Reese Witherspoon keeps herself busy, whether it's acting, producing TV shows and films or raising her family, and all of that isn't enough. She also loves real estate and spent a good part of 2022 snatching up properties at a frantic pace, both in Nashville and Los Angeles. Over the last few years, Reese's homes have been coming and going, including recently buying and then selling a stunning Brentwood mansion and letting go of her former Malibu getaway. It's shown that the actress spent nearly 30 million dollars buying up at least four new homes this year alone, three of which are in her native Nashville, Tennessee, where she already owns a handful of nearby properties. Also Michael and I dropped our very own house tour of our new home we moved into this year, so go ahead and subscribe to our personal channel if you want to see where we're living and more of what we're up to. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Reese Witherspoon is an actress and producer who's won plenty of awards and accolades over her career, including an Academy Award in two Golden Globes. Not to mention she's ranked time and time again among the world's highest paid actresses and one of the richest at that, with an estimated net worth of $400 million or more. With her fortune, Reese has bought and sold some gorgeous estates across the US.  She even offloaded her Brentwood mansion for $21.5 million after barely even living in it, if at all. Reese refilled her property portfolio during the beginning of 2022, purchasing about 4 new homes. Even though she already owns a handful of Nashville homes, she and her hubby Jim Toth bought a stunning 18 million 4 acre spread in an exclusive part of the city too. Hey guys it's Kara back with another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment looking at where Reese Witherspoon calls home. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit me up on Instagram to chat. And now let's get into this video. In May 2022, Reese Witherspoon sold a mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, which she had only purchased two years prior or for just under $16 million. The Oscar winning actress got $21.5 million for the elegant estate and it's hard to tell if Reese and her family ever even called the place home or it was simply a property to flip. During her brief ownership, Reese did quite a bit of work to the 10,343 square foot home. Comparing photos from the time she purchased the abode to the more recent listing materials, show that the actress gave the mansion a new look, with fresh new paints and brighter trim inside and out. Not to mention, interiors boast new marble floors in the entryway, new white oak hardwood on the stairs, and in the living room, you'll find new wrought iron railings too. There's also a library that's been painted in a stunning shade of blue and the lavish chef's kitchen was completely redone too. Reese's former home is tucked away on more than three lush acres in the exclusive Mandeville Canyon area, one of the best in Brentwood, and it's hidden behind a large and secure gates. The English country style mansion boasts a circular motor court out front and inside. There are seven beds and nine baths throughout. The estate even comes with a separate service entry and driveway, which is also gated. The mansion was built in 1993 and once inside, there's a double-height open entry hall, which now boasts checkerboard marble flooring and an elegant staircase that leads up to a spacious landing. Common rooms include a living room with fireplace, the library, which was once wood paneled, but is now blue, a formal dining room, as well as a cozy breakfast room off of the kitchen. After Reese's recent renovations, the updated kitchen now has new stone counters and designer appliances. Listing materials state that all of the bedrooms have their own en-suites, including the two guest quarters on the main level. The impressive master suite is upstairs along with the rest of the bedrooms, but it's located in its very own owner's wing. The master bedroom has high vaulted ceilings and a massive private sitting area, along with dual baths and dressing rooms. Outside, the park-like grounds are stacked with rolling lawns and mature trees, as well as gardens and a limestone bar area with seating for alfresco meals. Of course, there's also a large saltwater swimming pool and spa, an outdoor kitchen and a large outdoor fireplace, which warms some of the terraces. Despite selling off this home, Reese and her husband Jim purchased those new properties more recently, one of which was in LA. So let's move on to her new places next. For the first half of 2022, Reese went on a home buying spree, producing at least four homes, if not more. One of these places is in Los Angeles, while the rest are in her native home of Nashville or nearby, which is where Reese already lives with her family part-time. Most of these purchases were done in off-market deals, so photos of the properties are slim. However, we do have some details about them. Starting with the Los Angeles home, this was actually the second purchase Reese made, spending around 5 million dollars for a modest ranch house, also in the Brentwood neighborhood, close to the Mandeville Canyon abode we just checked out. Records show that this home offers four bedrooms and three baths, along with 2,600 square feet of living space, all across a single level. The home wraps around a concrete patio and a dark bottom swimming pool, also situated past a long and private driveway for security. It's unknown whether the home is for Reese and her family to live in, or if it's for another family member, or if the 1959 built abode is a project to flip. While the main estate that Reese and her husband purchased appears to be a mansion in Nashville that they spent 18 million dollars on, located in an exclusive part of the city. While we have yet to see interior photos, this sounds like the family home that Reese will spend most of her time in when in Nashville. According to records, the gated estate sits on almost four acres of land with a 15,000 square foot main mansion. We also know the house was custom built in 2020 by the couple who sold it to Reese. Another features on the sprawling property include a detached full house, full