And i were expecting my first baby and we were just having a real difficult time coming up with names, my husband suggested Eleanor Francis. There was this boom picture of her black and white, nasa in 1960s where shoes accepting an award and i was stunned by this picture because i had no idea that women worked at nasa at that time much less a scientists. I really wanted to learn more. There was a large group of women who worked at this laboratory starting in 1940s and they were known as computers so at the time a digital device we have today. Host how did this group of women come together at a time when engineering that was done at jpl was a rarity . An allwomen group because a woman named macy roberts. Macy roberts started very near inception and in 1942 she was made supervisor of the computers and while she had men that applied for the job, she decided that she wanted to make it all women. Her thinking is that she we wanted to make it a Cohesive Group, but she also was worried that i
Live, who was going to be americas First Teacher in space. Well begin there this morning with history and your thoughts and memories of the explosion of the Space Shuttle challenger. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488,000. Ountain pacific, 2027488001. Send us a tweet with your. Mories at c spanwj well get those thoughts here in just a minute. I want to begin with the miami heralds original reporting that day, that tuesday on january 28, 1986. And they write this that for a moment america stood still. And a nations anguish began to turn. Congressmen talked of reevaluating the Space Program. Newspapers published extra editions. Wall street expressed doubts. It goes on to say this that for more than a halfhour after the explosion, the trail of white smoke remained in the clear florida skies as it plummeted to the sea 18 miles southeast of the launch pad. The blame flaming debris was clearly visible from across florida from tampa to miami. Unlike the shuttle co
Finding. It started under george w. Bush and was completed under president obama. There was a National Climate assessment that is required i law every four years. Republicans voted for that in 990. It calls out the dangers of Carbon Pollution and says it will increase ozone and asthma and hospital admissions. Climate change is projected to Harm Human Health by increasing groundlevel ozone. They specifically cite more Carbon Pollution as increasing Global Temperatures and increasing premature deaths and ozone and particle pollution. Is there any one of the four of you that has a problem with that analysis . Ok. Hey agree with that. I want to talk to my friend from alabama. I want to ask you this question. I have respect for your office and your opinion. Isnt it true that alabama lost all recent major Clean Air Act cases . They lost their legal challenge in the Supreme Court. In the White Stallion case they lost to the epa endangerment finding. Isnt that a fact . I dont doubt what youre
At the top of the hour, a live look at i95 in the south corner of the city. Sharon is watching the rest of s. Marty is over at first warning weather. We keep watching this frontal boundary march our way. We will put this moisture layer in motion. Very light shower activity is going to start over the mountains and approach us. Its not going to be a big deal. You can see a wet snow flake at the end of it. Look how mild it still is. 48 degrees, two shy of 50 on tv hill. Were pretty much at our high. Its 10 warmer than this time yesterday. By lunch 40, by bedtime 32 and continuing to fall. Here is Sharon Gibala at wjz traffic control. We have two issues. First of all, if youre traveli7 70 mount rooer ree mount erie road theres a deer in the road. Speeds still good on the beltway and on 95. Thats a live look outside at 95 just north of the beltway. Theres a look at 295 southbound at 175 looking at some volume there. That is right near where we have that accident that we were telling you abo
And by bloomberg. A provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose jeff koons is having a moment. The new yorker magazine calls him the most original, controversial, and expensive american artist of the past three and a half decades. His playful and provocative work pushes the bounds. His sculpture balloon dog orange sold for 58. 4 million. It is the most expensive piece of art sold pie a living artist at auction. And the Whitney Museum presenting koons first retrospective. The here is a look. You know, i always like the way they make me feel. I feel like i come into contact with my feelings and ive always loved them. Rose when you see all that you have done, and you know its there in that museum, what do you think . You know, its been nice for me to look at some of the images because, you know, i dont live with all of those pieces. So a lot of them are kind of jus