Times on the cool side in the shade but overall a very, very nice start to our saturday. I highly suggest if you can if you are up, just step outside and see how nice it is. We are coming in at 61 degrees now. Maybe a little bit of the breeze at 12 miles an hour out of the west but overall a nice calm day. We had strong wind gusts not a factor for our saturday and our dew point is very, very low at 51. So that makes it feel, even better. We have a few high cloud but that is it for the morning. Maybe a chance for thicker cloud later this afternoon but overall looking g61 degrees here in philadelphia 54 wilmington. Back toward millville. Dover at 50. Lets show you shore points wildwood at 63 and down into southern delaware our temperatures not too different we have westerly wind going, a land breeze bringing in warmer air and keeping it on the mild side. We dont have that sea breeze. Here are temperatures down at the beach. Rehoboth at 63. Cape may at 55. Fiftynine heading up to northern
40, 50 is the new 50 and its okay. We ought to be comfortable with what age we are. That middle age is really extending well beyond 60 and 65 with this increased longevity. People are living 20 or 30 years longer than they ever anticipated what does that mean Public Policy wise . Guest it has huge implications for Public Policy and for cities, not only in the us but around the world. When Social Security was originally put in place some 80 years ago, lifeexpectancy was around 62. Youve got to work until your 62 and you are likely to die when you were 67 or 68. Today, the fastestgrowing age group in this country is people over the age of 85 and the second is over the age of about 100 three we are living really 20 or 30 years longer than our parents or grandparents did so as we think about Public Policy, about not only Social Security and medicare but mobility and this whole wealth of brainpower that is just sitting there in their 60s and 70s and 80s, how can we as society engage the 50
Next with a look at the antitrump movement. Then, the american profile series includes interviews with the housing secretary hooley and castro and the senator bob corker. Mentioned asn running mates for Hillary Clinton and donald trump. At 8 00, our conversation with Joann Jenkins on cuba and day q and a. This week on newsmakers, two Republican Party activists and critics of donald trump discuss campaign 2016, steve lonegan, spokesperson for courageous conservatives, and bob vander plaats, a ted cruz supporter during the iowa caucuses. Here in the studio, Stephen Dinan and steven shepard, Campaign Editor with politico. Stephen with the first question. News breaking as we tape this, an effort to organize some delegates for the Republican Convention for an anybody but trump movement, you are an advisor to this movement, according to the deuce reports. What can you tell us about the movement, how extensive is it, and is the longterm goal to deny donald trump the nomination . In cleveland,
Local politics was i had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder about my hometown. I wanted to see her you could combine the best of those worlds and have a community which was more prepared for the future, better educated, more economic development, and was also a place of great character, a place a city where everybody would love to live. Steve it was a fulltime job with parttime pay . Sec. Castro that is right. The charter that governed the mayor and council had been passed in 1951. It was a lot smaller city back then. The job that was definitely a fulltime job. Basicallyhe pay was 50 a meeting, so 50 a week, then one 3000 payment every year. 2015,ar after i left, in the voters actually passed an initiative so that the mayor could make 65,000 or something in that ballpark. You know, i like to think that my work in the work of others hopefully contributed to that. But when i was there it was basically 4000 or so. Steve this white house had considered you for a number of cabinet positi
Just so dominant. We had a president ial on the republican side and democrat side, 80 percent go to president ial and yet the American People put in all the incumbents again, roughly in congress so theres an amazing power of the perking winning elections and on top of the money part, people are lying themselves up to be chairman of the committee. Thats a great idea but if you vote in lockstep with leadership in order to get that slot you can start looking both sides to this. Theyre not doing whats best for the country all the time afterwards airs on tv every saturday at 10 pm and sunday at 9 pm eastern. Watch all previous afterwards programs on our website, booktv. Org. Today book tv is live from the 16th annual National Book festival in washington dc. 2001 by then first lady laura bush, the event is held at the Convention Center so we got a full lineup for you. Heres just a few of the authors you will hear from. Santos lamarr, john meacham, Doug Brinkley and several more life from the