To enjoy a beautiful mild day on this saturday. You could see in your weather headlines its a spring break weekend. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s today. Record highs weve seen over the past few days. More records are likely to be broken later on today, not in central park but in places like jfk, la guardia and places outside the city. And eventually a little bit of a cooldown as we head into the seven day forecast. Well see that coming up in a few minutes. Nothing but clouds and sunshine right now. A little bit of patchy fog lingering to the west of town. Otherwise a nice quiet start to the weekend. Starting out right now already at 58 degrees. Forget about the jacket in the city today. You just dont need it. Todays High Temperature 63 degrees. That is about 15 to 20 degrees above average. Into the evening. A real treat for your holiday shopping, decorating. Tomorrow we have another mild day coming. Well see exactly how long this will last. There are some changes coming your way. Tha
Real key to retaking the city. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im John Henry Smith. For the first time in a week trains are rolling between new york and philadelphia. Amtrak service was resteered a short time ago while investigators try to figure out what led to the derailment that left eight dead. We have more. I understand service is back up earlier than expected. Thats right john, and crews worked for the last six days to get the site cleaned up and rails put back together. Around two hours ago amtrak trains pulled out in philadelphia resuming Service Following last weeks deadly crash. Only track trains between new york and philadelphia are running this morning following a derailment that left eight people dead and more than 200 injured last tuesday. Ntsb investigators spent days combing the site of texas in philadelphia. Its unclear why the train was traveling at 106 Miles Per Hour as it approached a curve. The engineer onboard told officials he cant remember wha
Page. Hispanic from politics and prose bookstore in dc mark and timothy xm and the tall choice relationship between the first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her first cousin alice who was Theodore Roosevelts daughter. The report is that the two women born eight months and 20 blocks apart in new york city were social and political opposites who publicly debated the issues of the day. First thank you all of you for being here this evening. We are delighted to be here in a very big thank you to the crew at politics and prose for making us feel so welcome. I want to give a big thank you to the publisher. In answering the most common question that weekend which is who was Alice Roosevelt and i realize in this crowd a lot of you were her neighbors. Nonetheless, what i am going to do is try to set a little bit of the context for the reading is going to do in a few minutes. Make sure they cover up some of these details. What we do you will see behind me a family tree. Its a simplified version of t
And growing up with seeing dont mess with texas signs everywhere and the appreciation for the bluebonnets there and just what that means into no that she and her world as first lady influenced all of that in a way that was quite subtle and not necessarily understood at the time but that we now do understand. Now carl im going to ask you because you are a scholar of the full breadth of first ladies. Dolley madison because she was one of the first who had a real sense of duty to his constituency meaning the country. It was unusual for a woman back then too perceived as part of her proper role a sense of duty and connection to the general public to people she didnt know. Shackling candidate very strongly because of her sense of where the u. S. Was in the cold war how democracy could be presented in a way that it hadnt and in a sense america had come of age and have as much dignity and had a right to maintain that dignity on the world stage. And betty ford by taking very personal and reall
I will only buy a gm car. I would check with my wife first. Thank you. Thank you for coming today. [applause] i would also like to thank our staff including our Journalism Institute for helping organize todays events. A reminder, you can find more information about the National Press club including a transcript on our website at www. Press. Org. Adjourned. We are in a few moments, our Second Season of first lady, we focus on Edith Roosevelt. Theft and data security. After that, the National Press club speech by jim president and ceo. The life and legacy of Edith Roosevelt. That was Edith Roosevelt, speaking in new york city 20 years after she left the white house. She was the matriarch to a rambunctious family and her husband, Theodore Roosevelt, was as outgoing as she was private. She was the groundbreaking manager of the white house, overseeing a major renovation that added a west wing, separating the family quarters from the president s office is for the first time. Good evening and