Good afternoon, my name is scott smith and im a Senior Adviser on the Afghanistan Team and im glad to welcome you all here for a timely discussion on ending the war in afghanistan. Id like to welcome those joining by live stream. You can engage with us and each other on twitter with todays hashtag afghanpeace. Usip was founded by congress 35 years ago as an independent, nonpartisan, National Institute charged with the mission of preventing conflicts under the premise that peace is possible. Usip has been involved in afghanistan in particular since 2002 and supporting sustainable peace in afghanistan is a core priority for us. Our team is engaged at all levels of the process including convening meetings like this here in washington, our meetings with key stakeholders, for discussions on how to bring about an end to americas longest war. We publish details on substantive topics rolled related to peace. We work in afghanistan through our office there at the grass roots level hosting peace
Institute school of politics. It is one hour. This afternoon, we are fortunate to have cindy mccain and Vicki Kennedy in conversation about Public Service and the legacy of Public Service. Mrs. Mccain has dedicated her life to improving those doing those who are less fortunate globally, doing significant global work in trafficking and other issues. She is the chairman of the board of the Mccain Institute of International Leadership at Arizona State university, where she oversees the organizations focus on character driven leadership on security and economic opportunity, freedom and human rights issues. Shes the chair of the institute of Human Trafficking advisory council. Vicki kennedy is both an accomplished attorney and a notforprofit leader. Council Senior Health and she advises clients on government issues, regulatory issues. She is the president of the board and cofounder of the Edward M Kennedy institute for the study of the senate. A nonpartisan, nonprofit dazzling of a beautifu
Good afternoon and welcome to the Heritage Foundation, my name is rob bluey, Vice President of communications at heritage and executive editor of the daily said no. As a courtesy to the speaker spo become a habit to ask you silence your cell phone although dont turn them off, because we do encourage you to share on social media about todays program and to help us spread the word we are streaming on twitter and youtube and you can find it on the heritage beyond both of those channels and platforms. To introduce the guests today, Marvin Olasky is a prolific writer and accomplished editor. We are proud to welcome him back to the Heritage Foundation where he is a former visiting fellow in somebody that is a close friend of the organization. Hes the author of more than 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism, which he will discuss with us today. Marvins political journey is quite unique as he became an atheist marxist in high school and went on to join the communist party in the
54 degrees. It will be a day where it will not budge all that much. Some temperatures are 55s. There are more 50s compared to the 40s. It is very close with not much of a change and temperatures are stuck under the cloud cover and there is some rain around the north coast but for us, we have a cooler pattern until friday and then we see higher temps by the weekend. We are in the 50s and 60s and that is it. No more 70s until the weekend. What you want to get to . We will start with Contra Costa County because if youre driving on highway four, you will see slow traffic but it is there and backed up and it is a long backup all the way to concord and then again as you approach interstate 680, this includes highway 24 which is slow on the way to the tunnel now we see that fog you were talking about in lafayette. It is cloudy at the macarthur maze and the bay bridge toll plaza we have big delays. As we look at interstate 880 in oakland, it is more crowded. These freeways are getting more ful
The shooting happened at 7 38 this morning in the quad area of the campus. The Sheriffs Department said a 16yearold male suspect also at sagas high school took a gun from his backpack then shot himself in the head. At this point we know he is listed in grave condition at the hospital. And my administration is working in close coordination with local Law Enforcement. Jennifer and i extend our thoughts to the parents, families and friends of to the students and faculty of the Santa Clarita high school. As you just mentioned the l. A. County Sheriffs Office just wrapped up their update on the investigation. They confirmed two teenagers have died of their injuries in Santa Clarita. Around 9 this morning. And then just into your newsroom in the last 10 minutes or so a 14yearold student succumbed to his injuries. One of their fellow students opened fire in the quad area of their campus along with a female student and male student who died, three other people were struck by the gunfire and in