Officials to determine if there is not a better way to get help more quickly d he can say thats all the system is supposed to work. C correct. The city says staffing is a problem , they have scrambled to fill openingssc for ems dispatchers, and they plan to have fire dispatchers handled more calls t t. Within a year new software streamlines the entire process our goal is to make it a onestop emergency. You call and we will create the incident andndcy the computer will routed to the correct dispatcher. Hitskip or medical emergency, the call could end up delayed even after someone answers cleveland 911. The city needed with fire dispatchers tomorrow, it may take several weeks to get that new ems dispatchers trade and put on their ownon. The new Computer System union already raising concerns about policee call takers handlingli medical calls. This is not something to happen overnight. Model lanai, but made worse because of months ago that again handling allad o hard line and soulful 911 c
Good chunk of the day today. It turns less humid as we head into the second half of the afternoon. Visibility right now is reduced in spots but its not as thick as it was yesterday in terms of the fog. Its patchy over the south coast and cape cod. Visibility 3 4 of a mile on nantucket. A couple showers overnight and clouds in place this morning too. And you will encounters few rain drops traveling awrong route along route 93. Right along route 89 as 70sthis morning, warm and muggy with a stray shower and sun and clouds. 86 by midday and topping out around 90 this afternoon to maybe an isolated shower for the ride home on cape cod. We will talk about the weekend coming up. Lets get you on the road. A quiet start. Reporter it is this is what we like to see on fridays. No traffic on the dameic or leverett connector. No problems getting to this connector. No problems getting to this point. A 10 minute ride to downtown boston. Breaking overnight two people shot outside a worcester bar. Poli
Our team of reporters are covering all the big stories including sentencing day for the teenager who murdered his math teacher. First to shiri spear. Warm weather gone for now. Shiri you know how it works in new england, wait a day or two days and warm weather will be back into play. 27 in worcester. 35 in boston. 34 34, beverly. Lower 30s in plymouth but just above freezing bedford, lawrence an portsmouth, New Hampshire. Cool out there but not too many towns and cities that dropped down to that freezing point. By 8 a. M. A couple more. Boston at 33 degrees. The burbs hovering close to 22. By noontime middle 30s. Back on track. Mostly sunny skies form this afternoon and this morning, it is not going to be completely overcast, but there will be scattered clouds. And by that drive home from work, temperatures close to freezing. Highs 30 to 34 degrees. A cold and frequent gusts up i will take you into that warming weekend and it lasts for a while once we get there coming up. Get to you Ju
Gridlock . Guest it is like fdrs first election worked a great number of people that will republican shifted and became democrats, and that became the coalition behind the Democratic Party for one generation, two generations. We have had the regional realignment in the south. It used to be democrats from the 1965 Voting Rights act and then it became republican. Not see trump as a person creating a realignment. I do not see evidence yet. Ilike evidence, data, and dont see evidence yet that there was a massive number of democrats and independents. Independents are the largest portion the surveys. Independents that are shifting and becomingn republicans, so ill have to watch that. I am skeptical as a researcher until i see the data. It is a good hypothesis, but lets wait and see. I do not think it is a realigned election. Host for the past four decades, a professor and author or editor of nine books, including thank you very much for being with us. When i tune in on the weekends usually i
We will finish up our primetime programming at 11 00. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Welcome to montgomery, alabama on booktv located on the alabama river, population of 200,000 making it the second largest city in the state. We explore the history of the city and state by local authors including a look at alabamas most powerful governors. Go around the entire south, louisiana had the laws, georgia had the challenges, South Carolina had pitchfork intel and strom thurmond. I would say we can say and put ourselves up against theirs. Later we will go inside the home of F Scott Fitzgerald to learn about the importance of montgomery. We show you a house that was the turning point for scott and zelda. You will find out F Scott Fitzgerald is more than just a writer. He is not a genius who can come up with everything on his own. He needed a partner, someone to give him a life full of ideas that he could write the Great American novel. That was elza. We speak with fred gray about t