Good afternoon and welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you for spending your tuesday with us. Im the executive director of the institute for human academy, joseph capizzi. We have been here for three years. Ross has been an important member of the institute, our media fellow helps coordinate these events, the more contentious events i have been involved in. The release of the latest book, ross is one of the most important commentators, the opinion page, has written a few books at this point, they became something. I will engage ross in conversation about the book. It is an interesting book, not the sort of typical conservative harangue on the way things are but takes a nice tack to explore what is going on in our culture. Once he and i exhausted each other, we open up to the rest of you. If you have a question please raise your hand and they will approach you, dont be alarmed, make your question and ross will engage you. I implore you to phrase a question. More time ross has to respond b
Since our founding he is our media fellow to help coordinate some of our events in the more contentious events you have seen. We are super pleased ross is joining us today on the release of his latesthe book knowing is one of the most commentators on American Culture today he has written more than a few books at this point and to have the title how we became something. But today the format will be i will engage ross in a conversation about the book and to have the pleasureay of reading it with a conservative athe way things are but its nice to explore whats going on in our culture. Once we have exhausted each other we will open the conversation to the rest of you. There will be people here with microphones and they will approach you. Dont be alarmed and ross will engage you and i implore you the more time ross has to respond to the better for everybody. Just a nice pointed question. Thank youu for coming. [applause] it is called the decadent society with decadence. Thank you for coming
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Humidity, it is not going to be hard for any storms that do develop to become strong. Once again, yesterday we saw the flash flooding. That was the biggest threat. Today, that threat still a threat but not quite as high. It is the high winds that we are going to be dealing with. Yes there is a low threat of a tornado today best chance of that northern portions of maryland around the masondixon line. Continue to track it for you throughout the afternoon. Amelia segal and i are in all day. With the stroke of a pen, South Carolina governor nikki haley is about to end the controversy that has divided her state for more than half a century. Haley is signing a bill that will remove the Confederate Flag from the state house grounds. These are live pictures from columbia, South Carolina. This move will come hours after the state house passed this legislation. The Governors Office says the flag will come down in a ceremony tomorrow morning at 10 00. We are closely following this breaking news.
It was insensitive. And going oneonone with the republican lawmaker sharing the latest on his babys recovery now home with his family. And chaos at a florida airport. Fights erupting after Spirit Airlines cancels and delays dozens of flights. Police called in to break up the brawl. Passengers taken into custody. Get that last sip of coffee. I got it in. Good morning, america. Very busy tuesday morning. Yeah, very busy and tense night in ft. Lauderdales airport. As we saw a few minutes ago. Fights broke out when hundreds were strapped after Spirit Airlines canceled those flights. Air traffic is no fun these days. You got the turquoise memo. Lung cancer, awareness for that. Thats kind of the shirt. These lines right here. Transferred over to you with this fist bump. A lot of headlines out of washington including President Trump taking on sally yates after her testimony on general flynn and russian interference in the election calling it old news zeroing in on leaks and the travel ban bac