Everybody, thanks for joining us, i am robert weissman, president of Public Citizens. We are here for a conversation about Rena Steinzors nuke wonderful book why not jail industrial companies, corporate malfeasance, and government inactio inaction, Rena Steinzor will speak for about half an hour and then Russel Mokhiber and i will talk about Rena Steinzors book and her remarks and we will open it up for discussion. The first step before we dive in, the starting point of the conversation is to recognize our country has an epidemic of corporate crime, abuse, and violence which we all suffer. Is evident in the financial crash that cost our country 22 million, above bp oil spill, worst environmental disaster in the nations history arguably, numerous food safety crises and disasters to kill dozens routinely, new england, pounding pharmacy scandal, Workplace Safety and health issues, work places across the country on a daily basis and much more and you have to step back and say we as a count
One year after the shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson. A closer look of policing and trust. Ing we will be joined by alfred durham, richmond, virginia upon police chief. Captain harvey powers, Police Training executive. Well be joined by dwight jones, the mayor of richmond. Tomorrow morning on the washington journal. This month marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. Join us in about an hour for housing and urban Development Secretary julian castro. That will be live at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 2. Later today with new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. Remarks. Lots of 1 p. M. Eastern on cspan. A daylong symposium evaluating borlands evaluating new orleans. That will be live monday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Congress continues of their summer break with work on the Iran Nuclear Deal continues. Corker focusing on why he is opposed to the nuclear deal with iran. He concludes by saying the thetration has agreement should be one that allows us to maintain leverage and ensu
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Between uncomfortable and oppressive right now and it will stay that way. The humidity will stay high for much of the week, even if the heat starts to tail off a little bit tomorrow and especially on wednesday. We do have that air quality alert in effect until 11 00 p. M. And this type of really stagnant, hot, humid air mass a lot of ground level censor and par tick ozone and particulate in the air. Radar satellite shows a couple of thunderstorms did develop but they weaken have one developed over the bronx over the gw bridge for a while and then that moved off to the east and a couple of little showers over in Monmouth County new jersey trying to provide a little bit of relief. The first heatwave in central park in over two years since july of 2013. This was our third consecutive day and we are going to extend the heatwave into tomorrow. Wont be quite as hot but you want to stay in air conditioned places if you can. If you cant, stay hydrated and avoid heavy exertion outside. Eventual
Well, good morning, everybody. Humid, sticky, steamy, stuffy and thunderstorms around in these overnight hours. Here is the current temperature, 80 degrees. We will drop a bit as we get going today another degree or two. 71 kingston and poughkeepsie. 78 bridgeport, connecticut. 80 in the park. 78 around orange. Air quality alert. Bad air once again. That is really across northern Fairfield County but long island, coastal connecticut, you are not in that but the air quality wont be that good. A couple of thunderstorms around bridgewater. There is lightning in that one and around Suffolk County a storm, too to watch out for. That will run up to 80 and up the hudson river valley. Another steamy day. Highs in the low 90s. It will feel like 95 to 100. Heather is feeling better. She is back in action. I am here. We will talk about mass transit. Mass transit is there for you as well. Its doing okay as far as metro north goes. You have the Waterbury Branch. Long Island Railroad doing fine. 1,