Janesville, wisconsin, after the towns gm plant closed, to the vietnam wars tet offensive and a report on spy rings at american universities. First up is journalist jessica bruder. She reports on the living and working conditions of migrants working in the United States. Its going to be like that. [laughter] my name is conor moran, and i am the director of the book festival. I want to thank all of you for coming out to celebrate the 15th anniversary of wisconsin book festival. [applause] yeah, go ahead. [applause] i am incredibly proud to be the director at this moment. The book festival is livelier than it has ever been, having expanded into yearround events, we are getting more and more people involved. The faces in this room that i know are wonderful. The faces in this room that i dont know are exactly as wonderful. I hope that all of you leave this and invite a friend to something that were doing over the next couple of hours or days or even into november and january of next year.
Im director of the wisconsin book festival i want to thank all of you for coming out this morning to celebrate 15th anniversary of the wisconsin book festival. Yeah go ahead. [applause] im incredibly proud to be the director at this moment. The book festival is livelier than it has ever been having expanded into year round eastbound traffics were getting more and more people involved that faces in this room that i know are wonderful that faces in the room that i dont know, are exactly as wonderful. I hope you leave this and invite ag friend to the next hours or days or even into november and january of next year. And this truly has been a tran sending year for us we will definitely end the year with the most people weve seen in wisconsin book festival events in our entire history and i couldntt be happier about tha. I want to take this time to thank Madison Public Library they provide staff time works really hard for me especially overer this and theyre here rit now behind the scenes.
The second one coming up, in just a few minutes. Hey sue, good morning 5 00 oclock straight up, we have got no problems at all here on the ben franklin bridge. I was going to show you but penndot was moving it. It is girard avenue off ramp from the schuylkill expressway right there by the zoo, westbound off ramp block with an accident, ben franklin bridge looking good working your way in toward downtown, and i know from septa, 101, 102 trolleys choosing shuttle buses between Baltimore Pike and sharon hill all because of some Early Morning trap problems. Septa says otherwise they are off to a good start on the Regional Rails, buses, trolleys. We will see extra volume at 30th street station, folks heading down to d. C. For the big day and extra volume expected at philly International Folks heading down this maybe taking a flight down to d. C. Or getting out of town for the weekend room. Height here in our area get ready for planned demonstrations and traffic disruptions throughout the da
Both septa management and the twu local 234 union. No deal yet though. Lets go to video right now we can tell you congressman bob brady is now involved in the talks as he often gets involved on labor issues. Septa management says that things are moving along but a Union Spokesperson tells me septa is giving them quote a quarter inch here and a quarter inch there rather than an inch by inch movement. So the Union Spokesperson says things are moving much slower than they could be and that is that isnt so encouraging to many commuters we spoke with include as kindergartner named william. It took me twice as long to get to school this morning. It took you twice as long to get to school this morning. Umhmm. What did you think about th that. That was much traffic. It takes 15 minutes to get to school. It took us half an hour, um 40 minutes straight through center city. This too shall pass. Its not our fault theyre having issues so i dont know why we have to suffer and the lines are crazy. Yo
Complete schedule. Next, house hearing on efforts to protect you from sports concussions. Then a house hearing on the government accessing social media is part of background checks for some employees. After that, pentagon briefing pentagon briefing on the fight against isis and a briefing on the annual report on chinas military. Now, to mothers testify before a house energy and commerce a subcommittee about concussions in youth sports. Their sons died after suffering multiple concussions. The hearing also addressed Current Research and efforts to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is two and a half hours. We are on a tight schedule today with votes. The morning and welcome to the oversight and investigation hearing. Were were here to continue the ongoing examination of concussions. The hearing follows an initial table we had in march but we had a constructive dialogue with leading experts on how to address the challenge of concussions. Well focus on youth sports, specifically the