Dinner portion of the program now. What we are talking about to bring to there are some people for whom good afternoon is a cue. Clapp, i think we are good. Good afternoon. Biannualo the ninth Walter Cronkite awards for excellence in television, political journalism. I am marty kaplan. I am on the faculty of the Annenberg School for communication and journalism at the university of Southern California where i am the director of the norman lear center. It has been these awards since Walter Cronkite a bout the first ones here in washington in 2000 and one. In 2001. If you are with us on cspan or facebook live, welcome from the National Press club in washington. Looking around this room i see plenty of glamour right here in the middle english meaning of glamour knowledge, insight. Theou believe that is actual etymology of glamour, that you bear witness to the tological looping s looping as of something called alternative facts. Andys Award Winners networks and stations across the country.
[inaudible conversation] are you ready for whatever happens. Absolutely. All right. Welcome everybody. Not just those of you in the room but people who are watching this live on cspan, we are glad to have you here. I know by now we been in this generation long enough i dont need to tell you to turn off your cell phones or turn off the sound, but do, if you dont mind. I want to welcome all of you here, but also i want to call special attention to two groups of students here at the aspen institute. We have students here and from the charter school. Welcome. When we get to the q a asked questions and we hope you will. Let me start with a little story to get us started in this experiment that we live in that is so constantly contentious and uncivil. I run a program that we started at the institute 12 years ago. Its called the Hotel Scholarship in public leadership. What we do, i will be very brief, we go out every year and we find that 24 top Young Political leaders in the countr country.
In morning, the emotional scene between longlost classmates. And the end of a long strange trip. After 50 years of music, the legendary grateful dead get set to say goodbye. The final concerts that have dead heads chucking to chicago, friday, july 3rd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this friday morning a huge crowd out there getting ready for a big concert. Im tamron hall. Im carson daly. The usual gang has the morning off. Which means, tamron they are going to miss that man there the one and only flow wry dark who is going to put on a great show on the plaza. He has ten, now count them ten top ten hits and have a little fourth of july hot dog eating exhibition and much more. We decided flo rida is the hardest working man in show business. Has james browns crown. Absolutely. But glad he is here today. Lets get to todays top story, everything you need to know to kick off the
Novel. Reports of responding to a shooting there. The navy yard has been closed and fox business washington correspondent blake berman is on the phone and just arrived at the navy yard. What are you seeing . Good morning to you, im at the navy yard there is a massive situation here at the gave yard in washington kansas city on the southern portion of washington d. C. , south of the capital. Its on lockdown its the oldest Navy Facility institute here in the United States and there is a huge scene underway right now. I just spoke with a spokesperson of the navy yard who wanted to clarify, while there is indeed an active shooter situation going on and hence the huge presence that we have here there is no confirmation of a shooting at this point and essentially, theyre not confirming whether any shots were fired. This is part of the investigation going on right now. What i can tell you from my Vantage Point here there are helicopters that are circling the navy yard and it appears at certai
Oh my goodness. In morning, the emotional scene between longlost classmates. And the end of a long strange trip. After 50 years of music, the legendary grateful dead get set to say goodbye. The final concerts that have dead heads chucking to chicago, friday, july 3rd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this friday morning a huge crowd out there getting ready for a big concert. Im tamron hall. Im carson daly. The usual gang has the morning off. Which means, tamron they are going to miss that man there the one and only flow wry dark who is going to put on a great show on the plaza. He has ten, now count them ten top ten hits and have a little fourth of july hot dog eating exhibition and much more. We decided flo rida is the hardest working man in show business. Has james browns crown. Absolutely. But glad he is here today. Lets get to todays top story, everything you need to know