Roosevelts tomorrow is now. Coverage of the 2013 president reaching festival starts now. Here is maureen beasley. Good morning. I am the Education Specialist at the roosevelt president ial library and museum and on behalf of the fdr president ial Library Museum welcome you in our audience, those of you at home watching on cspan to the tenth annual roosevelt reading festival. Franklin roosevelts plan for the library to become a premier Research Institution for the study of the roosevelt era, the librarys Research Room is one of the busiest of all the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflect a wide variety of Research Done here. Let me go over the format for the festivals concurrent sessions. At the top of each hour session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a 10 minute question and answer period of. Than the authors go to the new deal store where you can purchase books and have them sign them. At the top of the next hour the process repeats itself aga
Ten years in this wonderful visitor and Education Center and one of the things i love about doing this event every year is when you have great researchers like a man you are going to hear in a few minutes like a Family Reunion that occurs every summer. You get to see your family again when a come back to hyde park. And a cellphone, anything that beep and moans and whistles turn it off so our presentation today isnt interrupted. Second, most of you have them but if you have not seen the newly renovated Roosevelt Library in their new exhibits, if you find me afterwards or one of the other members of the Library Staff to get one of these buttons you see the exhibits for free and we are open until 6 00 so i encourage you to do that. They are really outstanding and i want to thank our friends at cspan who are broadcasting the reading festival live today, they are great supporters of the work that we do and our public programs. Chistopher osullivan is the author of fdr and the end of empire
This evening, its not winter anymore. But tell that to the people slipping and sliding. Its a mess in a lot of places and weirdly, it is springtime. Jennifer gray is tracking this. Doesnt feel like the first day of spring. Whats the latest on this storm . It certainly doesnt. We see rain and snow all across the northeast and it is chilly. We look at snow from new york city all the way up to boston. It is starting to leave the area so thats the good news. Should be wrapping up in the next couple of hours, but it did dump several inches of snow across portions of new england and then we have the secondary front thats going to come through saturday throughout the day and thats going to have a really cold burst of air behind it, anderson. And the next couple days what should we expect . Well were going to see more cold air, unfortunately. Its not going to feel like spring either. That cold air is going to move in tomorrow into sunday. However, temperatures will bounce back a little bit for
Counterterrorism senator director michael l eeiqhter and what the president will say as he lays a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier, mikaela, he will be making remarks. We will be listening to see what he has to say. We learn e certainly will. Meanwhile, what the are the iraqis saying . Cnn International Correspondent is in baghdad. She picks up that part of the story for us. Arwa. Reporter good morning, mikaela. Those comments are causing quite a few people to say the Iraq Security forces do have the will to fight and that it was the u. S. After all that did train them. Just take a listen to what the countrys Prime Minister said to the bbc. Im surprised why he said that. I mean he was very supportive of iraq. Im sure as he was headed back he was fed with the wrong information. Nevertheless ramadi was a disaster. It makes my heart plead because we lost ramadi but we assure you we can bring it back soon. Reporter and many here do feel that this is just the u. S. Attempt to try t
War in the white house after taking punishing criticism for saying the strategy to fight isis is a work in progress. According to multiple reports, hes looking at plans to post hundreds of u. S. Troops to a brandnew training hub right in between a pair of isis held cities, but the white house says its not a done deal yet and says a final decision wont come until after the president sits down with ash carter later today. Kristen welker is at the white house for us. Good morning. Jim, lets start with you. What is the plan they are discussing . Well first of all, some officials that weve talked to senior military and diplomatic officials are saying when the president says the strategy is a work in progress they say that he gets that mixed up with the plans are a work in progress that the strategy is still pretty much the same to train, equip and advise the Iraqi Military in terms of how to take on isis. Now, within that strategy there are still some uncertainties about exactly how to do t