President obamas top science adviser discusses the science and environmental initiatives of the Obama Administration and how they are changing in the Trump Administration. This is about an hour. Welcome, everyone. Thank you, thank you. Welcome to the American Association for the advancement of science, or aaas, as we call it, and welcome to our kickoff event for the historic march for science tomorrow. Im celeste rolfing, chief operating officer here. Its my distinct pleasure today to introduce our speaker, dr. John holdrun. John is a professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of government and professor of Environmental Science and policy in the department of earth and Planetary Sciences at harvard university. In 1995, john gave the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the pug wash conferences on science and world affairs, an International Organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in various leadership positions. More recently fo
Continues. Host it is open phones. The phone numbers are on the screen. You can also tweet or if you want to post on our facebook page, you can do so during the show and after the show. A new website from the Trump Administration this highlights what they say their compliments are in the first 100 days. A website that just went live today. Highlighting aspects about jobs being created. The Dakota Access pipeline. Energy independence and other things. If you want to check out what the Trump Administration is highlighting as accomplishments leading up to the first 100 days which takes place on saturday another story concerning a website promotion, this is from the hill about the state department website. And the promotion of maralago. The story says that a representative said tuesday, a post appeared promoting the maralago. It shouldnt have happened and ought to come down. She goes on to say that is the kind of thing that should not happen and if it take a posted, take it down immediatel
The riptides with this. Never swim against the riptide. Swim parallel to shore. Then head back to shore. Theyre not that wide. Quite frankly i wouldnt get in the water even if there were a life guard. Well come back and talk about the storm surge. A reminder, download our app. You can track the storm with us as it approaches the delmarva over the weekend. Thanks a lot. Hermine is expected to make landfall late tonight on floridas panhandle. Right now 51 counties are under state of emergency. The storms outer bands are already lashing the coastline with heavy rain. Storm surges could swell 10 to 12 feet and before this is over isolated areas could be soaked with 20 inches of rain. Philip bryan is stacking sand bags outside his real estate office. Its mother nature. You take it as it comes and do what you can do. Hope for the best. This will to some. Florida has not taken a direct hit from a hurricane in 11 years. The governor says hermine is sure to cause flooding, knock out power, brin
Out all the stops. These are the closing times on Christmas Eve. Actually a little bit more to it than this. Best buy, kohls, walmart, target targets going to stay up until 11 00 tomorrow night trying to get the last of the shoppers in, and just as an example lets talk a little bit more about kohls because more than just staying open until 6 00 p. M. , theyre in the midst now of a streak of 170 170 straight hours of staying open up until closing time tomorrow night. And its similar at some of the other retailers as well. I mean 87 straight hours, for example, at toys r us. So thats what theyre doing. Pulling out all of the stops but as i a this is an interesting stat because the last minute type its not like a few people need to go out and get a few things. Its almost everyone this retailmenot did some research on this, and they found that last minute shopping is something that nine out of ten americans engage in. Of course to varying degrees, neil, some people have to get a Stocking S
Birthday. The we begin in the mideast where us secretary of state john kerry is locked in some intense talks with israeli and palestinian leaders are seeking to overcome deep seated fears about a framework to guide negotiations toward a peace deal. Now american diplomats say the discussions have entered a new day before a deadline hits and just a few months. Early stoppage on kerry. Breakfast with his israeli counterpart of the cody been done in time to discuss the nations progress in the middle east talks. It says tenth visit to the region to once again john kerry reaffirmed his belief the peace process. We always know that achieving peace is a lot of complicated process its a tough road. But this is not Mission Impossible the ultimate goal is for a comprehensive peace deal to be signed by april. You could see into states a nation that israeli settlements and future borders remain fiercely contested and said this be no agreement on the right of Palestinian Refugees and the state const