Record for bringing in diverse and intellectually challenging and informed speakers. Tonights is no exception, and if you havent heard bill brands before, i think youll be delighted. If you have comments, in the past as i know many of you have, youre in for another treat. Please join me in welcoming my colleague, glees whitney, to introduce our speaker. [ applause ] well, thank you very much, elaine, for that warm introduction. We really treasure our partnership with the ford. Its always a treat. We will continue to bring you excellent programs that stimulate the mind and the heart for Public Service and love of our history. Happy washingtons birthday to our cspan audience and also to the audience here at the fort. Its really neat to be here recognizing washingtons birthday. This is one of the reasons we wanted bill to be here on this special day. Its always a pleasure to host bill brands. Weve had him back to west michigan so many times, ive lost count. But its been enough that he sho
And Leonard Stein horn. On thehat, max boot Trump Administrations handling of key foreignpolicy issues. Is live illiams host a live view of the Martin Luther king jr. Memorial, granite, designed by a chinese sculpture sculptor. As we are asking you in her first hour to give us your thoughts on the current state of Race Relations in the United States. You can bring up your own personal expenses, as well as the Current Events of the last few days. 202 7488000 for the eastern and central time zones. 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. You can post on our twitter feed at cspanwj, and if you want to post on our facebook page, it is facebook. Com cspan. At the end of last year, p Research Center conducted a poll on Race Relations. You can go to the website and find the complete poll. When it comes to Race Relations, here are some of the findings thinkings to peoples at the end of the first term of President Trump and the end of the first year for barack obama. For those look
Access to the presidio and 101 connections will be restored. Reporter the fourday closure is unprecedented. Nobody knows what to expect trafficwise. Everybody is assuming its not going to be good. Coming up well hear from a spokesman from the Golden Gate Bridge district. They have been planning for this for months. Well hear more about what to expect today. Live in larkspur, anne makevoc, kpix 5. Thank you so much. So how is it looking out there right now, gianna . You know, so far its actually pretty early still very quiet and hopefully a lot of people saw the signs on the roads. I know driving in and out of peninsula you would see these signs on the road to warn you about the closure. Everyone is paying attention, we are going to hope that happens. Expect delays on highway 1, 19th avenue, california street and geary as the commute progresses. Golden gate bridge hardly any cars on the span. So its quiet. Theres some roadwork down to one lane in some spots through there. Bay bridge is
Precanceled about 30 of bus routes. We are concerned our buses might get stuck in San Francisco and not be able to get back for later runs. So we went ahead and precanceled some routes to stick to a schedule as best as possible. Reporter back out here live now at the larkspur Ferry Terminal some of the people arriving. Its a slow trickle right now for the next ferry. They are smart because when it comes to driving we heard from the spokesman for the golden gate district that we could expect delays from up to two to four hours. Its all going to depend on how many people actually got the message ahead of time and decided not to hit the road. Live in larkspur, anne makevoc, kpix 5. I do think that a lot of people up in marin county are probably practicing the friday flu because when you see the Golden Gate Bridge, theres nobody on it. Are you jealous, explaining. Actually its just incredible. I found out that the more you predict that theres going to be choas, of the less chaos ensues whe
Driving car. In a blog post on monday, larry page wrote, quote, we like the name alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanitys most important innovations, and is the core of how we indexed with google search. ,oining me from San Francisco the coceo and executive editor. Redstone is a Senior Writer for bloomberg businessweek. The cofounder, ceo, and editor in business insider. Im pleased to have them all here. Let me begin with henry in the studio. Why did they do this . Henry this is something a lot of people thought was long in coming. Google has been making massive investments in a lot of unrelated projects you mention, Life Sciences, self driving cars, things a lot of wall Street Investors look at as a huge waste of money with an uncertain payoff it looks like they are wasting capital. Wall street was eager to see real capital discipline. That is one. We are going to get to see what googles business looks like on its own and we will have