Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the White House Historical association and our 2023 symposium, the white house in Popular Culture hosted by the association and good friends, our partners, the john w klug center at the library of congress. My name is stewart mclaurin, and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. And i see many familiar friends and faces here today and, of course, those who are joining us by cspan and through our own digital coverage. Its great to have all of you joining us here today as well. I want to recognize three of my colleagues who have been involved and on point for this many here at the association and have played a role in making today happen in these annual symposiums, which theyre actually a year long effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or a subject with our partner in this case, the clergy center. And then that evolves over the course of the year
editorial report. i m paul gigot. and we re counting down to cnn s presidential debate, the first of two, which is set to take place in atlanta on thursday. president biden is at camp david this weekend preparing for the showdown as a new fox news poll finds him in a tight the race with donald trump leading his republican rival 50-48 among registered voters. that s within the margin of error but represents a 2-point gain for the president from last month even as questions continue to swirl about the president s age and ability to serve a second term. is so how crucial is next week s faceoff to putting those concerns to rest? let s is ask wall street journal columnists and fox news contributor karl rove. if welcome, karl. so i want you to start out with that fox news poll. this would suggest i know it s the only one poll, but this would suggest with some other evidence that there s been some movement towards joe biden since the felony conviction of president trump. do you
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6 pm. More than 3000 customers lost electricity due to the crash, pg e is working through the night, and as of right now the majority of those outages have had their power restored. Thousands of people are trying to come home from the long Holiday Weekend but the weather has delayed many flights. Rob malcolm is live at sfo. Rob . Reporter 90 flights were delayed here, they have been steadily approving improving. It is really busy right now. People are just getting into the terminal and try to find a parking spot. The holiday rush is certainly on, it is busy outside and inside we are looking at long lines in the airport is seeing a spike in trouble. Millions of people are expected to travel by rail and air. Also the highways as well. This close to thanksgiving and the thanksgiving rush is supposed to be the busiest in more than a decade. And out of 10 people will be hitting the road. Youre taking a train you should take an early train, less passengers and at amtraks busiest day. If you
Less then 30 min from the maze to sf. james more on our breaking news out of new york city where there are reports of where there york city out of new breaking news more on our james maze to sf. james more on our breaking news out of new york city where there are reports of an explosion in manhattan. This is a live shot from the scene. Its near the Port Authority bus terminal. Witnesses say there was a very loud explosion and people were seen running out of the terminal near times square. The subway has been evacuated. Law enforcement says one man had an explosive device strapped to him. He is custody. At least one other person was injured in the explosion. darya our top story this morning. Wildfires continue to burn out of control in Southern California. james now the thomas fire in Ventura County is getting closer to Santa Barbara. This is a live shot from that fire. darya its burned 230 thousand acres and is now the fifth largest fire in californias history. And this morning it is j