Thank you everybody for tuning in tonight. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Im marcia eli from the Brooklyn Public Librarys center for brooklyn history and the arts and culture team bpl presents. This year Brooklyn Public Library celebrates, its 125th anniversary. Our birthday is a chance to talk about all the library does and one important part of that work is stewarding the extraordinary special collections at the center for brooklyn history. These are archives are the combined materials from the brooklyn Public Libraries special collections. And those of the former Brooklyn Historical society, and they are literally the most comprehensive collection of brooklyn related materials in the world. So we are celebrating these amazing collections and a 125th Anniversary Series titled out of the box. Five programs that put just few of the most important or most frequently used or beloved Materials Center stage clearly the dodgers and robinson have to be part of that lineup
And you can join the conversation by giving us a call, 202, 585, 3881 for republicans, 2025853881. For democrats, 2025853880. For independents, 2025853882. Facebook or us on send us an email. Journal cspan. Org or twitter. Com cspanwj to send us a tweet. Action prompted at embassies, that is the headline. Based on unspecified information, the warning comes after the state department ordered the closing of 2100 embassies in the Arabian Peninsula. Let me read to a portion of this. The part in the state warned citizens to the continued potential for terrorist attacks, particularly in the middle east or north africa. Host that is from the state department. Matt lee, who follows the state department for the associated press, is with us on the phone. What news can you tell us . Caller there is not much new that we know since thursday or friday, when we receive the notice of the embassy closures. The alert came out on friday. Right now we are kind of in a wait and see mode to see what, if any
Get ready for some shouting. Good morning from washington, its friday, august 1st, 2014. This is the daily rundown. Its no ordinary august friday. The latest on the continuing clashes in the middle east as a 72hour ceasefire fails to take hold. But lets start quickly with the july jobs report. It showed a bit of a weaker than expected jobs number, still over 200,000. 209,000 to be exact were added lat month. Sixth straight month weve had 200 plus jobs and the Unemployment Rate ticked up from 6 up to 6. 2 from 6. 1 . The report does include upward revisions. June jobs came in just shy of 300,000, up from a preliminary 288. Mays gain was revised to 229, up from 224. This marks six months of gains above 200,000. Thats the first time thats happened since, ready for this, 1997. As for individual sectors, Business Services jobs grew by 47,000, retail up 27,000, construction 22,000, manufacturing up 28,000, so a good report across the board. This comes after a very strong gdp report showing t
Well, were watching a barn burner of a race in kentucky. It is unbelievable. With more than half of the vote in, the race is too close to call with a difference of just, over, get this. Not , votes, 36 votes separating the two candidates. Some votes, a lot of them love to be counted. Lets go to steve. Weve seen the lead change hands four times in the last four minutes. I can tell you what has been driving. Maybe five minutes ago. Bernie sanders leading by 1,000 votes statewide and a big dump of votes, this is jefferson county, louisville, Hillary Clinton is leading by a demanding margin here. The 57 in. We got a big dump. Clinton leading by 10,000 votes. If you play this out, if it stays at about this spread for the rest of the vote as it comes in, Hillary Clinton will probably pick up, will net probably an additional 7,500 votes. If it stays at this current pace at 60 in. Think about that. If she were to net an additional 75,700 votes 75 votes that would put her into the lead by 7,500
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