sized tennis court with a viewing pavilion, and a spoon shaped swimming pool. All of this is surrounded by gardens, trees and rolling lawns as well. The mansion is close to parks and charming spots to get a bite to eat or go shopping. And while the inside of the house is a mystery, Reese seems to like traditional style homes with chic and more modern decor within. The following property Reese bought in Nashville is a historic building downtown on a busy street full of commercial properties. This 1879 built brick red home has potential for retail or residential use and would make an ideal office for someone like Reese who has her own brands and a production company. Regardless of her intentions for the place, it cost her 4.2 million dollars and it was renovated recently, offering a 3,000 square foot front house with a kitchen and a second building at the back. This one spanning 1,300 square feet of space. To round out her property shopping spree, the actress bought a humble home in Franklin, Tennessee, a quiet Nashville suburb for 672K. This house was 2,200 square feet of space along with three beds and two baths while the exterior brick has been painted recently. The home which backs onto a golf course is also likely an investment for Reese or for a lucky family member. Aside from these, Reese still maintains another Nashville mansion spending 8,400 square feet as well as two smaller homes in the area which are also said to be for family. Before we wrap this up, let's take a quick look at another place Reese sold a few years back. Her former vacation got away in Malibu. This property was sold in an off-market deal for just over 6.7 million dollars which means Reese made nearly 500K more than she paid for it this summer prior. This picture perfect hobby farm property sits on about two acres of land and offered multiple structures and while the home was originally built in 1950 as a humble mid-century ranch, it was modernized and renovated by a couple who used it as a wedding venue before Reese moved in. In recent days, interiors include a boho chic style with an open plan living areas and three vintage inspired beds and three baths throughout. Home is located creek side down a private and fully gated driveway. Inside this Malibu pad, there was also a galley kitchen with top of the line appliances as well as living and dining rooms with white bean ceilings and hardwood floors. Aside from the main house, also on the property, there was a barn style guest house full kitchen as well as a separate art studio and screening room with plush couch and wet bar in another structure nearby. Outside there were well maintained horse facilities all close to miles of trails and the Instagram where these pieces don't stop there. There were orchards, gardens and plenty of patios for outdoor dining. Despite Reese witherspoon buying and selling so many properties in her real estate portfolio, it appears that she and her family enjoy Nashville and Los Angeles best. Well, that concludes this house tour. 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Tonight on EKB Evening News at 6, a community comes to the aid of the family of a sick child. Good evening, I'm Gary Slough. And I'm Jill Fraley-Dotzen, Cindy has the night off. The family of an Elkhorn City toddler has been through an emotional whirlwind over the past year. After he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma last year, he overcame the disease but now has been diagnosed with acute myeloid lymphoma. Now, his community is rallying to support the family by doing everything they can. EKB News reporter Shelby Steele talked with the family and the mayor of Elkhorn City to get their thoughts. She files this report. On July 2, 2014, baby Clay Allen's parents took him to the hospital for what they thought would be a typical pump knot caused by a little boy being too rough. They were shocked, however, when baby Clay was diagnosed with stage 4 intermediate risk neuroblastoma. During the third month of being in remission, baby Clay was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia which was caused by the chemo radiation he endured to cure the neuroblastoma. Baby Clay's mother, Trista Allen says this is very rare, which was extremely, extremely rare. In my first case, they've seen a bit happening that his oncologist had mentioned us ever seeing a child develop leukemia with the doses of chemo that he had because they were so extraordinarily low dose. The Allen family, excluding the two older children, has been in the hospital now for five weeks. Trista Allen explains that along with leukemia, baby Clay's immune system is weak. Now, members of the community are stepping up to support the Allen family. Friday, May 22nd, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Elkhorn City Mayor Mike Taylor is hosting a bone marrow drive at Elkhorn City Hall. Taylor says he will even come to you. I'm willing to go anywhere that anybody would want to be tested.  And then what it does, it goes into the bone marrow bank in Cleveland, Ohio. They send you a letter stating that, you know, they've tested and what type, what it is.  They don't come through me or anybody like that. They will come through you, contact you personally. Taylor adds he hopes everyone finds it in their heart to support baby Clay. I just hope that people will come out and do it for this little guy.  This little boy's been through a lot.  We're hoping and praying that, you know, God blesses him to just have to have one treatment and it be in remission, you know, because being his mother, he deserves a summer.  