Obrien go by it its awesome and thank you so much again jeff and now on book tv, live with author Douglas Rushkoff take your calls and questions through email, text and a social media. His book includes program or be programmed, and 2022s arrival of the riches, about plans tech billionaires are making after earth becomes uninhabitable due to Climate Change or other catastrophic event. You describe yourself in your latest book who writes about Digital Technology but not a futurist. A futurist is someone come to to tell you what is going to happen in the future. I have been right about that so they come in a future but what i am as a presentist. I look at and describe accurately what is happening right now. It is usually an easier way to know what is happening in the future. Moche futurists most futurist say things like propagandist, fighting for what they want to see and positioning them as a consultant in the most needed place to keep people interested in the future by scaring them. If
Maybe be a little uncomfortable. Not used to it. One day event we are talking about highs in the 80s. Good timing on Easter Sunday. Tonight maybe some rain chances and thunderstorm but most of the day should stay dry. We have church services, Easter Egg Hunts this morning it looks gooding across the dell wear valley. We are waking up to cloud and fog but those should thin out and we will see decent amount of sunshine. Lets look live at center city. Setting up for a nice sunrise in 20 minutes or so. Up to 61 degrees. Big difference from the upper 40s from yesterday. Look at that dew point, that tells us humidity in the air. It is middle of the summer dew point of 58 would be awesome. April, it is a little bit on the high side. We will feel that difference, there as far as humidity. Fifty in allentown. Sixtyone in philadelphia. Everybody is on the mild side already this morning. Even suburbs, we were in the 30s yesterday at this time. We are in the lower 50s for pottstown, 54 in quakerto
Tonight that the blame is falling on the shoulders of many contractors the controversy of the rusting bolts in the single anchor suspension section of the bay bridge has finally played outas far as who is to blame and how much it will cost. The fines are in the millions of dollars and project leaders say they will be able to finally close the books on the construction project. Leah robinson it was determined that three parties were equally involved in the failure of the tower anchor rods. Those parties are the contractor, american bridge four, t. Y. Lynn moffit nickal, as well as cal trans. That will round out that 24 Million Dollars. Jeff an expensive mistake for sureall three parties will be equally responsible for their share. it came to a total of 24 million and each of the parties is going to provide eight Million Dollars so the way that will be broken out is that cal trans will get a credit from american bridge four, the contractor. Caltrans will seek a claim against t. Y. Lynn m
Power but acre knowledging the absence of people. 200,000 flags are a sellcelebra crowd, half the numbers of lives lost to the pandemic. More than 400,000 lives in all. 400,000 of those americans died excuse me, 100,000 of those americans died in the past five weeks. The flags stand right now in silent witness to the darkness of this long and bitter night, but they will still be standing tomorrow at the dawn of something new. President elect bidens first stop in washington this evening was not far away at the Lincoln Memorial for ceremony honoring all those we have lost to covid. Mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, friends and grandparents dead. 400,000 and counting. The incoming president finally doing what any other president would but the out going president never has, which is to simply acre nolenormity. The president elect knows grief and ignoring the magnitude of the loss just made it all the more painful. Each light at the reflecting pool representing 1,000 of our frie
People, including his former aide steve bannon. You can see marine one preparing to take the president on his finaljourney to preparing to take the president on his final journey to andrews preparing to take the president on his finaljourney to Andrews Air Force base en route to florida. America and the world, Global Leaders watch for new policy shifts from the new biden administration. After 3a years of trying, the path that finally led joe biden to this historic day. Hello and welcome to bbc news. It is a president ial transition like no other. In four hours, joe biden will take the oath of office on the western side of capitol hill, the place that was swarmed a fortnight ago by supporters of donald trump. But seismic event has assured there will be unprecedented security, and the crowd that usually gather in washington will be absent. The change in the capital couldnt be greater, in tone, policy. In a few moments, joe biden is expected to leave blair house and head to church, Saint