These are central time zones, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. We are also getting your tweets at cspanwsg. Facebook. Com cspan. Thanks for being with us. The front page of the Washington Post shows home and security secretary jeh johnson not very far from where we are at union station. Beis advising people to alert but also telling americans to enjoy the Holiday Weekend. A state Department Travel warning that was issued two days ago that reads, as follows. The state department alerts u. S. Citizens to possible risks of travel due to increased terrorist attacks. Current information suggesting daesh, ala. K. A. Qaeda, boko haram, and other carry outnted terrorist attacks using conventional and nonconventional weapons and targeting both official and private interests. The state department is pointing out there have been multiple attacks in france, nigeria, denmark, turkey, and molly. U. S. Citizens should exercise caution when using transportation, be aware of immediate surround
The minimum wage. How much is that in maryland, harriet . Itler i believe right now is 7. 45. Host tell us about your experience. Caller im going to tell you my concern. Because there is going to be more competition in jobs. I am also an older worker. And there is credits given. I am not sure what, but when you fill out your application, they give credits. The government gives credits if you have ever been on welfare and for certain things they give the employer credits. They lower the wage for those people. And we are already and competition. We are getting older. We cant here as well, we cant well, well, hear as can see as well, and we cant compete as well. We cant live on social security. We didnt even get a raise this year. Host lets get a Quick Reaction to her experience from kendall fells. Guest i agree. You know, we have some politicians down in florida that took what the workers called the minimum wage challenge, which was essentially politicians trying to live off the weekly s
Ten. Discuss these things for one hour and 15 minutes. I think we are ready. Good afternoon, thank you for being you. I am the director of the Aspen Institute arts program read it is mm. It is my pleasure to curate the roundtable series, sponsored by michelle smith. Thank you for supporting these conversations. The conversations i curate naturally deal with the arts, but the arts and society. And how they intersect, how they can be productive, and evermore interactive partners with all of the areas of society, which is very much of course in keeping with the mission of the Aspen Institute. Today, we are very happy to welcome dr. David skortom. N. The new secretary of the smithsonian, who comes with us building on a distinct career as a cardiologist. And president of the university of iowa and cornell. He was appointed the 13th secretary beginning this past summer. And i can say that as an artist who visited the museums since a child on the mall, an endless source of inspiration is at y
Were giving you a heads up. Dont get tricked. Our raleigh skycam looks beautiful right now. We are seeing sunshine, mix of clouds. As we get through the next 15 or 20 minutes, it will be beautiful. Just the right mix of sun and clouds. That does not say rainy afternoon to you, does it . That is why were here to let you know by lunchtime, it will be cloudy and by 1 00 to 3 00, depending on where you are, it will be raining. 36 in durham. 35 in cary. 36 in raleigh. 29 in south hill and rocky mount. 33 in fayetteville. For the most part, we are either side of freezing. Raleigh is a the warmer than that here in the mid30s. Expect temperatures to be somewhere in the 30s as you are stepping out this morning. By lunchtime, 46 and it will be cloudy and rain sets in. Some of this rain will be heavy at times. Expect a high of 52. It will be a fairly interesting weekend. Saturday looks beautiful but weve been tracking a system that could bring us precipitation for sunday. It looks like it could b
If you remember yesterday, we had the 20s, 30s, 40s. Almost areawide this morning right now were in the 30s. At freezing in sanford, siler city, here in raleigh were at 34. Durham, 37. South hill, youre checking in right around 35 degrees this morning. So heres your forecast for this friday, plenty of sunshine. A little bit of fog though as we do start off our friday. And that will be mainly south around the sand hills. 45 lunch time, plenty of sunshine. Near normal later today, our normal high is 52, im expecting a temperature right around 51. Ill have a closer look at your weekend ahead in just a little bit. But lets check in with traffic as you get ready to head out the door on this friday morning. This is i440 and athens drive, just a few cars in this direction. Good news if youre heading out this way. No accidents, no slowdowns and very similar conditions on our live drive map, all green around 440 and south of the city on and weather in about 10 minutes. Great news to start off t