Walk even once a month. Good morning. Is the growth of car finance deals healthy for the motor industry . We built a lot more vehicles in july that last year, but there are Big Questions about whats fuelling the demand. Ill be taking a look. In sport, Conor Mcgregor and Floyd Mayweather declare a truce ahead of the big fight on saturday. And carol has the weather. Rain over the Northern Isles for most of the day, but for most of the uk, some showers. Especially in the south. Feeling fresher than of late. All the details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. More than half a million teenagers in england, wales and Northern Ireland will get their gcse results this morning. There are some major changes for students in england coming into place for the first time. More difficult exams in english and maths will be graded using a numerical system, going from nine at the top to one at the bottom. Other subjects will continue to be graded from a star to g. Exams in wales have als
Pilot program. Nbc 10s keith jones is live along the schuylkill. Keith . Reporter weve all seen active work zones, this isnt one here. The schuylkill is to my left, your right. You can see that blinking light and with that you could see a camera. Picture this this, this car hit four workers in an active work zone in bucks county in 2015. The driver died. In 2015 there were 1,935 crashes in work zone. Reporter this state senator is hoping a new bill adding speeding cameras in highway work zones could change that. Or could it . My opinion is there are likely to be abused for revenue rather than safety. Reporter james walker says its a money grab. Cameras are expensive and workers are relatively safe behind concrete barriers. In order to collect enough tickets to pay for it you generally have to have a speed limit thats artificially and unrealistically too low. Reporter aaa disagrees wholeheartedly. Aaa has worked vehemently in conjunction with the sponsor of the bill to make sure that th
[ applause ] thank you. Let me just start by asking, what sparked your interest, your passion for history . I believe you grew up in massachusetts near concord and a number of historic sites. Did that play a role in it . No, i dont think so. I just was interested in stories. I read a lot. I had a Terrible High School teacher, i must say, in i went to waltham high school, and he was horrible, but it didnt dampen my interest. I just read history and enjoyed it. But as dave said earlier, i had planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years at air force as a rotc and go to fletcher school. Its connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school, but my experience and being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school, and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve wri
Revolution. Period. Im not going to read off all the long list of the books and publications hes written or the awards and medals and honors hes received. But all of you go home and google him for a mindblowing experience. I just want to mention a few things that he and i discussed. After receiving his suma cu suma cum laude degree from tufts, he joined the air force. During the training he found out that his eyes werent good enough so he was sent off to japan to be a photo intelligence officer. When he arrived, to his dismay, he found out he was made a Personnel Officer because his boss was lazy and didnt want to get up in the morning. When lieutenant wood arrived in the orderly room at 7 30, he had nothing to do. So he spent his time reading history books. Thankfully for all of us, for his students and for america, he completed his rotc requirement, didnt think the military had treated him well and went off to study history. He earned his m. A. And ph. D. At harvard studying under be
Planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to Fletcher School of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school. But my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different . Well, no, im not sure that i found something different. I had a sense already of the outline of the period that we became a much more Democratic Society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental ways, and that became my book the radicalism of