During this career 9 11 and is a great Public Servant committed to keeping the city safe so thank you for everything that you do. [applause] and i would like to take a minute if the veterans and those that served in the forces could be stand and be recognized. [applause] i would be remiss at this point if i didnt also think the ambassador to the United Nations who honored me with a wonderful foreword for the buck, and i appreciate his support for the buck and this Important Message. It is a great privilege to be here in this wonderful institution of the Union League Club of new york. Since its founding in 1863 its members have played an Important Role in the National Discourse on a wide range of issues and as ron mentioned they constructed the statue of liberty and got rid of boss along the way so it is a great privilege to be here and it is fitting that we are in this historic room to talk about fighting the media war in iraq because this book is about history, how we make history and
Members and guests tonight had the honor of introducing a friend and academic colleague who happens to be a best selling author, call miss, speaker, commentator, senior Level Management strategists are key has worked with president s from here at home to south asia to iraq and for more than 20 years our speaker has provided strategic and Crisis Committee k should counsel to companies, policy organizations, government agencies, not for profits, advocacy campaigns and grassroots groups. He is served in many roles including executive director of the Republican Party in new york state, advisor to the us chief of protocol at the vatican, planner to the department of state of former president s bush and clinton to the tsunami ravaged south asia and director of communications for the Environment Protection agency. Our speaker is currently an adjunct professor. A charter member of the board of advisors at college of liberal arts and sciences and a opinion contributor to forbes in the hopes of
City. The city has been relatively desolate. The only people out there are the people plowing the sidewalks at this point. We walked over ourselves this morning. Didnt get hit with anything much but the ban on cars in new york city still is accurate. Ill wait until the posts in other places start making fun of the weather people because its still a very serious storm. May be loss of life somewhere. In fact if you take a look at some of the pictures in new england its a different story. Wow this is a picture of philadelphia. There could be more to come. Still falling there. You look at i looked at my radar thing on activitiescuweather. Its moving northeast and most of it is there. In the northeast region up in new england bracing for 3 feet as snow. They have been getting as much as 4 inches an hour. With the hurricane forced winds causing wide out conditions. Its been a huge issue with coastal flooding too. I was just reading that theyre talking about storm surges of about 7 feet with
Ellen karel has written a book called force. Whats on the front of starbucks . It is a motorcycle deleted or not and it is in the middle of nowhere in the southern south america actually. It is a bmw because i took that motorcycle for three years alone and with it all over the world. We have passions and dreams. I always wanted to travel around the world. My passions have been certainly writing and motorcycle riding and i find myself at a fork in the road, unemployed and recently divorced. So, i decided that instead of just scrambling to try to find the next job i sold everything that i had, and i hopped on a motorcycle to visit and experience different cultures and different people all over the world. We come to forks in our lives and they are the things on the motorcycle that keep us going in the right direction and what we share and eat food with and finally, you know if you are a musician and you know what a tuning fork is in that brings harmony and resonance to that so there is a
The next thing i know, two people from across the train come flying at me and fell on top of me. The metro north express train left hook itsy, new york from four manhattans Grand Central terminal. The train was running a curve in the bronx and somehow derailed. Investigators now looking into unconfirmed reports the train may have been speeding. That theerified claims conductor tried to hit the brakes but they failed. Our mission is to understand not just what happened that why it happened. Trains remaining here until the ntsb has finished inspecting each car where two men and two women lost their lives. In yourber them prayers tonight. It is most unfortunate that this comes during the holiday season. It is a reminder to all of us that life is a precious gift. Officials believe everyone has been accounted for but investigators are bringing planes in to lift these cars up right in part to make certain there is no one still trapped underneath. Marcy gonzalez, abc news in the bronx, new yo