Friday the 13th. I hope yours was spooky or nice. So bear with me while i go through some front matter for a couple of minutes. Number one, please silence your cell phones, obviously. Unless youre lucky enough to have a haunted one and have no control over it. In which case its fine. After the event this is our last event today. If you fold up your chair and leave them against a pillar or bookshelf so we can make space for signing. Finally, chance to ask questions. We really, really, really ask you to use the microphone we have right here because cspan is here recording, and our videographer is also recording. So we want to not have empty space on the audio track. Finally, one more thing. Were not of at the wharf in southwest. If youre there, its a whole new development. It looks amides, really cool so do go down there and think us out. If you live in southwest and you can prove it in any way, show your i. D. And youll get a sixmong trial membership, which is really, really convenient
Shanghai up. Early trading in europe, modest advances across the board. Cac is up. If you look at crude oil, last week was big for oil up 4 for the week, in spitting distance of 50. Up to 49. 78 a barrel. Corporate news the big one, Charter Communications announced it is not interested, i repeat, not interested in buying wireless carrier sprint follows news friday that sprint was interested in merging with charter to create a media outlet controlled we understand why a deal is attractive for softbank. Could kill any chance of deal between the companies. The wall street journal saying the ceo could make a formal offer anyway take a look at shares of sprint. Put context around whats going on sprint up close to 6 . Charter up marginally as well. Surprising sprint is where it is sprint had been talking back and forth to t mobile. Thats been the natural partner. T mobile effectively spurned sprint and sprint has gone on this sort of merger talk spree with anybody who will listen surprising
Were dependable. Reporter the commuter train system has hit some delays over the years. It was projected to open as early as two years ago. The latest holdup was over a 50 million safety feature called positive train control. The control is designed to automatically stop trains if it senses a potential collision. The feds gave approval yesterday afternoon. If a train is going too fast around a corner, the automatic system will stop the train of the theres no human error in this will stop the train. Theres no human error in this. Reporter they are the first to use it and it will be the safest train system in the world. But not everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. The smart train is going to be a white elephant. Reporter what do you mean by that . I think its going to cost a lot of money, and i dont think they are going to have much of a ridership. Reporter ridership for the Golden Gate Bridge Transit System is down 10 . But smart train officials are confident people will choose this ov
The National Museum opened it past september on the National Mall. A few days earl American History tv spoke with key members of the design team, responsible for the look and feel of the newest museum. Well hear what inspired the distinctive shape and about the ideas behind the history galleries. In about 20 minutes, well show the opening ceremony, including talks about president obama and george w. Bush, and performances be denise graves and stevie wonder. Hi, im the lead designer of the National Meal seem of africanAmerican Museum of culture. We well see when you come to the building. What feeling did you have this feeling would quan . I hope it would give a sense of uplift, but also being connected to this very unique location on the washington mall, on the nations capital, one which should give you a sense of intrigue, one to explore the extraordinary exhibits that are on show here, one that would give you a fantastic overview. At the top of this building you have this fantastic pa
AfricanAmerican Museum. I was one of the arcing tekts. What feeling did you hope this museum would cain . I hope it would give a sense of uplift and being connected to this very unique location on the washington mat on the Nations Capital but one which would also give you a sense of intrigue, to explore the extraordinary exhibits here. You have this fantastic window on washington to see right through you have an International Background. Can you tell us a little bit about that and how that informed your work on this very American Museum . I was born on the heart of the continent. As a teenager i grew up in london and started my practice about 20 years ago. My practice has always had an international outlook. We worked all over the years. The Nobel Peace Center in oslo is one of our proejsz, almost local community projects. Schools and educational environments. Even competition libraries, ex, housing in new york. But when we were asked to join this competition, it was an extraordinary m