Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years d nobody expecd for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edid. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and plic Television Work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challen fellow citizens to reexamine the sumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the
People didnt think it would work on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years and nobody expected for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edited. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and Public Television work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challenge fellow citizens to reexamine the assumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the table. There is nothing wrong with that. Assumptions and various prejudices but i hope our work challenges people to reexamine the assumptions they hold. I hope our work helps expand their inventory of ideas. I hope our work allows americans to be introduced to each other. This is the most multicultural, multky racial, multiethnic america ever. America is still so segregated in many ways. I hope the work we
Break. Fog is back on duty as the temperatures dropped into the 60s. A foggier view in just the lat few minutes. Thicker in south philadelphia. You could see showers and thunderstorms for the game later today. Fog this morning, especially thick in coatesville. Half mile visibility in quakertown. Mount pocono and hazelton down to a quarter mile visibility. 63 at Philadelphia International and northeast philadelphia, just a gentle breeze blowing here at the nbc 10 studios. Fog to start with, 66 degrees. By 9 00, warmer. The fog will start to disappear. As we head into the noontime hour, showers and heavy thunderstorms start to develop moving into the afternoon. Look at the future weather when i come back. First, jillian mele has traffic. Good morning. Good morning to you, bill. Good news on 76. Its clear in both directions. This is a live look at montgomery drive. It looks good here. No problems to report. 14 minutes both ways on 76 between the blue route and the vine. They are also clea
As the Incoming White House chief of staff. But with progressives demanding a seat at the table amid a struggle over the partys direction, the question is, will ron klain be able to assemble a staff that doesnt divide everybody more . Its way too early for this. Good morning, and welcome to way too early, the show that did concede to the alarm clock this morning after a hardfought recount. Im kasie hunt on this thursday, november 12th. Well start with the news. President elect joe biden has named his longtime adviser and veteran of washington, ron klain, as his white house chief of staff. Klain, a strategist and lawyer, has worked with biden for decades. He advised all three of bidens president ial campaigns, was chief of staff when biden was Vice President and was by his side for years in the senate. In a statement from the biden harris transition, the president elect said it was klains work managing the Obama Administrations response to the Ebola Outbreak in 2014 and the economic Rec
Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie si, following a state of accidents on the roads and the rails federal transportation authorities are instituting an unprecedented safety crack down, they shut down 52 Bus Companies nationwide and pulled 340 buses off the roads. During operation quick strike especially trained investigators pulled the plug on carriers in 22 states. And after a Train Derailment in new york city last month left four people dead federal officials ordered a complete safety review of the north train system. The first such investigation ever conducted on a u. S. Passenger railroad. Transportation secretary anthony fox said of the review safety is our top priority and this indepth investigation will help ensure that metro north is doing Everything Possible to improve the safety record. The 60day review of metro north begins on monday and it will focus on procedures that control centers where dispatchers communicate with operators and look at rail and