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soldiers are deploying to help and officials in erie county are sharing this sad update moments ago. i have the very sad news to report that in addition to the 13 confirmed deaths yesterday, the erie county department of health medical examiner has confirmed an additional 12 deaths. bringing the total for the blizzard to 25 deaths countywide. heartbreaking new news out of buffalo. nationwide, more than 1600 flights have been cancelled this morning. more than 2,000 delayed. that is only adding to the backlog from the holiday weekend. but there is progress in terms of power. about 60,000 homes remain in the dark this morning. that is down from more than a million on friday. more than 12,000 of those power outages are in erie county, new york, where officials say the historic storm is responsible as you just heard for at least 25 deaths. most of those killed were in the buffalo area and were found outside or in their cars. and with another 14 inches in snow, a driving ....
And commerce where solutions to hard problems lie. We are recording tonights event both by cspan and for radio, so take a moment to silence your cell phones and we would like to thank jane. Your question cards on your seats, so please make use of them and write your questions down and given we will be talking about social media and tonights program we invite you to get involved in our online conversation using the World Affairs alive, if youd like to engage in online discussion. I would now like to introduce our moderator this evening who is an adjunct professor at the school of information at uc berkeley where he teaches a course on digital activism. Hes also the founder and editor in chief of China Digital times. We are delighted to have him here this evening and if you could all join me in welcoming him who introduced tonights speaker. [applause]. Good evening. Pleasure. I w ....
Join us tonight for more from booktv. Our focus, american astronauts and space travel. This weekend on the cspan networks, friday night on cspan, native american history. Former nfl tight end in utah told the Senate Special committee on aging that is absent in his memory. The committee examined the link between sports injuries impacting the brain and whether the lead to aging diseases like alzheimers. Other witnesses included are a logical researchers called for limiting young peoples participation in Contact Sports and telescope and more funding for brain injury research. This hearing is one hour 25 minutes. Good afternoon. Today were going to have to be a little creative because were going to have a series of votes at 2 30. So what ill do is recess the committee, and will go over and vote until the very last vote, and we will cast the vote that the very beginning of the las ....
Im over the moon to see some of you in our beautiful auditorium. Many of you, for the first time in a long time. So welcome back. Tonights program, the chinese question, gold rushes and global politics, it is part of our irene schwarts distinguished speaker series, the heart of our public programs. Enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to this stage. I would also like to thank for his great support. Joe pickett, thank you so much for all you do on behalf of this institution. I would also like to thank all of the Council Members joining us this evening. We have really appreciated your support and encouragement along this very difficult period. This program will last about an hour and it will include a question and answer session. You should have received a note card and pencil on your way in. If not, my colleagues will be up and down the aisle with cards and pencils for you to write your questions on that note cards. The cards ....