We take the viewers out to Virginia Tech, joined by john green who played a key role in establishing the Unmanned Aircraft research and test site at the university there. John, good morning to you. Tell us where you are sitting right now. Good morning, john. Im at the consistentland experimental air station, which is located on a farm outside of blackburg, virginia, a beautiful location. Im sitting inside, so i cant see it, but beautiful rural location that weve been flying for about six or seven years. This site is one of six designated test sites around the country as they come up with registrationlations for Unmanned Systems. What is the focus of the work being conducted there at Virginia Tech, and how does it play into the regulatory effort . Our research is broad everything from control systems to the application for Unmanned Aircraft to uses like that, and as we move forward, its broader. Well look at the fundmental problems that exist from the Technology Side and policy side to
It would move more than 700,000 barrels of oil from canada to gulf coast refineries. But first, your reaction on this decision about the keystone xl pipeline. Here is how you can call in and give your thoughts. The numbers are on the screen. If you want to give your thoughts on our social media a couple of different writeups on this decision made by the white house yesterday this in the Washington Post this morning. Riding that the 90 day time frame for comments was supposed to end on may 7, but the state department extended that deadline, citing uncertainty created by a nebraska ruling that could lead to changes in the pipeline route. This story is also picked up in the pages of the wall street journal this morning. Amy harper and janet hook writing, adding this also, it gives reaction from canadian officials on this project as well. Here is a little bit of that. You see a map there, the red section of keystone that is already existing. The blue line that you see is the proposed route
Think the federal government should regulate ecigarettes and how far regulations should go. We have a special line for users, 2025853203 with republicans at democrats at independents at you can checkcatch up with us on twitter and facebook and at www. Cspan. Org. We have more on the restrictions that were implemented in los angeles over the weekend. Here is the story from the los angeles daily news. Ecigarettes or restricted to the same as tobacco when it was made illegal to puff on batterypoweredd devices starting on saturday, and when to put away their ecit garettes and public parks and beaches and Outdoor Dining areas, this comes one month after reports of potentially harmful chemicals in the ecigarette vapors, and they seek to limit these in the same places that the bok tobacco is barred. This was over the objections of the users who inhale nicotine through water vapor. That is the story from over the weekend. Last week, 11 lawmakers on capitol hill issued reports gateway to addict
Tomorrow night. We start at 7 00 30 eastern, and education will be the education will be the focus. We hope you join us tomorrow night for cspan townhall. Season two of first ladies begins monday, september 9 with a look at the life of edith roosevelt. All this month, we show you encore presentations of season one. Every weeknight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, tonight it is Lucretia Garfield. Its only in recent years that a lot of scholarship has focused on the fact that their marriage was in its early phases. I think in the early years, james found her a bit distant and cold. As the years went by, she had a tremendous influence on him. They spent a lot of time on their children. They thought that education was an emancipating factor. Mrs. Garfield adored her time at the exhibition, but she was specifically interested in the latest scientific technologies of the day. After James Garfields death, citizens raised hundreds of thousands of dollars that were turned over to Lucretia Garfield. In to