About an hour. Good afternoon and welcome to the National Press club, and i was president of the club in 2010, and pleased to have lunch and speaker secretary of agriculture sonny perdue, we welcome to the National Press club. Before we begin his remarks. And we ask them to turn it off. We would like you if you would be so inclined, and pound nbc live, true for all you folks in the twitterverse. And turning off other potentially distracting devices to introduce the table. We hold the applause and laughter the full table is introduced and erupt in rapturous applause. Starting from my left and youre right, mark heller, paul marion, at white house watch. Washington correspondent at the Atlanta Journal constitution. The Deputy Communications director for secretary purdue, Senior Editor at agro pulse, stephen since key, secretary of agriculture, number 2 for sonny perdue, betsy fisher martin, and American University and cochair of the npc Headliners Team put together, putting together the s
Press club earlier this week about next years farm bill, food exports, free trade agreements and his relationship with President Trump. This is an hour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, and welcome to the National Press club today for todays speakers lunch. I was president of the club in 2010 but cover food and agriculture issues for Bloomberg News which may explain why ive been exhumed for todays luncheon. We are pleased to have secretary of agriculture sonny per i due. We welcome him for the first time to the National Press club. First of all, before we begin his remarks, i would like you all to please put your phones on silent. Now, back in the day we used to tell you to turn them off, but we want them on sigh leapt because you would silent because we would like you to live tweet, the hashtag is pound npc live. Thats also true for all you folks out there in the twitter verses, we can follow that online. Wed also like to take a moment while you are silencing your phones and
Distinguished roster of speakers. Before we begin his remarks, i would like you all to please put your phones on silent. Back in the day, we used to tell them tell you to turn them off. We would like you to put them on silent, because we would like you to live tweet this event. We can follow that online. We would also like to take a moment while you are silencing your phones and turning off other potentially distracting devices to introduce our table. We would like you to hold your applause until after the full head table is introduced. Then you can corrupt and applause. Erupt inou can applause. We have mark heller, a reporter. Paul marion, senior white house correspondent. Ellerman. Ms. Rich. Philip. Stephen cianci. Have that the preacher martin. We have betsy. Speaker for aour moment, we have abby livingston. Hinton tamara hinton, the head member that organized todays luncheon. We have the two medications director for the u. S. Department of agriculture. , and finally mr. Durkin. Tha
Back to you. Thank you, jessica. 4 31. A quick update now on weather and traffic. We start with mike. Hi, everybody. Lets talk about the windchill out there. Theres a little bit of a breeze so the thermometer or temperature you see where you are may feel cooler this morning. Check out my accuweather 12hour planner. Temperatures from 37 around the bay to 38 inland to 46 at the coast. Well be in the low to mid50s at noon with total sunshine by the time the sun sets. 54 to 56 degrees, and its going to cool with that very dry air rapidly already in the 30s by 7 00 inland. Mid40s elsewhere. Well take a look at a freeze warning tonight, thats next. Heres sue. A couple of problems to wake up on this thursday morning. To the mcarthur maze. The 80 approach coming into westbound 80 to the bay bridge toll plaza, we have an overturned vehicle. Its not showing up here. Thats exactly where it is. The accident is in the clearing phases so thats better news. For the sig alert, this is southbound 880 n