When asked what sets the white houses task force on 21st Century Policing apart from similar efforts before it, president obama responded like this the president of the united state is deeply invest in the making sure that this time is different. By his side, the task force cochair Philadelphia Police commissioner Charles Ramsey, he will help lead a 90 day investigation, to help improve how the Nations Police force is functions. Even though weve done Community Policing as a profession for the last couple of decades, many communities have been left behind, primarily communities of colors, more challenged communities. Says the task force is born out of the ferguson protests and police response, ramsey says, there is no one easy solution, but the task force will work to bring the white house something actionable. I think there are key areas that we have to look at in terms of just policing. One is establishing trust and ledges massey in neighborhoods across the country. That means, theyll
A lot of precipitation happening. As matt has been saying at this point most of the roads are dry of the. A lot of this is just evaporating right now. Were watching it closely. If it were precipitation in the northwest at this point it would be some light snow and also freezing mix but as we look at double scan right now, our closer view we can see that its not actually raining, not reaching ground in allentown reading and lancaster right now. I think south of the city youre getting wet out here right now but it is just wet currently. Were watching though because satellite 6 and action radar showing the rain moving in and also because of the evaporative cooling coming down as sleet over the next few hours. Youre hovering around the freezing mark in allentown, 33. 35 in reading, 39 in philadelphia, 38 in millville so you see in philadelphia and areas south that we are well above freezing. So its mainly just rain along the i95 corridor and south but you can see a mix happening today and
Youre so gracious. Carry pop back to the earlier panel real quick . Engaging. You are very accessible in terms of answering questions and how are you doing this and what are people wearing. ,y question for this panel is how many people are in the press corps . Is about 40, im guessing. I wouldve thought twice as many. Peoplee are a number of who wear multiple hats. You could be sent off to boston and all the sorts of things. We are all aware of the strains that journalistic institutions and the media are under and the need to have fewer people covering more things. Technology can help with that. The number of people in the press room who are devoted to the Supreme Court correspondence has gone down materially. The core people you rely on, that you have known like these , those institutions remain committed. There are a lot of regional papers that have completely , some of theerage Television Networks have retrenched considerably. It is a smaller and smaller group. When i read something
Our entire environment. That only begins with flowers and trees and landscaping. That is from a film created by the Johnson Administration with Lady Bird Johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue. She was a natural campaigner, a successful businesswoman, and a savvy political partner to her husband, our 36th president , Lyndon Baines johnson. Good evening and welcome to c spans first ladies. We will tell you the story of Claudia Taylor johnson, known to everyone as lady bird, wife of the 36th president. Here to tell our story tonight are two guests, Cokie Roberts, political commentator for abc news and npr. Shes also the author of two books about womens political history. Eddie lloyd caroli is a first ladys expert. She is the author of numerous books. She is currently working on a new biography of Lady Bird Johnson. Ladies, i want to start with the beginning, where we were 50 years ago this week. This is an administration birthed in national tragedy. Over the immediate
This was an administration that documented itself stand sadly extensively. There was the Lyndon Johnson phone tapes. People who love political history were very aware of. Is this new to the administration . Had this been going on for a while. She did not record every day. But she had a little recording machine. On days that were busy, she would stuff brown envelopes with menus, and she would get an hour one day and record. Those recordings are still being transcribed. They are wonderful. Her white house diary is, i think, 800 pages, but that is think, 800 pages, but that is only 1 8 of what she has on those pages. There were recordings before this. We have some kennedy recordings. We have roosevelt recordings. John quincy adamss wife wrote when she was first lady, the autobiography of a nobody. I think that most first couples have an awareness of the magnitude of the job. Lady bird johnson had such a sense of history that she understood. She said she dared herself to be productive. Thr