Kevin ashton, tonight on the communicators, on cspan2. Tomorrow on washington journal, gretchen working set of morgansen talking about the Affordable Housing program. Vince is a girl soon talks about alcoholrelated problems and all fetal syndrome in drinking mothers. Washington on journal, life tuesday at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Officials with the red cross talked about economic recovery, Agency Coordination and delivery efficiency. They were joined by representatives of the Small Business administration fema, and the private sector, during a hearing on postdisaster issues for Small Businesses. Davidundtable was held by vetter of louisiana to mark the anniversary continued. Katrina. This is about an hour. Senator vitter good morning everyone. Welcome. Thank you for joining me for this discussion roundtable about a very important ongoing challenge in relation to Disaster Recovery. Natural disasters are obviously indiscriminate, affecting life, property and livelihoods of families a
Im gus rosendale. Raphael miranda is in the storm team 4 Weather Center this morning. Good morning. Were tracking that rain mainly to the east of new york city right now. You can see in your weather headlines that, rain is going to linger a bit for long island. Unfortunately, we may have rain into the afternoon, especially if you live in Suffolk County. Its going to be breezy for the rest of us, drying things out from new york city north and west. A cold snap coming our way tomorrow morning. Get ready for windchills in the 20s, even in and around new york city. Heres a look at storm tracker. Tracking light showers in the hamptons from fire island. Very light drizzle across Fairfield County as well. Dry for now in new york city and areas west of town. We are drying things out. Theres another area of low pressure thats going to ride along this frontal boundary through the afternoon, keeping us locked in with the clouds throughout much of the day today. Not a bright, sunny day like yester
President on everything they tried to do starting with the economic stimulus bill and the obamacare and on and on. They never were willing to try to sit down and work any meaningful way with the senate democrats. Guest what harry reid did was stifle a lot of debate in the senate. A major amendments were not offered. What that did was selfdefeating for harry reid and the democrats because democrats were up for election last summer and were not able to distinguish themselves from read and obama and they had a tracker a track record of voting any 7 for obama. Mitch mcconnell will open a process and give members of the body a chance to represent not only the philosophies but also their states and regions. That will help promote democracy and hopefully get some stuff done. Host two quick actions two quick questions. How does he position himself now that he is the minority leader . How does his role change as a practical matter on the floor . Guest first of all, i talked to him twice over th
Feature all of our history tv program from wheeling in one block. [video clip] the first project funded by the federal government for growth production was the National Road that extended from cumberland, maryland to wheeling, virginia. One of the reasons for that was that ohio had become a stay in 1803, the country was moving west, we needed to find a way to tie these Western Areas into the capital. The easiest way of doing that in the early 19th century was to put in a road. It would extend from baltimore to cumberland, to uniontown, in 1818 a came here to wheeling. When it came to wheeling at that time, about 15 years old it would give the community what it needed to grow. The population of wheeling would almost triple. Host make sure you tune into American History tv today to see this and other programs from wheeling, west virginia. You can also go to c span. Org to see all the programming we had done on our c span cities tour. On the Martin Luther king holiday, we are featuring al
Imagined it could. Twitter is now an independent nation state with its own National Security council, an interagency constellation of Foreign Policy experts whose job it is to manage the world affairs. So twitters Global Public policy team is really the companys own nsc. So the Global Public policy people waited in today a Security Councils due on the Upcoming Elections in uganda. Heres what they said aboute those elections. Ahead of ugandan election we are hearing reports that Internet Service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps. We strongly condemn internet shutdowns. They are hugely harmful, violent basic human rights. Access to and freedom of expression including the public conversation on twitter is never more important than during the democratic processes, particularly elections. Marinate in that debate, let it sink in. Twitter is reminding the ugandan people that censorship is immoral. Sorry, ugandans, youre not allowed to silence other peoples t