunately the morning of september 9 early in the morning this hurricane comes onshore and life in galveston is changed forever. when it was all said and done and estimate of 10,000 people lost their lives. many were washed out to sea. many in their homes. the city itself was decimated. 80

seei just couldn't galveston dying. i thought we'd come back than ever. and it's true. everything looks beautiful. it's got fresh paint on it. ha! six yearshad the best ever. and every year, it gets better and better. very happy that we made that choice. >> we close out the c-span cities tour of galveston aboard the texas clipper, now a training ship at the texas maritime academy. was and war ii, it u.s.s.vessel named the queens. >> the texas clipper, which is that it goes by now, is now an artificial reef off the texas.f right near the texas-mexico border. about 30 here for years. and it sailed. there were generations of students that sailed on it. the first training ship. there was texas clipper 2 and clipper 3 afterwards. but it was the first training ship. not born as the texas theper but it was born as u.s.s. escambia. an attack transport during the second world war. 1944, there was tremendous tremendous shipbuilding program out of maryland, not far from baltimore, outside the inner harbor. it was one of those ships that was built in that tremendous shipbuilding pr

take a look at these waves crashing over the seawall in galveston, texas. the seawall, about 16 feet tall. so imagine how high these waves are. >> this is truly amazing what ike is dishing out right now! this is the worst we've seen, obviously, for the past two hours or so since we've been here in houston the past two days. the problem about this is -- my goodness! i mean, really! this is mind-blowing what we're witnessing right now and being able to broadcast to you live. i have never witnessed anything like this in my career! >> when we came down here, we tried to be prepared. we bought overalls, shovels first aid kits. and the extent of the damage, you just can never imagine how bad it is. there's no way. the adjustor later determined that we had seven feet of water in here, at the height of the storm. when we came in, there was debris that was taller than this table right here. so i guess about four feet. and it was just -- all the book shelves had fallen over. we had a large desk like that that was made out of metal, and it had turned over and twisted.

and in many ways, what happened in galveston and in texas was typical of what happened across the south. particularly in sea ports that were blockaded during the war. there was a continual union federal presence offshore. there were regular bombardments of the town. there was excitement when a blockade runner would arrive. but there was lots of hardship. they did without a great deal. but it is something that people need to know about. it's another aspect of the war that's maybe not as historic not as dramatic. it's part of the war that's very hard to glorify but it's an important part of the war, because it represents life as lived by a lot of people 150 years ago. >> and we continue the c-span cities tour of galveston with stephen curley on his book, "celluloid wars: a guide to film and the american experience of war." >> american cinema has had a really profound effect on the way people see war. even from the beginning we understand that war, a vision of war, is for most of us, not having been to war but having heard about war, having seen or having read about war. we're playing imag

our next part of the galveston tour is the uss uss cavalla. [klaxon sounds] announcer: in 1917, the submarine force was battling public opinion as well as the enemy. both saw submarines as i'm chivalrous, that -- and chivalrous -- non-chivalrous, that war under the sea was unfair and inhuman. if we paid much attention to these protests, we would not have had that tough s boat and the long-range fleet that made up our small submarine force in 1941. when all the training of 25 useful years was suddenly put to the test. [explosion] a small submarine force based in pearl harbor was not attacked. and it soon had the japanese wishing they had been more thorough. host: cavalla is a world war ii diesel electric submarine cato class. she was built in 1943 in commissioned in 1944. she served gallantly. and one of for claims to fame is she sank the japanese carrier which was one of the aircraft carriers involved in pearl harbor attacks. then she went on to think fou -- to sink four other enemy vessels. in 1944, after the cease-fire, she was put in a deco

continue c-span cities tour with a visit to galveston, texas, starting at 6:00 eastern. we'll tour an 1877 merchant sailing ship and we will hear about the juneteenth juneteenth celebration in the end of slavery. we will also hear back from hurricane ike and the destruction in 2000 eight. this afternoon it is at 6:00 eastern time. president obama was in new orleans yesterday to mark the 10 year anniversary of hurricane katrina. coordinating the flooding was in the worldwide. i talk with residents also came. [applause]

