Please evacuate your homes. The fire fueled by recordbreaking heat and the desperate fight going on right now to keep it contained. And this morning, the penn state hazing case, a judge dismissing the most serious charges against the frat members indicted in the death of a fellow student. His mother speaking to gma this morning. Nobody should go through this. And the district attorneys next move here. Hey, good morning, and lets get right to the new developments in the wake of harvey. Look at these new aerial images showing parts of texas before and after the storm went on its rampage causing all that flooding. President trump is headed back to the state of texas this morning, as well as louisiana. Now, overnight the white house asked congress for nearly 8 billion in aid for Recovery Efforts there and this is just the first ask. Harvey is predicted to be at least the second costliest Natural Disaster in american history, the number of homes damaged or destroyed, that number now stands
Think i think it is unlikely he will try that. Would you like to stop that. I would like to explore that. Do you view donald trump as a threat . Yes. I think donald trump is unstable and he changes his mind. He is impulsive and that is serious. Different than you would have viewed mitt romney . Completely different. I got this question on twitter and i know others are interested. And it is simple. Where are the aurora theater shootings . I cant tell you. I can tell you that they are connecting in terms of the legal faces. They are making themselves available. We have convicts from other states that were perceived as where they were and states swap the people and we keep those locations and we dont advertise them. To be clear, you cast tell me because you dont know or you cant tell me because youre not at liberty to share. I am not at liberty to share. Brandons discussion with the governor morning on power at 8 45. Raise the bar is an effort to change the state constitution. It is heade
I welcome you all up to the met any time. In the mood for culture and art, please do,. Let me tell you about our session. We wanted to keep this as useful as and that has to do with the timing because it is so early. It is also a chance for us to take stock of where we are and where we are going. Theres so much of buzz and hype about social, and this is a good moment to kind of think through what makes sense for each of us to do in our work, to get some ideas. I hope you will leave with lots of ideas about the social and mobile world after we are done this morning, but the entire session today has so many different opportunities for you to learn about this changing media landscape. I should say that i still subscribe to two daily print newspapers. Any twopaper households . Thats great. What is happening in my mind is that we have to think about ways in which we can continue to support the kind of great journalism so many of us in the room have been doing for so many years, but make it
Americans. And its being taught in the little rock schools. And thats sent out the Ripple Effect effects there were two interment camps in arkansas. We were at a camp called gloefr and another camp called jerome. And in the middle of those two interment camps is a small town called mcgee. And they recently earlier this year, as a matter of fact, converted their abandoned Railway Station into the world war ii japanese american internment museum. Its a small museum but very comprehensive and beautifully done. So if any of you should be driving around southeastern arkansas, you might visit that museum in mcgee, arkansas. What is the status of allegiance your musical about the internment of japanese americans. Is it likely to come on broadway . Flowing that, is it likely to come to dc . Oh, yes. Allegiance began about three years ago. We developed this musical and we developed it because we can have books and lectures and talks about the internment, which helps us understand up here intell
Within 24 hours it was the first website where we invited people to tweet out nominations. I nominate and our site with full that in, and 24 hours after launching it became [indiscernible] on twitter. We have a moment where people are going to want to come to this thing, so we dropped everything and organized the first ceremony in months. It was at that ceremony we saw before twitter was all that big, it was on a huge growth spurt, but a fraction of the size it is today. We saw journalists were on social media before anybody else. At the knight foundation, we made an amateur mistake and ran out of booze in the press room and learned that journalists early on like to drink and they like to tweet. We could not do anything about the first issue. About the second issue, the tweeting addiction, we developed the first site to let you see all the journalists in social media on one place. We started with 150 journalists in 2009, and there is a funny thing where i talk to journalists back then,