Here. Welcome, everybody. If i had to take off, i would go down to nashville because my dentist said he went there for the first time, dr. Can i dr. Kirby we have a floor director who sounds like hawaii, has that accent. Ill go. Id go to hawaii any day. We have a lot of news to get to. Topping the news is the Pittsburg City Council now taking action to prevent more free way shootings in the east bay. The council planned to approve action to install surveillance cameras on the freeway. Alex savidge joins us with more on the push for the cameras reporter these may be the first cameras installed along the freeway here in the bay area, specifically to deter crime. The plan that they have here is to install as many as 10 surveillance cameras. They will be installed along this particular stretch the highway, about a four mile stretch. The police chief here in this city is the one who pushed for these cameras in response to a number of recent shootings in this area. Pittsburg already have Sur
Besides, they do have substantially different responsibilities. We need a small numbers with highly trained and experienced people. When you think about the heroes of our profession, Charles Bolin were people from that era after world war ii georgia, these were individuals whose careers were assiduously cultivated and studied russian and get critical assignments and were advisers to roosevelt and atkinson and george washington. We we didnt create these people by the hundreds. They were created by the dozens. I think that is still true. I i mean, i could name for you even now i had a i had a pretty good idea of who the best psychologists were in a state department and you the best russian experts were in the best latin america experts. You get to know who they are in the intelligence community, who the best analysts are because there analysis bubbles up to the pres. And the pres. s daily brief brief and they get to sometimes come in brief the president themselves. There is somewhat of a
We rejecting judging this is that you didnt just explore the point of use it you can to a conclusion and presented that to your viewers. I get the sense your point of view shifted over the course of doing this project. How did that happen . What was going on . Katie we started out thinking lets raise the minimum wage. It is a simple thing to do. You want them to make more one money. It seems like the obvious choice. Then we looked at the con side. There was so much more evidence on the con side for why to raise the minimum wage. We look at the longterm effect. Raising the minimum wage didnt seem to help the u. S. In the shortterm effect, it would, but longterm is more important. In the end, our conclusion was more the con side. Host did you get into a debate on this or was it apparent to all of you . Michael i approached it from a neutral standpoint. Michael i approached it from a neutral standpoint. There is merit from both sides. I came at it from a neutral standpoint. I didnt make u
Very hard, theres definitely a possibility. Just for next years entry for the contest, never sell yourself short. You do not know what you are capable of a publishing. Host there are several different stages to being the grand prize winner. What is the recognition by school. We bring the cspan folks down to do a presentation. What was that like . Michael that was pretty interesting. Katie we were in the schools multipurpose room and basically sat down on the stage. Host did the whole school come . Katie yes. Everyone was there for the ceremony. It was really advertising us. Once we got us, the principles of the zap and she said a little blurb about you to us that was sort of personal, and then we were sat back down. Our two social studies teachers gave different speeches about us and the social studies classroom. Then, the cspan people came and presented us with the award. I like to think of that ceremony has le as less of something for us and more of something for all of the people in
There was a time when, if someone had told Melissa Oswalt that she would co-own a dance studio someday, she would have said they were out of their mind.