, galveston was in 1900, an up and coming city. it had electricity, streetlig streetlights. it was a bustling port city. it had per capita more millionaires than any place in the united states. >> really? >> it was a captain of industry. and it was one of these places where they felt there was a prevailing attitude that storms couldn't -- hurricanes couldn't hit galveston. the preeminent forecaster at the time, isaac klein said, we don't need to build a seawall, we'll be okay. there will be some storms, we can weather them. they cleaned up afterwards, they moved on. this one was a category four storm, before they knew what the categories were. >> and the irony is, they knew this was coming, but not the folks in the united states. cubans, the cuban government. the jesuits ran an institute that looked at hurricanes back then. they forecasted this storm was going to come across the caribbean, into the gulf and smash into texas. the u.s. weather bureau was jealous and walled off cuba tell graphically, so that forecast never left cuba.

an estimated 10,000 or more perished in a town of 37,000 in galveston. the devastation was complete. cut off from the mainland, this sand bar that a hundred years earlier was occupied -- was a little outpost occupied by the pirate jean lafitte. and had become one of the most prosperous cities in america. in fact, there were more millionaires per capita in galveston in 1900 than there were in any other city in america, chris. >> there were hurricane deniers back then. just like today they deny climate change. >> exactly. the city fathers wanted to put up a sea wall. well, one of the preeminent hurricane experts, isaac kline, who was also in charge of the galveston u.s. weather bureau said there was no need, that there was a natural curve to hurricanes and that no major hurricane would hit the texas coast. and, of course, unfortunately, on september 8th, that was proven wrong. by the way, chris, national hurricane center now naming tropical storm danny, our fourth named tropical storm this year. and it is expected to strengthen to hurricane strength by thu

storm of the century, looks back at a hurricane from 1900 which destroyed the city of gal -- gal -- galveston texas. watch for the authors in the fear future on book tv. it might be funny. i was looking it might be funny. i thought it might be funny. he was calling himself bin laden and so on. he said, okay. we went to his to his house and the first day what we did was watch lion king. he needed to get a collections box. they had been stocked with giant plastic, i said that it's funny to overthrow the west. he's like, yeah. [laughs] >> they were encaged. and then we spent months on and off. if you find cheaper they will give you the difference or something. i remember once i was at the couch and he's gotten that said crush the pilot state of israel. [laughs] >> very sensitive moment. and then i let you in my life, i would like something in return. i said, what, and he said could you drag my to this meeting. i -- i drove him to what was basically -- i was going to say like a secret terrorist radical islam meeting, country house in birmingham. they wouldn't let us in. i got into trouble. so we

continue c-span cities tour with a visit to galveston, texas, starting at 6:00 eastern. we'll tour an 1877 merchant sailing ship and we will hear about the juneteenth juneteenth celebration in the end of slavery. we will also hear back from hurricane ike and the destruction in 2000 eight. this afternoon it is at 6:00 eastern time. president obama was in new orleans yesterday to mark the 10 year anniversary of hurricane katrina. coordinating the flooding was in the worldwide. i talk with residents also came. [applause] [indiscernible] >> after visiting and neighborhoods he spoke at a community center in an area of the city that was once under 17 feet of water. he spoke for proximally 40 minutes. [indiscernible] >> ♪ president obama: every have a seat. hello. where are you? in the bigto be back easy. and, this is the weather in august every summer. soon as i land in new orleans the first thing i do is get hungry. when i was here at the family a few years ago i had shrimp, at the bakery. i still remember it. office maybe leave i will finally get a rebirth at the maple lea

also, you are at the halfway point between new york and galveston, texas, so geographically it was central to a myriad of maritime-related traffic and practices. the first custom house was corrected almost immediately when the island was established, 's own 8023, the first building in the samend it is location that our building is in currently. originally, it was a wood-clad house, a story and a story and half. the property set on the waterfront, so it was very easy to do business with the ships that were arriving. key west in 1822 was very sparsely populated. there were about 500 people that originally settled. most were bahamians or had come from new england. the harbor is just outside our building right now. a lot of warehouses were set up along the deep water port to make it easy to get the goods off the ships and get them into warehouses and then packed up again if they were moving along elsewhere. along the waterfront, it was and aup with warehouses, lot of ship jamborees and other maritime support, so people could buy sailsh their boats, and provisions. everything was, wooden buildi

