The museum of american finance. Our partner is the Alexander Hamilton awareness society, an organization you turn to for all things hamilton. We welcome the leadership. As well as friends of the museum doug hamilton, dan simon, suzy pock in the house. Mike newton, our founder and former board chair john herzog and seth cowler brought amazing hamilton documents you should check out afterwards. And, of course, the cspan audience. Now some 20 years ago our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. He was introduced to a buffalo phd candidate interested in Alexander Hamilton. This is well before the show and there were people interested in hamilton, very fuf us that were doing a deeper dive on the financial aspects of his vision. And our first look at bob was this phd thesis. 1300 pages. That is staggering. His is 1,000 more. It led to the first quip about bob he is cant hold his ink. Well, fast forward some 20 years. He got 20 more books that hes either aut
And start watching the hot dogs. The. Real thing its like. As a sort of. Like you that i got. With. This. Is exactly. Welcome back everybody laughing not a capitalist and joining me now from canada on the latest on the lead crisis are to makkah correspondent alex mind alex thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me so tell us a little more about this is this is a pretty disturbing study. It is a look the researchers dug into thousands of previously undisclosed documents meaning that these documents have been around they tested hundreds of houses from coast to coast in canada they found out that hundreds of thousands of people in this country are Drinking Water contaminated with lead its coming into their homes and the lead levels are higher or the same as flint michigan when you say flint michigan you think disaster so this is whats happening in cities from coast to coast in canada including places like montreal that you just mentioned nevermind smaller towns and a place called
Tamron remember the movie pay it forward with helen hunt and Haley Joel Osmond . It certainly about how you pay it forward, take on lifes challenges and see how it affects other people but you put their feelings before yours, pay it forward. Our next guest gives a fresh meaning to that phrase. Jon potter said he made it his mission to say yes to anyone desperate for help. Buying a car for a friend, to get work, to giving up half of his life savings to pay off someones debt and even donating, as i said before the commercial break, he donated one of his kidneys to save a life. He goes beyond simple acts of kindness, to say the least. This man is a superhero and the jon is of people magazines kindness award recipients. For their first ever kindness issue, on stands tomorrow. Please welcome jon and his wife. [applause] jon, this all started after meeting a woman in a gas station. Not just meeting, it was an encounter. I always said i wasnt a terrible person at that point in my life but i w
Organization deems safe this means thousands of schools shut down Flights Canceled and cars banned from the roads on certain days to mitigate the already growing danger so what happened in india while an annual tradition of burning off with those in india called crop stubble combined with the excessive use of fireworks during religious ceremonies in recent weeks and you have just the right amount to tip an already pollution filled area over the edge to delegate new delhi resident to you sean explains the other reasons for the crisis. Was broken borders and the government should restrict some of the factories as well as traffic which both limit pollution and we have to plant more trees and people should use more Public Transportation better the situation. And on the other side of the planet and a place where the politicians are supposed to be eco conscious in the water crisp and clear canada is now facing a flint of its own over 120 journalists editors students and teachers across canad
Here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with a bitter blast of arctic air in the central and eastern u. S. More than 200 million americans will see below average temperatures today. More than a half dozen states are waking up p to temperatures near or below freezing. Temperatures are expected to plunge again beginning next week, and a Daring Rescue unfolded in the frigid waters of the Niagara River in upstate new york. First responders pulled a man from the water just above the American Falls in buffalo yesterday. Forecasters say the air temperature in Niagara Falls was 31 degrees, but it felt like 25. The cold temperatures could also bring heavy snow to many state. Parts of new england may see more than six inches of snow today. Now to campaign 2020. Michael bloomberg is positioning himself to enter the president ial race. The 77yearold billionaire and former new york city mayor would enter a crowded democratic field led by joe biden and Senators Elizabeth