I mean, his first two years have been up in the hospital. For EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Shelby Steele. Residents who live around Carter Lane and Fifth Street in Paintsville have been noticing issues with their homes and roadways over the past two months and they fear the problems are only going to get worse. Issue is a landslide caused by severe weather back in March, which has residents has gone unresolved since that time. EKB News reporter Courtney Lovren visited the neighborhood and brings us this report. Every day, Jim and Debbie Shell have to walk 500 feet rain or shine just to make it to their home. Along this road, there are cracks, breaks, and narrow turns to get to their house at the top of the hill. It's been really hard getting home. We have no access to medical, police, fire, nothing. And anything we get, we usually have to carry it home. We have to walk in and walk out. Carter Lane in the city of Paintsville leads to two households, the Daniels and the Shells. Since March, these two couples, along with five other families, have been dealing with home and property damage from a landslide. Dale Daniel and his wife, Ruby, are another family affected by the slide. The foundation is cracking. The posts up front here on the porch is cracking. Cracks in the plaster drywall inside the water lines, sewer lines has been pulled apart and had to repair those a couple of times and put them on top of the ground. The slide is bigger than the surveyors originally thought and Blue Ribbon marks boundaries around the affected area. Seven homes between Carter Lane and Fifth Street are in danger of being overtaken by the slide. Mayor Bob Porter commented on the situation. And certainly I'd like the folks to know, and I believe they do know that we're doing everything that can possibly be done to assist them. I've spoken to, not all the property owners, virtually all the property owners, many times about this situation and have advised them that there's really no good solutions to this point in time other than to seek mitigation assistance from FEMA. The city has hired an engineer and others to assess the situation and will be sending in an application to FEMA. The families affected just want some help. We need to, first of all, help the people at home and in the United States because like Nepal when they had the earthquake, we gave money for them within so many hours, we gave them a million dollars. But yet we're having trouble, you know, it's already been two months and we're still waiting for FEMA, the federal government, somebody to help. We're still waiting for answers. Reporting for EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Courtney Levern. The second person charged for a Robinson Creek Railroad tunnel fire last year has now been arrested. 32 year old Harlan K. Damron of Wellington was arrested yesterday. Today he appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins to answer conspiracy and arson charges. He pleaded not guilty. On Tuesday, co-defendant Ricky D. Johnson also pleaded not guilty. Johnson was allowed to remain free pending the men's July 28th trial. But a detention hearing has now been ordered for Damron. In court, Judge Atkins said Damron appeared to pose a flight risk due to previous instances of not appearing in court to answer other charges and order that he remain in jail until his detention hearing. A Logan man faces a federal weapons charge and is expected to plead guilty in coming days. Brian Keith Conley is accused of making false statements in October when attempting to purchase three guns from Tri-State Gun and Pawn. Specifically, Conley allegedly said he had never been convicted of a domestic violence charge, even though he was convicted of domestic battery in 2003. The weapons charge was filed yesterday, along with a motion to set a hearing in order for Conley to plead guilty. That hearing has not yet been set. Well, coming up, we'll update you on one local animal shelter's efforts to reduce its cat population. And Pye County is taking steps to improve emergency communications in rural areas. We'll be back in two minutes. As we reported yesterday, the Pye County Animal Shelter is at full capacity when it comes to cats. In order to prevent certain death for some of these animals, Pye County Deputy Judge Executive Brian Morris has contacted the Appalachian SPCA for help. Morris has found an anonymous donor who will pay the adoption fee for cats until the overpopulation of the shelter is under control. Yesterday, the shelter started with 92 cats and 29 were adopted. With that being said, 18 more were brought in to the animal shelter just yesterday. So the problem still remains. Thanks to the anonymous donor, the Appalachian SPCA and Deputy Judge Executive Brian Morris, cats and kittens will have their first shots and those adopting one will be made an appointment for its spay or neuter. All cat adoptions are free until the overpopulation is under control. The shelter has cats and kittens in all colors. Shelter hours are today through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you would like to donate to the Appalachian SPCA to prevent this in the future, log on to Appalachianspca.org. Communication between dispatchers and first responders working in rural parts of Pike County is crucial, but sometimes not very reliable. However, a decision made by the Pike County Fiscal Court yesterday will alleviate many existing issues. EKB news reporter Shannon Deskins has the story. When fire departments, ambulances and law enforcement officials respond to calls in Pike County, they rely on one of seven repeater sites throughout the county to communicate with dispatchers, but the towers located on mountaintops in very rural areas are plagued with challenges. For example, when a tower site loses power, the Emergency Management Office in Pikeville only knows about it when communication with first responders fail. There's been instances where fire departments have been paged out and not answered and that's the only way sometimes we've been able to find out that there's a problem at a site. However, all of that is about to change. At yesterday's Pike County Fiscal Court meeting, the court voted to enter into an agreement with local company Skynet Communications to provide high-speed internet services at each tower site and once the internet service is established at the tower Skynet officials will then start working to also provide services to area residents. Once we build out this infrastructure with the county, we're going to move to a platform called YMAX and that's going to provide service in areas that doesn't exactly have a line of site and the towers that the county has, they're in a lot of rural places that are underserved right now so it really works great in correlation with what we're doing and what they need. Doug Tackett said that this new service will also let them tackle another big problem and that is vandalism. Until now, catching anyone vandalizing or stealing equipment has been nearly impossible but that will change soon. We had some vandalism a week or so ago that we and we had cameras at the site but the cameras were destroyed and the DVR at site was destroyed as well but this way with the cameras at the site if you destroy the cameras we've still got you recorded here at the office with the internet links. And that is because all videos and pictures will be instantly transmitted and stored at the 911 office in Pikeville. Officials expect the Skynet services to go online in early summer. For EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Shannon Deskins. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts are calling on Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to issue a report on prescription pill and heroin abuse. The senators made their request in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services in order to measure the federal response to opioid addiction and overdose deaths. The senators note that their home states had more than a thousand overdose deaths in 2014. In Kentucky, a third of those deaths were caused by heroin. Well coming up district champions are being crowned across the mountains. Jamie Johnson will be in with the details. But first EKB Chief Meteorologist Layton Hopkins will be here with a look at our forecast. We'll be back in two minutes. So we turned the thermometer back a little bit today. What happened? Did you need the heat on? Yes. It is very possible some folks may have had to switch back over from AC to heat as temperatures today struggle to break out of the 50s. Did not expect that today. Yeah, big, big cool down and on top of that a cold rain falling across the region. Doppler radar showing the rain that is currently making its way across the blue grass and into parts of West Virginia and Southwest Virginia as well. Watching this gusty band of showers move from northern parts of Pike County into Central Floyd and Knot County as we speak. Right along this little system here you can see the brighter greens could get some heavier rain and maybe some gusty winds from that will zoom in a little closer. You can see some of the areas that will be impacted right along 119 here within the next 10 minutes from Pikeville to Williamson and point south along 23 from Pikeville down toward Vergy. A gustier band of showers will eventually be making its way into your region here like I said within the next 10 or 15 minutes. The big story today the cloud cover and the rain keeping temperatures very, very chilly. How chilly are we talking? Well, this is currently 54 degrees in Pikeville in Prestonsburg 56 in Paintsville 54 in Saliersville. We have 47 showing up right now in Dorton. Now these temperatures are about anywhere between 15 and 25 degrees colder than this time yesterday. As a matter of fact, 20 degrees colder right now in Pikeville almost 20 in Prestonsburg about 24 degrees cooler in the past 24 hours in Williamson. Yes, a big cool down. The high today 61 degrees. That was at 1207 this morning just after midnight. The official low 52. That was at 259 this afternoon. So totally opposite than what we normally see. This is more like what we'd expect as far as the daytime temperatures go in early March, mid March. Here we are exactly one month from summer. The official start of summer and the average temperature today around 52 degrees. It's absolutely hard to believe satellite and radar composite. I want you to notice the clearing though that is taking place southern parts of Indiana, Illinois. That clearing line is moving to the south and once that moves in temperatures will cool down overnight tonight and allow for some patchy dense fog overnight tonight and for the Friday morning commute. So something to definitely keep in mind as you head out in about tomorrow morning. All right. Polling Count time sponsored by Faith Pharmacy, Adams Plaza in Pikeville Friday 8.0 out of a possible 12 and we stay right around that same category for Saturday before back above nine as we head in to Sunday. All right. That all important seven day forecast, which does include of course the long holiday weekend Saturday 78 degrees tomorrow 72 back in the eighties Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday. Best chance of rain though holding off until Tuesday and Wednesday. So get ready for temperatures tonight in the forties and tomorrow finally back in the low seventies. Thank goodness man. Oh man. Bundle up tomorrow morning. It's chilly, chilly, chilly out there. All right. Layton. Thank you. Stay with us. Sports is next. Well, Jamie, I understand UK released a part of its schedule. Yes. Finally, we've had we've had the teams just didn't know where they went on the calendar. Now we do. We'll get to some district play in the high school softball high school baseball action in a minute. But first, the University of Kentucky released its non-conference men's basketball schedule late this afternoon featuring eight home games along with three neutral side games and only two true away games. Let's take a look at at this beginning with the Cats regular season home opener hosting the Great Danes of the University of Albany, New York on Friday, November 13th as part of the Naysmith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Classic. Now the following day Kentucky will meet the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Now don't laugh. NJIT defeated Michigan on the road last season. Hope it don't happen to us. Former Duke Blue Devil Bobby Hurley, who brought Buffalo last year to Ruff Arena, will now lead his new team the Arizona State Sun Devil Selectsington on Saturday, December 12th. Kentucky will spar with Louisville in the last Saturday of the year. The games include a matchup with Duke and the Champions Classic on the road in Chicago and also games at UCLA and at Allen Fieldhouse in Kansas on my birthday. Who's buying tickets for that? To the action on the field from last night, the Pineville Panthers were going for their seventh consecutive 59th district championship taking on Eastridge at Davis Park. Cody Eastep sends this shot to left field and that would bring across Pineville's first run of the game. Eastep will pull in the second base with a