afraid to put any of this material in the mail because it was so inflammatory, so she took a train to galveston, to the ship back to new york and carried the material personally to give to w e b do boys face to face -- w eb dubois.- w eb he published the first ever special supplement to the monthly crisis magazine about this lynching and use the pictures. they did not just send it to members of the naacp. they sent it to every member of woodrow wilson's cabinet, to newspaper editors all over the country and then elizabeth herself went on a speaking tour, mostly to black churches around the country. i'd own thing she ever came back to texas. probably would have been unwise. and wase story blew up featured in the newspaper and on tv in waco twice while i was doing my research before my book came out. i have to give waco credit for this. unlike many other communities that have never confronted or dealt with or act knowledged their horrible racial past, the waco city council and county commissioners did issue some sort of resolution of regret, if not apology, and a group of citizens from all walks

you are in galveston. you are in an adjoining county to this county. i mean, you are a deputy sheriff. would you expect anything like this to happen to you if you are just pumping gas? >> well, i would hope not. but, in the last few years, you start looking around more. it makes you more cognizant of your surrounding. one of the things that gets police officers killed unfortunately is complacency. with the attitude now going on nationally, police officers can't afford to do that: you have to have your head on a swivel at all times. >> okay. but you can't prevent something like this from happening. he is pumping gas. this is an execution, straight up execution, no warning, no nothing. just open fire. do you see people joining law enforcement now? i mean, what is the incentive now? >> the incentive is the same incentive it has always been trying to make your place a better place to be. that is not going to change. police officers aren't just going to say we have had enough and take their badges off and their guns off and go home. that's not going to happ

they escaped down to galveston island, which is where they were when sam houston won the battle of san vicente. it took five days to find enough wood to fire up the steam ship. was they did they came up to the battlefield, held several ofsions of congress, and one their decisions was to reconvene down in the town of blasco, on the gulf coast. out that velasco was not a particularly good site to conduct government. the buildings were cramped. the may run out of lamp oil and had to start meeting outdoors. they pulled up roots once again and moved up river to the town of columbia a few miles inland. once again the facilities were not up to snuff and they passed a law finally saying in the spring of 1837, government would shift to the brand-new city of houston, which was in the process of being developed by john and augustus allen. they moved up there in 1837 and pretty quickly the congressman realized it was not their ideal city as well. he allen brothers had come through on their promise to build enough government facilities. capital built a nice that did not have a roof when they showed

justin bore, trying to score, freddie galveston, fires it home, it's high but finding the ladder, lays down the tag, gets the tag. phillies win 7-1. >>> two days after the phillies trauded him, chase utley made his debut tonight. utley and the dodgers getting no hit by fiers in the eighth. last chance to break up the no-no, 134 pitches. the fifth no hitter in baseball this season. we're right back after this. . >>> a night to honor the military at xfinity live, called freedom friday. >>> the tonight show starring jimmy fallon is up next. who's on? >>> jason schwartzman is my guest tonight plus we have magician dan wise. it's a great show. >> thank you. that's always a good part. i love that. love the weekend too. >> you're going to love saturday. >> good. >> the saturday weather is going to be the best, sunshine, low humidity. comfortable football weather. sunday i expect a few more clouds around, there's a chance of a couple of showers in new jersey and toward the shore. it won't be quite as perfect as saturday. next week after monday's heat, the rest of the week is really going to be

when they caught up with him in galveston. and also at today's hearing, they would ask the judge to let matthews appear in court in his street clothes, instead of the jail jump suit, shackles, handcuffs. the judge said no at least for now, but he faces his trial next july. >>> in new hampshire a teenage girl who said that they raped her, they broke down on the witness stand under questioning by the defense that made her sob. she told the court that she was violated in so many ways. she was 15 at the time of last year's alleged attacks. 19-year-old owen labrie is accused of raping her just two days before graduating from st. paul school as a part of the senior salute in which they would try to have sex with underclassmen. >>> a fast moving wildfire, they will continue to adspre through washington state and their cascade mountains. three u.s. forest service firefighters, they've been killed near the town of twist, after crashing their vehicle and the shifting winds put them in the path of the flames. four others were injured. >>

