Are at isctrilat d. C. So my name is Alexander Evans and of the your master for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins sais. Perhaps more important for todays event i am an alum of the 63rd japanamerican student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of ways it was bad experience that really continued to motivate me to study japan put you on the path that i am in the creek of that experience. Particularly given that it was right after the march 11 triple disaster, an opportunity when japan was not open to many students to be able to go in and have persontoperson exchange with something that i would say it may sound corny but i changed my life. And so before we get started today will have a couple introductory marks so i would first like to introduce ms. Linda butcher, secular director of isc. Prior to this role she served as a director of Media Relations and Public Affairs at the current Eco
Had been building since colonial times to the clerk of the house. He was directed to create a list of books to include in the votes and proceedings of march 18, 1776. He was further directed quote to procure at the expense of the legislature a suitable case for the keeping and preservation of such books. He was also directed to make sure basically that he safeguarded and preserve the material as well and its this early collection of veaux that actually is the foundation of the state state Library Research collection today. I am often asked which is the oldest book in the state library collection. We do have the pamphlets from 1496 which is the oldest item but its only seven pages long so we dont featured as a book. Our oldest book is this one. Its a living history of rome. It was created in 1635 in switzerland and the interesting thing about this book is it has a legend with it and as often is the case legends are not true or turn out to be only partially true and the legend of this bo
Thursday looks like its off to a great start. 50s and 60s across the area this morning. Nice and cool. It will be top down weather again today for convertible owners. Your weather headlines about as good as it gets. Perfect night for baseball. The reds in town tonight. Ill give you the nats forecast. Tomorrow, rain shanses return. For today, nothing to worry about. 62 on your way out the door. Increasing chances for showers and thunderstorms tomorrow. More about all that as the show goes on. Lets go to jack taylor to find out if that Early Morning road work has come to a close. Rock creek parkway is going to hang in another hour. They stick around 6 00. Parkway now down by the kennedy center. Its a longterm work zone. They have got a lot of work to do and they are doing in the overnight. Ig problems. Good shape, inner and outer loop, all travel lanes are available. There had been a broken vehicle in the right lane i295 at eastern avenue. The travel lanes are now open. Back to you. Deve
Responsible to make appointments to the metro board. Katie ledecky spoiler alert for you. If you dvred the olympic trials last night. Katie ledecky has another win. No surprise there. Shes representing the United States in the 200 and 400 meter freestyle. She also has a chance to swim the 100 and 800 meters at the games this august and thats pretty much unheard of it. Im confident that no matter how the race shakes out. Shes going to be confident. Shes going to go in there strong. Top two swimmers in each trial. Get a ticket to rio. Last nights race. She will be competing again as well. The other star swimmer from maryland. Michael phelps will be heading to brazil. He just made his record fifth olympic team. Five olympics what he came in first in the 200 meters. Thats his brandnew baby. Hes swimming the 100 meter fly and the 200 meter individual medley at the trials. Hes the most decorated olympian of all time. Hes been winning gold medals since he was three . Its crazy. His little bab
Turkey is prepping again for elections on november 1st. The Wilson Center is the host of this event this afternoon, and thatll be live at three here on cspan2. Also coming up shortly on our companion network, cspan, democratic president ial candidate senator Bernie Sanders will be speaking at liberty university, and that will be in lynchburg, virginia, the same place republican senator ted cruz announced his president ial candidacy. Senator sanders will be speaking at the con convocation, thatll start at 10 30 eastern. Youll be able to see it live on cspan, and following that we will open our phone lines to get your calls and reaction. Also coming up tonight at 8 30 weve got a hearing examining the security of the u. S. mexico border with officials from the state department and Border Control agencies. Heres a quick preview. To increase security, rule of law and justice in mexico is going to be a longterm battle. I think that we have, we can see what has happened in colombia and the ty