The wrong flight. Im brian balogh and ive been a cohost for backstory for over ten years now. Im going to introduce the panel and then we are each going to say a few words about our quite different roles. Nathan and i have the same role, he is trying to steal the 20th century from me, doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles in backstory. I wanted to talk about that a little bit and then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost, nathan connelly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the Herbert Herbert b
I appreciate that. Thank you for all being here for this important discussion today. I wish this subject did not need to be discussed at all. Discrimination against anyone on the basis of their faith or ethnicity is always wrong. That we have to repeat that briefing today is troubling. It is even more troubling that too many young people perpetrate that kind of discrimination. This a ministration is committed to stopping it. We stand firmly against the alarming rise of antisemitism, and we acknowledge this reality. Jerusalem is israels world capital. [ applause ] when President Trump moved the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem, it was a historic tap step toward peace in the region. And peace in the middle east begins by recognizing israels right to exist. Israel is a light to the region. But we all know it is surrounded by jihadists who embrace evil and who deny israels existence, and violently work to wipe it off the map. I think of my visits to the holy land. A indelible experiences that ha
You can see cloud cover moving into the napa valley. Right now, looks cloudy. Here is a little fog along the coast and mist. Temperatures to mid 50s to 60 at 7 00. We hit 72 to 80, inland temperatures at noon. 80 to 90. 74 to 80, still warm at 7 00. I felt it yesterday, mike. You missed out. Sorry, buddy. Were looking at the bay bridge camera. Traffic coming into San Francisco is looking very standard this morning. We dont have any significant delays. No metering lights yet. That should happen in about 20 minutes. Everything looking good from the east bay. Drive times average, too. Only one in the yellow, westbound 580 tracy to dublin, 38 minutes. Southbound 680 dublin to mission boulevard, 14 minutes. 15 minutes highway 101 to cupertino. People still talking about the double dose of shaking that mike didnt feel but alexis did that struck the east bay. The epicenter was close to blackhawk. An abc 7 News Reporter anser hassan is live this morning where people definitely felt the shaking
As you get out of the tunnel. Better news in the east bay, concord crash southbound 242 near willow pass, that has cleared from the two left lanes as we zoom out a bit, residual delays definiely remain both on southbound 242 and westbound highway 4. People are still talking about the double dose of shaking that struck the east bay yesterday. There were two small quakes but felt hundreds of miles away. Sky map 7 showing the epicenter of each of these quakes close to blackhawk. The first a 3. 2 magnitude followed by a 3. 5 magnitude. Abc 7s anser hassan live in blackhawk where people definitely felt them. Reporter good morning guys. Thankfully no reports of injuries. In fact, the San Ramon Valley fire say they didnt get one 911 call. People did feel it especially here in blackhawk which is close to the epicenter. Sky map 7 Technology Shows wher 1 00 p. M. It was a 4. 3. The second was a 3. 5 later downgraded to a 3. 2. According to the usgs the greenville fault is the least understood of
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to joint hearing of the executive commission on china in the Human Rights Commission hosted by the word Affairs Committee i want to think my cochair, micah review on the China Commission and the congressman chris smith on the Human Rights Commission. I would also like to think Ranking Member Michael Mccaul and all the members of the foreign Affairs Committee for hosting and participating in the support hearing. The title of todays hearing was examining the evolution of repression in china. The hearing will review the events in china in 1989 in the aspirations of the generation and the ongoing censorship and lack of accountability with those victims of the nazca. For first panel we are proud to welcome the speaker of the house representatives nancy pelosi. In 1989 just two weeks after the square massacre in her second term of Congress Introduced legislation to protect Chinese Students and nationals who feared b