Less familiar with the general society and how many of you here this evening with this be your first visit . Okay. A warm welcome and of course, welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the peopleof the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and education programs. They include our lecture series which tonights lecture is part of, our general Society Library which will will be celebrating 200 years. Our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john and mossman lot collection which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. You will find more information on the blue and white postcard on your seats. We have such a wonderful start to this years lectures season and we have the pleasure of welcoming critically acclaimed biographer susan ronald who will discuss her biography of conde nast, the publishing legend of vogue and vanity fair and other
I am karen taylor, Program Director of the general society. The labor, literature and landmark collections are supported in part by public funds from the new City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. For those of you who may be less familiar with the general society and how many of you here this evening with this be your first visit . Okay. A warm welcome and of course, welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the peopleof the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and education programs. They include our lecture series which tonights lecture is part of, our general Society Library which will will be celebrating 200 years. Our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john and mossman lot collection which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. You will find more information on the blue and white postcard on
President trump weeted his tsupport for strange today. I am thrilled to be here the friday he campaigned for him. But the president sur vised many of strangers supporters suggesting he is already prepared to regret it. I will be honest, i might have made a mistake. Thats because the president fears he will get the blame if strange loses. Theyre going to say, donald trump, the president of the United States, was unable to pull his candidate across the line. To make matters worse for the president. His former chief strategist, steve bannon is leading the charge for moore who has the strong support of a large percentage of the president s alabama republican base. Strange today brushed off the president s comments. The president said he supports you but theen said he might have made a mistake by supporting you. Help you or hurt you . Well the president supports me 100 . He said that two dozen times. At 8 30 p. M. , central time, roy moore was declared the winner of the primary. Heave will
1 00 from italy. Separately pruitts flights to oklahoma have attracted the attention of epa inspector general. It is not just pruitt, at treasury, ig looking at the secretarys air travel and health and Human Services ig is reviewing secretary tom price chartered flights that cost 400,000. Theyre conducting an internal and ig review and all travel on private charter has been suspended until that is completed. In addition to boarding the more expensive military air craft in june, cbs news learned pruitt took this private plane from denver to durango and back on august 4, for a meeting that included state officials. Epa spokesperson told cbs that he chartered the plane after his flight was delayed to ensure he did not miss a critical meeting. Ethics officials were consulted. The Colorado Governors Office offered pruitt a ride on his government aircraft, but the epa declined. There need to be an explanation. Of what that cost and why it was necessary. Eric schaefer is former director of th
Standoff with police in the Lehigh Valley. One suspect fired shots at police before breaking into homes with people inside. A flight in philadelphia turns around halfway to germany. Well tell you why. This is a tornado guys were going inside. Wow intense scene there. His fear was correct. The noocial Weather Service national Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes touched down in howell, Monmouth County new jersey. A man captured this twister rumbling toward a home depot. Look at the images there. This did not hurt anyone or cause any widespread damage in that area. The national Weather Service said the tornado was on the ground for less than two minutes. Meteorologist chris sowers outside now, he is tracking it all on top of the bad weather system that moved in yesterday. The good news as folks clean up today they wont be dealing with the severe weather. Reporter nice, quiet weather folks can start cleaning up. We were tracking the storm northeast of trenton traveling toward jackson t