double. Next up, Michael McDonald, sweet freedom. Yes, shine your light on me. The crush to center field bringing Eastep around to score. McDonald will get a triple out of this. Pineville well on their way to a district ground. Now Clay Sloan, look how easy you made that. Clay Sloan will demonstrate the safety squeeze with this month. So the first but don't know weights takes off right grease lotting scores and Pineville claims another 59th district tournament crown. The 58th district tournament over in Floyd County either the Prestonsburg Blackhants or the Allen Central Rebels have won the last 10 district tournament titles dating back to 2005. These rivals made again last night as we take you to WJ Turner Field at Drift. Allen Central bases loaded trailing one nothing. Brett Sammons strikes out swinging. Rebels left eight men on base in this one last night. Later Dustin Johnson line out to resize it at third. They throw the first five three double play if you're scoring at home. Blackcats pitcher Jerry Hall looking to go the distance. Get Sammons to start the seventh inning staring. Cameron Blevins next leadoff man rung up by home plate umpire Pete Runyon and then Dustin Johnson waves and misses. Prestonsburg wins their fifth consecutive 58th district tournament title with a one nothing shutout. Other scores from around the area. A champion was crowned in the 57th district as Panksville defeated Crosstown rival Johnson Central 6 to 5 Tigers first district championship since 2006 in the 60th district finals.  One softball championship determined last night in the 58th district as South Floyd scored six runs in the first senior Brittany Dawson Holmbert. Lady Raiders won their fourth district championship in six years 11 to five over Betsy Lane. Tonight weather permitting softball play Johnson Central and MacGuffin County will decide the 57th district championship and Lawrence County will take on Pike Central for the 60th district title and that is sports. Busy busy time. It's good to be on the field last night. I've been away for a couple nights out on the field watching some things been good to be out there. Yeah, but I missed being in here too. I gotta be two places at once. It's you can't be. I know but you can try. You can do better. Try. I try my best. All right, Jamie. Thank you. All right. Stay with us. We'll be back in just two minutes. Oh, chilly night tonight, Lathan. Temperatures back down in the forties and watch out for some patchy dense fog, but tomorrow looking much better. Mostly sunny 72 and then 78 as we head into the weekend eighties return Sunday into Monday. And of course, you can get the latest forecast in tomorrows. Appalachian News Express. Very good. Thank you. All right, Debbie. What's on tonight? Well, westerns tonight. So, get a blanket or build a fire. Thank you, Lathan. Uh but westerns tonight here on EKB too. Make sure you get a bucket of popcorn and go along with that. Be good. Be good to have. Yeah. That will do it for tonight's EKB evening news. Remember you can get more local news anytime by listening to the radio stations of East Kentucky Broadcasting. You can also follow EKB news and EKB TV on Facebook and on Twitter. We leave you tonight with some flowers down by the river. Good night and thanks for watching.


Hello and welcome to the session. Today I will help you with the following question. The question says, draw the front view, side view and top view of the given object. We are given a military tent and we are supposed to draw the front view, side view and the top view of this military tent. If you look at this military tent you can easily see that this is the front view of the military tent that is the triangle. We have drawn a triangle with the line which is the front view of this military tent. Let's see the side view now. This dark grey portion is the side view of this military tent. As you can see we have drawn the side view also. Now we have to draw the top view of this military tent. This is the top view of the military tent. This completes the session so hope you enjoyed the session. Have a good day.


We're going Richard Warsh in DDT on the capitalgate of America sponsored by the DuPont Company. Maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Because of the skilled, careful work of automobile painters and mechanics, 87% of the passenger cars America had in 1941 and 96% of the trucks we have then are still running. DuPont's Ducro is still in there too, helping to make your car last. It's your car that the DuPont authorized refinisher nearest you and have him go over any damaged areas of the finish. The next best thing to a shiny new car is a car refinished with DuPont Ducro. The DuPont capitalgate presents DDT. Our star is Richard Warsh, one of Hollywood's talented actors and director of the forthcoming Metro Golden Mayor picture, John & Mary, starring Robert Walker and June Allison. In tonight's capitalgate story, Mr. Warsh plays the role of Captain Daniel Squires of the United States Army Medical Corps. From the beginning of civilization, disease has been the solid partner of war. And the most destructive of all disease is typhus. Typhus waits until starvation and poverty have done their work, then it forces go to work. Disease bearing lights and rats come from their hiding places and typhus, the conqueror, strikes. Naples, Italy has been through many typhus epidemics. There was one in 1528 when the French fought the Germans and Spaniards. Thousands of Neapolitan's died. Then Naples was safe again until the Seven Years War in 1764. Are you feeling better, war? No, Ben. My head is hurt very much. I feel so bad. You must try to rest, Maria. They don't know how to rest, Nicole. Ring. The dead can't. Ring. And if people are dying, Nicole, soon it's going to be me. Ring of your death. The disease was still a mystery. It spread from army camps to the city, from family to family, from house to house. And this is the victory chant of typhus, the conqueror. Ring of your death. It was the same during the French Revolution, the First World War, and in this one. Ring of your death. In World War I, three million people, soldiers and civilians, had died of typhus. Would it be the same in World War II? We didn't have long to wait. In October 1943, typhus struck. Again, at