College for parabens. His remarks at the National Press club run one hour. Andrea welcome to the National Press club. The place where news happens. My name is andrea. Im part of the breaking newsdesk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started, id like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. Our viewing and listening four audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public so any , applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and Higher Education. We have jerry weller, for
Audience feel free to follow along on twitter using the hashtag press club. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may here is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. I would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal, senior staff writer in Higher Education. We have gerri weller, former us representative from the 11th district and president of the Illinois State society in washington. We have a supervisor for ap radio in washington dc. We have star scholar, graduate of the Harry Truman College in chicago and northwestern student planning to study neuroscience. Catherine, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. Arm and oh rodriguez, president of the sarah good stem academy. We have lisa matthews, Vice President of media re
Constitution. And the resolution of that battle is vital to the future of our country. Thats Arizona Supreme Court justice, clint bolick at conservative forum silicon valley. Can you see the entire speech tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Chicago mayor rahm emanual on his initiatives for education and college preparedness. One of them would require Chicago Public High School Seniors to have a postgraduation plan in place before receiving a diploma. So long before todays guest became a politician, he attended Sarah Lawrence college. At college, before politics, and long before he was president Barack Obamas chief of staff. Chicago mayor rahm emanual taught preschool. Mayor emanuels love of education followed him throughout his political career, into his tenure as chicagos mayor, wherever he oversees the Third Largest School System in the United States. He is credited with adding more than 200 Additional School hours in the year. Hes taken chicago School System to being on par with
It will be a fun time working together around here each and every morning to help keep you ahead of the weather. Right now, not much to worry about, but there is snow in the forecast for later today. This morning, cold and dry with clouds moving in. This arch, temperatures will be just above the freezing mark. We could have a sprirngel or a flurry mid to Late Afternoon before it all becomes light snow as we get into the evening. Temperaturewise today, not much of a budge at all. Again, snow chances moving in a little bit later on in the day. Impact, minor at most during the afternoon hours, but light snow moving in this evening. How much . Lets go over to miss sheena. Yes. The snow could be here as early as part of the evening commute. That could be the leading edge of the snow. Maybe snow flurries or light snow showers for the evening drive. Well be watching that closely. As we go early into tomorrow morning, take a look at the snow totals. Its not a lot, but the timing is going to be
Erika gonzalez. And weve been talking about that s word, weve start with breaking news first up. Beginning this morning with some problems on metro. The Transit System sends out this tweet just before 10 00 this morning. Delays up to 20 minutes. Systemwide due to signal problems. Thats on all lines. A metro spokesman just gave us an update and tells news 4 the Rail Operation Control Center lost the ability to remotely control switches where lines converge. The problem is now fixed. The metro says you should expect residual delays for some time. Were going to let you know if the situation changes. Were also keeping a close eye on the weather as molette mentioned. We have the first snow of the season heading our way and just coming in a few hours. Temperatures today stuck in th well top out somewhere in the mid30s, 36 degrees. But we have the cloud cover moving in quickly. Snow showers most likely after about 3 00. I do believe theyll start to stick after 7 00 or 8 00. Were stuck in the