Please check out more programming and looking about their event series and visit us online at harvard. Com. The communities that show philosophy and disciplines to enhance and improve civic life for the people of massachusetts. Tonights talk talk will conclude the time for your questions this is being recorded by cspan and q a questions will be recorded. There will be a book citing following here on stage off to my right the line will extend into the hallway and onto the stage. Books can be purchased outside thank you for making purchases from harvard books or to help support the independent bookstore. Please silage her cell phone. I am pleased to introduce tonight speakers, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt professors at harvard the author of competitive interior and temporary. And Daniel Ziblatt is the author of the author of democracy. In the recent New York Times review how democracies die it shows how democracies have collapsed elsewhere not just through a violent coup but throug
Good evening, everyone. My name is betsy atkins. On behalf of harvard bookstore, id like to welcome you to cambridge public library. Im extremely pleased to have Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt with us. Please check out more Upcoming Library programming and be sure to join our email list to learn about the event series, and please visit us online at harvard. Com events. Id also like to thank tonights cosponsor, mass humanities supporting programs that use history, literature, philosophy and the other disciplines to enhance and improve civic life for the people of massachusetts. Learn more at masscommunities. Org. Tonights talk will conclude with time for your questions. Please note that this talk is being recorded by cspan, and during q a your questions will be recorded. To ask a question, please come to the mic at the front of this aisle to my left. Following q a, there will be a book signing here on stage. The signing line will form down the aisle to my right, the end of which may
Temperatures. We did have ten days in a row of records set. Yesterday a record was set even though it was cooler. Oak land, you set a record yesterday. Temperatures down today to near normal. We are finally getting to where we should be. Rain is heading to california. We will track your futurecast and let you know if it will reach the bay area. Here is a look at your current temperatures. 40s for concord and oakland, 41 santa rosa you are at the freezing mark. You will see clouds off the coastline. There will be more cloud Coverage Later today. I will track the chance of rain coming up. A new bill making its way through state legislature would require Utility Companies to come up with specific policies and protocols for cutting off power during wind storms. Earlier this week fire investigators announced a combination of strong winds, dry brush, arching power lines sparked at least two fires on the night of the wine country fire storm in october. Had we had Something Like this in place,
And 58 of the fox poll says she knowingly lied about it. To the markets this monday morning, it looks like the gas price surge is winding down. So, cheer up, everyone, our guy says it will be much cheaper very soon. Varney company is about to begin. Lets see where the stock market is going to open this monday morning. There has been a shift, about a half hour ago, we received news that the Empire State Manufacturing index came in at the lowest reading since the recession. Implying a problem with manufacturing, certainly in the northeast and maybe nationwide. Down goes the stock market. Were off about 70 points at the open. Now look at the price of oil. Down 2. Were at 41. 76 on a monday morning. How about that . 41. 75 right now. And price of gasoline up only slightly overnight and the spike in the midwest affects the National Average and appears to be winding down, maybe its over. Now, that refinery problem in the midwest, did that have an effect on gas prices over the past week, will
Wanted it to do, which is billed build relationships with the city and Cable Partners and gather great programming for American History tv and book tv. Watched the cities to her on the cspan networks to see where we are going next. See our schedule at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. Next, housing and urban Development Secretary and members of the Recovery Team present a Media Briefing on the gulf Recovery Efforts in the 10 years since hurley Hurricane Katrina. This is just under one hour. Good morning. We want to welcome you for the Media Briefing ahead of the 10year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Today you will hear from secretary castro and senior policy experts who have worked tirelessly on the gulf recovery from day one. Before i turn it over to secretary castro, i want to let you know we will be taking questions from the media as well as viewers on the webcast and cspan2. Link urge you to send questions via twitter we encourage you to send questions via twitter or by email. H. U. D