So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones. I want to introduce our panelists. We have the president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, and has spent much of her career in houston, where she was a Vice President of international disciplinary initiatives. To her left is the provost of northwestern university. Until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of yale college, and the edmund s. Morgan professor of African American history and studies at yale. He is working on many interesting projects, and has written an introduction for the new addition of dubbois epic souls of black folk, still used in many universities to address the issues of our time. We have the executive dean of letters and sciences at the university of california, berkeley. She is a professor of history and a prizewinning scholar with 20 years of experience teaching at berkeley. To her right is the president of Wesleyan University in connecticut. He was
From spain and portugal, they fled to where they could worship, where they could work. Us 10 people left barb betos, but instead of going to new york or wanted to go they to rhode island. In 1636, a gentleman by the name of Roger Williams founded rhode island. He had come to the colonies from england seeking religious freedom, and 20 years after the founding of rhode island, those people in barbados said this is where they wanted to come. She was the most famous woman lighthouse keeper in the United States, but more importantly, she was the most famous lighthouse keeper in the United States. It is likely that she saved 35. Een 25 and she was a slip of a woman. She weighed 103 pounds and she was fearless. Welcome to newport, rhode island. Located on the south easternmost part of the state, newport is the home of the u. S. War college and the breakers, the vanderbilt summer home. We begin with the story of the slave trade in newport, which was once the most active slave port in north ame
The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will come to order. Today we are looking at effect on children and infants. We have a vote i believe at 11 30 today so we should i believe give us time to have a full discussion with our witnesses. Before we turn to todays focus i wanted to say that later today senator murray and i and senators young will introduce legislation to help address the Opioid Crisis. Dr. Collins, head of the National Institute of health predicted that nonaddictive pain killer can be introduced. Our bill would give more flexibility to conduct research. The Committee Plans to hold a markup on the bill as well as other legislation to address the Opioid Crisis as soon as march. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and introduce witnesses. After their testimony will have a round of fiveminute questions from the senators. The Opioid Crisis is particularly heartbreaking for families and children. No one understands that more than jesse who lo
This morning. Plenty of clouds but you can see the sun peaking through. With ere were going the see the sun for most of the day. Temperatures already in the lower 60s. What to expect in the day ahead the morning low clouds will stick around. Partly cloudy but mostly sunny and a little warmer around the bay around inland. It is the beginning of a bit of a warm up. Well have a closer look at your extended forecast coming up. Pleasant weekend but not so much around the Golden Gate Bridge. Were 33 hours in and that construction on doyle drive in San Francisco continues. There you see crews working. Theyve been doing it straight through the night. Old asphalt was torn up. The renovation is the last part of that billion dollar project that began back in 2009. Its replacing that old roadway that was just not up to earthquake standards. This project is taking its toll on traffic. Look at that mess heading into the city from lorraine county. Yesterday getting out of the city smooth sailing. Peo
That complex and heavy damage to two homes. One man talked about what he saw from his apartment window. It moved quickly to the trees. Caught the trees all the way over to spread toward b building. Down the hill, wrapped back up around toward walmart. Even though it was less than 10 acres, caltrans responded with more than 100 firefighters and numerous firefighters vehicles to get that fire out quickly. No one was injured. Residents evacuated from the apartment complex are being told they can now return. Firefighters in nevato county say they are making progress against a wildfire thats prompted the mandatory evacuation of several thousand people. This afternoon four firefighters were burned fighting the lowell fire. Calfire said one of the firefighters suffered serious burns while the other three are expected to be released from Uc Davis Medical Center shortly. Firefighters say 1,100 firefighters are working to put out the fire that is burning in steep hard to access terrain. The late