Naples. And Naples now crowded with American soldiers as well as Italian civilians. The United States Army Medical Corps was challenged to do battle with the ancient enemy, typhus. It is late in December 1943. An American plane heads toward Naples, carrying medical personnel and supplies. In the plane, Captain Squires is talking to his assistant, Lieutenant Jacobson. Well, there it is, Lieutenant. Naples. Yeah. Looks pretty from up here. Yeah, it's very pretty. One million Italian civilians, just right for a typhus epidemic. Two hundred cases last week. Are we going to forget vaccine and rely on that new DDT powder alone? Yeah, that's right. But it's still untested. Not entirely. There was that little incident in Africa last year. Oh yes, it worked in a few isolated cases, but you wouldn't call that scientific proof. I know that, Jacobson. I'm a research man myself. I'd love to spend a few more years testing this DDT powder, but the Conqueror doesn't wait. Who? The Conqueror. Typhus. I think we can nail him down with this new powder, eh? Well, that's what the Army sent us here to find out.  Yes, and if we lose, we'll be no more honored than the dead they bury alongside us in the Naples Cemetery. Say, gentlemen, we have quite an epidemic on our hands. I've been looking over these charts. Major McDougal, you don't mind if I ask a few questions? Oh, far away, Captain. You're the doctor. Let's see. The American Army took Naples in September 1943, right? That's right, Squires. And the Typhus record blossoms out suddenly about October. Correct. Well then, there must have been plenty of Typhus when we first took over. Well, there was. We got after it as best we could without much success. You see, conditions here were ideal for an epidemic to get underway. Bombed out buildings, continual stream of refugees, the almost complete lack of facilities for sanitation, and, I suppose, health authorities who were completely inefficient. Oh, no, Lieutenant. No, as a matter of fact, the health authorities weren't. One in particular, Dr. de Giorgio. He could help make our campaign efficient if he wanted to. Not only is he a doctor, but a doctor in whom the people here have great respect and faith. Oh, he's waiting outside. I thought you might like to talk to him before. Sergeant, send in Dr. de Giorgio. You said he could make our campaign more efficient if he wanted to. Yes. The F seems to leave much to be hoped for. Up till now, Dr. de Giorgio has shown little disposition to cooperate with us. Well, maybe we can make him see the light by talking to him as one doctor to another. That's what I'd hope. Oh, please come in, Dr. de Giorgio. How do you do, Major? Ah, these are the American doctors, eh? Yes, Captain Squire and Lieutenant Jacobson. How do you do, Doctor? How do you do? You have come to evacuate the American troops from our city, eh? On the contrary, we have come to evacuate typos. Evacuate typos? And just how do you think you can do this? We'll get to that in a minute, Doctor. I've been looking over these civilian medical reports. Who wrote them? I did. I'm a member of the Napoli Department of Health.  Major, reliability is a relative term. It is an opinion colored by personal likes and dislikes. And by records, Doctor. These records, they indicate quite clearly that you and your staff failed to do all you might have done to clean up the centers of infection. Opinion, Doctor. That's all. Just opinion. From my point of view, considering the knowledge I have of my own people, I did the best possible things. Had I done otherwise, had I put on a campaign to sweep clean, you would say the centers of infection, I would have frightened my people. So instead, you let them expose themselves to typos. You weren't hoping, of course, that the epidemic would spread to the American army? Very well. Put me in jail.  We don't usually jail doctors in America. We encourage them to help the sick. Dr. DiGiorgio, let's put aside personal antagonism. Become doctors in the full sense of the word. We'd like to have your help in wiping out this epidemic. We need your help. Very touching. Now, you will find that the Italian poor are also, in many cases, afraid. They will not allow you to vaccinate them. We don't intend to try. We have another method. A new American miracle? Like a radar, perhaps? No, doctor. It's just an insecticide. Insecticide? Yes. It's dichloro-dicenol-trychloroethane. I don't understand. Dichloro-dicenol-trychloroethane. It's a white powder. We dust on people's clothes or hair. If a typhus carrying louse touches the powder or eats it, it dies. And what about the people? Is it safe for them? Yes, it is. At least, how do you call it? Well, we call it DDT. How is it I never heard of it before? Well, it hasn't been tried on a large scale yet. But we've had a good many American scientists working on it for years. Very interesting. This will be our first real test. You could be a tremendous help if you'd join us. I understand you have great influence with your people. Very flattering, Captain. Now, I must reject this great privilege. And I will leave you American idealists to your experiment while I retire to my home in the mountains. You're on your vacation, but Naples is isolated. I wish to leave Naples. I insist. You will stay here with the Italian poor and the American idealists. Think of my wife and my daughter. I'm thinking of all the wives and daughters in Naples. We hope we're able to save them. Never. Never with these powers.  Let me go now, Doctor, and thanks for your cooperation. You will never succeed. You understand. My people will only... We've been to you long enough.  