Humanoid robots of dry sunny south florida all to compete in a challenge organized by the pentagon. Coming up next and see what these machines can do. A fan. Monday the twenty third time here in washington d c time in your id that we are watching our tea. Today marks a very special birthday for the Federal Reserve believe it or not the central Banking System has now been in existence for exactly one hundred years. It was created on december twenty third nineteen thirteen primarily as a result of a severe panic in nineteen oh seven that panic is often referred to as the meat locker prices and a set of financial downfall in which the New York Stock Exchange fell almost fifty per cent. The met was at that time of economic recession many state and local businesses entered a proxy and the pair eventually spread throughout the nation thats when congress enacted the Federal Reserve act with the hope that a Central Banking Institution would address the problem of being canucks and meet the nee
A report on military Sexual Assault. Senators john mccain and as a grim talk about the obama administrations response to the benghazi this libyan attacks and later the house hearing on the humanitarian crisis in the Central African republic. On the next washington journal the head of the center for politics of the university of virginia talks about political tv ads. He wrote a recent article in political about the more than two and a half billion dollars expected to be spent on ads this year. We will talk about the effectiveness of sanctions as a Foreign Policy tool. So jennifer de pauley with Civic Enterprises take your questions about u. S. Highschool regelation rates. Washington journal is live on cspan every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern peaking join the conversation at facebook and twitter. Almost 5,000 students and did this years cspan student can video competition on the most important Issue Congress should consider in 2014. We talked to the top five winners about the documentarys.
Largest climate protest in history, over 1000 people preparing to march sunday. We speak to clayton thomasmuller of the Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign. Nacpil. O lidy not that 1 of the 1 are the same people that are denied ,orkers rights in this country so for labor, this is our fight. Estela vazquez joins us, 1199tive Vice President of seiu, and we will discuss also feel companies with dr. Serene jones, president of the unions deal logical seminary. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Voters in scotland have opted not to form an independent country. With a record turnout of 84 , about 55 of voters chose to remain in the United Kingdom, while 45 chose independence. In the wake of the vote, british Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to give scotland more independent powers as part of a process known as devolution. The people of scotland have spoken, and it is a clear result. They have kept our country
Sevens in the forecast for the upcoming days. We have a step down today. And the sunshine cooler along the lake but chile to the north. We are still expecting this weather to come through. Not a war today but it will be sunny for much of it. It is 46 at midway. For the in bartlett. 45 in joliet. Some light composite shows polite showers that we saw mainly to the south are starting to exit portions of northwest indiana. Sunrise today is just after 6 00 a. M. We will be in between systems for much of the day. 40 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Typical high is 60 degrees. Slightly cooler than normal. Only 52 degrees today. 64 tomorrow. But partly cloudy on Easter Sunday high of 71. We have worked out there to tell you about including some filming along grand ave. From green to carpenter. Shut down for much of the morning. Resurfacing work out of harlem that goes from 63 to the stevenson. One of a handful of projects taking off for the weekend. More details in just a bit. A 12 year old boy was shot
Thomasmuller of the Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign. Nacpil. O lidy not that 1 of the 1 are the same people that are denied ,orkers rights in this country so for labor, this is our fight. Estela vazquez joins us, 1199tive Vice President of seiu, and we will discuss also feel companies with dr. Serene jones, president of the unions deal logical seminary. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Voters in scotland have opted not to form an independent country. With a record turnout of 84 , about 55 of voters chose to remain in the United Kingdom, while 45 chose independence. In the wake of the vote, british Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to give scotland more independent powers as part of a process known as devolution. The people of scotland have spoken, and it is a clear result. They have kept our country of four nations together come and like millions of other people, i am delighted. As i said during t