Announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you thank you. Please welcome khary lazarrewhite social justice advocate out with new november novel out called passage. A it is about a young warrior on the streets thanks for being on the program. Thank for having me i was pleased, fascinated you call this kid warrior tell us why. I think its so important when you tell the stories of young black men when they are telling their stories that they put their own narrative front and center this is a novel about the internal psyche of a young man and what he loves about the meaning of his name, it tells every Single Person he comes in contact with who he is and what he represents. And he feels it struggles. To survive the conditions hes facing. Even though he is from great loving family, the moment he leaves the doors is faced with so many sociconomic conditions so many others have faced. He feels he has to be a warrior navigating that, a tngs of wearing a strong mask and
Announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you thank you. Please welcome khary lazarrewhite social justice advocate out with new november novel out called passage. A it is about a young warrior on the streets thanks for being on the program. Thank for having me i was pleased, fascinated you call this kid warrior tell us why. I think its so important when you tell the stories of young black men when they are telling their stories that they put their own narrative front and center this is a novel about the internal psyche of a young man and what he loves about the meaning of his name, it tells every Single Person he comes in contact with who he is and what he represents. And he feels it struggles. To survive the conditions hes facing. Even though he is from great loving family, the moment he leaves the doors is faced with so many sociconomic conditions so many others have faced. He feels he has to be a warrior navigating that, a tngs of wearing a strong mask and
Form a complex action at the center of which lies the korean u. S. Aligns. Right here in washington two years ago president obama and i laid out a vision on the way ahead for our alliance with the 60th anniversary of the korea u. S. Alliance. That was a vision of our alliance lane groundbreaking unification for the peninsula promoting cooperation across northeast asia and moving forward for the partnership, the korea u. S. Alliance says it resulting into a Dynamic Alliance by correctly adapting our two countries are growing partners as we display our dealings leadership and issue is beyond the regional scope. Our alliance has grown through mutual trust and has inspired each other. Now the alliance is leading to a common enemy. For the last 21 2 years corey and the United States have creatively resolve all our sensitive issues. We have reached an agreement on the transfer of wartime operational control wrapped up negotiations for cost sharing of u. S. Forces in korea and upgraded combin
This is another case where youre a public figure and you let your messy private life combine together. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. At a Senate Hearing for the active head of the federal Railroad Administration, members questioned the mom knee about implementation about positive train control. A safety implementation to preefrt derailments, twothirds of Rail Companies wouldnt be able to implement the system before a december 31st deadline. This hearing of the science and Transportation Committee is an hour and a half. Want to welcome our nominee here this morning. And get this confirmation hearing under way. Today were going to consider the nomination of sarah feinberg. The fris mission is to oversee the safe, reliable and efficient movement of people and goods throughout our nations rail network. That rail network is absolutely vital to the nations economy. So its important that those who oversee it have the requisite skills and experience. Serving s the act
Safety. As noted in an article in politico, at this crucial moment this is the nations top safety regulator is a former facebook executive and white house adviser whose resume is long on communications and policy posts and noticeably short on railroad experience, end quote. So in addition to asking ms. Feinberg to respond to those concerns, ill be also asking her about the looming deadline for railroads to implement positive train control. Those in the Rail Industry are well aware, it is a rail system designed to prevent collision, overspeed derailments and other accidents by automatically slowing or stopping a train that is not being operated safetily by locomotive engineers. The improvement act mandated the implementation of systems by december 21st of 2015. Complex challenges have prevented most railroads from meeting this deadline which is rapidly approaching. Yesterday the independent Government Accountability Office Issued an updated report that found that freight and Passenger R