Priorities including overtime rules, training and apreniveship programs, collective bargaining rights, retirement programs and accessibility of other employment benefits. The House Education Committee held this hearing last month. The quorum being present, the committee on education and the workforce will come to order. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to todays hearing. The committee is honored to welcome our distinguished guest, secretary alexander acosta. Secretary acosta has been at the helm of the department of labor since april and were grateful he could join us to testify for the First Time Since his confirmation. Mr. Secretary, welcome to the committee. We look forward to your testimony. Which we are sorry did not arrive earlier. And discussing the department of labors policies and priorities under the new administration. The department of labor is on the front line of the issues facing workers and job creators. It sets policies that have a widespread impact on our nations e
New form of what retirement looks like in america. And they went out and tells the story. Please put your hands together. [applause] and first time in madison. This is the larger group of people than when i launched in brooklyn on my home turf. If ive got deer in the headlights eyes, ive had coffee and i wanted to appreciate it and thank connor and the library and festival. Nd go check out other books as well. And thank you for coming out on a saturday morning in the drizzle to chat about this project. So im really grateful for that, and i wanted to say thanks. So i think im going to start off by telling you a little bit just about the genesis of the book itself and then read a little bit, and then well do some q a, and id be happy to chat about anything youd like to know more about. But for me so im a journalist, and we read a lot. A lot of times i feel like my students i teach grad students in journalism they expect that ideas jump fully formed out of journalists heads like athena ju
Down the cookies how about a glass of alcohol to pair with your favorite girl scout cooki cookies. How one little girl and her uncle are trying to boost sales for the scouts. I still call my favorite Girl Scout Cookies samoas instead of caramel delays. They changed the name. Theyre good. Thin mints put them in the freezer. Im not a big thin mints girl. Its saturday, february 24, 2018. I got a hate look from crystal. That head snapped fast. I dont like chocolate that mu much. I dont werent a chocolate cookie. Not my thing. Youre difficult. Im different. [ laughter ] 7 01 on this saturday morning. Lets take live look outside. It doesnt quite feel like february. Yeah. This weather, it is really all over the place. Were dealing with the fog, the drizzle and we have more rainfall, lauren, just in time for, yes, the weekend. So the past several weekends weve been dealing with the clouds, the showers and thats going to be the case for today. Live look outside of our studios showing you kind o
Right wing jew gets up and screams about something. I was supposed to be there with lindsey, he actually wouldnt leave. He was fascinated. This was actually happening. I left and i went to a forum, which was a bipartisan, eight parties. My party was sponsoring it. A Hundred High School kids in there. All the High School Kids are transgender kids. We listened as the teenagers came up and told the stories, people were crying, and there are two extraordinary things about the story, one is that it is happening a twohour drive from isis. A distance between here and filly, maybe. Less, and the other extraordinary thing was that i thought it was extraordinary. Is what ive learned. Thats why we keep allies, this is a true democracy. At the end of the day, how many countries in the world you have like this, how many countries in the world we have like this. Not many. Stop, lets rebuild, lets think. Thank you all. [applause] book tv is on facebook. Scheduling updates and behind the scene videos
Police are expected to be at this scene until the suspected is found. Now, the shooting happened on santa lisa avenue on highway 101. Blocks away from moffet field is where this all went down. Live at the scene, chuck, what do we know . Well, we know that the police here are looking for a very limited description type of individual. They say its an African American male in his 20s, skinny, they describe, who is wearing perhaps a red or orange shirt and blue jeans. Its a very limited description. Now, annest mated seven police officers, as well as the california Highway Patrol and deputies aboard a Sheriffs Department helicopter have been searching throughout the night for the suspect who is also described as being armed with a handgun. It all started around 4 00 p. M. After someone at the motel 6 called police. When officers found two men described as suspicious in the car in the parking lot, police say the two men bolted from the car on foot, one of them throwing or dropping an ammuni