College for parabens. His remarks at the National Press club run one hour. Andrea welcome to the National Press club. The place where news happens. My name is andrea. Im part of the breaking newsdesk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started, id like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. Our viewing and listening four audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public so any , applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and Higher Education. We have jerry weller, for
Audience feel free to follow along on twitter using the hashtag press club. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may here is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. I would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal, senior staff writer in Higher Education. We have gerri weller, former us representative from the 11th district and president of the Illinois State society in washington. We have a supervisor for ap radio in washington dc. We have star scholar, graduate of the Harry Truman College in chicago and northwestern student planning to study neuroscience. Catherine, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. Arm and oh rodriguez, president of the sarah good stem academy. We have lisa matthews, Vice President of media re
Water vapor than cold. You can get stronger storms. The atmosphere is about 4 12 than it was four years ago. That is an enormous change. It loads the dice for drought and they lose and downpour and flood. That is what were seeing all over the planet. We will go to haiti where Hurricane Sandy killed at least 50 people, devastating parts of the country still recovering from the 2010 earthquake. And we will look at the storms impact on the nuclear industry. At least 16 Nuclear Plants are in the path of this unprecedented storm. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from medford, oregon. Much of the east coast is shut down today as residents brace for Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm that could be the most powerful to hit the United States in decades. Hundreds of thousands of people have already been evacuated, millions could lose power over the next day. Meteorologists say it is rare hybrid
Police arrest this woman four times for drinking and driving, yet she still has a license to drive around with the rest of us. Now someone is dead, the family grieving thinking all this could have been avoided. Reporter you know, thats the question, could this have been prevented . A lot of people are asking us could it . How was it Allison Huffman wound up behind the wheel with a become ground like this . Ground a background like this . You just never man it happening to you. Reporter but for zarais perez it did, her Brother Roger alleged killer Allison Huffman, a woman whose history of to 2002. This defense attorney has defended thousands of dui suspects. Shes got four dui arrests. The difference . Convicted three. A drunk driver to be taken off the road . On a fourth time dui its a permanent drivers license revocation. Reporter so even with three duis she had a valid license, but how could she be out on the road . Thats the way the law is written. Is the law broken . How could this
Center. He experience a talented writer. Gregs project is ambitious. As he spent a quarter of a century reconstructing the life and times of 10 airmen aboard the between four liberator which disappeared over austria on october 1. As we will hear, he has a personal connection to this story and he has traced the lives of the fallen servicemen, situated them within a larger andy of combat in europe has reflected on his own personal journeys to the village in southern austria where the man disappeared. Willis the research we hear about today and it will inform his forthcoming book on the subject. Greg jones has been a Foreign Correspondent and investigative journalist for more than 30 years. He is the author of honor in the dust. Received stand, which a marine corps green junior award and red revolution which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Foras been a staff writer the los angeles times, dallas morning news, and the atlantic journal and constitution. He is covered the philippines a