A wide turmoil so the options he had was of course to counsel is to try to resole this but actually we dont know whats the real meaning if that doesnt mean that he will try to obliterate the International Scrutiny that he would have had in the a pic or in the call of the un is sending a Delegation Team to investigate the allegations of human rights abuses by Security Forces presumably that is still going ahead are you saying that you think that part of the reasons why these 2 summits were cancelled was because he didnt want the extra scrutiny i think it could be because the image of the president in chile politics is quite damaged internationally so this would be if it was if there are more insights today because protests would have happened in india to call the cop. So thats one answer the other one is yes hes trying to resolve internal issues because this is a very dramatic situation and he needs to focus on that but the right answer than real answer we still dont know and maybe ment
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And now on cspan2s booktv, more television for serious readers. John watts discussion on gun control is next from our libertarian conference, freedom fest. [inaudible conversations] all right, well i guess we are having technical problems here but hopefully they will be taken care of soon. I hope you all know who i am. My name is john lott. President of Crime Prevention Research Center bid ive been an academic most of my life. Chief economist at the u. S. Commission and positions that are a variety at different universities. University of chicago, stanford, yale. But im going to talk to you about some of the missed impressions people have about guns and crime. Normally, im a very empirical guy so i would show you lots of graphs and stuff. A little bit stymied on that given the technical issues we have but there are still lots of issues we can go and talk about. So, just off the top of my head, a couple claims we frequently hear about. One is that background checks go and stop about 3.
And wilder with bigger storms, hotter and more freezing temperatures and greater extremes at seemingly all times of the year. And second, that forecasters are Getting Better at predicting whats about to hit us. They still dont get it right 100 of the time, of course, but their act rahs is city has definitely accuracy has definitely improved and so has the timelessness of their reports. In fact, these days were aware not only of one weather model, but of multiple ones simulating the future space of the atmosphere. Theres a north american model, the european model, the global one and a number of others, and theyre forecasting not todays weather or tomorrows, but weather over the next ten days and beyond. Andrew blum got interested in this stuff. He wasnt satisfied with the past explanations that attributed the advances in weather science simply to faster supercomputer ands better satellites. Andrews a journalist with a knack for making complex systems accessible as he did in his previous
Looking at a possible serial arsonist back in april but they did not release the information because they still had to gather different information it wanted to make sure that it was the same person they say today that are sure it was in fact the same person. Pam moore there is big mills across the nation gunfire and death and get another movie fare this time and suburban nashville were police shot and killed an armed man today Catherine Heenan the armed man was the only person killed no one was seriously injured it was a very strange scenario this ended with a shot when Police Killed the man and a camera crew from our sister station in nashville cause some of the Gunfire Police said the man had begun by using a lot of pepper spray inside of the pier attacking prepared to what men did have a from my injury apparently from the hatchets the have been identified as on the 29 yearold local resident to backpacks he had been wearing have been detonated by police one of them had a fake bomb i