Rain. Shiri over into Central Massachusetts and metrowest has fog lingering through much of 9 00 this morning. We get breaks in the clouds for the afternoon with high temperatures that will make their way into the 80s. Thats check on the forecast for now we do want to get check on the roadways. We got Julie Grauert standing by with live drive time traffic. Julie i want to point out cameras looking better as far as the fog concerned. Theres the expressway as you approach the oneill tunnel and Financial Center and completedly fogged out earlier. Look at the zakim for mass general starting to look a still leave ten, 15 minutes earlier though just in case you hit some of those foggy patches. New accident on the pike eastbound, right after route 9 in framingham. As we shift north just kind of some spotty volume picking up along route 1 in saugus and 93 south around route 16. Here are live drive times, 41 minutes on the pike eastbound from 495 to mass ave. 27 minutes on the expressway. 44 mi
hosting this conference from washington, d.c. this is live coverage on c-span 3. an overwhelming response we got when we announced this event. it s unprecedented and i m sure we ll have a stimulating and exciting discussion this afternoon. pakistan, of course, remains in the limelight, has been for much of the last decade, and the fact that pakistan s stability is synonymous with that of south asia and perhaps also global security is almost cliched by now. and i think there is no denying the fact that whenever direction pakistan takes has implications for that region and definitely for u.s. policy going forward as well. but what is interesting and what got us thinking about hosting this event that if you really think about it there is not much about the future of pakistan that is being discussed, at least not the medium and long-term future. much of what preoccupies us is the here and now, the daily developments. you know, we pick up the newspaper and