in july of 1961 houston power and light destroyed the base in galveston, texas the government objected to inclusion of antidiscrimination clause and contract with the navy. shall i tell the president you cannot supply power to the navy? to a navy installation there because the negro question. and what are you going to do about space? the navy got its tower and houston remained a viable site candidate. now this is just one of the several brushes that houston would have on silver rights in the space age and richard has one of the other ones. >> probably made his most moving speech. he did not do it at rice by accident. the rice institute became rice university in 1960 and the school's president was a man name kenneth. it was kenneth desire oh -- to get nasa control in houston. the school president, he arranged for a thousand acres near clear lake. congressmen said this is what tipped the scales and put mission control in houston. in exchange in 1962 rice got some money from nasa and that's where the problem started because william original bequest provided for the free instruction of whi

themselves to be compliant but in july of 1961 houston power and light cut to the destroyer base in galveston texas. the company objected to the inclusion of the anti-disco nation clause in the contract with the navy. vice president johnson called albert upon us and told the congressmen should i tell the president you cannot supply power to the navy, to the navy installation because this is the question. what are you going to do about space? the navy got its power in houston and remains a viable candidate. this is one of the several brushes that they would have in the space age and richard has one of the other ones. >> he didn't do it by accident. it became rice university in 1960 and president whenever he would come down to houston kenneth would be their tour guide. it was his desire to put the patrol in houston. so he arranged for a thousand acres near clear lake and he promised the land for the space center building. albert thomas said this is what tipped the scale and mission control in houston. in exchange in 1962, he got money from nasa and that's where the program started because the o

it happened in galveston, texas, residents forced to flee, forced for house because of the blaze. authority say the same wet their caused the fire helped fight it. heavy rains helped keep the flames from damaging nearby homes. >> a group of florida treasure hunters gets very lucky when they make a big discovery underwater worth millions. it all started in the 1700s when violent storms sang a fleet of spanish ships, and scattered hundreds every gold coins, all along the florida coast. well, now exactly 300 years later, the salvage crew has fawn nearly 300 of those coins worth, get this, $4.5 million. >> you're looking at it, you are trying to wrap your brain around it, and it is just surreal. >> the crew believes about $400 million worth of sunken treasure still lies beneath that ocean, they say, they're giving 20% of what they found to state museums. man, knowing all of that money may be underneath there, i think a loft folks will have those little machines out. beep, beep, beep, beep. >> diving deep, yes. >> incredible. right now 5:20. >> in case you don't have a sunken treasure,

the role of metals in inflammation and biofilm since 2002 with the university of texas medical branch galveston and uc irvine since 2002, as i said. scott: so, it started with dental healthcare. amit: no, we have products in ophthalmology and dermatology that we're going through the fda and various clinical trials. we all had bleeding gums back in 2009 and we said, "knowing what we know of this--" scott: this is the worst startup story ever, by the way. it's not, "you know, we were trying to sell pez dispensers." we all had bleeding gums. it's never going to sell with usa today. amit: well, the funny part of this one-- john: it might, actually, when i think about it, worst experience. amit: when our bleeding stopped, we went to a clinical practice in milpitas and said, "let's do a double blind study." the results were so good that we looked at it and we said, "yeah, this is all legal." scott: and much of this is backed up. i should say when i started this, i said 250% better based on materials that i had read, but also in published scientific papers. amit: yes, so, when we did the milpitas stud

this happened on 9th and galveston street northwest. two men were shot. both survived. now a triple shooting in southeast overnight left two men dead and a third hurt. this comes in what's supposed to be an all hands on deck with the police department within the district. troubling night. thanks for being with us. i'm david culver. >> i'm angie goff. we want to get to the breaking news and several shootings overnight. look at this map. the first shooting happened around 11:30. a man was shot on 6th place northeast. police are not looking for a suspect in that case. meanwhile, in northwest, an adult was shot on 18th street before 2:00 this morning. the victim was rushed to the hospital with life threatening injuries. two men are dead and another hurt after a triple shooting on b street in southeast. derrick ward is live at the scene with more on how this is supposed to be a weekend to deter crime. derrick? >> reporter: indeed, it is. this is the weekend where there's an all hands on deck. that means police officers are saturating the ward on foot patrol, bike patrol and

