Good morning. I should just mention at the beginning im told there will be time for q a but it depends on your asking questions which i can then repeat for the benefit of the production. Can someone close the door. Thank you. The title of my remarks this morning are notes on th our notg of liberal culture. Theres a story that might be apocryphal but is too good not to share. [laughter] hi, jamie. [laughter] im going to begin again for jamies benefit. Theres a story possibly apocryphal but too good not to share which is told about gandhi. The leader was asked by the journalists what do you think of western civilization. He thought for a moment and replied i think it would be a good idea. [laughter] ive been pondering that for the better part of a year as i consider the state of liberal culture both in the United States and throughout the world. What do i think of liberalism i think it would be a good idea. In fact it could be our salvation as a country and as a civilization if only we c
The week ahead with arlene super bowl and out weaver. Nina olsonadvocate talks about the new tax law and its implementation at the irs. Host the u. S. Capital, the site of President Trump us first u. S. State of the union, in which he is expected to take credit for the growing u. S. Economy and make a pitch for infrastructure funding. You can watch cspans coverage starting at 8 00 tomorrow night and you can go to www. Cspan. Org for more information. This is the washington journal 29th. Nuary immigration is the topic. Rate your partys efforts on immigration. Could be the debate on daca, dreamers, security policy, or some other aspect. Halfhour, we will hear from republicans only. Dont worry, democrats, we will get you in the second half hour. You support the president s plan on daca, 202 7488000. If you oppose that plan, 202 7488001. If you want to make your thoughts known on twitter, you can do so at cspanwj. Wait to hear from the party cost republicans, with a couple of things to sho
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Now on america this morning. We do say good morning to you on this monday. We start with the breaking new information about irma. Moving very quickly overnight. Now battering north florida. Its powerful bands moved out of south florida but that is still getting hit with dangerous winds and a massive tornado watch ahead of the storm all the way up into brunswick, georgia. That storm surge is increasing in jacksonville. Heres the latest overnight, nearly 4. 5 million customers in florida are without power right now. That number expected to grow. All major florida airports including miamis are closed and at least 32 deaths reported from the hurricane. Most of those in the caribbean. And in lakeland east of tampa the wind and rain pounded that area overnight and matt smith of wfts shows us some of the conditions he faced. Reporter the wind is whipping harder. I can tell you the trees look like theyre bending but the good news here when those gusts stop, you can get a chance here, you can s
Communities are bracing for more flooding. Reporter so we are on, i would call it the good side, you know, they always refer to the east side of the storm as the dirty side, because its rainier. But the eye is almost even with us. But east. So were seeing a little bit calmer wind at this point. The real concern here is the storm surge. So how high will that storm surge be . We saw that water earlier today tra drain from the bay and push out into the gulf. That water will be pushed back into the bay. How quickly will that come back in, what will that storm surge look like, what will that look like for the Barrier Islands. A lot of the Barrier Islands are lowlying areas. You probably have been seeing me in the area covering flooding. But when you think about the rain theyve gotten today plus the storm surge, these houses, it wont take much to put some water on the road. And we are expecting to see a little bit of ponding on the road. Were already seeing water sitting on the low edges of