Its going to be warm. Not as hot as it was yesterday highs today will be in the 80s. Well break it down day park by day park. Partly cloudy at 9 00, 75 degrees. 80 at lunch, 85 at 5 00. Mainly sunny as we head to the afternoon and evening. Grab those sun glasses. Youre going to need them for the commute. Upper 60s to around 70 now. Its very mild for this time of the day. Its still slightly. Theyre still well into the 60s in the spots. Youre going to notice its still muggy this morning just not as stuffy as yesterday at the same time. Beautiful clear skies, partly cloudy regionally. The next question, does it linger into our weekend . Theres so much going on this weekend. Wed love to know what youre doing. Lets get a track on your drive. Greg dee has a look at your commute. Good morning. Live previewing the Shaker Square festival in a few minutes. Lets check roadways from the east side to west side. Looking at the traffic this morning, there are updates for you. First, we did see the cl
Involved. Propaganda involved. I think it was one of the worst mistakes ever made and we will pay the price for many years. I did a cartoon. When there were 2000 American Service members killed during the iraq war i did a cartoon and wrote the word why with that . And drew it the size. I wrote the names of all the troops that had been killed in iraq in the letters. That generated a lot of controversy and was at a time when people still thought the war was a good thing. I think that was responsible for you getting a Pulitzer Prize that year. I was a very strong opponent of the war from the start. I got a lot of heat for it at the time but felt very strongly about it. I will tell you an interesting story. You might recall the patriot act that was done in secret for several weeks and everyone was wanting to know what was going on behind closed doors. After berating John Ashcroft to come forward publicly he eventually did and gave a presentation and did this in front of the senate committe
Who also tom folley died today. He served for 30 years. House Speaker John Boehner released a statement about tom foley saying he was warmhearted. He would call leaks on both sides of the aisle. She had a solid sense of fairness. He was 84 years old. He had a solid sense of fairness. He was 84 years old. Cspan, wouldnt you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, greetings, conferences, which of the u. S. House, all as a Public Service of private industry. Cable tvreated by the industry and funded by do local cable or satellite provider. You can watch us in hd. Today president obama officially announced former Defense Department attorney jeh johnson as his nominee for department of Homeland Security secretary. He will represent replace janet napolitano. From the white house rose garden, this is about 20 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, the president and Vice President of the United States accompanied by jeh johnson. Good afternoon, everyone. Please have a seat. Presiden
It is the budget problem overall. As was just said, members of congress do not vote against research. They just let cuts in research happen because of what is now in place, a budget that is constantly taking money away from research and innovation and putting it in the hands of old people, like me, who frankly should not be getting the percentage of revenue that is now coming to our generation. The reason we have the best Research Universities in the world is that, for some 70 years now, the federal government has invested heavily in research, competitively awarded research grants, which go to faculty members at the university of michigan, the university of virginia, harvard, stanford, and all the other great universities in this country that carry out research. What is the result of that research . A Great Innovation system. Economists now acknowledge that 60 or more of u. S. Economic growth over the past few decades is based on innovation. A huge percentage of that innovation is done
Yes we do have time for questions. I think the unifying theme that you hear from this Diverse Group is, people want our leaders to govern and we want them to lead. It is time for them to doppler urging from one crisis to another and focus on some of the longerterm issues. I will quote Erskine Bowles here who regularly says we have made all of the easy choices. We have made all of the stupid choices and now it is time for this country to start making some of the real choices. We hear a lot of the interest here about just how important that is. I would be glad to turn questions over to the secretary, to any of our speakers today. Yes . You talked often about sequestration, ask to the head, suicide. It is deal actually submits the cuts under sequestration, putting the Defense Department for the foreseeable future. If thishe senate deal is a failure of leadership as you have referred to it . The fundable the fundamental challenge was to do whatever was necessary to and the shutdown of the