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Obrien all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Obrien the crisis in houston deepens by the day, as Tropical Storm harvey lurks just offshore. More than 3,500 people have been rescued, but officials have confirmed four deaths. Much as 30 more than 1700 square miles and is home to heat advisory is now under water. And more and more is washing into the city itself. P. J. Tobia begins our coverage. Reporter images of a region pushed to the brink. Torrents poured through parts of downtown houston, as a pair of aging dams overflowed. Rescue crews had worked through the night, with flood victims crowding onto dump trucks heading for higher ground. Some waited until morning, only to see the water climb higher. It quit rain
Obrien all that and more, major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Obrien the crisis in houston deepens by the day, as Tropical Storm harvey lurks just offshore. More than 3,500 people have been rescued, and officials have confirmed four deaths, but expect more. One town east of houston has already gotten nearly 52 inches of rain, a record for the u. S. Mainland. As much as 30 of harris county, which covers some 1,700 miles and is home to houston, is now under water, and more and more is washing into the city itselfg p. J. Tobia begins our coverage. Reporter images of a region pushed to the brink. Torrents poured through parts o downtown houston, as a pair of aging dams overflowed. Rescue crews had worked through the night, with flood victims crowding onto dum
And welcome, and bill kelly, andrew w mellon, director of the research library. And its my pleasure to you to the library. We are fortunate indeed to have professor Kathy Davidson with us this evening. He is the author of a critically important, the new education, how to revolution as the university to prepare students for a world in flux. Kathys distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of new york, director of cunys initiatives program. Prior to joining the faculty she had held a chair professorship and was Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies at duke university. She is the author or editor of more than20 books , cofounder and director of the worlds first academic social network, she serves on the board of the mozilla corporation. Developer as you probably know of the fox web browser and underwriter of the Global Community open source developers, she was appointed by president obama to the National Council on the humanities and was the 2016 recipie
Then i will come back up here with david french and greg to have a conversation about this. Well bat around handful of ideas. You ly you probably know david who has lit gifted on these issues. He has been in the trenches. Hes. Fire which is probably the leading organization for working on campuses and freespeech issues and im a fan of his because he cowrote what i think was the best article of 2015 in the atlantic, the coddling of the American Mind. Its fascinating, one of the parts of johns book is that theres an increased emphasis among folks on campus thing the safe spaces, its good for Mental Health. There is this alternative we just have a couple rules. One, please make sure that you raise your hand and we get at microphone to you. We just want to make sure everyone can hear you are. Make sure to you introduce yourself. Wed like to know who the conversation is happening between, so name and organization. And then last but not least, please, please, please actually ask a question d