And new spacecraft known as ma maven blasted off in florida today. It is part of nasas First Mission to study the atmosphere of mars. It will cost 600 million. And George Zimmerman has been arrested again. Police responded to a disturbance call. The details of the arrest has not been released. Zimmerman was acquitted in the deadly shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin in july. Inside story is next. The hard job of getting relief to the people is frustrating filipinos and aid workers alike. As americans open their wallets for the cause, the best practices of giving is the inside story. The sheer scope of the disaster in the philippines is hard to imagine. Thon edition of inside story were going to talk about the long haul and the best way to help the victims and the government of the philippines to rebuild after haiyan. Is it cash or physical aid or a combination of the two . Well look to recent Natural Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in haiti as a guide. But
Commission as a joint meeting with the Public Utilities commission. My name is chair avalos, john avalos chair of the lafco. I am joined by other lafco members, commissioner olague and commissioner pimentel. This is a joint committee so i will pass on the mic on our chair from the Public Utilities commission. Yes, art torres member of puc and other members. Thank you very much for being here. We make a very legionary and strong quorum on this rainy day. Okay. And of course our general manager is here as well, har an kelly and the staff of the puc. Thank you. I want to thank sfgtv for their work broadcasting this meeting, and madam clerk if you could chair with us your announcements. Please make sure to silence all electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Okay. Do you want to call the roll . You call the roll on puc. Yes. President torres. Here. Commissioner. Here. Commissioner moran commissioner caen and cortni are both excused from todays m
Off by telling you what my association with the bushgore election actually turned out to be. When they discovered that we were going to have a long and drawnout scenario as to who actually won this election, the news media as they usually do clapped their hands and said, boy, weve got something going here for a long time. Now all we have to do is get somebody on that Supreme Court who is willing to tell us how the court is going to rule. Thats the florida Supreme Court. Well, obviously they couldnt get that. The next thing was well, lets find somebody who is on the Supreme Court and maybe he or she can help us out. Thats how they got to me and i appeared in about 75 to 80 interviews on tv and on the radio give them my opinions as to what i thought may happen next. And it might surprise you to know that i was on every major network, even on pbs, even on Geraldo Rivera whats his name again . Rivera. Anyhow, i was on his show, which was an experience in and of itself the one night they ha
All right. Good afternoon. Thanks for coming out to the North Carolina museum of history. We are getting ready to do our program right now. My name is michael scott. I do a lot of programming at the museum of history. We have three distinguished guests with us. We have dr. Karl campbell, author of the book senator sam ervin, last of the founding fathers. He will be guiding the ship through the waters of watergate. In the center, we have former state attorney general and no stranger to most people here, Rufus Edmisten. [applause] closest to me, i hope no stranger to people around here, or maybe not, he is a judge. Judge sam ervin iv. [applause] all right. Thank you, guys. I will let them take it away. Good afternoon. It has been 40 years and a few hours since Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency. [applause] wow. [laughter] for those of us of a certain age, we remember the trauma of watergate. And perhaps four decades later, we are ready to put the scandal in a greater historical c
Library and also bpl presents, which is the libraries arts and culture arm tonight. I am thrilled to welcome author james gaines whose latest book which comes out on february 8th is titled the 50s and underground history. Im going to tell you a little bit about what Publishers Weekly says, it says this revisionist history is packed with insights it goes on to say that gains delivers a compassionate and insightful Group Portrait of singular men and women who spoke out on lgbtq issues womens rights civil rights and the environment in the 1950s, not the complacent era that we all think it is. So tonight jamess conversation partner is writer daniel okrent. And before i introduce the two of them. I just have a few quick notes for you first while the book is not released for a few more weeks. This is kind of a sneak peek. You can preorder it and we will put a link in the chat to the website of a local brooklyn bookstore the Community Bookstore so that you can do that if you so desire with ju