No, if the army can be any help, Captain. Major, how many technicians can we muster? Only about a thousand. We declared Naples out of bounds for the army, as you advised. Who would you like the technicians, Captain? Today, Jacobson. At the same time, get all the civilian volunteers you can. Yes, sir. Oh, you'll find many civilians were more cooperative than Dr. Giorgio, Captain. One man particularly. A nice, sunk chap named Banomi. Educated in the United States. Good. Locate this Banomi lieutenant. Tell him, the others, the leaders of each squad, military to report here this afternoon. There'll be a demonstration of the proper method of using DDT. We'll have notices in the public squares, on the building, in the Naples newspapers. It's our job to get the one million people of Naples dusted with this powder as quickly as possible. I must tell you that this is a difficult job. We're fighting a dangerous enemy. One that may destroy Naples, and perhaps all of Italy, if we cannot control it. Senior Capitano. Yes, senior Banomi. We are not the thirties like the Giorgio, but we will help for the sake of our people. Only shows what to do. You bet. That's what the meeting's for. Now that you've volunteered in technicians, you're operating groups of six. One group to each of the fifty-four stations. You will use these dusted. You insert the powder in the bulb and squeeze. Like this. You dust the powder on people's clothes, their hair, the skin, any place where the lice may be. Lice carrying typist germs. If we kill the lice, we stop the disease from spreading. Understand? That's C, Capitano. C. How you call this powder? DDT. It's a lousicide. Eh? I did not learn that word, I'm afraid. Lousicide. It means louskiller. When the insect touches or eats this DDT, he dies within twenty minutes. Look, we are fighting a disease no one has ever been able to conquer up till now. But I think maybe we can. I think... No, I... I hope. I hope that with the help of this new powder, we will win. Alright now, stand back. Form a single line. C.C. Glory.  Viva l'americano. Yeah, I see. Alright, youngster, stand still. Hold your breath. Like that, see? C.C. No, I'm afraid you don't, C.C. What's your name? Wait a minute, Sarge. Let me try, will you? Yeah. Dragacina. Call me Ticami. Angelina. Hey, Corporal. Where'd you learn Italian? On Bridgeport, Connecticut, Sarge. Yeah? Okay, Angelina. Keep your eyes closed. Okay. Cued. Cued. That's it. Now we're going to make you real pretty with this nice, white powder. First, your clothes. Then your hair. And now your face. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Cus' la barca. Sgt.் Why it's a loss of size. No capice. What do you see. Piper, on an epidemic is the same as war. There are only two sides, the good side and the losses side. Not bad... Capice Pietro.... Let it go.  Now close your eyes cute. All right, Pietro. Who's next? Angelina. Come on, Angelina. You had yours. I wish everybody was as willing as this Angelina. Yeah, especially those people in the underground shelters. Well, if they don't want to be dusted with this DDT, it's their funeral. And I do mean funeral. Yeah, but if we don't figure a way to get at them, it may be our funeral too. You're listening to Richard Worf as Captain Squires in the story of DDT on the cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Now with the second part of our story, Captain Squires and his assistant, Lieutenant Jacobson, carry on their battle against Typhus in Naples with the powder DDT. Hello, Jacobson. You got the report? There it is, Squires. 114 new cases, 27 deaths. Well, this is certainly great news. We've been sent here to take care of a Typhus epidemic and the popularity of the disease is breaking our records. Look, Captain, you had better get some sleep. Oh, for Pete's sake, Jacobson, how can I? For years our men have been experimenting with DDT. You should read the nice and encouraging stuff about how DDT will stop Typhus and kill the mosquitoes that carry malaria.  A nice picture, isn't it? Darn nice, I'd say. Sure, on paper. Now we had our first big chance and it's hooked as though we're licked. Our general record hasn't been bad for January? No. Here. Take a look at this chart. Area five. Which one is that? An underground shelter. A lovely test tube of infection. Our lovely other area in Naples shows only a respectable rise. The incident here has risen 100% in one week. Excuse me, sir, Captain. It's all right, Bonomi, come in. What's the latest news down in that test tube? That's very bad, the gentlemen. 20,000 Napolitani in those air-raid shelters. The place is fielded with the sickness and death. We've tried to get them to come to the medical stations for treatment, but they won't budge. Why is that, Bonomi? Well, they're used to it because of the air-raid. And then... Yes? I do not wish to alarm the capitano. Let me worry about that. Please go on. Dr. DiGiorgio tells them we'd go wrong with this DDT. Oh. So that's it. Jacobson, we're going down there with the stuff. Take all the DDT that you can get. But they'll allow the starter. Why else? I'm a doctor. Where there are sick people, I belong. You remember what Mohammed did when the mountain wouldn't come to him? Yes, sir. Well, that's what I'm going to do. You can stay here if you want to. No, sir. I'd much rather be with Mohammed when he goes to the mountain. Good. Frankly, Mohammed will feel much better having you along. Careful, gentlemen. These rocks are slippery. You say this underground cave is the largest of all? It's a sea capitano. It's a mile long, 50 feet high and 15 feet wide. Throw the light more this way, sergeant. Yes, sir. What's that? They see our light. They're angry that we came. They must be right around that bend. Boy, this place is rough on a man's nostrils. What a smell. Yes, that's a very old one. Death and despair. The main body of people will be found just around this corner. Look sharp, gentlemen. We're approaching the conqueror's private quarry. Silencio. Silencio. The Americans have come here. Yes, sir. He says we carry the disease in here. They want us to go out. Listen, you people. Listen. Listen. One of me, tell them the way they are. Silencio. Silencio, listen. The American doctors are your friends. No, the Americans are bad. They bring disease. Who said that? I said that. Come, come into the light. I come. I'm not afraid. There's nothing to be afraid of. What's your name? My name is Rizzo. Giuseppe Rizzo. Look Giuseppe, I'm called Squire. Harold Squire. Yes, yes, American captain. Yes, but I don't come here as a soldier. I come as a doctor. Doctor, I'm your friend. Understand? Understand. You're trying new medicine on the Italians. We died on here. You don't care. Don't ever do nothing. Who told you that? Who said that we don't care about you? Well, Giuseppe answered me. You're the authority of George. Oh, so that's it? Yeah. George is a wise man. He doesn't let you use strange medicine on his family. The American medicine is poisoned, the doctor tells us. Now, look, Giuseppe. Look, look at our uniforms. You see this white powder on our clothes and our hair? See, see, American power. That's right.  