You all for being here. I look forward to our conversation. Mister lynch, im like to direct the first question to you. It seems to me that its safe to say that the general view of government in the United States is that its broken and dysfunctional. Im reminded of a book that was published in 2012 called its worse than it looks. Is our government really in as bad a shape as popular opinion would have it . James probably, in the big picture i would say there are a lot of things that we can find that arent working in government. I would say probably more so at the federal level than at the local level, but im sure jeff could tell us that there are things that arent working at the state level too. Theres a lot. We can find lots of reasons why things arent working. Theres a lack of interest sometimes. Theres special interest in other cases, but yeah, i think by and large people arent confident the government is working and working well. Craig doctor hoffman, from what i remember of my soci
Investigating certain objects. Next, a 1789 president s record of the first u. S. Congress written George Washingtons hand. Christies ind at new york city. We have come to a very proud moment. We are selling George Washingtons personal coffee of the acts of congress. It is showing in the front of the room for those whom have a chance home have not had the chance to peek at it. Well start the bidding at 1,300,000. 1,400,000,4 1,700,000 1,800,000 2 million. 2,204,000. My name is carol or do and i service carol purdue. It has been my great delight to work with our library and board team to think about the acquisition of this monumental book for the mount vernon collection. George washington is very exacting and we see that he takes great care of his books and hasnt beautiful glass fronted he has them in you to. Ull glass fronted shelves great care of his volumes. On important books, he puts a terrific bookplate. It is ordered from england and engraved in london. Before 1771. They have the
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What could become the First Federal Government Shutdown in nearly two decades and right now there are no signs are deal will be reached before the midnight deadline. Less than two hours ago, the senate killed the bill designed to delay the Health Care Act implementation for one year. Today president obama once again urged congress to avoid a shutdown. The senate has passed a bill that keeps the government open, does not have a lot of extraneous issues to it, and allows us to negotiate a longerterm budget and address a restaurant j of issues, but ensures that were not shutting down the budget and an economy at a time when a lot of families out there are just getting traction and digging themselves out of the hole we have had as a consequence of the financial crisis. We have every angle covered for you, well look at how a shutteddown could effect the economy, paul is look at how a shutdown could effect the victims of the recent flooding in colorado, but we begin with Mike Viqueira. And m
News. There was a major new innovation shown off by apple advancing smart phones today reporter the iphone 5 s is built with finger print Recognition Technology the home button doubles as a reporter so no pass word needed, your finger print unlocks the phone. Reporter that is a first of its of kind. I demod that feature it worked perfectly it was really cool. The iphone 5 s will be the standard 199 pricetag. It hits the market on september 20th. Reporter stay tuned to kron coming up at 8pm tonight we will have more from apples big event reporter gabe slate kron 4 news pam more big news. Pam now to the mount diablo fire. This is a live picture. Here is the very latest. It has burned more than 32 Hundred Acres. And is now 45percent contained. Right now 75 buildings are threatened by the flames. Mandatory evacuations remain in effect in some neighborhoods. At this hour more than 700 firefighters and support crew are on the scene. Three have been hurt none seriously tonight our Live Team C