I am christian, i have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric artisan from George Washington university. I am delighted to see so many of you here. On this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today. So those welcome to all of those who are viewing at home i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar, and upcoming speakers, both the National History center, and the Wilson Center website, they have information on the theories. Washington history seminar of course, for those of you who are regulars are collaborative effort of two organizations the wilson history policy program and the National History center of the american historical associations, directed by professor kennedy who joins us here as well. We are currently in our ninth year, of holding the sessions, they run weekly during the seminar. We would like to tank our sponsors, the Lepage Center for history in the public interest. And George Washington universitys history
Morning bone and then it time in oakland. Wow. Well, lets go right to Steve Paulson with the latest on your weather. Well, this rain is moving south to youre east, probably nothing. If youre north, very little. But if youre about marin county south, it is coming down here for some, especially around san jose, the Almaden Valley, maybe your backyard as well, but this line has been stretching from about Santa Cruz Mountains, san jose, and been lifting along the peninsula, of course, along skyline as well as san mateo coast now lifting northward, San Pablo Bay. And look at this line. Theres been some moderate to heavy rain. Some of the forecast models have really upped the totals here for today. So when it rains, it pours. And if youre stuck in that, its coming down pretty good here. Cloudy, cool morning rain south to north. Mostly cloudy. Rain. Heaviest will be south south of San Francisco. Oakland but 60s on the temps. All right sal is here. He sees some rain out there i do steve i do s
Alarms all rommany watching aljazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up new hope that a decade long dispute has come to an end rival palestinian factions hamas and fatah signed a reconciliation deal. The kenyan government bans protests as it decides what will happen next to its president ial rerun. Also spain celebrates its national day as the political crisis deepens over the future of the region of catalonia. Out of the u. S. And the United States has sent a notice to unesco saying it will withdraw from the key u. N. Cultural agency says americas decision to end its. The ship is a loss to the u. N. Family and multilateralism and the u. S. State Department Says washington is concerned with mounting costs lack of reforms that has accused the organization of anti israel bias the paris based cultural scientific and Educational Organization was established after World War Two for more on this lets go straight over to mike hanna whos in new york how much of a blow is this to
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