For 69 days half a mile underground stepped from darkness into light. [cheers and applause] if ever there was a story with a happy ending, this was it. [men chanting] but when we visited the miners several months after their rescue, we found many were struggling. For example, alex vega was building a wall around his house, though he couldnt explain why. On march 11, 2011, japan was hit by a tsunami that rewrote history. It was triggered by a 9. 0 earthquake that helped set off the Biggest Nuclear emergency since chernobyl. This is unprecedented, you know, uncharted territory, that the consequences could be greater than we expect. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im morley safer. In this edition, we look at the effect of three disasters the massive 2010 Gulf Oil Spill, the chilean mine collapse that trapped 33 miners underground for weeks, and, in 2011, the massive earthquake in japan followed by a devastating tsunami. We begin with the bp oil spill and Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who is
Now, im not going to let my government colleagues off the hook, because we also used to see a lot of senior government officials on the Government Coordinating Council side of the house engaged frequently in that business. Ive seen a diminishment of senior level engagement over the last decade. We need to fix that problem in two ways. Ceos and coos need to get supportive of this, so do senior government officials. We need tough decisions and risk outcomes to be decided and thats not going to happen at the gs 14, 15 level. Its got to be higher than that. If were going to solve some of the nations most critical problems, like aging infrastructure, and the impacts of climate change, thats not going to be done at the level we currently are structured to deal with those kind of things. Its got to be a high order type thing. I also want to say, that at the state, local, and federal level, tremendous difference in terms of private sector engagement in Emergency Operation centers and Informati
Center in 2001. This Brooklyn Historical Society Program is about an hour. Welcome, everybody. It is so great to see the room full like this. Im marcia eli, Vice President of programs at the Brooklyn Historical society. And we are really, really excited about tonights program. I just wanted to say very quickly that if you are not familiar with Brooklyn Historical society, it was founded, we were founded 151 years ago. And it was the middle of the civil war. And a group of prominent brooklynites realize they were witnessing history. And decided to take it upon themselves to found this organization in order to steward that history. And this building actually was built as the Historical Society and opened in 1881. When it opened, like we have here tonight, it was a place of civic dialogue. In fact, back then this very room had an auditorium and thought leaders came here and spoke. Right here where we were standing, president Woodrow Wilson spoke. Dr. Arthur conan doyle spoke. Senator Henr
Full like this. I am the president of external brooklyn ere at the historical society. Really, really excited about tonights program. Iliar with the am society, it was founded we were founded 151 years ago. It was the middle of the civil war. Group of prominent they lynites realize that were witnessing history, and upon ed to take it themselves to found this organization in order to story. D that hi this building, actually, was built as the historical society. And was opened in 1881. Like we have here tonight, it place of specific dialogue; in fact, back then, room had an auditorium. Spoke, so, ere and right here, where we are president woodrow spoke, arthur doyle senator henry lodge spoke, and probably most tonight greely spoke. Which, of course, brings me to introduce our guest tonight. Has been at times urban Affairs Correspondent since 2005. Prior to the time, he worked at the daily news for fifteen years. Has won numerous awards. As a journalist, he has written books on Grand Cent
Transport like what eisenhower had, which was one of the things that apparently convinced him of the need for a system of defense highways. Im not aware that there was any use of interstate 70 for those purposes. It seems to have been, as far as the evidence i have been able to find. There was a lot of talk at those times about the highways being defense highways. The official name for them, for the interstate system when it was created in 1956, the National System of interstate and defense highways. Thank you. Two questions. I believe i read or heard that the interstate through Glenwood Canyon cost more than the entire rest of the interstate 70 cost total. I dont know if thats true. But i frankly would not be surprised at all. The cost as you probably know it kept ballooning as the design changed, as they ran into as Highway Builders always do, into unexpected geological obstacles. I would not be surprised, but i dont know the dollar values. Another question about president eisenhower