Todays participants are thomas, a director at nasa headquarters in washington. Sean carey, the manager of the Spitzer Center in pasadena, california. Sarah, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of technology in cambridge. And nicole lewis. With that, thomas, start us off with the big news of the day. Thomas thank you. I have been the director for five months and i have been in a we at the science that we do here. We are changing lives every day. We stretch the imagination and oday is just that. I am excited to announce today that the doctor and his team have used our space telescope to determine seven earth sized planets orbiting about 40 lightyears away. What is more, as you can see in the illustration, is that three of these are in the habitable area where liquid water can pool on the surface. For the first time, we found as many terrestrial b planets and we can measure the masses and the radii of these earthsized planets. These are among the best planets to follow up to see th
Seven is and will have more clout in sunshine letter on the to the afternoon when to start to pick a plan on a breezy day not is at the close but across the entire bay area only into the upper seven is to ride around 80 degrees or below the minister core temperatures also giving us more cloud cover 60 degrees for San Francisco looking at mid 60s to us from our 60s across the east bank of after south of and san jose across the north to the local store once again mid fifties out there were one to show you what to expect over the next couple of days temperatures will continue with a cooling trend thursday of for seven days. Michelle apon traffic looks pretty good moving smoothly as of right now drive time from and and only five minutes to an easy commute this morning as of right now looking at the san mateo bridge you will start to see more fog is your past highrise it could cause some delays later this morning you may want to leave early looking at the Golden Gate Bridge youll want to le
The press conference, thank you very much. On the border with turkey might fall to Islamic State fighters soon according to local officials. They are unable to flee, fearing a massacre. This has been a familiar sight for three weeks now. Explosions as i asked militants i. S. Militants battle for control of the town. For the first time as can be seen here through the haze, the militants have raised their black flag at two sites. One of building and the other a hill. Both on the eastern outskirts of co bonnie kobani. The kurds say they are defending the center of the town and will battle until their last fighter has been killed. But militants have better, heavier weapons. Usled airstrikes are failing to halt their advance. The violence has set more than 180,000 people streaming into turkey. Their plight is desperate. Where should we go . What should we do . We have been waiting at the gate for 20 days. We left everything behind including our home and valuables. The tear gas, wanting to c
It is the duty of our government to do things for people that they cannot do themselves. The rich can do for themselves. The poor people cannot. Ill hang up and listen. Host lets go to curtis dubay. Guest we keep hearing about infrastructure investment. But the way we do that is federal gaps. The 65 cents of every dollar raised for the federal gas tax actually goes to roads and bridges and highways. The rest of it goes to things that are not supposed to be funded by the attacks. Sustainability projects, bike paths, roadside museums. I would much rather see us spending all of the money on infrastructure and then come back in five or 10 years and say, well, maybe then. We are spending the money on infrastructure. It is a weak argument. Host lets go to laura. Caller i have two comments to make. The first is, the bush tax cut entitlements were supposed to be temporary. I remember when they were argued, and as far as im concerned, republicans live at that time. They never intended it to be
Welcome to the us bookshelf. Im christopher. Kenneally host of velocity of content from ccc. Over the coming hour my guests and i will tour the world of books leaping from continent to continent as fast as you could turn a page and your favorite novel. To learn more about publishing and literary developments in Europe South America the middle east and africa. Im very happy to welcome a distinguished panel of journalists and analysts who report on the news from those regions for leading publications and cover publishing trends for the publishing and bookselling industries. From madrid spain javier. Saleha is ceo and founder of dosteki. Com which analyzes the use of technology in the cultural sector and publishes annual studies on trends in the creative industries. Welcome to the program javier. Hello from spain. Thank you for having me. From paris februarys po is editorinchief of leave hebdo a weekly magazine covering publishing and bookselling in france. Welcome fabrice actress. Also f