January 21, 2019: Hour 1

January 21, 2019: Hour 1

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Communities across the country are marking the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on Monday, including Atlanta, where the civil rights leader was born on Jan. 15, 1929. King is also being remembered where his life ended: Memphis, Tennessee. And commuters in Seattle are bracing for months of traffic headaches as the city begins a six-month overhaul of the 66-year-old Alaskan Way Viaduct. That and more, in hour one of Here & Now’s Jan. 21, 2019 full broadcast.