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Please check out more programming and looking about their event series and visit us online at harvard. Com. The communities that show philosophy and disciplines to enhance and improve civic life for the people of massachusetts. Tonights talk talk will conclude the time for your questions this is being recorded by cspan and q a questions will be recorded. There will be a book citing following here on stage off to my right the line will extend into the hallway and onto the stage. Books can be purchased outside thank you for making purchases from harvard books or to help support the independent bookstore. Please silage her cell phone. I am pleased to introduce tonight speakers, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt professors at harvard the author of competitive interior and temporary. And Daniel Ziblatt is the author of the author of democracy. In the recent New York Times review how democracies die it shows how democracies have collapsed elsewhere not just through a violent coup but throug
New york, at 5 15. At home, crews are putting the final touches on an hours long effort to repair a water main break in Prince Georges County. It has shut down part of silver hill road near brooks drive since last night. Brad bell joins us live from the scene. This is a familiar site for these customers. Oh, it is. Som any water main breaks. The good news with this one, just a little while ago they dropped a new section of pipe. The pipe will be fixed soon. Take a look at all of this mud and gravel. They think this whole area is undermined, so silver hill road probably will not reopen until tomorrow morning. They have to rebuild it. For business in the area, what a pain. Her salon owner says with sinks dry, she has no choice but to close and take a loss for the day. A lot of money. Ladies bowlingar league, everybody is bowling. Had to get coffee from the 7eleven across the street. 1700 yearly water main breaks have a cost. This broken pipe is typical. It was installed in 1942. A lot of
Parents, like ruth, who have been here at least five years from deportation. It is something urgent that all of us need right now. This will give us the ability to work. Without that, we cannot support our children our families. It is something we very much need right now. Some republican say that it does little to secure the border and may actually increase the number of Illegal Immigrants. They vowed to fight back by d funding the parts that obama needs to create the changes, which could possibly lead to another battle and government shutdown. Ofre is a stream possibilities that cannot be completely ruled out. Then there are those who say the president is not going far to let the 11 million Illegal Immigrants in the united states. About 5l affect million, leaving a lot of people unaffected by any acts. Live on capitol hill, scott thuman, abc 7 news. President obama is scheduled to speak at 8 00. We will live stream the speech on wjla. Com, and we will also cover it live on our sister
My fellow americans, this is my country. Many of us have fought hard for the right to say that. Many are now struggling today, so let me say this with conviction. This is our country. We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We must make the American People hear our tail of two cities. We must convince them we dont have to settle for two cities. We can have one city, indivisible shining for all of its people. If you give us a chance, we can perform. After all Ginger Rogers did everything that fred astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. There is not a liberal america and a conservative america. There is the United States of america. There is not a black america and a White America and Latino America ah, and asianamerican. Theres the United States of america. The American Dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay. Our families dont always cross the finish line in the span of one generation, but each generation