Caller all over all of t people are migrating. They have no way to make an income. This is about Food Insecurity and Food Assistance programs. What questions do you have for that . Caller if they werent in prison they would be able toe feed their children. Host move on to patricia, minneapolis, minnesota, republican line, hi. Caller good morning. Im concerned about the anecdotal evidence she provided that one child telling the teacher that he hadnt eaten all weekend. Well, that would be an issue of child negligent neglect. Do you report these kids when they say things like they havent eaten all weekend . The problem is with the family, with the mothers not cooking, whatever. I dont see how you could listen to a child say they hadnt eaten all weekend and leave it at that. Guest thanks for raising that issue. Certainly i can clarify a little bit there. I think what this really goes back to is, again, as we look at the new numbers coming out this year that the issue of hunger is affecting
Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, Hari Sreenivasan. Brangham good evening and thanks for joining us. Im william brangham, Hari Sreenivasan is on assignment. Hurricane patricia has toppled trees and battered buildings, but has caused much less damage than expected. The storm, which briefly rated as the strongest hurricane on record in the western hemisphere, with 200mph winds while over the pacific ocean, has been downgraded to a tropical depression with winds of only 35mph. Patricia weakened as it made landfall on Mexicos Pacific coast last night and largely spared the cities in its path, including guadalajara and the seaside resort of puerto vallarta. Thousands of residents and tourists had fled inland. Heavy rains have caused flooding but there are no reports of fatalities. The remnants of patricia
The Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority in philadelphia has it did i know. Know has it done. Metro link, theyve got it done. How were they able to do it, but other major railroads have not . Reporter in a letter to the Senate Committee on commerce, science and transportation, the mta chairman said while significant progress has been made, new yorks heavily congested Commuter Rail environment has challenges. He wrote ptc was not an off the shelf product. This is a complex technology. Reporter this is the director of Government Relations for the American Public Transportation Association and skyped with us from washington, d. C. He say high costs are among the reasons. The scale of this, especially across the country, is enormous. And we want to make sure that ptc is implemented correctly. Ultimately thats the goal. Folks just need more time. Now commuter advocates like jim hope that railroads will make the 2018 deadline. This is a technological solution. Its not easy to install. I
The United States of america. It is my considered conviction shared through our government that is inactionible for detective inaccessible for peace. It will always be measured. Its nation is peace. History bookshelf features popular writers and airs every weekend at this time. Next Louisa Thomas recounts the life of her great grand foreNorman Thomas. Theythe Thomas Brothers had conflicting views of the war raging from soldiers in the war to pacifist norman. The author discusses her familys history with jonathan meacham. This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the start of world war i. Thank you to the museum, which has in a relatively short time has become such an important part in the city. You hear about it in the south and they are instrughted that not everything is tenement so they can look and see what it used to be like. Congratulations to louisa who has written, i think, a wonderful book. A deeply researched and engagely written account of her own family, which is not always
As assistant secretary of state for Diplomatic Security, he testified about changes made to improve security at foreign posts. He was joined by members of the state Department Best Practices panel, which made security recommendations of its own. This is a little less than three hours. [no audio] we are experiencing an audio problem with this event. We are working to fix the technical difficulty and will continue running it. Hopefully, the audio will come back shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, we are experiencing audio difficulties. We apologize for that problem. We are working to fix it. We will have it corrected, hopefully, shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, experiencing some audio difficulties with this recording of this hearing on cspan. We have found another version of the recording. We are going to play that now for you from the top, on cspan. [no audio] come tomeeting will order. The chairquorum for persons taking testimony, percent to house rules. Without objectio