It was that so many buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded or ultimately destroyed during that storm. And in my research, i spent a lot of time at the National Hurricane center, and the meteorologists there who were incredibly talented kept telling me the same thing over and and over again and that was, you know, were just not very good at this. Were just still not very good at forecasting and predicting these storms. Were still not very good at preparing on the front end for the kind of havoc that is wreaked by these storms. And we saw that in 2017 with hurricane maria, we saw that with hurricane hugo. And as i was leaving and thinking about the questions of infrastructure and prediction and how it is that we respond to Natural Disaster, it to occurred to me that, you know, for all that is powerful about a hurricane, theyre nowhere near our most powerful natural phenomenon, you know . When you think of the sheer sort of explosive power, earthquakes are exponentially s
Event, cspan is here as well. During the question and answer portion of the program, step up to the microphone over here, we want to be able to hear what you have to say. Always wonderful as well. So today, and colleges across the country. And many books written about it as well. And the national organization, and it is a bit extreme, why are we listening to john today on this. Two time winner of the book award, the only reporter granted the cooperation, president , and a finalist for the pulitzer a few years ago, quite a few honors there, and he is joined by the top editor of the chronicle for Higher Education and author of the book there is life after college and with that i will leave it to them, thanks for coming up. [applause] it is great to be here, welcome to washington. We are going to talk for 25 minutes or so and open up for questions from the audience but i want a sense of who is in the audience. How many of you were in fraternities . A couple. How many of you, parents or ch
Question but we have a microphone here and if you could please get up and use the microphone, then he gets recorded and a bullet else can hear the question and the answer. So thank you in advance for that. Finally, we have two more events today, sometimes as beautiful the pictures but if you could not today that would be awesome. Thanks. If you enjoy this event with about 500 of author events a year to check out our november, december events calendar. Sign up for an email and also we opened up a bookstore at the wharf. If you havent been there, its been three weeks, check it out. With author events there and its a beautiful space to hold great events. Its worth the visit. Thats all the boring stuff. Im excited to be introducing Beverly Daniel tatum dr. Tatum is a clinical psychologist in research, black families of my commute, racial identity, and the role of race in the classroom. The nationally recognized authority on racial issues in america she is toured extensively leading worksho
Thats where you should be. Back to the carquinez strait. And 80s in napa and sonoma. Theres another trend towards hotter weather. Happy tuesday everyone. If youre getting ready to head out the door. The usual suspects on 580. Big drop 15 miles per hour. Once you get into livermore youll be at the limit again. 27 minutes between 205 and 680. No delays antioch to hercules. 101 heading to the north way is looking good. And no delays on westbound 37 as you make your way between 80 and 101. Thats a check of the traffic. Back to you, kenny. Conditions from Tropical Storm harvey could get worse today. This is a live look inside an emergency shelter. You can see all the people there packed in like sardines at this hour. Thousands of people are staying in shelters like this one all across the region. The National Hurricane center says that heavy rain is expected again today which could cause more flooding in Southeast Texas and southwestern louisiana. The hurricane could make landfall again tom
What here we go back to the new normal each as the torrential rains continue to wreak havoc on life in texas, after opening down big, i mean like big, horrible the averages had a huge turn, with the dow bouncing almost nearly 200 points, closing up 57 points s p gained and nasdaq climbed 0. 3 it was quite a turn around that could have some follow through so whats the new normal that drove todays action, including the intraday comeback. Americas not the worlds policemen any more sure, an attack on japan is like an attack on us. But if north korea ever sends a missile at japan instead over it, that missile needs to be headed off the question here is who pays for the Patriot Missile system the answer, trumps views on Foreign Policy is easy you can expect japan to pay and theyll be buying the missiles from raytheon. I know the rally seems long in the tooth, from lockheed to the often asked about cratos if theres one thing countries will keep spending money on, its defense now that north ko