Booktv weekend. They bring you author after author. We are very happy to have you all here today. Thank you to cspan book tv for being here. We are delighted to have henry who is an acclaimed historian engineer and bestselling author and also the alexander professor of engineering and professor of history at duke here tonight to discuss his new book. Hes written many books for both engineers and laypeople alike. Pushing the limits, new adventures in engineering and many more. This is the first time that hes here with us today and im thrilled. And my boss wanted me to mention to you we have a collapsed storm water drain in the parking lot so we are eager to hear more about infrastructure. Thank you. [laughter] thank you very much. I am pleased to be here. I want to talk about the infrastructure in particular. The aspects that are discussed in my book. The title suggests it is mainly about roads and bridges but more generally its about infrastructure and the funding of infrastructure and
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To the sierra. Here is new video from interstate 80 this morning. If you plan to drive up, bring your chains. Right now chains are required on parts of interstate 80. The snow is welcome news for a lot of ski resorts. They are expecting have their final runs this weekend. However, mt. Rose near reno they announced they are extending operations through may. High surf advisory is in effect at bay area beaches today. Some spots could see waves as high as 6 feet. Officials remind us during the advisory not turn your back to the ocean. 7 01. Lets go to steve paulson. You took care of the weather right there. Back to you. Yeah. The word for the ancient is petracore. There will. You yes. There will be a quiz birkes the way. Its clearing out fast. How fast . Really fast. Like there it goes. Its gone. Laura kay said a nice rain in moraga lost night. 13. Clear this morning. People waking up saying, what rain . Occidental halfinch rain. Larkspur halfinch of rain. Kent field, sleepy holly a quarte
That is shaking guatemala. And australias shark debate and should killing be brought back to reduce the risk to swimmers and surfers. We begin with the refugee crisis in europe and the stand off between refugees and riot Police Continues in hungry, hundreds of refugees refusing to leave a station to the west of budapest. They spend the night on packed carriages thinking they were bound for austria but stopped by police and told they would be taken to a nearby Refugee Center and a thousand migrants stranded for days at budapest station set out for austria and will be discussed by eu Foreign Ministers for a meeting in luxonburg and lets go live where the train has been stopped just to the west of budapest and al jazeera is there and what is the situation there now . Adrian i can tell you the situation is as desperate as it was a few hours ago. I have been in touch throughout the day with many of the refugees on the train and the riot police that are here are keeping all the journalists a