history we have to go back to the earthquake and galveston to find a city damaged this badly, in fact, professor powell sitting here told me it is the largest disaster that he knows of going back over 100 years forgets the dust bowl. 1.2 million people had to evacuate. just in modern times in this country. so it is fascinating new orleans cultural jewel of this extraordinary city. what was going to happen? you have forces in washington, d.c. remember there was a republican president. republican controlled senate, republican controlled house, you had people publicly saying, i don't think there's the money to rebuild that whole place. and speaker of the house, saying to his eye most of it should be bull dozed and all. so how is this city going to recover? what was it going to take? what was the will? so i -- i just got done telling you how the focus ftion was on the recovery that is my book but i do ohm the book with the blockade of the kres sent city connection, more in the vein knack particular. mississippi river bridge, i would call it the gretner but or for the shorthand. i want to

we had to go back to 1096 and the earthquake in san francisco, chicago in the 19th century, galveston in 1900, to find a city damaged this badly. in fact, professor powell, who is sitting right right here, told me it's the largest diaspora that he knows of going back over 100 years-forget the -- 1.2 million people had to evacuatement unparalleled in modern times in this country. so new orleans is a cultural jewel, on extraordinary city. what was going to happen? you had forces in washington, dc -- the republican president, republican controlled senate, republican controlled house. you had people publicly saying, i don't think there's the money to rebuild that whole place. dennis hastert, then speaker of the house, saying it should be bull delwareed. how is the city going to recover? what would it take? what was the will? so i just got done telling you how my focus was on the recovery, and in fact that is most of my book, but i do open the book with the blockade of the crescent city connection, more of n the vernacular, the mississippi river bridge, i call it the greater in bridge. for

he was captured in galveston, texas. today an investigator told the court that matthews had a map with routes to mexico. they argued he was a flight risk and the judge denied a request to let him out of the jail attire in handcuffs for now. his family was here today with no comments, but jill harrington did. >> jesse matthews was the back- to-school rapier's. assaults that we're aware of, they would all occur in september and october at the beginning of the school year. and at that time, the students are vulnerable yet to gel in to a support group to look out for them. >> reporter: the mother of morgan, who jesse matthew is also accused of kidnapping and murdering. today she's wearing the orange scarf because it was hannah graham's favorite color. the defense would try to get that judge to bar the wearing of any insignia to influence the jury. >> i don't have a flesh and blood daughter any longer. what i have are tokens. i'm reluctant to turn loose of them. >> reporter: the judge denied that the defense request to bar in

[applause] todd: the dust bowl of the 1930's, the chicago fire, the galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 san francisco earthquake. these were catastrophic events that changed lives forever and transform leases. katrina joins these disasters of the last century and our language about transformative events. as the secretary noted, over one million damaged of homes and tens of thousands of lives disrupted for many years. 1833 lives lost. our colleagues at fema can tell you the story of response. h.u.d.'s story shared with a number of federal, state, and local agencies is about the recovery of the last 10 years for the families and places most impacted by the storm. as noted in the introduction, i'm todd richardson. my role after disaster is to find the data and make sense of it. earl: i'm earl randall, iii. i provide the on the ground perspective behind the data todd presents. todd: the winds of caused damage over a large part of the southern u.s. but the catastrophic damage of katrina was in louisiana and this is a be. the storm was the same, the disaster manifested differently. for m

is galveston news disforcing this? >> when bernie sanders was amassing massive crowds and we had not seen he was not getting live coverage so the point is, yes, he is the magic dust, he is ratings and you cover it. >> trump goes on twitter and the comments are on the we couple, for example, a.b. he liked what the "washington post" wrote about the alabama issue but took issue with "politico" who he said covered him more inaccurately the he said a lot more people attended an events he did in phoenix than reported. >> he criticizes and compliments. although the supporters may not follow him, the media is. this is a certain level of detachmentried to be the leader of the tree world and if you cannot get off your ipad and comb through the coverage and take care of the nations much the world's business you have a problem. when will it cool down? >> he gets coverage the old fashioned way, earning it and all the other canidates can take lessons from how he can get in the news and make news. >> on that point, i thank fred and a

