we begin in uvalde, texas, where a long awaited report into a deadly school shooting has been highly critical of the police. it found, what they describe, as a cascading failures of leadership, decision making, tactics, policy and training, when the gunman burst into robb elementary school in 2022 hundreds of police officers rushed to the scene but it took more than an hour for them to confront him. in that time, the gunman murdered i9 students and two teachers. that delay sparked outrage among the victims families and across the us more widely, and it prompted the us department ofjustice to investigate, producing today s report that runs 600 pages long. the us attorney general merrick garland visited families in uvalde, and he called the police he said the victims deserved better. in the hours and days after, it was a failure that should not have happened. we was a failure that should not have happened. have happened. we hope to honour the have happened. we hope to
Book tv. Thank you. [inaudible] heres a look at authors recently featured on book tvs afterwards. Our weekly Author Interview program. Natalia holt profiled the women instruments on the development of americas Space Program in the 1940s and 50s. Historian pamela haig looked at the history of gun ownership in america. And we reported on the history and rise of isis. In the coming weeks on afterwards, republican congressman will talk about his time as chairman of his committee on oversight and government reform. Karen greenberg, Director Center of National Security at Fordham University will report on steps taken by the department of justice to combat terrorism since september eleventh. Also coming up, eric fair will discuss his time in iraq working as an interrogator for a private military contractor. This weekend, Manhattan Institute sr. Fellow, Heather Mcdonald Heather Mcdonald looks at the state of policing in america. What we hear from the black lives Matter Movement is that cops ar
Former langley historian. He spent some time year before we set him to jpl, and then our last panelist, glenn bugos, currently with ames. And with that, lets go to dr. Bill barry. Hes going to moderate our panel and begin give us the beginnings of some great stories. Thanks, bill. [applause] bill thanks, walt. Good afternoon, everybody. This is a great opportunity, what happened 40 years ago today and tomorrow. I would imagine that 40 years ago today, the 19th of july, 1976, there was a lot of nailbiting and concerned going on around here. For good reason. Getting to mars is hard to do. No one had done it before successfully. Not that people had tried. The soviets had made at least six attempts to land something on mars until that point. None of them had been successful. They did get something on the surface but it lasted for about 40 seconds of data transmission. So mars 3 not a great success. Folks here were understandably nervous. The spaceage have been going on for since 1957. Gett
Double act in the european elite is used a speech at the World Economic forum to call for the rebirth of multilateralism and a stronger europe and had an humphrey in davos and ill have more coming up. Also happening in this hour because incursion into syria im cursed steps up the pressure and its five clear Kurdish Militias away from to its border with syria president heard about says he will extend the offensive. Look at the human cost of jihad this daughter left home to join the Islamic State you harvests for years on how mother in chechnya fears shell never return. Acute water a strong grip south africas kc region has been no rain now for more than two years and none is forecast for months. Until go welcome to the program. Europe has taken center stage at the swiss alps today with speeches from the continents heavyweights as i went back and spoke earlier in the day but it was felt as Emmanuel Mark who had the headline slot it told the World Economic forum the globalization how to en