and cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. we are following breaking news this hour out of greece. a train full of passengers colliding head on with a freight train. so far at least 36 people have been confirmed dead. we are hearing harrowing stories from survivors who say that the train cars quickly filled with smoke and with flames. worried that the death toll could go up. one of america s prominent mayors, lori lightfoot, defeated. and the price of insulin, that is just moments away. we begin with that devastating train crash that we were talking about in greece. it has killed more than 36 people and injured dozens of others. you can see the images here of the aftermath. it s a passenger train. it was carrying about 350 people at least. it collided head on with a freight train. multiple cars derailed and several caught fire north of athens where this happened. it it left carriages and heaps of debris in the wake. both were traveling on th
How bright he was. I knew he would be a big contributor. It was not until after the convention that it was clear he was on a fast track. As a road in the book, i was working for john edwards. It did not work out well. I was working for obama. The contrast between the two was profound. Smart guy. He wanted the cliff notes. He wanted to do what he needed to do. Obama want to to drill three and four levels deep. From the first time i met him, he or he was a guy that thought winning elections was not the most important thing. Its what you do when you win. What you do to move the community or country forward. I saw national skills. The convention was sort of the line of demarcation. Did you see in him at that time a man that might be president . Everybody steps forward and says oh, i saw him. Rahm emanuel says that. Dont hook him to a lie detector on that one. [laughter] i met barack in 1992 when a friend of mine who was in liberal politics in chicago called me and said he was one of the mo
Secret service, there was something going on. Now, those of us that are spend a lot of time at the white house know that lockdowns at the white house are relatively routine. Even fence jumpers happen, you know, three, four times a year. It is an event, but not a particularly remarkable one. But there seem to be there seem to be something a level of alarm that the secret service was displaying that suggested that this may have been a little bit something out of the ordinary. I headed into into the press area of the white house which is sort of at the entrance to the west wing for those of you who havent spent a lot of time there to try and figure out if i could figure out what was going on. And nobody had any they said no, everythings fine we would have gotten an email if something happened. If something happened. Right about that Moment Secret Service agents came stormed in from the west wing with these really large, like semiautomatic weapons that, you know, youve seen the secret Serv
Its exciting to see just this much interest and this kind of resistance bubbling up. So ill read a little bit from the book from the introduction, and then ill introduce the panel, and well all talk, and be then well have some time for questions and comments. So this is the introduction starting march 4, 2012, about a little over a year after rahm emanuel was elected mayor. So march 4, 2012, with chicagos 175th birthday, and the city celebrated with a public party at the chicago history museum. The event promised actors portraying famous chicagoans, including jane adams. Little did the organizers know that the show would be stolen by a woman more eccentric and eras bl, less renowned and accomplished but just as willing to raise her voice. Mayor rahm emanuel grins broadly as the chicago childrens choir sings a lively version of happy birthday. Ten months earlier hed been inaugurated as leader of the nations third most populace city. And while his term hadnt been a cake walk with, so far
Bell thanks so much to hay market for inviting me to do the project, so wonderful to work with, and thanks to hay market brewery for having us here and for the talents 23r joining us and everyone for coming. Its exciting to see this interest and resistance bubbling up. Ill read from the introduction and introduce the panel and talk and have time for questions and comments. This is the introduction starting on march 4, 2012, a little after a year ron was elected mayor. March 4th, 2012, chicagos 175 birthday, and the city celebrated with the Chicago Party of the public history museum. The event promised actors of famous of those when chicago, an advocate for children, imgrants, and factory works. Little did they know, the show would be stolen by a woman, more renowned, accomplished, but willing to raise a voice and speak up for the weak and vulnerable. The chicago childrens choir sang a lively version of happy birthday, reason to smile. Ten months earlier, he was inaugurated as leader of