Dragons one step closer to the championship game. Good morning, im Tamala Edwards along with Sharrie Williams welcome. Reporter i wasnt here last week. Is this your first time on the show . It is good to have you, its an easy show only 5 million things happen over the next few hours. Thank you. Reporter it will be good. We have cloud down to the south, theres a chance some of the clouds creep into the southern twothirds of delaware, maybe cape may county, new jersey,rn generally speaking this looks like a nice day out there. 65 in philadelphia. 58 in allentown, 59 in trenton. 62 in wilmington, 68 in sea isle city. Myself a little bit more humid yesterday than saturday an friday. Documents are behaving themselves, but its comfortable as you head outside. Temperatures gradually rising through the 60s, thats the way the morning looks. 69 degrees by 9 00 a. M. , 77 by noon, pleasant of sunshine across the region, 83 by 3 00 p. M. , the high is 84 probably around 3 30 and 81 by 6 00 p. M. ,
Election, you are making political statements that are consistent with the democratic party. Yesterday yellen strongly criticized the proposal that would allow the fed additional audits. Sales of homes did slightly last month. The 481,000, hovering near at sixmonth high. The northeast of the biggest drop since 2012, the lovely weather probably had a big impact. The midwest of the biggest enough 19 . The west dipping slightly in itself up 2 . Uber plans to hire hundreds of people in china this year. This comes after the two largest chinese rifles merged. Meanwhile, starwood the writers will get points to the hotels that include the saint regis the w, western. The First Partnership or ub er. Greece won a four month bailout package. Creditors one actions will speak louder than words. The greek finance minister has just spoken with Erik Schatzker in an exclusive interview. I hear they are talking about whether greece will be able to make repayment. Despite problems and the postpolitical of
European leaders the greek government want some of the restrictions lifted. Heres the Prime Minister. Im certain that we will make it and we will escape this selfperpetuating debt trap where we have been for the past five years through the street talk to through the destructive policies of the bell appeared he wants to raise the minimum wage. You cant do that unless the terms of the bailout are rewritten. The Worlds Largest oil exporter trying to raise 10 million to pay for acquisitions and other investments. In talks with banks, expanding its refining of petrochemicals. It sounds like the good old days again for sony. Forecasting its highest earnings in two decades. The ceo is using video games movies and music to turn around the company. It was the year of change in 2014. It will be the year of profit increase and investments for growth in 2015. We are determined to deliver what we have planned in order to revise sony. Shares up 28 so far this year. He beagle is top dog here in new y
But we are delighted to have jonna. Jonna began her career overseas in germany where she was working and was recruited by cia. In 1966. At that time they brought air into she became a technical operations officer. Tech ops, technical operations officers, often are crosstrained in a variety of things. In jonnas case she was trained in disguise, identity transformation, and clandestine imaging. I will let her explain that if any of you are interested in that. But her really top specialties were photography and disguise. She was assigned in the mid1980s, 1986 to what in the agency call denied area operations. They were called that because of the absolutely pervasive surveillance we had to deal with in russia, our principal adversary, and east europe. It was so persistently so pervasive we had to develop special techniques. We became very good at communicating with our agents or secret sources even under surveillance. And tony and jonna helped facilitate that. Jonna herself was made chief
Her photography work, which she now does every variety of places. It is on exhibit and at their home in maryland. She and tony have lectured in a variety of places, World Affair Councils colleges, and so forth. She is a regular appearer here on either a panel or as a single lecture. I will mention one book. I think this was your first book. Spy dust. It is about their years in moscow. Denied area operations. This is where you first hear the term moscow rules. It is used, this book, in, often with new intelligence personnel coming into the agency. Its that good, and it covers that many operations. So i have said enough. Jonna, it is delightful to have you here. Please help me welcome jonna mendez. [applause] good morning. There is no better way to start the day than to be introduced by peter. It is inspiring. In another life, in another time , i lived in d. C. And i was the smithsonian resident associate. I did so many programs with the smithsonian once we moved out of washington, d. C.