You think we'd let this happen if it was poisoned? Ah, but you, American, are smart. You'll give us farther. But do you take medicine? Wait a minute, wait a minute. We take medicine. What sort of medicine? The kind you put in the armor with the needle. Vaccine. Is that what you want? Vaccine? We don't want nothing. We only want you to leave us. Now, look at this place. Look at that woman over there holding that baby. The baby's sick with typos. It's full of germs. Why don't you come up in the sunshine and not just take care of yourself? We go some time to see our friends. Sure.  How do you think we'll ever cure you?  No. The Americans don't care. The Americans don't care. In order to do that, there is your answer. They say American no good. Medicine is bad. I'll get the MPs, Captain. We'll shove this down their throat. That's it. Take it about 50 MPs and we'll beat their brains out. That'll make them listen. No, that's just the trouble. They're used to being handled that way. You can't beat 20,000 people over their heads. Wait a minute. What's that? Somebody's coming here. It's your show. Now we're fixed but good. Let me give him a welcome party. I'll fix him. Keep cool, Sergeant. He's coming over. Captain Squires. Quite a surprise to find you here. I've just been hearing about you, doctor, from these people. Seriously. You mind if I talk to my town's men? Don't you think you've done enough? What do you want now? I just want to speak to my town's people. Is that forbidden? Do not trust him, sir. Don't trust him. Don't trust him. Don't trust him. Don't trust him. Don't trust him. Don't trust him. Don't trust him. Don't trust him, sir. What difference does it make? We don't have anything to lose. All right, the joys will go ahead, but make it short. Thank you, Captain. In Britain, may I? In the house where you live? What is that? And the people of the house in this house get the deed. But stay with my family. Except this family. This mother. My beloved wife. And the dead. This wife. She has a shame. She has a shame. She has a shame. Thank you, my friend. He has all the people to think it's a shame. The doctor is coming here now. Captain Squires. Yes? Captain Squires, last week my daughter, Angelina, came home with the American powder. I was very angry. I scrubbed her for hours. Some powder stayed with her. Did your daughter get titers? You can see for yourself. Angelina. Yes, Papa? Why, she looks perfectly healthy. Oh, yeah. I remember this kid, Captain. Oh, no, sir, gentle, lousy side. Well, doctor, you've seen for yourself. What do you think of this powder? Is it still a crazy experiment? No. No. It saved my daughter's life. All right, then.  Or are you going to come up and let us help you? You said that it's all due to what you say, don't worry. And what about the rest of you?  Well, Captain? I guess that's it, Jacobson. An 80% drop in three weeks. Captain, the powder works. We've won. Shoot this wire to the old man. Naples, March 1st, 1944. We have met the conqueror, and he is ours. Signed, Mohammed. Not a single member of our army died in the Naples epidemic. Army doctors had scored one of the greatest triumphs in all the long, courageous history of medical science. Another science chemistry played a part in that triumph. DuPont was one of the first chemical companies to produce DDT for the armed forces. Some of the DDT used in Naples was made by DuPont. And while DDT still promises many things for all of us, for the time being, it's still at work for the armed forces and must remain at work for them. So the typhus and other diseases cannot conquer the men and women at the fighting fronts.  I will return in just a moment. Now, here is Jane Whitman. You know how you would feel if you saw a little boy or girl run out into the street and you heard this sound. Every ounce of your interest, your sympathy, your concern would be centered on that child. We all respond at once to an injured person or even a hurt animal. And when it's an accident, we resolve to make sure there isn't an accident the next time. 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This pilot makes it look easy, but it takes hundreds of Marines working together to get these fighter jets off the ground and to their targets We're on deployment right now. So we're usually pretty busy during the day We try to have the jets armed and safe before the pilots get here It's our job to make sure that they're ready to go and ready to drop their ordinance 4,000 pounds of ordinance a lot of responsibility for young Marines some new to the core and some younger than the bombs They're loading March but professionalism and teamwork help them keep the mission going me being a senior Marine on the crew It's my job to look out for them and make sure they're okay And make sure they have the knowledge that they need to be able to perform efficiently on the flight line and not get hurt with Fighter jets coming and going and flapping the pace can seem frantic to an outsider But this is just preparation for the coming surge Four days of 24-hour non-stop operations with all three squadrons which make up Marine aircraft group 12 The opportunity to come down here and apply pressure to this system to test ourselves And to see how ready we are for combat where those weaknesses are is that we can correct is really Unprecedented and is it a golden opportunity for us to come down here in the sunny skies and Guam great training ranges and practice our craft and Get some learning points from it so we can go back and correct and increase our readiness It's big machine We we all have a part to play and if one one piece of the puzzle falls apart then it won't work And if everything goes right we save Marines on the ground Everything we do is for them to protect the rifleman on the ground Which it's why it's easy to see why Marines here take their training so seriously Increased readiness and improved combat power generation of mag 12 is what exercise Geiger fury 2012 is all about Marine Staff Sergeant Jason Price Anderson Air Force Base Guam