Responsibilities for young people, young women and men, their parents, families, as they consider military service, what would you tell them why they ought to choose the army . Why they ought to choose the army. I think its an interesting question, because i go to basic training. I was just down in fort jackson a couple of weeks ago. And i always ask the parents that i meet, why the army . Especially if theyre from a different branch. Part of the army, to me the army is the force that is the most connected across the country with the United States, with america, with tradition, with the local communities. And it was brought home in a pretty dramatic way a week from yesterday, i had my welcoming ceremony, i talked about my who uncles that went to west point. One of them last name fanning. The number of emails i got from all over the current army today, but other people as well who knew with or served with one of those uncles. And so thats what i would tell someone why to choose the army
Smithsonian air and Space Museum Live at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Now a conversation with facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg who spoke at the American Enterprise Institute Last week. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to aie, im Arthur Brooks and im delighted to introduce Sheryl Sandberg to join us today. We have many events but thsz something ive been looking forward to for a long time. This an interview weve been hoping to do for months and months and had this on the books for four months and this is as many of you know one of the last events well be doing in this building. Well talk about so many issues important to you and important to me. Ill give you a quick bio. Its not that necessary but so impressive. The person i have with me on the stage, i want to talk and dwell on what success really looks like in america today. She has been the chief operating officer at facebook since 2008. When she came to facebook, facebook had 70 million users, which seemed like a lot at the time
Afternoon most of this will be around the south. Possibility of an isolated shower or two but that rain is moving south 50s for many. Here is sal. The road will be lightly traveled on the bay bridge, there are no major problems and as a matter of fact traffic continues to look good but there have been a number of collisions on the on ramp to the freeway, we see traffic is moving along well as you drive out passed the coliseum so give yourself plenty of extra time, 430, lets go back to the desk late last night, a strong storm cell, across the bay area they received an inch to an inch and a half of rain. Soaked soil is causing more trees to topple over and knock out some power to people across the bay area. Tara moriarty is in oakland where crews spent hours removing a tree and oh, boy, the damage to the cars over there. They have moved on to their next end didnt and honestly, they have caused a lot of problems and an enormous tree fell right on top and they were able to chop it, get it
The percentage of women voting has been larger than it used to be. But it is still a very big question in this election, and has been, about how many women will vote. And in particular, the case for single women. [inaudible] i do feel very strongly theres a lot of women, and majority of women dont really understand what that act has done for them. And this administration has not used that, to really say this is what i did for you, with this act. Obama talks about [inaudible] the assumption ever and understands it and i think thats a false assumption. I just wonder what you thought of that. I cant say that i followed all of the ways the Lilly Ledbetter act has been used, but i was involved in a debate just a couple weeks ago that wasnt in the context of the election particularly, but about whether or not the ledbetter act was important at all and whether the paycheck fairness act, which we take things a step further, was a good idea or not a good idea. And there are those who are claimi
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