[applause] todd: the dust bowl of the 1930's, the chicago fire, the galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 san francisco earthquake. these were catastrophic events that changed lives forever and transform leases. katrina joins these disasters of the last century and our language about transformative events. as the secretary noted, over one million damaged of homes and tens of thousands of lives disrupted for many years. 1833 lives lost. our colleagues at fema can tell you the story of response. h.u.d.'s story shared with a number of federal, state, and local agencies is about the recovery of the last 10 years for the families and places most impacted by the storm. as noted in the introduction, i'm todd richardson. my role after disaster is to find the data and make sense of it. earl: i'm earl randall, iii. i provide the on the ground perspective behind the data todd presents. todd: the winds of caused damage over a large part of the southern u.s. but the catastrophic damage of katrina was in louisiana and this is a be. the storm was the same, the disaster manifested differently. for m

the train was headed at a galveston when it derailed yesterday afternoon. car loads of grain were dumped on the tracks. that brought out the hazmat teams a small amount of diesel fuel also leaked from the derailment. luckily no one was hurt. one witness says he got a first-hand look at the train topple over. >> all of a sudden it started wobbling. i'm like oh, lord, this is going to be bad. that's when my my wife started screaming at the kids, get to the back. get to the back. >> large lifts and cranes were brought in to clear the scene. the cause of the derailment is still under investigation. >>> former tv star hopes to go from the little house to the people's house. melissa gilbert announced her candidacy for michigan congressional sheet on monday she played laura engles on little house on the prairie. fresh voices are needed to help improve the economy for people who have fallen behind. griller is looking to win a seat that has been in republican hands for the past 15 years. >>> it's a sizzling summer tradition. phillies sexy singles and fox 29 alex hol

galveston, case in texas to give black voters the -- i litigated that in 1991. we talk about voter suppression, we are not just talking about who was going to be the president. it's important to emphasize if you do not live in these communities, you forget it is the water district and the town council and the school board and -- iudicial district always remember alabama. every county commissioner had the power of roads and ditches and their county district and probably to you and me does not sound like power we want to control roads and ditches, but you know, that controls where the new supermarket ends up, right? and where the infrastructure happens in your community. one of the important things to recognize, while we are focused on the macro, looking at the presidential election and the toate elections, we have recognize this is the way communities of power organize, especially in the lives of african-americans and latinos. they have had elections without the protection of the voting rights act and that is a threat to our democracy. this is not a gathering sto

galveston which you know very well i'm sure 80 degrees overnight. hasn't broke that for 40 days. the heat on again from parts of santonio through louisiana. that's the big picture. let's get a check closer to home. >> ginger it's warm today around here but definitely livable. as we take a look there's no rain on storm tracker6 live double scan. heading outside lots of early sunshine over the airport. lots of activity down at phl this morning and temperatures climbing into the 70's with humidity dropping as we speak. this afternoon a warm high of 85, sun eventually mixing with a few more clouds and a slight chance of a pop-up shower or thunderstorm in a few neighborhoods mainly north and west of philadelphia. don't be surprised if something pops down closer to i-95. beautiful tomorrow. in. >>> it's time for "pop news." you hear that song. her lipps may be moving. but meghan trainor's voice needs a rest. she's cancelling her tour. she needs surgery. i'm determined to do what it takes to get better. just like sam smith. trainor joins a group of artists forced to go silent so they ca

galveston, which you know very well i'm sure, 80 degrees overnight. hasn't broke that for 40 days. the heat is on from san antonio to louisiana. >>> good morning. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. clouds are late, and that means it's going to be mostly sunny. friday, triple digit heat inland. today we go from the upper 60s along the coast in san francisco. low to mid 70s along the bay. take it to the east bay, mid 80s there. my accuweather seven-day forecast, we are going to wilt almost everywhere th >> it's a beautiful morning out here, though, lara. just perfect to get a little "pop." >> thank you so much, ginger. come on in. >>> it's time for "pop news." you hear that song. her lips may be moving. but meghan trainor's voice needs a rest. this morning we're learning the young superstar is cancelling the rest of her north american tour. she'll have surgery to repair a vocal chord hemorrhage. posting on instagram, i'm devastated, scared and so sorry. just like sam smith. trainor joins a group of artists that have been forced to go silent so they can sing again. i don't know

