Will be introducing tonights guest speaker but before we get started first please silence any cell phones or any other Electronic Devices we will be recording audio cspan is here recording. We will be doing a q a following the presentation we have plenty of copies at the register if you like to purchase after the event. A columnist from the Bloomberg Opinion covering industry over two decades his new book secondhand is a revealing investigation of what has happened to those billions of items we clean out our home they could end up to a thrift store flea markets in Southeast Asia or in ghana to examine all facets of the multibilliondollar Global Industry including the marketing practices to load up after the purge of Household Items please give him a warm welcome. [applause] thanks to everyone for being here including the man who commissioned my first article so thats quite a thrill to have him here at this reading. When you finish a book you get to questions typically the first is very
Its been a few days now since the snow ended so if you havent shoveled or moved your car off the street since then, listen up. You may be in trouble soon storm track sevens Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo with more details. Jerry the sun thats been out these past couple of days has been out melting a lot of the snow. But there still is a lot of snow and ice on the ground. Starting today at eight this morning. There are some cities in eastern iowa that will give you a ticket if you have not cleared your sidewalk. Or if you have not moved your car in the past 48 hours. Now this is not true with all cities. Heres a break down cedar falls will ticket those who have not cleared their sidewalks starting at 8 today. In the cities of cedar rapids and waterloo. They require people to shovel their sidewalks within 48 hours. But will not ticket you right away. Theyll give you a warning. Iowa city is a little different. Youre actually required to clear your sidewalk 24 hours after a onein
and plymouth. Good afternoon. Efir haw h5 and plymouth. Further north, this is bbc news. Im ben brown. Cardiff and plymouth. Further north, highs of 7 8 c. Towards the weekend, the headlines the European Union lays out plans to keep road and air travel saturday promises something a little running with the uk brighter. Heavy rain and strong if theres no brexit deal. The two sides say they will keep winds for sunday. Negotiating until sunday. It is difficult. We are willing to grant access this is bbc news. To the Single Market the headlines to our british friends, the eu lays out plans its the largest single to keep road and air travel market in the world, running with the uk in case theres no brexit deal. But the conditions have to be fair. Both sides say they will keep negotiating until sunday. We will leave no stone unturned. It is difficult. We would like a deal if its possible but were not going to sacrifice the basic points we are willing to grant access to the Single Market of d
The visit ofn, u. S. Defense secretary chuck hagel has been marred by violence. Since he arrived, there have been two separate suicide attacks. Eight children and a policeman were killed on a strike. In the capital, the bomber charged into the Defense Ministry. The taliban said they planned the attacks deliberately to mark his visit. Chuck taylor arrived in afghanistan nine days after being sworn in as u. S. Defense minister chuck hagel. Shortly before his arrival, he told reporters we are still at war. Hours later, two suicide attacks killed 18 people. They targeted the Defense Ministry in kabul. The bombers circled toward the building and got to within 30 meters of the main entrance without being checked. The bomb struck a group of employees on their way to work, killing nine. I was really close by when the bomb exploded. I threw myself on the ground. I did not know what was happening. Soldiers were firing into the air. I saw many wounded and dead people near the gates of the ministr
Come forward. Alan wang shows us what happened. Reporter the woman in this video has no idea she is being targeted by two young men who dont realize they are being caught on camera. The robbers stole her purse on east 17th street in oakland. They were exposed by surveillance cameras and Police Arrested them. Investigators released this video in hopes there might be other victims out there who have not come forward yet. Reporter we went back to the same block and found a woman who says her purse was stolen and she was pistol whipped on the same day within the same hour as the woman in the video. Im so scared theyll kill me. We showed her video of suspects. That is him, im sure it is him. Reporter the woman reported the incident when it happened but she didnt realize that her neighbor had been mugged. Reporter what do you think your neighborhood needs to do now . Im not sure. Reporter would it help if you communicated and talked and got together . I think so. Community involvement is par