Gentlemen, please welcome the provost. [applause] good evening, its my great pleasure to welcome you to Memorial Church for the last lecture on a Meaningful Life. We are deeply honored to have, as our speaker, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [applause] [cheering] this event, as you know, has a rich history at stanford. Lecture afterin a a law professor decided to give it about the meaning of life. On the last day of his law class, one spring, the lecture was such a spirit a such a success that it turned into an theal tradition until professor retired. It was revived in 2008, supported by a generous gift by the foundation for global community, which established that henry and emilio rathbun fun for exploring what leads to a Meaningful Life. Visiting fellow is selected to come to stanford to deliver this lecture and to spend time with our faculty, students, and staff. Timebusy world, and in a of great change in our country, this lecture p
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome provost strom. [applause] good evening. It is my very great pleasure to welcome you to Memorial Church for this years lecture on a Meaningful Life. Honored we are deeply to have as our speaker associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [cheers and applause] this event, as you may know, has a rich history at stanford. Lecture that in a inry rathbun, a professor the 1930s through the 1950s, decided to give on the last day of his class one spring. The lecture was such a success that it turned into an annual tradition at stanford for many years until professor rathbun retired. It was revised in 2008, supported by a generous gift to the office of religious life by the foundation for Global Community which established the henry and Amelia Rathbun fund for exploring what leads to a Meaningful Life. Each year, a rathbun visiting fellow selected to come to stanford to deliver the lecture and spend time with our faculty,
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There, right . Some areas getting heavy rainfall. This line of showers is moving through the area including center city. Thats a live view looking at center city this morning from the loews hotel camera. Look at the storms. Right now raging through delaware. They just cleared middleton. Rainfall is extending into salem and cumberland counties and thunderstorms into camden and Burlington County just south of esham. Its not going to be an allday rainfall. Well see showers and thunderstorms to start with. 6 00 still tracking some storms in the area 73 degrees and then well see a chance of scattered showers and possibly thunderstorms at 9 00 and at noon. Thats going to hold our temperatures back today. Well be in the 80s this afternoon. Well go through the futurecast hour by hour to show you when the storms are most likely to pop up in your neighborhood. Thats when im back in ten minutes. Lets see how this is affecting the roads. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. We dont have
Last rain in new york falls at 7 31. Islip 9 p. M. So a good day tomorrow. Weekend forecast dana in just a bit. Back to you. Thank you. Lets get to the new Jersey Transit story. Officials saying they will not meet an end of the year deadline to install a new Safety System on the railroad trains. Them lawmakers now to extend the federal deadline by 3 years and say if that doesnt happen theres a threat of a shutdown. Cbs 2s alice gainer is at penn station to explain. Alice. Reporter nj transit will only say it is unclear if they will be able to operate trains come the new year. So is it serious or are they just trying to Pressure Congress . This morning, nj transit commuters woke up to a startling threat. Their trains might shut down at the end of the year because the new Safety System wont be implemented in time. Absolutely a nightmare. Reporter but is it real . The federal government says without ptc, or positive train control, the trains cant legally roll and only congress can change