Moderating todays conversation could therefore introduce Ruth Wilson Gilmore i want to thank the organizer and the sponsor haymarket books. Haymarket is the publisher in a new series called the abolitionist papers and im proud to publish patient for this hearing is that the gilmores forthcoming book change every thing, haymarket has three more important events lined up this week. On sunday too much midnight and on wednesday had discussion of schools in the time of coronavirus and on thursday a week from today a conversation. A bit of housekeeping so many people have joined this call we may need your patience if we have technical issues. If it gets choppy at any point you might want to try reducing your image quality. It will be recorded onto Youtube Channel and we are reserving time for q a. Please post your questions on the live video feed wherever youre watching it. The Pandemic Forces us to break with the past and imagine the world anew. Some responses to covid19 is only doubling do
Steve told the story of going from a glass blower in st. Louis teaming of the founder of twitter to build a multibillion payment company. In the book you talk about a lot about perfect problems. When did you realize that Small Business payments were a you are going to have to do something new and you cannot copy. I hired jack when he was 15, he was a High School Student came into work at a company that i actually still have. I dont run any of my companies but it also dont sell them. This ones been around for 30 years. He goes off to college, we kept in touch. And then he had kicked out of twitter, the first time,. [laughter] they showed him the door and he came back to st. Louis and he came back we were hanging out and talking and decided to start a company together. We are then kicking around ideas he didnt have an idea and i didnt have an idea suisse are looking for problems we could solve. And came up with the problem. When did you come to that conclusion you talk in the book about
The cold weather isnt going anywhere. That doesnt stop folks from heading towards the pub to celebrate st. Patricks day. Lets check in with krystal klei. She has the most accurate forecast in town. Spring starts monday. Doesnt feel like were approaching spring with temperatures like this. Feeling like 36 degrees right now in philly. And 34 in pottstown. Allentown to 28 and only 17 mount pocono. Atlantic city right now feeling like 38 degrees. Now it was colder earlier in the work week right after that snowstorm passed through last tuesday but this is still a cold week for us as we go through saturdaysunday. Temperatures will remain below average even in the afternoon. Radar and satellite here, a wider view to show off scattered system is passing by. Set up nothing impressive. Few flakes north of philly. Light rain south of philly. Mixing near parts of philadelphia county. Overall this wont be too impressive of a morning or afternoon when it comes to precipitation. Nonetheless heres the
Some of us are below freezing. Others are well above it. Wide range this morning. Heres what we feel like outside. Its cold. 22 feels like in mount pocono and 26 in allentown. Pottstown feeling 33. 39 in philadelphia. And 37 it feels like right now in millville. Pretty obvious with those temperatures some of us are seeing rain some seeing snow. All of us its very, very light. Im checking ground observations and lot arent even picking up on whats falling. So we got a line moving through already and then some more scattered activity that will continue through the later morning even into the afternoon. Theres a closer look at some snow passing by now from montgomery to bucks county into parts of Mercer County and Lehigh Valley to berks as well. None is anything like what we saw on tuesday and it will not be like what we saw on tuesday. Instead heres what were looking at. Some light snow north and as we get in the afternoon hours more scattered rain across the area. Spotty in nature. Overn
Request for a handshake and later, doubling down on wiretapping allegations. At common, perhaps. And lenses for love. A group of capturing lifes special moments and shining lightth desperately it. Todaysaturday, march 18th, 2017. A little never killed nobody were going to dance happy 50th anniversary, mom and dad. Today show. Hi, mom and dad. All t w rhode island. Three birthdays, one forever birmingham, alabama. Girls weekend in we going and a very gooyou. Welcome back to today. The plaza on this chilly morning. Stopping by. Big crowd out there today. With breaking owd. News from paris. The city on edge once again after an attacker rushed a group of soldiers at the paris airport earlier today. It comes with the duke and duchess of cambridge, will and kate, in paris, for the First Official visit as a royal couple. Nbcs keir simmons is live in the capital with the latest. Keir, good morning. Reporter craig, good morning. In the past hours, reuters news confirming a terror motive in the