I am standing on top one these dunes, 8 to 10 feet high on the jersey shore. Many towns have down exactly the same thing. This is to protect against beach erosion as many towns prepare for the doubling whammy of rain and high winds. There is already a significant amount of street flooding on the bayside of seaside heights. That was the result of last nights rainstorm. Here homes are still being raised because of the damage when the water was so high and Superstorm Sandy. This time residents are getting prepared. Right now taking anything that is loose or from the property and putting it inside. I am making sure there is no debris that gets on my neighbors or become flying objects. Reporter the town is prepared to use military equipment to evacuate if necessary. Electric generators are on standby. A mobile command center is ready in case the police and fire sandbags are also available for residents to help with any potential flooding. These precautions began right after Labor Day Weeken
Of course, we will post the program on the homepage following his presentation in the internet viewers are also welcome to submit questions or comments added a time our guest today is dr. Paul kengor professor of Political Science the author of over one dozen books and a recognized authority from the cold war and communism with his Extensive Research of Archival Research of communist party usa and serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution it received his doctorate from university of pittsburg crash risk will and urges masters degree at International Service and also holds a eight honorary doctorate today he will discuss his latest book takedown please join me to welcome paul kengor. [applause] thanks for coming. And also 02 cspan as well people say thank god for cspan there isnt many outlets out there that simply put it out there to let people watching and decide for themselves without the interpretation of how youre supposed to interpret that and also to those it is their
The new military act you refer to is an important contribution to democracy. But we also have to make sure that we safeguard and protect the integrity of the voter. And we have to make sure that the machinery that we use is not used to subvert the very vote that were trying to lift up. [applause] so i got you. There are places like oregon that are experimenting and its a positive thing. But im going to say this, brother. Im on twitter. Bottom line the bottom line is we are going to use those social media tools. But we also have to engage where people are. There are people who are not plugged in and need to cast a ballot. There are some who are and they can have alternatives. But our job is to organize that community in the broadest sense and link issues of importance to what they do. You talk about economic jeff, my last point. Payday lenders is a scourge, a scourge in our community. [applause] their are potential regulations that are going to be issued soon determined by the Obama Adm
Another San Francisco pedestrians. Activist say enough is enough. Tomorrow activist say they will call for action during a rally open the steps of city hall. Latest accident happened on van ness avenue lombard street when jogger hit and killed by golden gate transit bus. 7 news if explains what happens. Its estimated that 3 pedestrians are hit by vehicles every day in San Francisco. 18 have died so far this year. Lori is the latest casualty. The 51yearold was jogging around 6 15 this morning. When she was struck by a golden gate transit bus. Driver making a left turn from lombard street on to vanness. The driver is one of our senior drivers for golden gate transit. He has been with the agency for more than 35 years and he has a very good safety record. Obviously distraught right now. Also shake. She didnt see this accident but her office is across the street and she has seen close calls. This intersection particularly right on this corner is very con fasting with the lights and the tur
Benthall was running the black internet site known as silk road. This is what that site looks like now. An fbi notice of seizure. But this is what it looked like before the bust. An internet marketplace for cocaine, heroin, phony passports, and computer hacking services. 8 million a month in transactions, which generated 400,000 a month in commissions for benthall and his confederates. Does this look like him . Uhhuh, yeah. Reporter Gladys Martinez says benthall was always friendly to her. Nice. Reporter the neighbors say he drove a 2014 tesla model s. Last november, he tweeted that he was hyperlooping to his tesla. Fbi agents say that was the same week he took over operation of silk road 2. 0 from its previous operator. He reportedly bought the car using bitcoin. I think it was black. You dont see it now . No i saw them confiscate it yesterday. Reporter oh, they did . They did, yeah. Reporter you may remember that a year ago, silk road was taken down. The previous owner of the website