[applause] , everyone. I love coming to cleveland for the annual event i enjoy every minute standing grows and grows. Thank you for your loyalty loyalty, the support and for your enthusiasm. Give that up to yourselves. [applause] every time i think of this prize a poet in the 1930s a white to woman now one of the first if not the first prize is in celebration of what to do recall excellence and diversity. An extraordinary person anisfieldwolf and she would have been it used to be named to the black Pulitzer Prize at least up down on the cover of the saturday review in 1941, Martin Luther king himself won its coverage of the five years ago under the leadership under montagu a dear friend friend, it was transformed to focus on artistic excellence and today we use the buzz word cultural diversity. I was put on the Selection Committee and a foundation generously asked if i would be the chair. So weve restructured it and i asked my friends and my colleague and the man that i met and i asked
About the ignition switch that cost 12 lives. Engineers saying that they knew the cars with the faulty ignition stalled out but they believed at the time the vehicles would be able to safely coast off the road. How could this have happened . Here with more, Senior Analyst at kelley blue book. Alec, great to have you here. So now we have gm managers saying they knew of the ignition switch problems on the 2005 cobalt in particular could disable power steering, brakes, airbags, even as they were launching the car. What do you make of that . Yeah, i think it is really unfortunate to learn that we hope these Companies Like gm that are responsible for putting cars on the road were going to drive to and from work to pick up our kids from school they will be safe to be on the road. Clearly there was a lack of communication somewhere along the chain that just is a little bit unsettling. Gerri i want to read to you a statement from gary altman we have. He was a programing engineering manager for
To bring storm, ice, and sub zero temperatures to the south where people are not used to those conditions, nationwide thousands of flights are already canceled. In a matter of hours president barack obama will deliver his fifth state of the Union Address. And he has been to the address facing some of the lowest Approval Ratings he has ever seen. 46 disapprove of his work, thats according to a Washington Post poll. So with those numbers the president has some convincing to do. Libby casey is on capitol him, libby, what can we expect to hear . We will hear him talk about things he cares about, including income and equality. Minimum wage as you mentioned one issue that falls under that. He will also talk about Immigration Reform, and dont be surprise if he does bring up the Affordable Care act, he has center stages the national attention, it is an opportunity for him to sell the American Public owhat has been a rookie roll out. These last few months and he will touch on a range of other i
Sheena Kadi, the Colorado Treasurer's Office spokeswoman whose sexual assault allegations against Rep. Leslie Herod were found not credible by a judge, resigned from her position this week.