See for the next 50 years . What would you like to see celebrating at its 100th anniversary or since your future successor will be celebrating that 100th here at the National Press club, what would you anticipate they be talking about in the organization 50 years from now . I anticipate they would be talking 50 years from now we would not even be having a conversation about explaining that the arts are not a frill, they are not off in a corner by themselves because everybody would so get it. It would become like many of our tribal partners and our families in of the native american who is do not have the word arts in their vocabulary because they are so infused with the arts in all they do. Its just part of their life and dont know it any other way. So in the next 50 years the chairman of the national e endowment for the arts will be thanking and celebrating all the new types of activities that the arts are tied to in our everyday lives. Things we cant even think about due to the Techn
On immigration detention centers. That starts at 7 p. M. Eastern today here on cspan 2. And join us tonight for booktv and prime time our, the Supreme Court. Well start at 8 eastern with author melvin and his book desent an the Supreme Court its role in the courts history in the nations constitutional dialogue. An hour later it is aaron carmen and shawna and their book notorious rbg and then a conversation with linda hirsch man about sisters in how they went to the Supreme Court and changed the world. And at 11 p. M. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer talks about his bock the court in the world, american law, and the new global realities. Three days of featured programming this Holiday Weekend on cspan. Friday evening at 7 eastern, Congressional Republican leaders honoring former Vice President dick cheney at the capitol with the unveiling of a marble bust in the emancipation hall. When a Vice President had critics going off the deep end as they often did, he asked lynn, hi
So, more of the rain, more of the breezy wind and more of the cool weather and we take a break tomorrow before the next round of rain moves in. Ill detail that and how much to expect coming up in a few minutes. Lets see how it looks for the east bay drivers now with mike. Yeah, kari, live look from our oakland camera where a couple minutes ago we saw a caravan of flashing lights and looked like oversize trailers and maybe moving portable buildings. That moved throughout without any problem. Notice all this water kicking up on to the roadway and the cars windshield behind these folks and that is an issue for you, as well. The rain might not actively be falling and things are calming down for the north bay and looking at other areas where the water is kicking up and minor flooding east 580 through the downtown area and a number of cars involved in a crash and all clearing from the area just as the wet roadways are clearing from the oakland surface streets, as well. Looking towards the so
Span and eastbound out of San Francisco, the flow is all right. On the live shot and now on our sensors and a little slowing. Thats what i expected because a disabled big rig and as youre heading out of San Francisco and in towards the east bay. Both directions seeing extra slowing this morning. Thats it for the slowing. The wet roads they will be a factor even though our radar doesnt show a problem. We will have wet roadways all around the bay and, obviously, the sunnant had a chance to dry things out. Over here the trivalley shows a light friday commute and in the south bay, 101 at the off ramp area an earlier crash and we talked about that and well get more details and so far the traffic flow past the area, its all right. Stick around for this video. Back to you guys. Lets in today in the bay Stephanie Chuang. Yesterday at this time, you were trying to hold on for your life and your umbrella. Looks a little calmer but some sheen on the roadway. Absolutely, sam. Well described. I was
Border of syria to keep one a number of refugees. Attorney general eric holder is resigning later this hour. President obama will make the formal announcement, we will bring that to you live, of course. Holder is the countrys first africanamerican attorney general. Randall pinkston joins us life now. Lets talk about the timing of holders resignation, was this a surprise . Welt e certainly, it is a surprise to the public, but apparently we have learned that holder has been discussing this for some time. As long ago as this past february, he talked about it in a magazine article. He apparently had a health issue. They checked his heart, it was okay, but it gave him a scare, and also caused him to reflect on the fact that he had a teenager son that he wanted to spend more time with, and of course, its a very high stress job, the job of attorney general. So yes, it is a surprise to the public, but not so much a surprise to people inside the white house who have been talking to holder per s