[applause] >> the dust bowl of the 1930s, the great chicago fire of 1871 galveston hurricane in 191906 san francisco earthquake for catastrophic events ending many lives change lives forever, transform places. katrina joins these disasters of the last century in our language about transformative events and is the secretary noted over 1 million damaged homes, tens of thousands of lives were disrupted for many years. 1833 lives lost. our colleagues at fema can tell you the story of response. hud story shared with federal and state and agencies about the recovery of the last 10 years for the families and places most impacted by the storm. as noted in the introduction i am todd richardson and mike gold after disaster is to find the data and make sense of it. >> i am earl randall and i will provide on the ground in the human perspective behind the data. >> the winds of katrina caused damage over a very large part of southern u.s. but the catastrophic damage of katrina in louisiana and mississippi. although the storm was the same disaster manifested itself differently. mississippi was a the

[applause] >> dustbowl of the 1930s, great chicago fire of 1871, galveston hurricane of 1900 community has six san francisco earthquake. these are catastrophic event ended many lives, change lives forever, transfer and places. katrina joins these disasters of the last century and our language about transformative event as a secretary noted in their damaged homes. tens of thousands of lives disrupted for many years. 1833 lives lost. our colleagues have seen i can tell you the story of response. hud story shared with federal, state and local agencies is about the recovery of the last 10 years for the families and places most impacted by the storm. as noted in the introduction i am todd richards and in my role after disaster is to find the data and make sense of it. >> i'm earl randall the third and i provide on the ground human perspective behind the data you present. >> the went to katrina caused damage over a very large part of the southern u.s. but the catastrophic damage were in louisiana and mississippi. although the storm was the same, disaster manifested itself differently. missis

[applause] the: the dust bowl of 1930's, the chicago fire, the galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 san francisco earthquake. these were catastrophic events that changed lives forever and transform leases. katrina joins these disasters of the last century and our language about transformative events. as the secretary noted, over one million damaged of homes and tens of thousands of lives disrupted for many years. 1833 lives lost. fema can tell at you the story of response. h.u.d.'s story shared with a number of federal, state, and local agencies is about the recovery of the last 10 years for the families and places most impacted by the storm. as noted in the introduction, i'm todd richardson. my role after disaster is to find the data and make sense of it. earl: i'm earl randall, iii. i provide the on the ground perspective behind the data todd presents. todd: the winds of caused damage over a large part of the southern u.s. but the catastrophic damage of katrina was in louisiana and this is a be. same, thewas the disaster manifested differently. for mississippi with the storm surge

later this afternoon, we will continue c-span cities tour with a visit to galveston, texas, starting at 6:00 eastern. we'll tour an 1877 merchant sailing ship and we will hear about the juneteenth juneteenth celebration in the end of slavery. we will also hear back from hurricane ike and the destruction in 2000 eight. this afternoon it is at 6:00 eastern time. president obama was in new orleans yesterday to mark the 10 year anniversary of hurricane katrina. coordinating the flooding was in the worldwide. i talk with residents also came. [applause]

about what's need to do keep up with the speed of trade is joan mileski at texas a&m university at galveston. joan, thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> what would you say is the biggest solution in terms of trying to fight the congestion that's out there, and how do you think we're doing so far? >> we have three things that are probably very important to trying to address port congestion. the first thing is to enhance our infrastructure, and that needs funding. there is a harbor tax that is assessed on every port. but we only receive 50% of that tax back to the ports to maintain and enhance infrastructure. >> where does the rest of it go? >> second -- into the general revenue fund of the federal government. >> wow. >> and then about -- then there's different funding areas. there's the fed, of course, states, and local municipalities have to pony up money for funding infrastructure at the ports. that is not well integrated, and we'd like to get a better planning across stes. and here in texas, we do a fairly good job. and places like florida do a fairly go

