Guest reporter, and our guest this week as former senator gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters. Senator smith, we appreciate you coming into the studio for this interview. Guest always a pleasure, peter. Its nice to be with you even if it is just proximate. Thank you for having me. Host in this age of coronavirus how has this affected americas broadcasters . Guest in many ways its affected us but i think perhaps its unfortunate, but it seems that the United States and our citizens become aware of broadcasting indispensable irreplaceable role in the firmament of American Life when there are natural or other catastrophes and calamities that befall us. Because it is then that the architecture broadcasting, one source of content everybody in a geographic area, without any stress on the system, people begin to realize how valuable broadcasting remains. Survey after survey continues to show that broadcasting remains the most important source of jo
Host and this is the Communicators Program on cspan. If it looks a little bit different in this age of social distancing, and the coronavirus, weve set up in separate studios here at cspan but we are pleased jonathan make on the left is the editor of Communications Daily and he is our guest reporter. And our guest this week is former senator gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters. Senator smith we appreciate your coming into the studio for this interview. Try to always a pleasure, pet. Thank you for having me. Host in this age of coronavirus how has this affected americas broadcasters . Guest in many ways its affected us, but i think perhaps its unfortunate, but it seems that the United States and our citizens become aware of broadcasting indispensable, irreplaceable role in the firmament of American Life when there are natural or other catastrophes and calamities that befall us. Because it is then that the architecture of broadcasting, one so
Than to stand that the sanctions will not be able to stop north streams construction as its already near completion germany is already preparing to tell a true measures top officials slammed the bill. Congress has indeed decided to impose sanctions we are against extraterritorial sanctions not only those adopted yesterday but we also have the same problem with the sanctions against iran there is no other option left for us but to hold very decisive talks to show that we are not accepting these sanctions we believe that is unacceptable as it is an attempt to influence the sovereign decisions of europe we are holding negotiations with the United States meanwhile the german parliaments kmita chief on economy and energy told r. T. That berlin is ready to respond to any sanctions imposed by washington and the u. S. Is unhappy that we are not by ny gas they want to boost their own trade and thats why they are imposing sanctions on Companies Involved in building the pipeline firstly american
Cancellation notice about her flight from sacramento to San Francisco, one woman took matters into her own hands and took an uber all the way from 20 miles east of sacramento in roseville to sfo, to make sure that she caught her connecting flight from San Francisco home to hawaii. I have patients to take care of in hawaii so i took an uber for two and a half hours from roseville to here, and they wont pay me back. They say youre on your own. My flights delayed two hours, united told me they there will be delays due to the runway, so when i opened up the detail on the email, it says there could be delays. Reporter the runway in question is 28l. Sfo is rebuilding a 1900 foot section that intersects runways 1r and 1l, that means during certain times at least two runways can be closed at the same time. Thats why its causing so many headaches here and the 16 million reconstruction project is expected to last through september 27th. So if you are coming out to the airport, dropping somebody
Friday. Im scott mcgrew. Im kris sanchez. Laura and marcus have the week off. Theyll be back next week. Meteorologist kari hall has our forecast. In fog in San Francisco because the clouds are higher as we watch some rain off the coast. If youre planning to head to outside lands today its going to be perfect. Those temperatures reaching the upper 60s and sunshine, really doesnt get any better than that with our south bay temperatures reaching 81. No extreme heat in the near forecast. We expect a spike in temperatures midweek. Its friday at the bay bridge. Were talking about the light early friday commute. No problems right now. A busy weekend with outside lands. Well see more traffic, pete will talk about that. Youre at speed through the maze and Contra Costa County, the early drive for highway 4, no slowing out of antioch, brentwood, discovery bay. Mild slowing after they picked up most of the cones at the altamont pass. South bay, peninsula, easy drive at speed. Back to you. Thank yo