Good evening everyone and welcome to tonights event were delighted to have joining us this evening Jerry Van Dyke and investigative journalist focusing on terrorism in the middle east region and our moderator carlos Senior Vice President of program at a World Affairs were recording tonights program so please take a molt to silence your cell phones. My name is tim callahan a Program Officer here at a World Affairs. If you enjoy tonights discussion and youre interested in learning more about the organization, i will be around after the program. So please introduce yourself. I will now like to turn it over to our moderator carlos. So good morning everyone and thank you for joining us its my great pleasure to introduce is our guest this evening jer is rei van dyke a journalist, author and cbs news consultant who covers afghanistan and pakistan. Host authored a book called captive my time as a prisoner of the taliban and another work in afghanistan. Also written for publication New York Tim
Good evening. Were deeing highed have join us erre van dick, investigateoff journalist focusing on terrorism in the middle east region and our moderator, Senior Vice President of programs at World Affairs. Were recording tonights program so please take a moment to silence your cell phones. Im tim, the Program Officer here at World Affairs. If you enjoy the discussion and are interested to learn more about the organization, ill be around after the program. I want to turn it over to our modern rater. So, good evening, everything, and thank you for joining us. Its my great pleasure to introduce our guest this evening, erre van dick, journalist, author and cbs news consultant who covers afghan and pakistan. He has authored a book called captive my time as a prisoner of the taliban and another work in afghan. He is also written for such publications as the New York Times, newsweek, and national geographic. And in 1981, while working as a correspondent for the New York Times, van dyk lived w
Mrs. Murray mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Mrs. Murray i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray thank you. First of all, i want to thank my colleague senator brown for leading the effort on the floor to speak out against the latest attacks on union rights that are in front of the Supreme Court right now. Im very proud to join him to highlight the contribution unions have made to our middle class, to the economy, and to our country. And i want to express my commitment to stand up against any attempts to undermine workers rights to join a union or bargain collectively. Since day one, President Trump has broken his campaign promise, which was to put our workers first by rolling back Worker Protections and putting corporations and billionaires ahead of our working families. And now
For the speech from donald trump. Hes expected to address the crowd there. And for the celebration on the eve of the inauguration. So were going to throw things back to you and get on our way as we head down toward the Lincoln Memorial. Back to you. Were going to take it from here. Security has been increasing in washington. Something now doubt lauren can see. 28,000 officers are securing the National Mall, the parade route and other sites as well. More than 7,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen are in washington. To support security efforts for the president ial inauguration. Today, officers from across the country were sworn in as d. C. Metropolitan special police during a ceremony at fedex field. Soldiers and airmen from the delaware National Guard are among the troops in the nations capital. Task force delawares mission is to secure the outside perimeter of the event with personnel and vehicles. Despite calls for rain, weve heard hurricane schwartz talk about this, umbrellas are
Were celebrating the heat here. We have seen the worst of it, i think because it is still hot and humid and excessive heat warning is still in effect. Still at a six but not quite as hot and humid. It is dropping a bit. It will feel more comfortable stepping outside this morning. It is not included in the surrounding suburbs but we have excessive heat warning from wilmington up i95 corridor. That heat and humidity although it is hot will be high enough to give us criteria for the excessive heat. Seventys right now. Cooler to the north and western suburbs. Almost down in the 60s in lancaster thanks to some rain yesterday. Little cooler. Not as humid. If you do something outside you have to to it now, early because by this afternoon hot and humid but no showers or storms, today in the area. That could be moving through tonight. Ultimate doppler is cleared, were looking at a pair of sevens, dew point at 70. Little lower at wind, that is west northwest bringing in some dryer air briefly ju