Thank you all for being here. Im directer of the kansas city public library, its a great pleasure to have you here and have will chafe here to talk about his excellent new book. Called the reflective, ranchy and rivetting. I want to write a book that gets that kind of press myself. Im trying to live a life that first of all. [laughter] but this book and tonights top i topic will remind us we have a president ial Campaign Going on in which there is a human cry about what is truth and what is fact, what is fiction, what is a lie, and it reminds us most of this is reterritorial exaggeration but there was a time in American History there were really great liers. Were going to be reminded of that tonight. Remember barry gold water talking about Richard Nixon . I cant tell you what he said, its a Family Library and Family Television tonight. But there was a time when there were great liers. I want to quote from will chafes book briefly. Its a dual biography of Hillary Clinton and bill. The c
Research some years ago but we now find the court of justice of the e. U. Is hindering progress by bringing into question the validity of the patient protecting research. Will the Prime Minister do what he can to clear this blockage on behalf of millions of people in this country who suffer longterm medical conditions . My hon. Friend makes an extremely serious point and i will look closely at it because it is a competitive advantage we have in this country that we took difficult decisions about stem cell research. Is important that we continue to lead in that area not only as he says for economic and scientific reasons but because we want to make sure longterm conditions, debilitating conditions, children with a disability and other concerns that we crack those problems for the future and without that level of research i dont believe we will. I will get what he says and write to him after. Is the Prime Minister proud of the growth of super pacs across this country including my own con
Youre taking a live look in San Francisco where muni is now warning mass transit riders to expect major delays as a result of this mornings stickout. We have Team Coverage. Sal is watching the commute and Tara Moriarty will have more on just how bad it is and how commuters are reacting. Thats coming up in two minutes. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im brian flores in for dave clark. Also start with weather and traffic where its busy on the commute and june gloom. We have a big fog bank. Water temperatures came up a little bit. But they are still cool, 49 to 56 degrees. Low clouds, even if you dont have the low clouds, you can see them off to the west. Inland there are some sunny areas. Oakland 54. A high of 67 degrees. Most temperatures coast and pay will be below average. Inland will be about 81, 80. There is an area of low pressure and another low we saw on tuesday keeping this pattern this place. A lot of 50s. They havent moved all morning long, the lows.
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Snow and minnesota is unpredictage. Its awfully cold. However i thought it would be a little bit worse. I did think it was going to be much worse. Its going to be my first snow. So i hope i survive it. Alex wallace from the Weather Channel has more for us. Good saturday to you, alex. Cool conditions setting up across parts of the midwest. Not too terrible. 5 maybe 10 degrees below average. Tomorrow more of the same for us. 39 in traverse city. Thats nearly 10 degrees below your average. Down towards pittsburgh, tolerable at 48. I want to talk about whats coming, though, because big, big polar plunge settling in. Right now all the cold air is bottled up into canada. Next week it spills down into the country and the eastern half of the nation. Really going to be dealing with bonechilling numbers. Ties will be 10 to 20 degrees below average as we head through next week. Here we are a couple of cities to show you what its going to be like. Chicago for your sunday a high of 50. By thursday,