And the assist from Mother Nature and the items they recovered. The signs show that joe biden could run for president. And two failed attempts smooch. And the peace through celebrity, trying to use friendship and love. The u. S. Military is taking responsibility for saturdays airstrike on a hospital in afghanistan. The Top Commander in the country calling it a mistake. John campbell spoke at the Armed Services committee about the strike that killed 22 people and the current american strategy in afghanistan. Aljazeeras white house correspondent, Mike Viqueira joins us from washington d. C. With more. And so what information came out of this hearing if reporter well, after 72 hours of shifting explanations from the u. S. Military, campbell, the head of nato forces in afghanistan stepped up and took the blame. This, as he openly suggested that the president s stated policy of removing all American Forces and a training and advisory role and a Counter Terrorism role by 2016 was not a good
Ted lieu who is calling for a Justice Department probe of exxon as well as 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben who just got arrested for temporarily closing a local exxon gas station in a oneman protest, holding a sign reading, this pump temporarily closed because exxonmobil lied about climate. And remember this stunning announcement . So, mr. Zuckerberg, what role are you playing in all of this . Will the be a check offered at some point . Yeah, i have committed to starting the start of Education Foundation. The first project will be 100 million challenge grant. 100 million . Amy where has all the money gone . Five years ago, facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated 100 million to fix the schools of newark, new jersey. Tens of millions have been spent on hiring outside consultants and expanding Charter Schools, but what about the children in one of americas poorest cities . We will speak to Dale Russakoff author of, the prize whos in charge of americas schools . All that and more, coming
Im so thrilled to see all of you here in centennial hall. Also id like to welcome all of the people in the overflow area which is in the back of the second floor. And if any of you get tired of standing, there are seats Still Available there. Actually, i am just absolutely thrilled that Dale Russakoff chose the Newark Public Library to launch her brand new book, her muchanticipated, her absolutely fascinating, brand new book, the prize, with the subtitle, whos in charge of americas schools. This is the very first event that she will be doing. Shell be doing a series of programs and interviews as she travels across the country to introduce her book to the public, so we are really honored to be the first. And were also honored to be the venue where an extremely Important Community conversation will be taking place tonight. After all, a Critical Role of libraries as you know is to invite Community Members to engage in discussions of important issues to that community. There is no doubt in
Its own internal findings by the Company Scientist who confirmed a link between burning fossil fuels and Climate Change. We will speak to congressmember ted lieu who is calling for a Justice Department probe of exxon as well as 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben who just got arrested for temporarily closing a local exxon gas station in a oneman protest, holding a sign reading, this pump temporarily closed because exxonmobil lied about climate. And remember this stunning announcement . So, mr. Zuckerberg, what role are you playing in all of this . Will the be a check offered at some point . Yeah, i have committed to starting the start of Education Foundation. The first project will be 100 million challenge grant. 100 million . Amy where has all the money gone . Five years ago, facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated 100 million to fix the schools of newark, new jersey. Tens of millions have been spent on hiring outside consultants and expanding Charter Schools, but what about the childre
[applause] thank you very much. I must begin by apologizing for holding you folk up for almost 20 minutes. Now that newark is revitalizing the traffic at this time [laughter] it is impossible. But thats a good thing, i think. So while i apologize, im also happy that i got caught up in newarks overflow traffic tonight. Its my role to lay out the ground rules for our conversation. We will begin with the author, dale russ cough Dale Russakoff, making a presentation. She will then be fold by the three panelists who have joined us to, in effect, comment on what dale has written and what she will say to us tonight. Dales comments will be about, about 15 minutes. That means that the panelists will each get about ten minutes to respond. Is that all right, panel . Okay. We can have ongoing conversation after those initial remarks have been made. After they have made their presentations, then we will open the floor for comments, questions from the audience, and i think we have a microphone here,