Advocates say it could damage a childs development. Plus a local newspaper reporter uncovers what he believes to be the last ship to bring slaves to the u. S. We explore the site and talk to two cousins who say their ancestor was on board that ship. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. My duty is to defend americans and their right to the american dream, because americans are dreamers too. The president calls for unity in a marathon state of the union. Many democrats looked like they had bitten a couple of lemons, even when he was saying things that most people agreed with. A government that struggles to keep itself open. Russia kneedeep in our democracy. Rolling back civil rights by the day. A classified memo on the russia investigation is now in the hands of President Trump. After the state of the Union Address, the president was heard having this exchange. 100 . The worker who sent out that false missile alert in hawaii has been fired
Serial killer mystery. Brian bill james, in your new book the man from the train, your first sentence is i have long been fascinated by the notion that knowledge can be created about the past. Tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every 4yearold child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Much of what academics do is sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and more detailed and more accurate picture of the past so that we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball in the 1960s that the Baseball Players in the 1960s did not know. Brian when did you know you wanted to write this particular book . Bill i stumbled into it without making a decision to do it. I was supposed to be working on a book with my wife, whi
Im sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people noah 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska with northwest warnings issuesed for activities that were expected the warning for the tsunami waves have been recalled and no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things related to that. I want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here and the staff people that are here and blade we are back in operation. So we look forward from hearing all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. Last year, secretary perry and the staff viewed the liability of the fuel mix and i was relieved when i saw the staff report in august which i thought was balanced. It carefully distinguished between reliability and resilience and introducing Renewable Resources rgs synthetic i inertia and frequency response and resilience metrics needed to be developed. Unfortunately, secretary perifiled the report as a
Director keith hall testified before the House Budget Committee tuesday about his agencys history, organizational structure, and responsibilities. He also answered questions from republicans about their attempts to repeal the Affordable Care act last year. It is 10 00. Good morning, everyone. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to the committee on the butts hearing on oversight of the Congressional Budget Office. This hearing will focus on cboest organizational and operational structure. It is the first of five hearings that the Committee Plans to hold regarding oversight of the congressional budget. The goal of todays hearing is to learn more about cbo, which was created as part of the congressional budget and impoundment act of 1974. For decades, this agencys primary duty and function has to assist congress in the federal budget making process by providing cost estimates, economic analysis, working pain ersz and other in sight you will publications. Members of the house and senat
News. She is a graduate of law school in 2008 and passed the bar exam in new jersey and pennsylvania. She is able your and journalist. She is a lawyer and journalist. For thatank you introduction. This is such an incredibly important topic and i am sorry it does not get more media attention. I am more than excited to be here today to talk to all of you about this important issue. Panelists tothe introduce themselves, talk about what kind of work they are doing. Andrea, i would like to start with you. Got us about what what brought you when and what you do. Thank you so much for having me here today. It is truly an honor to be here with you guys. Thank you for understanding how important it is to have survivors speak on this issue. Than a few years ago, and so this is an exciting day for me to be here and just to share with you guys what we are doing in atlanta. I am a survivor, as you guys know. 20 years ago and have been out for 10. I am the Program Coordinator of the same program. Bi