Tonight, please use the microphones that we will place, one there and one to the side. That is so your question doesnt get lost on cspan. I want to welcome all of you and let you know how much we appreciate you being here tonight. Especially knowing that the Democratic Party has done a little counter programming. [laughter] we have another 15 months plus to get our fill of 2020 president ial campaigning. Here we will take a few moments to remember a man who won it in 1988. A president , who seemed the longer he lived, the more loved and appreciated became. I was struck like many others i think by the national outpouring of respect in the days leading up to and through the funeral of George Herbert walker bush. At the funeral of his wife barbara, seven months earlier, al gore said he served our nation with extraordinary integrity and grace. [applause] the country seemed anxious to separate those qualities last november and december. A world war ii hero before he began his long political
Megan kimball is my name. The way i should say this first is gilbert garcia. Im an opinion writer and columnist with the san antonio expressnews, but thats not important. Important here is our author, megan kimball. Shes an austin based investigative journalist, author of the 2015 book unprocessed. Shes a former executive editor of the Texas Observer. She writes about housing and urban development for texas monthly, the New York Times guardian and, bloomberg, citylab. Her latest book, which came out a few days ago, is called city limits inequality and the future americas highways. And it examines the toll that ever expanding urban highways have taken on our communities. And it does so through the prism three texas cities, austin, houston and dallas so please help me welcome our author megan kimple. Thank you, gilbert. Thank you all for being here. Its really a delight now, megan, you as you point out the book, you were born in austin, you grew up in Southern California, and california.
Megan kimball is my name. The way i should say this first is gilbert garcia. Im an opinion writer and columnist with the san antonio expressnews, but thats not important. Important here is our author, megan kimball. Shes an austin based investigative journalist, author of the 2015 book unprocessed. Shes a former executive editor of the Texas Observer. She writes about housing and urban development for texas monthly, the New York Times guardian and, bloomberg, citylab. Her latest book, which came out a few days ago, is called city limits inequality and the future americas highways. And it examines the toll that ever expanding urban highways have taken on our communities. And it does so through the prism three texas cities, austin, houston and dallas so please help me welcome our author megan kimple. Thank you, gilbert. Thank you all for being here. Its really a delight now, megan, you as you point out the book, you were born in austin, you grew up in Southern California, and california.
Megan kimball is my name. The way i should say this first is gilbert garcia. Im an opinion writer and columnist with the san antonio expressnews, but thats not important. Important here is our author, megan kimball. Shes an austin based investigative journalist, author of the 2015 book unprocessed. Shes a former executive editor of the Texas Observer. She writes about housing and urban development for texas monthly, the New York Times guardian and, bloomberg, citylab. Her latest book, which came out a few days ago, is called city limits inequality and the future americas highways. And it examines the toll that ever expanding urban highways have taken on our communities. And it does so through the prism three texas cities, austin, houston and dallas so please help me welcome our author megan kimple. Thank you, gilbert. Thank you all for being here. Its really a delight now, megan, you as you point out the book, you were born in austin, you grew up in Southern California, and california.
Americas klose ast ally in the middle east gets ready for war a video of a hostage appearing to be safe linked in is letting go o employees. How drake share as record with the king of pop and well introduce you to the colorado high schooler whose did their wheelchairbound friend a solid early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena i im frances rivera. For the second time as commander in chief, President Biden will travel to another country actively at war. The president is expected to visit israel on wednesday, meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu and other israeli lead ares. Brie jackson joins us from washington, d. C. Brie, good morning what is President Biden hoping to accomplish on this highstakes trip the visit was first announced by secretary of state Antony Blinken who also revealed diplomatic progress overnight. A Senior State Department official tells nbc news, blinken was involved in nine hours of negotiations with israel the two countries were able to work out a plan