Also, counterterrorism analyst washington Thomas Anderson talks about the evolving threats facing the u. S. Since the september 11 terrorist attacks. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal for september 11. Todays show will focus on the 19th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. You can see planned events at the pentagon which you are watching at ground zero in new york. On cspan, cspan2 and cspan3. You can check the website for specific channel and time information. Follow along on the radio app. We will take your calls on this remembrance day. Here is how you can call us. The eastern00 for and central time zones. 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific times. If you want to text us, do so at 202 7488003. Post on our cspan feed. On this day, several papers across the United States devoted. Heir editorial page here is the tribute out of johnstown, pennsylvania. On the 19th anniversary, our nation is distracted by politics. We are obligated to pause on this september
Cspan radio app. Here to join us to talk about the state of National Security sanderson. Homas , and im happy to beyond provide some insight and answer some questions. Host can you tell the audience about your background in this field . Guest i started out back in 1998 back in graduate school. This was the summer we were attacked in east africa by al qaeda. Defensework with a contractor called saic. I was assigned to programs looking at the threat of weapons of mass destruction, following the east africa bombings. We were concerned that al qaeda was seeking to up their game by using weapons of mass destruction. My team and i looked at the various groups that have tried to obtain weapons of mass destruction, from chlorine gas to using other materials. We looked at that, i did that for four years and i went off to china to do a fellowship. That happened to be right after 9 11, bow two weeks after 9 11. When i came back i joined the center for strategic and international studies. The dire
Temperatures, a little bit cooler along the coast, right around the bay with onshore flow kicking back in with us slowly. This is a live look at the Mount Hamilton camera. We are in the 50s and 60s as we start off our day and had through the afternoon, low 70s San Francisco. Upper 80s in san jose. Inland locations in the low 90s. I will let you know what to expect for the weekend ahead including fathers day ahead. A Memorial Service will be held for David Patrick underwood, the federal Security Officer was killed outside a courthouse during the protest in oakland three weeks ago. Family and friends and the acting chief of Homeland Security will gather the Valley High School to honor him. An active u. S. Air force sergeant has been charged with his murder. Oakland police have opened an investigation after an effort she was found hanging in the tree comes just a day after five nooses were found in the same area. The residents found the effigies seen as a symbol of hate and violence and r
Id like to welcome yall here to politics and prose. My name is allen watke and im then events staff here where we host klose to a thousand author events a year at three locations. For everything confirm you can go to the website at politics prose. Com or pick up a monthly printed calendar. Before we get started id like to ask everyone to please silence your cellphones so not to disrupt the event. And when we get to the q a, if you could line up at themake crow phone at the pillar lat would be great because were audio recording and cspan for booktv is filming as well. So wed really like to have your questions in there following the q a well have a signing at the table and if you could just leave your chairs where we are because we have a couple mored reading today. So today were very excited to welcome robert c plumb, celebrate his back the bert angel, five women who changed civil war america. Collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to National Prominence during the ci
Chance to see the Northern Lights. How others are making the most out of the opportunity in the east bay right now. Good morning to you. Its sunday, may 12th. Im zach fuentes. Before we get to those stories, we want to wish all the moms a happy mothers day. That includes lisa argent who has your sunday forecast. Yeah. Thank you. Happy mothers day to you. Thanks. Yeah, i hope everyone has a nice one. Its going to be a nice but cooler day. So if you were counting on the heat, we really peaked yesterday out of the next seven days because as High Pressure is drifting away and were seeing the low clouds and fog travel across the bay inland over into oakland and fremont this morning. But we will be looking at a dry seven days. Theres a look at our stable atmosphere from the roof camera, where starting out with temperatures in the low 50s, San Francisco 54, in oakland it is 60. In san jose, the clouds have made it down the peninsula into the south bay, santa rosa in the low 50s. But were not