Unified the American People because he spent his life fighting for us and as president , hell build an america that lives to our ideals, honored to join him as our partys nominee for Vice President and do what it takes to make him our commander in chief. Joining us to talk the historic pick are harina krushan and cooper tebow, political strategist. I want to start with your reaction to Kamala Harris being named vp. You were an original member of the kamala Supporters Group known as the khive. Captured by your daughter when she told you the big. What are you up to . Kamala harris is the vp nom. I could just watch that all day. Because that was so real, so raw, so emotional. Why was it so incredibly meaningful and emotional for you . As a woman of color, indian american, south asian woman, i felt seen and heard. Her selection as Vice President is historic because there are women around the country that finally feel like they have a seat at the table. This is a truly historic day. This is
Photographs in the newspapers archive. Some of these were published in a hugely popular multimedia series, unpublished black history. It explored the history behind the photos garnering 1. 7 million views and thousands of comments from readers. Were thrilled to welcome tonight two of the authors involved with creating the book inspired by their story, unseen, unpublished black history from the New York Times Photo Archives available for purchase and signing following the program. Darcy evely is a contributing photo editor at the New York Times and creator of the lively morgue. And rachel ellesworns writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times, author of american tapestry, ancestors of my shell obama published in 2012. Moderating this evening, rea el co combs. She also serves as the head of the museum earl w and ammanda Stafford Center for media arts. Please join me in welcoming them. [ applause ] i would like to echo laurens wonderful comments an
Auction task force. Mr. Epstein, what does that mean . Guest thank you, peter. Im happy to be here. I am the head of the task force at the fcc which is responsible for implementing the incentive auction which is a firsttimeever auction at the fcc for spectrum. Host and the incentive auction is the auction, the spectrum auctions involving the broadcasters, correct . Guest indeed, it is. It is whats called a twosided auction which for the very first time will acquire spectrum from broadcasters in a socalled reverse auction and then turn around, repackage it and make it available to the wirelessc carriers9jz a forward auction. So it is a backtoback auction, a reverse auction and a forwardq auction. Host well, two followups to that. The fcc has set march of 2016 as the date for the incentive auctions to happen. A, will that date hold and, b, how long have you been working on this . Guest the auction commences on march 29th, 2016, and we do intend to hold to that date. All the commissioner
Earlier today, astronauts mark kelly and terry virts discussed ongoing Nasa Missions and research, including the mars mission. Mr. Kelly talked about nasas study of himself and twin, scott kelly. This is about an hour. Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is john hughes. Im an editor at bloomberg first word. Thats bloombergs breaking news desk here in washington, and i am the president of the National Press club. We have a historic day here in the National Press club. Our guest live via video link from the nsInternational Space station is scott kelly. Here at the table is mark kelly and terry virts. From the audiences right, david shepardson, Washington Bureau chief for the detroit news. Robert kunz. Frank mooring jr. , senior editor. The Washington Bureau chief for the buffalo news and current chairman of the speakers committee. Senior Vice President for business wires Public Policy wire and the press club member who organized this mornings breakf
Recognized for his questions. Okay. Thank you. Id like to welcome my fellow e coloradans to washington, d. C. , gentlemen, thank you for your testimony, all of you, thank you for your testimony today. T part of this is i feel like, you know, were in the early stages of litigation, and i, the chairman, i think, maybe a frustrated litigator wanting to figure out who was negligent, who wasnt negligent, whos responsible for this, what happened. Appreciate the fact that the epa got to the department of health in colorado quickly, who got to durango, quickly. To share this. There apparently was some breakdown in communication getting to the Navajo Nation. A court is going to figure out o exactly what happened, when it happened, should it have happened, dr. Williamson, but id like to ask some other questions, because i think dr. A benn, you suggested some things that the epa should consider inn the short term and in the long term, one was help you with some monitoring devices to keep an eye o