Will see the 2020 democratic ticket on stage, together for the very first time. What well do then is take you live to wilmington delaware where former Vice President joe biden will kickoff his campaign with his new president ial runningmate, as Vice President , california senator Kamala Harris each step of the way, what were going to do for you in this final hour is watch the markets, sectors, stocks, commodities for tick by tick reaction. Check it here markets in rally mode for the most instant reaction right now while its tempting to focus on the really huge jump for the nasdac look at this were up 235. Folks the index to watch is the s p. It is now within lets call it just under two points from its first record close since february, the number to watch, 3,386 were at 3,384 and change right now. All right, for months wall street has been gaming just who joe biden might pick as a runningmate and kind of fretting over you who the markets would react. Lets get to one of the top voices o
Inalternativement camp. Booktv, 48 hours of books and authors. Television for serious readers. Next on booktv from the gershman y in philadelphia Matthew Christopher presents photos from his book, abandoned america. Mr. Christopher spent ten years documenting ruined institutions throughout the country from schools and churches to factories and military installations. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [inaudible conversations] all right. Sounds like the mics on. Thank you so much for coming out tonight, folks, on behalf of hidden city philadelphia. Id like to welcome you to this event, this celebration of Matt Christophers new book abandoned america the age of consequences. Before i forget, id like to point out that this event is actually being recorded by cspan. Everything that happens tonight will eventually appear on booktv. Now, what they need you to do is turn off your cell phones. Its like going to the ritz. [laughter] and to remember that were going to have a q and a session
Id like to thank my aunt and although who also helped quite a bit in setting this up. My publisher and the Preservation Alliance for their donation and olivia who has been wonderful and theres been my support throughout all the. Im sure theres a lot of other people i want to thank all of you as well but i know youd like to see the presentations i dont want to take up the whole time so thank you. But again im grateful you all came out tonight. It means a lot to me. So basically in terms of how ive done presentations for those of you whove seen in the past, i enjoy doing things that offthecuff and talking about the places that ive been too. What i would like to do is just show you a little bit of what some of places are not in the book and tell you a little bit about them as we go. So the first place i wanted to show you is the packard plant which is in detroit. Its probably one of the most famous and also the largest abandoned site in north america. Its sprawling. Its been out of commis
Traffic for us. It is friday, january 24th im pam cook. And were off and running. Im dave clark. Steve is talking about the dryness again. Oh my gosh. Well 13 months of dry. A little system in Southern California will wrap back around. A little bit of high cloud deck. There is still breezy conditions. Higher elevations. Nothing compared to yesterday. It was roaring up in the oakland hills. 40s for some. 30s for others. Near 50 for a few. Fairfield is 58 degrees. Breezy conditions there. Red flag warning for everybody above 1,000 feet. And a few high clouds give us partly cloudy skies. It will be mostly sunny here. You can see a lot of this building up into the sacramento valley. Also issued with the low. It is a weak low. Even though High Pressure is much stronger. Breezy for some. Again it is not predominantly all offshore. So some patchy fog for a few that will be really mild. Here is sal. Steve, good morning. We are looking at a commute that is mostly good. Now we talked about that
Evan what is the latest news in the development in ferguson . Reporter don, the development is that the police chief of ferguson, missouri, tom jackson, is expected to step down as part of an effort to reform the Police Department there. Now, the announcement is not expected to come until about next week. Most likely. And its all part of an effort by the local officials to bring down some of the tensions there. As you know, don, its the scene of demonstrations almost every night. A lot of people have been callicall calling for the police chief to step down and hes been defiant so far but officials know this is part of an effort that when the grand Jury Announcement comes down, whether or not there are charges again officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown, this is one of the way to show the public theyre trying to reform the Police Department there. Evan peres, according to your reporting, the police chief is tom jackson. Reporter correct. In ferguson krrt thats right. Ac