[applause] todd: the dust bowl of the 1930's, the chicago fire, the galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 san francisco him earthquake. these were catastrophic events that changed lives forever and transform leases. -- places. katrina joins these disasters of the last century and our language about transformative events. as the secretary noted, over one million damaged of homes and tens of thousands of lives disrupted for many years. 1833 lives lost. our colleagues at fema can tell you the story of response. h.u.d.'s story shared with a number of federal, state, and local agencies is about the recovery of the last 10 years for the families and places most impacted by the storm. as noted in the introduction, i'm todd richardson. my role after disaster is to find the data and make sense of it. earl: i'm earl randall, iii. i provide the on the ground and the human perspective behind the data todd presents. todd: the winds of caused damage over a large part of the southern u.s. but the catastrophic damage of katrina was in louisiana and mississippi. the storm was the same, the disaster m

elissa's connection to galveston is really unique in that she sailed and arrived here in galveston probably about 100 yards from where we're standing right now. back in 1883, with a cargo full of bananas. and she came again a second time later on in the 1880's, in 1886, and it was real important for galveston historical foundation to find a vessel that had a connection. and the fact that she was a sailing vessel was all the more important. >> that's a terrible habit! >> in the 1970's, elissa fell upon hard times. she had been at sea for about 100 years. and from what we can ascertain she has one of the longest careers as a merchant vessel. galveston historical foundation were made aware of elissa's plight. and the connection to galveston. and the gears were put into motion to purchase the ship. she was purchased and then brought to galveston in 1979, and the complete restoration of the ship began. she is involved with

welcome to galveston, texas, on american history tv. located 60 miles from houston, the city sits on a barrier island facing the gulf of mexico. established in 1825 by the congress of mexico, while -- land still known as texas land now known as texas still belongs to that country. coming up, visit the rosenberg library museum, the repository for much of galveston's historical heritage. >> we are the keeper of the history here. later, step aboard a 19th-century ship that once delivered goods to the city. >> she sailed and arrived here probably about 100 yards from where we are standing right now with a cargo full of bananas. we begin in the surrounding waters. the port is a major reason the plays asts today, and dominant role in its economy. the first land grant for toveston came in the 1830's a guy named michel minard and some of his other investors. they had someone come in, lay out the plots for the city, and began selling lots in the late 1830's. galveston was officially founded as a city about 1839. what was impressive about galvest

the union troops arrived in galveston on june the 18th, 1865. it was 2,000 union soldiers, along with general gordon granger. some of the slaves once they heard they were free were jubilant. others were depressed, because they had never been on their own. they didn't have a place to go. they didn't have any money to purchase anything. so a lot of the slaves stayed at first baptist church, which was established in 1840. we were at the ashton villa, which was the first brick mansion constructed on galveston island. it was constructed in 1859. this place also served as the residence for the confederate army. and then later gordon granger's residence when he arrived on june 18th, 1865. we've been having a celebration here at ashton villa for 36 years. and it coincided with the state of texas holiday for juneteenth. the texas state holiday occurred by an african-american representative by the name of al edwards of houston, texas. he remembered as a kid

we were at the ashton villa, which was the first brick mansion constructed on galveston island. it was constructed in 1859. this place also served as the residence for the confederate army. and then later gordon granger's residence when he arrived on june 18th, 1865. we've been having a celebration here at ashton villa for 36 years. and it coincided with the state of texas holiday for juneteenth. the texas state holiday occurred by an african-american representative by the name of al edwards of houston, texas. he remembered as a kid growing up the celebration of juneteenth. so he introduced a law making that a paid holiday. there were only eight african-american legislators black legislators in the legislature. and this bill passed. and it was signed into law. and it went into effect june 13, 1979. it was mainly here in the south where the celebration was -- you had a major celebration. today you have big celebrations in milwaukee. you have los angeles, washington d.c., new york, you know san antonio. there are a lot of -- over 40 states. we've been told that there are at least

passenger ferry that was part of the texas department of transportation system owing between galveston to the east. they used to learn the rules of the road. they had ship came in, the opportunity to go on a summer training cruise. when school was out, they would board the ship and in the beginning of june, they would sail and come back and ought -- in august, having done just about everything you could do on a ship, including visit many of the reports. the ship was renamed when it was claimed for the academy, renamed the u.s. training ship texas clipper. i taught on the ship about a studentsrs, teaching english composition. that is the reason when the ship was put in mothballs in beaumont and it looked like it was not going to go anywhere at all. just kind of sink and rest in the bottom of the harbor. the texas department of transportation claimed it to make an artificial reef. i had the idea of writing a book about it. my book is called "the ship that would not die." it is about that history from when itthrough the time was sunk as a reef in 2007. now it is home to florida and fun un