Good question though. Anyone else . Yes. Is there a followup . [laughter] no. I lost enough of my life and had to start dyeing my hair after this book was over. [laughter] no. But it was really fun to be a part of kansas and get to know it. And, you know, i heard earlier today we talked about preserving the voices of elders, you know, and that is really, really important, and i was so happy that i got to do that, you know . Its your history. Its a part of what you grew up with and, you know . I was, it was really an honor to do. [applause] thank you. [inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Next on booktv, Heidi Boghosian talks about the increasing surveillance of american citizens by the government and the dangers posed by this development. This is about an hour and 30 minutes. Let me begin by reading the Fourth Amendment. It may not be as familiar as it should be to people, because its really at the heart of th
From her Previous Post that new yorks department of Public Health and Mental Hygiene and the u. S. Department of health and human services. And dr. Hamburg, we thank you for sharing your expertise with the committee and being here today. Your statement which is an extensive statement, which i got through yesterday, last night, it will be a part of the record in its entirety. Id like to ask maybe, giddy up to 10 minutes to go through that, if youd like rather than just five, but maybe, however close you can keep it but below 10 minutes. Im going to request the record remain open for 10 days for senator smiths statement or questions for the record. A couple things, at 10 30 i have to leave. You probably do, too. Both of us have to leave. [inaudible conversations] good. And then i think, well, we have i think senator franken said he will take over at that time if we continue on beyond that, beyond that time but we are managing a bill on the floor that we have to leave four at 10 30. So ag
Expectations and standards are. To piggyback a quick question off of that. Seems and these seem like significant changes. What impact will it have on credit overlays . I hope that it will substantially reduce credit overlays and that lenders will start operating more inside the credit box that fannie and freddie have said they will purchase loans in or guaranteed loans in that space. And based on conversations that we have had with industry participants emma my hope is a positive hope. I do not know when you transfer from hope to an expectation. Some of them have assured me that if we can smooth out some of these uncertainties that exist in their space, it would translate into reduction and overlays and it would translate into more availability of credit to people who can afford to repay the loans. And that is what we are very much interested in having happened. Haveth me and the crown lot more questions we would like to ask we are past their limit. Have everyone join in thanking you w
Melissa, the secret service is calling this a major cyberattack, that may incur quote, large dollar losses at banks, especially small and mediumsized one. A recent cyberattack on atms netted cyber crooks 40 million, using just 12 debit card accounts. State and federal regulators are warning, criminals are able to withdraw funds beyond the cash balance in customer accounts, or other atm control limits. They used stolen debit, prepaid or atm card account information. The crooks get into bank atm networks through employee emails to plant Malicious Software that obtains employee logins and accesses atm control panels. With the crooks can change settings to permit greater or unlimited cash disbursements and atm machines and change other fraud and security related controls. Cyber thieves themselves organized simultaneous withdrawals of large amounts of cash from multiple at moves over a short time. According to authorities, usually four hours to two days. And regulators have put the banks on
We do have some storms in the area. Some light rain showers, nothing really severe. I dont suspect any Severe Weather overnight. There will be another round of showers that will probably greet your early tomorrow morning. We will see a break in the action by late morning about 10 00 or 11 00. We will keep that threat for strong to severe storms in the forecast to about midnight and like fallng more through the middle of the week. Will have more on the four cats and a lot more. Stay with us everybody. Live from the abc7 broadcast news, this is abc7 saturday news extra. We start this halfhour with the crisis in the middle east. Israel authorized an extension of the ceasefire of the ceasefire in gaza. Dan toffler has latest. Disappearing, followed by two loud explosions. Hamas, sent rockets into israel. The rockets coming at the end of a 12 hour humanitarian ceasefire. Hostilities got people into the streets. It was safe to venture out and get food and money. Just look at the lines extend