One of the characters featured in the film is representative lewis. Congressman lewis wrote about his experiences in a book titled across that bridge life lessons and a vision for change , and talked about it at the 2012 National Book festival. This is a half hour. [applause] think you so much. David, think of for those kind words of introduction. Mr. Librarian, thank you for your leadership, for your vision, thank you for never ever giving up or never giving them. Thank you for keeping your feet. The faith. I am so delighted and pleased to be here this afternoon to see each and every one of you. You heard i grew up in a big city like washington, d. C. Or a baltimore or Silver Springs or alexander. Or atlanta. I grew up on a farm in rural alabama about 50 miles from montgomery. Outside of a little place called troy. My father was a sharecropper but in 1944 when i was only 4yearsold, my father saved 300, and with 300 he bought 110 acres of land and there was a lot of cotton and corn pea
male announcer this is bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Pam the coast guard checking out an oil tanker. After it strikes the bay bridge. The 750 foot ship. Sideswiped one of the bridge towers. Tonight, investigators looking at the possible causes no injuries were reported. The busy span remained open to traffic after the tanker called overseas reymar struck a tower of the west span of the bridge. This is video from our helicopter partnership with abc news. Tonight at 11 well start our team covearge with kron4s dan kerman. With details on what happened. Reporter the oil tanker is anchored off of the coast of Treasure Island. Investigators are trying to figure out why it crashed into the bridge on 11 20 as it was figuring and heading out towards the sea. We are trying to figure out if it was a human error. With onequarter mile visibility even if the visibility is limited there are still plenty of ways to avoid the bridge. The radar and the vessel traffic services. The Pilot
Julia loved her time in the white house. She said in their her memoirs it was like a bright and beautiful terrain. The most wonderful time of my life, so i think they get you some idea of how much she enjoyed eating first lady and how she felt that her husband had finally achieved the recognition he deserved. See the federal government appropriated almost 90 billion to rebuild afghanistan. Monday special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, john sopko delivered a report on you for spending so far show in the u. S. Government spent over 7 million on a largely unused building. His remarks from the center for strategic and International Studies in washington d. C. Rfid the minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Thanks for coming today. My name name is robert laman and director of the program in crisis conflict and cooperation here at csis. Welcome. It is my pleasure today to be hosting john sopko who is the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction kn
In the last 12 months, we have come back to the market. Can you tell us a little bit more about the structural economic reforms. Particularly repairing the banking system, which i feel is the exemption of growth. Yes, two years ago when the administration was elected, it actually lasted 250,000 jobs for the two years prior to that. Reputation is in shreds around the world. Our banks are dysfunctional. There is a complete sense of hopelessness and despair and disillusionment. Now, gordon was elected with a very keen mind. We have a strategy and a plan that works. The banks are being recapitalize and restructured and have been back in the market as this Program Began in 2013. There are doubledigit figures and our people have had to take really serious challenges. His government made really serious decisions or if it is an example of the Government Works and understands the patience of people, putting up with these changes in the greater picture of things. Now, we expect to do better. But
The opportunity to talk a little bit about what we have been doing on the Energy Committee for the past year in an effort to really focus on where we have been with Energy Policy and really helping to move forward in a way that is not the same old same old, but really real imagining and refocusing where we should be has been an important opportunity for us to really put some considered thought into the proposal. What you have in front of you is better than airplane reading. There are some suggestions in this energy 2020 document that people will look at and they will argue and they will say that is one persons view. That is true, that is true. But while we are trying to do is not give you a legislative package starting with initiatives that we are going to kind of clicked off as we move forward. This is really designed to be a discussion blueprint. We want to try to change the conversation. One of the reasons we have to think about changing the conversation is because the Energy Paradi