I know that we can talk a lot about your background and your history as an ap reporter. Given the time constraints, i want to jump into your photos of president bush. Tell the story of how you became the official White House Photographer. I love how you got the job. Mr. Draper i will give you the long story. Because it is fascinating to me. I never planned on being the White House Photographer. It was an opportunity that presented itself. Back when i was a Staff Photographer at the ap and most of my career has been in the journalism newspaper wire service business, i was assigned to cover the campaign president ial campaign in 2000. I was assigned to cover governor bush, who was running for office. I was among many journalists traveling on the campaign trail for nearly 18 months. And it was not until the very end of the campaign that it was decided actually, realized that i had a shot at the white house job, which i was very happy and satisfied with my position at the ap. I blame every
Regime that systematically denies political and Economic Freedom or do we preserve normal relations for postcastro transition so we can use them as a lever to induce a broad profound and irreversible reforms that will effectively liberate cuban people . Inexplicably president obama chose to matter of course i hasten to add that this is not a partisan debate. There is strong bipartisan consensus is strong for the regime but is moving toward democracy. Although president obama is moving quickly to force that part of the leverage by normalizing diplomatic ties he can respect opposition to his plan to lift the economic embargo with cuba. One misconception of the debate is the socalled helmsburton act as the consolidator of the act of 1986. There is a misconception that this codifies the embargo. That act drafted originally by the democratic senator Robert Menendez is a formula for establishing normal trade and even a two cuba in the postcastro era. It merely anticipates a friendly transiti
Without filing charges . And today exclusive, a candid interview with the captain, derek jeter opens up for the First Time Since stepping away from the game he loves. I went from an old man in baseball to a young man in life. Jeters thoughts on his fans, his final game and his future today wednesday, october 1, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer along side tamron hall while savannah is on maternity leave. We have Natalie Morales and carson dally. Al is traveling. He is a road warrior. He is a real warrior by the way. He is in afghanistan in Bagram Air Base. And he is shining a light and taking on a project that is near and dear to his heart. Good morning to you. Who is your buddy . Good morning, guys. Jay leno, what are you doing here . Im going to be fighting this guy, this is manny. Im going to fight him in ten minutes. Lo
Morning in Atlantic City airport coming in at 1 degree. If you were out early this morning you felt that sting on your face if you did not cover exposed skin. Felt like 21 below in allentown, 22 below in reading, 20 below or so throughout the state of delaware 17 below in philadelphia and at the shore 19 below zero. Wind chills have recovered but not all that much. Were still sitting near zero if not just a couple degrees above that but the winds will relax overnight tonight but we are expecting more record cold temperatures by tomorrow morning. Were also tracking this warm front to the south. , see precipitation breaking out. Even atlanta expecting up to an inch of snow has this pushes to the north and east and in fact winter storm watches and advisories have been posted for our entire viewing area for the day on saturday as snow will break out first. Then it changes to sleet freezing rain and ah eventually rain, so a big mess on our hands for saturday into sunday morning. Brian, when
Back online for monday mornings commute. I have new information. Ten minutes ago i learned from the spokesperson for b. A. R. T. They hope to have service physically restored by 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Thats right, 8 00 a. M. Sunday morning. They hope to have both cars up and running, and you can see crews on the tracks right now. Theyre committed to working around the clock to make that happen. As this is something you just dont see every day. 60,000pounds of steel and fiberglas suspended in air. This is one of four b. A. R. T. Passenger cars removed from the scene of the train derail. It was a speed of 27 milesperhour in automatic mode, when it derailed. The accident brought the b. A. R. T. Gm out to see it firsthand and push the agency back into the spotlight as the try to look at how the train came off the tracks. It rolled out in automatic train operation, to the interlocking, and thats when it came to a dead stop. Even that b. A. R. T. Admits doesnt answer the question of why it hap